Princess Connect! Re:Dive Story Event: Hatsune's Perfect Present

We now have an official announcement that the first story event is slated to start on February 17, 2021. Events on Princess Connect! Re:Dive come pretty often and are a great way to both farm items, jewels, and character memory shards. The first event will feature both Hatsune and Shiori. In today's article, we'll go over how events work and specifically how this one will play out. Information was obtained from the JP server when it first launched. We seem to be following the item drop tables and rewards at about the same level. We will update this page if that changes.

Level Cap, Rank Cap, and New Missions

Before we move on to talking about the event, let's also talk about some of the features coming up in the next patch. First up, the next patch will also increase both the player and character level cap to 85. Secondly, there will also be a maximum character rank increase to level 8. This means, if you have some rank 7 characters with unrefined equipment and you're not using them immediately, it is best to save the refinement material for future use. Also, we will be getting new missions. Based on the JP server, this will be area 9 in normal missions.

Arisa Banner

Arisa will also be added to the general gacha pool and will also have a focus gacha pool. We'll leave it to you to decide whether you want to roll for her or not. She's a decent character and does a large chunk of damage. She'll see use in clan battle, regular stages, and arena as well.

Hatsune's Perfect Present Story Event

As aforementioned, this will be the first story event in the EN/WW server. Events generally give a generous amount of items, mana, jewels, and character memory shards. The characters featured in this event are Hatsune and Shiori. On top of the rewards, it also adds a set of stories that can be viewed during the event and also provides rewards for completing them.

Stages

Events are broken down into two phases of stages similar to the main quest. However, you must clear all the normal stages and the normal boss before unlocking the hard stages. Normal stages start at 1-1 and go all the way up to 1-15. Clearing each stage for the first time also provides 30 jewels, an assortment of items, and boss tickets. After the first clear, they will still provide some items and more importantly boss tickets. These boss tickets are used to fight the boss of the event. We'll go over this more in-depth later.

After clearing the boss and stages 1-1 through to 1-15 on normal, you'll unlock the hard missions. These missions are similar to the main quest hard missions and have a chance to drop memory shards. Each first clear will also provide 3 of the memory pieces of the character indicated, boss tickets, items, and will also give the 30 jewel bonus. Each subsequent clear will then give a chance of dropping the memory pieces. You can only clear each hard stage 3 times a day. (Unlike the picture above which was taken from a re-run of the event.) For the most part, you will want to clear each of these hard stages every day of the event to maximize your memory pieces gain. There is a large amount of luck involved from the hard missions but the memory pieces and the boss tickets are generally worth it.

Boss Battle

To fight the boss you'll need to obtain enough boss tickets to fight the boss. Each of the stages you clear from the event will provide boss tickets. The boss will come in both normal and hard. The normal boss should be easily cleared with any team while hard may pose a bit more of a challenge. Clearing bosses will also provide tokens to be used on the event treasure box. This is the real reason you'll be farming the event. We'll touch on this later on in the article.

The hard boss will have a larger pool of HP and also additional skills. Of course, with the more difficult boss, the rewards will also be greater. This version of the boss also does more damage and has a more difficult attack pattern once below 50% HP. (Think of it as them hitting their limit break.) We will recommend some potential parties below for those struggling to clear the hard version of the boss.

Difficulty	HP	Union Burst	Skill 1	Skill 2
Normal	50,000	Large damage to all enemies based on the character's max HP.	Physical damage to enemies within the front range and stuns them.	N/A
Hard	170,000	Large damage to all enemies based on the character's max HP.	Physical damage to enemies within the front range and stuns them.	Medium damage to enemies within the front range based on the character's max HP and lowers physical defense.

Suggested Teams

For the hard boss, a recommended team will feature a tank, two DPS characters, and two healers. This worked in JP assuming your characters are rank 7 and above and around level 65 or so. You may need to level up your characters or different combinations to get a decent clear.

Yui	Chika	Suzuna	Kaori	Miyako

Some potential changes can be made in both the tank and the DPS category. This guide is just mostly for characters most people will have. Feel free to try out other characters in these slots. Jun and Nozomi are decent alternatives in the tank section. While the DPS section can be replaced with most of the 3 star DPS characters such as Makoto, Djeeta, or the like. You may not need two healers and Kokkoro can be a decent alternative to having both healers in the party.

Rewards

We're finally onto the main point of each of these events. The rewards that come along with it. In addition to the first clear bonuses, there are also a set number of event treasure boxes. Think of it as a mini gacha machine but each one has a set number of items. To roll this treasure gacha box, you get pulls from defeating the event boss and completing daily missions. You do not need to clear out every single item in each box to move on to the next one. However, you will need to obtain the main items in the box. In this case, the main items are the memory shards for the characters. (You would want to collect these anyway.) The contents of each of the boxes are listed below.

Treasure Boxes

Total Memory Pieces

A breakdown of all the possible memory pieces gained from missions, story, and the boxes are listed here:

Location	Shiori	Hatsune
Story Reward	4	4
Normal Quests	2	2
Hard Quests	6	9
Treasure Box	50	65
Event Missions	10	10
Total	72	90

Note: This does not include memory pieces from hard mission drops. These only include the ones you are guaranteed to get assuming you complete the tasks.

In conclusion, the event is the first of many events in Princess Connect! Re:Dive. From here on out, you'll likely see an event run at least once a month in between clan battles and future events such as Luna Tower. Good luck to everyone out there on the first event. I hope you enjoyed this guide and that it helps you on grinding out this event.

Last Update: February 13, 2021