Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade events

Events are special occurrences in Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade, and often change the dynamic of the game for the period during which they occur, whether by adding new enemies to the brigade's roster, or by allowing players access to rare or exclusive promotional weapons, abilities, or summon stones.

FFXIII-2 Incursion from Valhalla
This event began running on December 18th, 2012 at 7:00 PM, PST, and is scheduled to end on December 25th, 2012 at 9:59 PM PST. This event's most prominent feature is the addition of Atlas as a potential boss to be fought by brigades. Players may encounter Atlas by exploring the most recent location that the player has discovered. Atlas may only appear with a level of 1 to 5, but even at these levels, it is a formidable foe, boasting over 1,000,000 HP at level 4. When a player battles Atlas, in addition to the normal reward of a wood chest for engaging a boss, the player will also earn roughly 1/100th of their damage worth of Crystal Points (CP). Additionally, if Atlas is defeated, the contributing player will earn roughly 1/10th of their total damage to Atlas as CP, in addition to a copper chest, a weapon scroll, and 20 experiopedias, usable in the other event running parallel to Incursion from Valhalla.

CP earned can be exchanged for a variety of special items during the event, but once the event ends, all CP earned is lost. Players may exchange their CP for either a Super Rare Weapon Scroll III (costing 250 CP for the first purchase and 1500 CP for subsequent purchases), an event exclusive silver chest (costing 50 CP for the initial purchase and 100 CP thereafter), an event exclusive gold chest (costing 200 CP initially and 1000 CP after that), or an event exclusive platinum chest (costing 500 CP for the first purchase and 2500 for subsequent purchases). These chests may give out scrolls, or weapons exclusive to Final Fantasy XIII-2. The four weapons that the player may obtain from this event are the Starseeker, the Flame Fossil, Romulus & Remus, and Sagittarius. The former two weapons are ranked with a rarity of R and R+, and the latter two weapons are ranked at SR. The type and quality of weapons obtained depends on the chest the player chooses. The silver chest will grant players R and R+ weapons and scrolls, but will not allow the player to obtain the SR weapons. The gold chest will grant players one of the four weapons available in the event, but will not give the player any scrolls. The Platinum chest will grant the player a weapon of a quality of R+ and above, keeping the player from obtaining R quality weapons or scrolls.

Atlas is weak against weapons from Final Fantasy XIII-2, and such weapons used against him will receive an effective 3x bonus to their Attack and Defense. This bonus is stated to carry over to the next Final Fantasy XIII-2 event, held after Incursion from Valhalla ends, and the game suggests players enhance their Final Fantasy XIII-2 weapons. Furthermore, Pink Fragments, items obtained as login bonuses during this event, are stated to provide some sort of benefit to players during the next event, but at this time, that benefit is unknown.

Winter Holiday Campaign
This event began running on December 18th, 2012 at 7:00 PM, PST, and is scheduled to end on December 25th, 2012 at 9:59 PM PST. This event's main feature is the addition of certain characters from previous Final Fantasy games joining the player as an ally during questing and brigade combat. These allies are Lightning, Shantotto, Squall, Terra, and Cloud. The player begins with access only to Lightning at level 1, and players must level her up to level 20 in order to unlock the next character, who the player must in turn upgrade to level 20 in order to gain access to the next character. Players level up their allies by using Experiopedias, won from Atlas or from daily brigade evaluations, and one experiopedia translates into 150 EXP for the ally. Leveling allies further than 20 is also beneficial to the player, however, since the player will obtain one copy of an ally's summon stone for every 10 levels the ally gains, with the exception of level 90, which does not provide a summon stone, instead granting a summon stone at level 99. The combat abilities of the ally are also enhanced with additional levels.