Tales of The Rays celebrates Tales of Graces f's 10th Anniversary with Spirit Gears!

That's right, this past December was not just the 25th anniversary of the series and the 15th anniversary of Tales of The Abyss. It was also the 11th anniversary of Tales of Graces and the 10th anniversary of Tales of Graces f. The last Rays event this month and, indeed, this year is dedicated to Graces!

That isn't the only way Rays is celebrating the year end though. There's quite a few things to do well into January. Before we get into them though, let's talk about the new Spirit Gears! The 3 characters who get new Spirit Gears this time around are Asbel who gets a Dark Spirit Gear from Shadow, Cheria with a Water Spirit Gear from Undine and Richard who gets a Wind Spirit Gear from Sylph. The Graces cast using the traditional spirits may be a little odd, but the Producer's Letter actually mentioned that Lambda isn't a Spirit, and Richard's Spirit Gear Mirrage Arte has a surprise appearance from Gloandi, Windor's Valkines Cryas! As with all Spirit Gears, each character gets a new costume, new weapon, new Spirit Gear Mirrage Arte and new 5*s. Spirit Gears can be farmed for, not just obtained through the gacha (though you'll have to gacha if you want the new 5*s). Simply playing through the event is enough to obtain the new costumes, so be sure to do that! Also, the Zestiria Spirit Gear characters, Sorey, Rose and Alisha give bags as well, so use that knowledge to build a full team.

A Spirit Gear event isn't exactly a traditional New Year's event. We may get a new one in January, but proper New Year's Celebrations do start now! There's not one but 3 events rerunning currently, so be sure to play through all of them and claim their dia! You don't have to redo any of the quests to farm reruns either: once you're done with them, all you have to do is spend AP on quests, use Mirrage Artes and perform Just Inputs on your artes and you'll get rerun currency. Farm the Spirit Gear and you can essentially farm all rerun events at once! They also updated the ticket rerun pool and gave out a free rerun ticket, so now's the perfect chance to start a personal rerun (or 3) and maximize your farming.

Here's a timetable for the current events, their shops, banners and a new tower! Keep this handy, and we'll explain how to get new Spirit Gears below, as well as give you the promised Arte and costume previews at the bottom of the article like usual.

That's a lot to play for the new year! If it's too much to keep track of, it might be simpler to just finish each event by January 10 2021. We'll have a new PV up by then too! There's also New Year's Challenge Quests that give us New Year's themed fights (starting with a cow themed Poliwigle) which gives you one attempt a day, resets daily and will run for 10 days! Also, the Anniversary Boss Challenge is still running which you can check out here.

Now, here's a refresher on how to acquire and upgrade spirit gears, since it was changed for arc 4 a few months ago! Once you complete every quest in the Spirit Gear Event, head to the character upgrade tab, in the very middle on the bottom of the screen.

Then touch the "ALL" button on the top left.

From here, there's a list of buttons on the right. The important ones are the two on the bottom right. To buy a new Spirit Gear, click the left button.

This will take you to a list of Level 1 Spirit Gears available to buy. You can only have one of each! (This is my screenshot, and I already bought all of them, that's why all of them are sold out.) after that, return to the ALL screen and hit the button on the very corner on the bottom right.

This will show all the Spirit Gears you have available to upgrade. Tap the one you want and use the slider on the right to expend the amount of shards you need to level it up! You should have enough to buy a Level 1 Spirit Gear and upgrade it to level 2 if you completed all the quests, but you need Level 3 to use the new Spirit Gear Mirrage Arte, so that's your impetus to keep farming!

That's it for the event explanation. Here are the promised Arte and costume previews, as well as a look at the concept art for the new Spirit Gears!

Concept Art

【お知らせ】
こんにちは。大晦日も運営です
本日 14:00～配信イベントの『精霊装 アスベル シェリア リチャード』に登場する3人の精霊装の設定画を公開です。
2020年もありがとうございました
来年もみなさんに良いテイルズオブがありますように。
それでは良いお年を。ビバ！テイルズオブ#ザレイズ pic.twitter.com/5WmVk9QrEj

— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) December 31, 2020

Richard's Spirit Gear is based on his Lineage And Legacies outfit from Tales of Graces f! It's not literally the outfit however, he's also sporting a VERY armored take on the look, with a few cues from his original default costume too. Meanwhile, Asbel and Cheria's Spirit Gears look more eastern. Asbel in particular has a more Samurai inspired look, which is fitting for his fighting style and choice of weapon!

Asbel

【お知らせ】
こんばんは。運営です
12/31 14:00～配信イベントの『精霊装 アスベル シェリア リチャード』に登場するアスベルの精霊装を紹介です。
纏う属性は闇。霊装魔鏡技は高速の連撃をお見舞いし、時間差で放った闇の衝撃派が敵を葬り去ります。明日が年内最後の配信です。お楽しみに#ザレイズ pic.twitter.com/d9U32mSgNk

— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) December 30, 2020

Asbel already hit the quota for new 5*s with his decisive Mirrage Arte: two 5*s and 1 Reverse 5*. So he only gets the Spirit Gear this event, no new 5*. Still, he's already one of the best characters in the game, and a spirit gear makes him even better! The animation for the Spirit Gear Mirrage Arte calls Incineration Wave to mind.

Cheria

【お知らせ】
こんばんは。運営です。
告知です。12/31 14:00～精霊装 アスベル シェリア リチャードを配信します。
イベントに登場するシェリアの精霊装を紹介です。
纏う属性は水。霊装魔鏡技で天使のごとく羽ばたきます。
秘技は草薙刃（ハーヴェスト）が変化し敵を断ずる閃光を放ちます#ザレイズ pic.twitter.com/2geLfNV9tX

— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) December 29, 2020

Cheria gets one new Reverse 5*: Scathing Harvest! It allows her to chain very fast, which is useful if you want to quickly use a regular Master Arte. The Master Arte version has healing properties as well!

Richard

【お知らせ】
こんばんは。運営です。
近日配信の精霊装イベントに登場するリチャードの精霊装を紹介です。纏う属性は風（きっと大翠緑石（グローアンディ）の加護です。）
霊装魔鏡技は風の加護を得た疾風の剣撃。
新たな秘技はレストレスソートからの派生技と風の刃を自在に操る剣技です。#ザレイズ pic.twitter.com/RrRlR0ImEZ

— 【公式】テイルズ オブ ザ レイズ (@talesof_therays) December 28, 2020

Richard has 2 new 5*s this event: Sword Deluge and a new aerial arte! Also, his Spirit Gear features Gloandi, Windor's Valkines Cryas, which fits his getting a Wind Spirit Gear.

That's it for this event. 2020 was a great year for Tales of The Rays, and 2021 will bring many more great things. The producers have promised all party members from the Mothership titles will be playable by the anniversary in February. If promises are kept, that means 5 new characters in the next 2 months! They also promised to celebrate Phantasia and Abyss' anniversaries throughout the year too. The last few months may have been a doozy of many events, anniversaries and crossovers, but Rays isn't slowing down any time soon! As always, check back here for the latest news. A new PV should be up for January 2021 next week!

Tales of the Rays

Tales of the Rays is a Tales mobile game for the iOS and Android featuring characters designed by Hidenori Matsuraba and a new ADF-LMBS (Advanced Flick Linear Motion Battle System). The game tells the story of hero Ix Nieves and heroine Mileena Weiss in the world of Tir Na Nog. Characters from the previous Tales titles appear in this game. The game initially had an English version, but was short-lived and now currently runs exclusively in Japan.

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