Black Beacon blends real-time action, elemental combos, and deep team-building into a stylish and fun experience, whether you're casually farming or tackling endgame. With generous rewards and a flexible roster where even 4-stars shine, it's great for both newbies and gacha vets. To get the most out of long grind sessions or boss fights, OSLink lets you run the game on PC and play from your phone, saving battery, cutting lag, and keeping things smooth. Let's dive in
Understanding the Story & Game Progression
Black Beacon's story mode is super easy to follow, and progressing through it is how you unlock almost everything in the game. The game is split into Main Story, EX Stages, and Side Stories, and each one plays a slightly different role.
Start with the Main Story
The Main Story is your bread and butter. As you clear chapters, you'll automatically unlock more stages, game modes, and even get rewarded with a ton of resources. It's a pretty smooth ride, beat Chapter 2 to unlock Chapter 3, beat Chapter 3 to open up EX stages, and so on. There's no weird maze to figure out here.
What Are EX Stages?
Then there's the EX Stages, which unlock after finishing certain main chapters. These are like extra challenge content that gives you additional loot and are worth doing when you're ready to push a little harder. They're not too tough, but you might want to level up your team a bit first.
Don't Skip Side Stories
Now, don't skip the Side Stories. They're unlocked as you go through the main chapters and are super worth doing because they give you extra rewards and a ton of account EXP. That means faster leveling and access to higher-level content, which helps you make the most of your stamina later. It's actually a smart move to clear all your available side stories before spending stamina farming anything, especially early on.
What You Unlock by Progressing
As you move through the story, you'll also start unlocking key game features like:
- Explore Mode (after Chapter 3-18)
- Multiverse of Time (after Chapter 4-19)
- Various event missions tied to your story progress
- Even free character shards and skins just for playing
Characters, Roles & Team Building
Putting together a good team in Black Beacon doesn't need to be complicated. Every character is usable, but having a balanced setup makes your runs smoother, especially when you're taking on bosses or harder content.
A good team usually has:
- One strong DPS: This is your main damage dealer. Most of your investment will go into this character.
- One support: Buffs your team or debuffs the enemy to make your DPS hit harder.
- One sustain: This can be a healer or shielder who helps keep your team alive in longer fights.
You can shift this around later with more experience, but for early and mid-game, this setup will get you through everything.
Why Mixing Elements Is Important
You should avoid running full mono-element teams (except maybe for dark teams later on). The reason is that the game has elemental reactions, and one of the strongest effects, Overload, only triggers when two different elements are used within a short time frame.
Overload deals big burst damage, kind of like a bonus nuke on top of your normal rotation. Having at least two different elements is usually enough to activate it. If you can, going for three different elements can make your team even more versatile.
Starter Team Examples (Early & Endgame)
Here are two strong team setups you can aim for:
Team 1: Florence / Zero / Hephae
- Florence is your main DPS — build her with pierce, crit rate, and crit damage. She'll shred enemies with her fire attacks.
- Zero gives you an attack buff to crank up everyone's damage.
- Hephae provides defense buffs and shields to keep your team standing in tough fights.
This is a well-balanced setup that works in most content, including endgame modes.
Team 2: Li Chi / Azi / Asti or Logos
- Li Chi is your HP-scaling DPS, however you need a healer to keep his cooldown low since he burns HP to hit harder.
- Azi brings thunder reactions and strong burst potential with her rocket launcher debuffs.
- Asti or Logos can act as your third slot depending on your needs. Asti shines with healing and keeps the team healthy, while Logos adds consistent damage for extra flexibility.
Both teams are strong, flexible, and use characters that are easy to build with early resources.
Easy Characters for Total Beginners
If you're brand new and still figuring things out, a few characters that stand out in the Black Beacon tier list for being super simple to use are:
- Viola: One of the easiest characters in the game. Her rotation is literally just two skills — second skill, then first skill. That's it. And she hits like a truck with her AoE attacks!
- Qing: Another low-effort, high-reward unit. First skill, second skill, fill the bar, then slam enemies with her ultimate. Super clean, super fast.
- Florence: Great for early and late game. Once you get used to her skill timing, she’s a strong carry who melts everything in her path.
- Asti: Perfect if you want a straightforward healer. Toss her umbrella, heal the team, and keep everyone alive without breaking a sweat.
And don’t forget, every character has a trial stage you can play. Not only do you get aware of free summoning for doing them, but they also walk you through how each character works, so no 20-minute guides needed.
How Combat & Elements Work
Black Beacon’s combat is fast-paced and satisfying once you get the hang of it. Understanding how elements work and which stats actually matter can make a big difference in how quickly you melt through enemies, especially bosses.
Element Effects Made Simple
Each element has its own effect when triggered, and they all scale off both your character’s HP% and attack thresholds.
Here's a quick breakdown of what each one does:
- 🔥 Fire (Burn): Deals HP% damage over time. Think of it like a poison effect — great for chip damage.
- ⚡ Thunder (Alexrusion): During its duration, each hit “zaps” the enemy, scaling with how fast your character attacks.
- 💧 Water (Status): Freezes the enemy for 3 seconds — and yes, this works on bosses too!
- 🌞 Light (Glare): Triggers a big burst of damage based on your HP%. It hits harder than most other elements.
- 🌑 Dark (Erosion): Lets you accumulate damage for a short time, then releases a percentage of it. Great for burst windows.
- 💥 Overload: This is a special combo effect that happens when two elements are applied within a short time window (about 5 seconds). It causes massive extra damage and is key to higher DPS in late game.
To trigger Overload, just make sure your team has at least two different elements. The more often you trigger it, the faster you clear content.
Reading the Enemy Bar & Cancelling Animations
You’ll often see elemental icons above the boss’s HP bar. These show how close you are to triggering an elemental effect, keep an eye on them so you can time your skills better.
Another important thing: you can cancel animations by swapping characters mid-skill. This saves time and helps keep up your damage. But be careful, some skills, like Florence’s E, shouldn’t be canceled too early or you’ll lose key damage.
Key Stats to Pay Attention To
Here are the stats that actually matter in combat, especially for building damage dealers and reaction teams:
- Pierce% %: Lets you ignore a chunk of the enemy’s defense. For example, 67% Pierce = ignoring 67% of enemy defense, that means a huge boost for DPS.
- Elemental Anomaly Mastery: Think of this like elemental mastery in other games. Only the highest mastery stat in your team counts, and it applies to everyone. So you don’t want two characters trying to build this, just one is enough.
- HP Scaling: Some units (like Lei) scale off HP instead of Attack, so you’ll want to build them differently (focus on HP, not raw attack stats).
You’ll also run into other stats like crit rate, crit damage, and elemental damage bonuses (like “Thunder DMG %”). These become more important when you start optimizing gear and pushing harder content.
Leveling, Stamina & Farming Smart
Stamina is one of your most valuable resources in Black Beacon, but it’s easy to waste if you don’t know how the game works behind the scenes. Early on, it's best to hold off on farming too hard until you're in a better position to make the most of it.
Why You Should Wait Until Level 35
Until you hit Account Level 35, you don’t have access to the highest stages for farming skill materials. If you spend all your stamina on farming then, you’ll just be getting lower-tier drops that you’ll eventually outgrow.
It’s better to focus on progressing through the story and saving your stamina until you unlock those harder stages. Once you reach Level 35, you can start farming efficiently without worrying about wasting resources.
Don’t Bother Farming XP Books
This one surprises a lot of players, you really don’t need to farm EXP books. The game hands them out constantly through missions, events, and especially the Babel Tower system. We still have over 100 purple EXP books without ever farming a single one. So unless you're in a rush to max out a bunch of characters, you can skip EXP book stages completely.
Early Stamina Priorities
The best way to use your stamina early on is to follow event missions, especially the 7-day starter event. Many missions require specific actions that cost stamina, so it’s smart to wait until you’ve unlocked all of them before spending your daily refreshes or event stamina.
Also, don’t use free stamina recharges from events too early, save them until you’ve got the missions unlocked or higher-level stages available. Timing it right will stretch your resources way further.
Babel Tower – Your Idle Farming System
Once you unlock it, Babel Tower becomes your passive farming base. It runs in the background and gives you valuable rewards over time, like EXP books, currency, and mats.
Here’s what to prioritize upgrading:
- Trade Station: This gives you tons of EXP books daily (like 1k–2k per day). Max this out early so you never have to manually farm EXP.
- Field Station: Increases the number of idle missions you can run. More missions = more loot.
- Tower Itself: Upgrade the Babel Tower core to improve overall functionality and progression.
These upgrades make a huge difference over time, especially if you log in regularly. But here's something important that often gets overlooked, no amount of rerolling, meta picks, or number crunching is going to help if your device can't run the game smoothly.
With OSLink's remote control feature, you can play the PC version of Black Beacon directly from your phone, as if it's installed on your mobile. It's low on battery drain, avoids overheating, and lets you play comfortably without pushing your phone's limits.
And if your PC isn't strong enough to run the native Black Beacon client, no worries, just run the mobile version through LDPlayer, and you can still get the same experience. Bonus: If you're using LDPlayer, OSLink's auto-click feature is perfect for automating repetitive tasks, like sweeping stages. It helps you spend stamina more efficiently while you're away, so you don't hit the resource cap or miss out on idle generation.
Conclusion
Now that you've got the basics down, you're set to build a strong team, progress smoothly, and enjoy everything Black Beacon has to offer. Don't stress the details too much, just focus on having fun and making steady progress. For the best experience, especially during long sessions or daily farming, play Black Beacon with OSLink and take full control from your phone wherever you are.
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