Azur Lane PR Ship/Weapon Blueprints Guide

We will be going over every single different variety of research projects available in Azur Lane and which one is the best for your situation.

What is a Research Project?

• A research project is similar to the commission’s tab.
• It is granted more complicated, and unlike the commission’s tab, there are requirements for fulfilling them. 
• You can get all sorts of cool stuff and good rewards from priority research, including prototype gun blueprints, and most importantly, you can get a priority ship blueprint.

How to Access the Research Project?

• You can access the research project once you unlock the Lab Tab, and once you click that, you can go to Research Academy, and from here, you will be greeted with five different projects to choose from.

It is generally always good to have one of these activities to maximize your rewards, and the higher rarity projects will yield more rewards. So the best would be rainbow, gold, purple and then blue respectively. However, there are times that the blue version is the best such as the Q and the G one.

What is Research PR3/PR2/PR1 Focus?

• There are two buttons you can find in the bottom right that says “Research PR2 Focus,” and it is interchangeable between three different modes.
•  You can either set it to PR to focus, no focus, or PR one focus. If you set the button to either PR2 focus or PR1 focus, there will be a higher chance for that project of that certain priority to appear.

The other button that says “Refresh” will reroll your projects if you don’t like any of the five options you have on screen. You can only use the Refresh button once a day, and it will then be grayed out. It will then reset at midnight, and you can do it once more.

Now that you already know about the basics of the priority research tab let’s get into the individual project letters and find out which one is the best for you.

Best Projects for PR Blueprints

Project H

• The best project that you can do to get PR blueprints the fastest will be the H series.
• It takes a super short amount of time compared to the other commissions with similar rarity, and it gives a perfect amount of blueprints.
• There is also a special gold version of project H that only takes 30 minutes, and it costs only 8000 gold and three wisdom cubes. It gives a high reward, and it only takes a little amount of time to finish.

Downside:

• It costs wisdom cubes where most people would prefer to spend in gacha instead of PR research.
• You should only be doing project H when you have a ton of wisdom cubes, and you don’t have anything to use them on, or when you just really want to finish up a PR ship’s blueprint the fastest.

Project D

• Go-to project for most people, and it only costs gold which is relatively easy to come by than wisdom cubes.
• It also has a guaranteed chance to drop at least one blueprint for that particular ship shown. For instance, a Project D with Ibuki shown then an Ibuki blueprint is guaranteed, which is amazing.
• The blue version is excellent, so you should do that. However, the gold version is better than the blue one.
• The purple one is debatable bad, and this is because the blue one usually has the same amount of rewards as the purple one, but it costs more, and it also takes more time.
• It also has a 30-minute version that can come out another gold or rainbow rarity; it costs five thousand gold and five wisdom cubes, so you should be doing them.
• This will most likely be the most used project when you want to get PR blueprints.

Project G

• It has a faster time to finish, but it does not have that guaranteed PR ship blueprint that project D has.
• The only version worth doing at project G is the blue version that is one hour and 30 minutes. This is because it is an hour faster than the blue version of project D, so if you see the one hour and 30 project G, it is always good to do it.
• If you see any other version of project G, such as the blue two-hour 31 or the purple version of G, do not do it because it is a waste and bad use of your gold.

Best Project for Low Gold or Cubes

Project C

• The best to do when you have no resources because it has no requirements, and it costs nothing to go and start.
• It also has pretty good rewards.

Downside:

• It takes a long time with each rarity.

Best Projects for the Need of Refresh

Project Q

• The blue one-hour version is the best to do because it costs equipment parts, and usually, those are very abundant to come by.
• The blue one will only ask for a couple of gray or blue parts, which you should have plenty of, and after that, you can do the one-hour version because that is a good one and then you can get a brand new refresh and five new choices to go and choose from.

Downside:

• Has terrible rewards.

Project E

• It requires you to scrap equipment for you to get that brand new refresh.

Downside:

• Has bad rewards.

Bad Projects:

Project B

• The project itself takes a long four hours no matter the rarity, so it doesn’t really save time, and it also has the most annoying requirement.
•  One of the requirements is to complete a certain amount of stages and a certain amount of times on a certain chapter, so this is the most time-consuming and strenuous activity that you can do.
• The only time that you should consider doing this B research is if the gold version pops up as it has relatively good rewards. However, this would mean that you would have to clear three or four stages in chapters 11, 12, or 13, which is a lot of work.

Project T

• Requires you to complete commissions which takes a lot of time.
• Use it as the last option because everything else is better than this.

Downside: 

• Mediocre rewards.
• Takes a longer time than Project Q and E.