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Some helpful beginner tipsTips & Guides

Hello there don't mind me just thought I'd put the things I've noticed here.

Beginner Shop

Probably the most important thing for beginners.

The beginner shop is in the secret shop area on the home screen.
The beginner shop is an incredible boost for a starting player.
The beginner shop lasts 8 days. (It says 7 but it counts down by the hour after it
reaches 1 day)
The most important thing in the beginner shop is the 10 draw equipment tickets get
those first.
The best buy after the 10 draw equipment tickets are the forbidden apples and skip
tickets. They're incredibly useful.
I recommend buying at least a couple of the equipment packs you need to job level
your units as these will help a lot early. (If you don't know which ones you need
maybe just buy one or 2 of each pack)
Everything except the forbidden apples refreshes daily for the beginner shop.

General Info

-The 5 star rates in this game are pretty good somewhere close to 8 or 10%.
-When doing story if the protagonist gets defeated you lose the mission instantly.
-There is friendly fire in this game.
-Unit level cannot exceed player (account) level.
-Energy caps out at 1000 if you get any more then this it goes to waste.
-You need to level a unit in order to level its jobs and abilities
-Job level caps at 11 and ability levels cap at 20
-Tap and hold on an ability on the "Abilities" tab in the unit menu to get advanced
details like what level you learn the next skill.
-Ranged units gain more damage and range the higher they are then an enemy.
(/u/jeremyzero)
-Soul shards are used to create units if you get a certain number of them (Varies
based on rarity). After you have a unit soul shards are used to limit break a unit.

Sections below for how many soul shards needed to create and limit break a unit.

Important to know

-Most free players only do the first (500 gem) of the three step rare draw banner.
You can do more it's just not recommended for players who aren't spending anything.
-Buying anything with gems from the shops is a poor investment so unless you're a
whale you really shouldn't do it.
-Equipment in the "Job" tab has a level requirement and if your unit doesn't meet
that requirement you can't equip it.
-The best way to progress early is to complete story and accept the milestones that
you get for completing story. You'll earn a ton of player exp and gems from these
milestones.
-This isn't based on any actual data but I'd say a good 70% of early stats for
units comes from job levels.
-When leveling up skills try to look for any ranged or aoe abilities and head
straight for those.
-Do not enhance any equipment till you have reached job level 11. Because you will
lose the enhancement if you level the job. (you do receive partial refund for what
you put into the item)
-When you get rainbow or colored (elemental) soul shards be careful you mainly want
to save these for limited time units but its really easy to use them without
realizing because it tells you that you can limit break a unit. So whenever you are
limit breaking a unit look at whats being used carefully and try to save rainbow
and colored soul shards. (/u/jeremyzero)
-There are some daily event missions so check them out every now and then.
-Zeni is tied to a huge portion of progression in the game so farm the event "Gold
Rush" mission whenever you see it.
-If you intend to spend any real money look at the Alchemist Pack first.

Section with more details on the Alchemist Pack below.

Good to know
These aren't that important but are useful to know.

-If you're close to capping on energy try going into the hard story missions they
use a good amount of energy and have great rewards.
Alternatively if you don't want to do hard story try some event missions.
-The third normal shop (Louise's Shop) is one of the best places to find advanced
equipment for leveling your jobs past job level 9.
-The first normal shop (Anna's Shop) has soul shards at the right end of the shop
that you can purchase with zeni. They change every refresh.
-You should equip gear in the unit menu if you can as it gives free stats.
(/u/jeremyzero)
-Gear is like equipment in most other games while what's called equipment in this
game is just infusing stats into your units.
-All non limited characters should get a mission where you can farm their soul
shards in the future. (These include natural 5 stars like Yomi, Magnus, and Vettel)
-You get a "meeting other players" bonus for playing multiplayer 25 gems for the
first ten people who you meet (go into a mission with) while playing multiplayer.
This number of people you can meet and get gems from will get increased later.
(whenever the developers decide to increase it)
-You can change the job of your defense team in Arena by holding down on the unit
and then tapping on their job. (/u/jeremyzero)

Evolving Units

-You can start to evolve your units whenever you wish you just need to run the
evolution material missions in event missions.
-All of the unit evolution material event missions are always open in multiplayer.
-If you look at your unit details you can see gold stars for the unit's current
rarity.
some units have grey stars past their gold ones this means they can evolve up to
that rarity
3 gold stars and 2 more grey stars means the can evolve up to 5 stars. While
starting rarity of 3 and no grey stars means they're are at max rarity. (At least
for now.)
-To see what evolution materials you need to evolve your unit click on the evolve
button and it'll list everything you need and what you already have.

Limit Break

-You can unlock the second job at 5 limit breaks and the third job at 15 limit
breaks
-You also get another gear slot at 10 limit breaks and then again at 20 limit
breaks. -The maximum limit break is based on the current rarity of your unit. 1
star is 5 limit breaks. 2 star is 10 limit breaks. Ect.
-The natural (or starting) rarity of a unit determines how many soul shards you get
when you draw a duplicate of it.
-A duplicate of a natural 5 star is 25 shards while a duplicate of a natural 4 star
is 20 shards Ect. Because of this only natural 5 star units can get job level 2
from just one duplicate.

Section below for number of shards needed to limit break units.

Key Missions

-There are event key missions these can be opened at any time as long as you have a
key for them. When you open one of these they only stay open for 30 minutes but can
be repeated any number of times within that limit. (/u/jeremyzero)
-There are 3 key missions Apple Garden, Gold Rush, and Mineral Garden (these also
have 3 time only daily event quests)
-You can get keys for key missions from the weekend only (Saturday, Sunday)
"complete all daily missions" mission.
-One key for each of the 3 key missions everytime you complete the "complete all
daily missions" mission.
-The key version of "Gold Rush" the zeni mission a great place to farm zeni if you
desperately need it.

Menu Information

-There's a world clock on the home screen in the bottom right it shows what time it
is for the game's server.
-The shops refresh about every 5 hours. (upper right) The time of refresh is using
the world time.
-If you're already on the home screen the home button turns into a settings button.

Starting out
The most important things to do when you start out.

-Accept anything in your gift box.

-Do the first step 500 gem 10 draw. use any tickets you might have. (save the rare
draw and unit summon tickets for any potential limited units if you want)
-Go to the beginner shop and buy some equipment bundles.
-Go into your units menu and level them up via "Enhance Unit" tab and then equip
what equipment you can in the "Job" tab
-You should only level 4 units or one party (6 units) at the start as resources are
used up rapidly (/u/jeremyzero)
-Spam story till you fail a mission or just want to level your units. then level up
and equip your units again. rinse repeat.

The Alchemist Pack

It gives you 300 gems upfront and 100 more gems every day after that for 30 days.
It gives you 30 US dollars worth of gems for 6 US dollars as long as you login
every day.
Along with the 100 gems every day you also get 3 skip tickets every day.
The Alchemist pack can be bought again every month (So I hear. can't afford one
myself yet.)
(As a note you only get 300 paid gems and all the login gems are "free" gems.
For now this doesn't matter but in Japan and probably later in global there
are/will be exclusive banners for paid gems only.
I don't actually know what benefit these banners have probably better rates.)

Soul shards needed to create a unit

Rarity Amount Needed

5 Star 150
4 Star 80
3 Star 50
2 Star 25
1 Star 10

Soul shards needed to limit break

There are 25 limit breaks total.

Limit breaks Soul shards needed per limit break Total of soul shards needed
for this level
Limit breaks 1-5 5 25
Limit breaks 6-10 10 50
Limit breaks 11-15 15 75
Limit breaks 16-20 20 100
Limit breaks 21-25 25 125
The Grand Total of soul shards you need to fully limit break a unit:375

Zeni cost to level abilities

Level of ability Zeni cost

level 1 to 2 100
level 2 to 3 500
level 3 to 4 1000
level 4 to 5 2000
level 5 to 6 10000
level 6 to 7 12500
level 7 to 8 15000
level 8 to 9 17500
level 9 to 10 20000
level 10 to 11 25000
level 11 to 12 30000
level 12 to 13 35000
level 13 to 14 40000
level 14 to 15 45000
level 15 to 16 50000
level 16 to 17 62500
level 17 to 18 75000
level 18 to 19 87500
level 19 to 20 100000

Total Cost: 628K zeni (628600 zeni) to level an ability from 1 to 20.