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How should I prioritize promotions in the early game? Mercedes is my only reliable aoe damage dealer so I'm assuming she should be pushed to at least 5* asap? She's been carrying me while I level other units/fodder by spamming side event stages
Depends on what your selective summon/early summons yield. Unless you have real bad luck with pulls, I wouldn't bother breaking her to 5 stars. Promote your dps to 50 star first, whoever is tanking second.
Fusing penguins into characters or random fodder gives them experience points (as does completing any battle). Once a unit hits its level cap, which is star based, you need to fuse an equal number of their current star level to promote them past it, e.g. 3 3 star units to move a level 30 3 star unit to 4 stars, which enables it to go to 40. 4 4 stars to get a level 40 4 star unit to 5 stars, which will enable it to go to 50.
Matching the element of the penguin to the element of hero is worth +50% experience. The fastest way to level units is to just take them to battles, but you can use stigma (red face currency) to grow penguins to help speed this along. I wouldn't sweat 6 stars until way later. You neither need nor have an easy way to farm the experience points quickly until you're done with the main story.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
It really depends on who else is in that roll
If it’s Achates and a bunch of 3* artifacts reroll that it’s bad.
If there are other good 4* or 3* characters though...
There are so many heroes. Just look up any multple 4-5 star pulls (artifacts and heroes) to see relative strength and if its something you can live with for awhile heh. Ras and Mercedes are really passable characters into mid end game. So is Aither.
Don't view the 5 stars as some god tier over the 4s. It's all kit based.
Angelica is a very strong healer, and probably good enough to take to start alone. You're going to need to use friends to kill things until you have better damage dealers, but she'll be enough to cover a lot of problems you'll have later.
She has potent heals, and has the ability to grand 2-4 turns of debuff immunity, which is very potent.
If you're willing to roll dice, you could try to get another roll with her and someone else, but if not, probably can just make due with her.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
a 5* artifact is pointless if you have nobody who can use it.
Otoh, getting a 5* artifact that’s BIS for a good 4* unit (that’s also in the roll!) is a very solid roll
Just re-rolled again and got Angelica, Coli, and Cat-Man (Purrgis). I'll have to think about that one. The gacha player in me sees 27 more tries and wants to shoot for a 5* plus something else.
That's a workable comp to start. Coli is decent, and Purrgis can tank for you, while Angie heals.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
That said I still dont have Angie and its kind of a problem end game as she is just so good. Probably the best available all around healer in the game.
This game throws gems and the flags to do banner based summons though. There are the dailies that will net you flags. There are the story quests where you will get some each act as rewards. There is the limited story modes that will give you some. And there are the browser based dailies, like the watergun one now, that can sometimes give you shots at additional ones randomly.
Increased rates just lower the odds of a 5 star that isn’t the featured 5star. The odds of a 5star overall are unchanged so pull whenever.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Depends on animations/character kits etc. We'll know the details tomorrow.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
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Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
I feel the opposite, the rumors of a league colab had me very uninterested, but GG has way more fun characters to me at least!
And my ign name is frozenzen @Tcheldor if you could add me to the list as well.
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Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
If you go to the Notices& Events button and then Events this will have a listing of what is active for the current patch. You will see the main side story but there is also usually a "browser based" thing here. Right now its the watergun fight. These change every patch but you can only find them in the events area or in the scrolling tile thing up top right. Right now its just a daily based thing where you get water guns based off of pretty easy daily stuff that you can then use on the middle the 4 guys to get a random shot at really useful stuff. There is another option lower for energy or gold but id recommend the middle turn in because it can give you liefs which are energy as well as gold, gear leveling items or flags. This watergun fight changes tomorrow though post patch.
Try to work your way through the story if you can. Try to finish the three sisters repuation daily each day. And try to finish the watergun daily if you can. The side story can wait for now probably.
Arena, Lab, abyss are all "free" though. As in they have their own energy. Keep up on those if you can as well. Arena will give you lots of gems per week if you make progress/win in them. Labs are a great chance for free gear. And abyss is great milestone based clearing that gives you great rewards if you can clear the levels.
I'm pretty indifferent or worse to these nerds. Dizzy's okay I guess.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
If you get good friend units they can carry you through the farming stages on hard probably At the very very minimum you want to clear the whole thing once for the 4* artifact reward and buy the bookmarks.
There's basically no penalty for trying to do content and failing. You get all of your stamina or other entry requirements refunded. This is true for everything but arena flags.
Also what is the water gun festival? I clicked on it but it said 0 attempts left.
Edit: Krau is pretty awesome. A provoke on his main attack is great.
Last night I got Maya which is eh but this morning on my free pull I got Charles so nice. Finally got the old man.
For tank id say keep pulling and work on crozet for "free" in the connections, the people sitting on the stool in the lobby, he is one of the more grindy connections but he is a very good tank with his shields and pushbacks.
I've been trundling along, not spending any cash and doing penguin/shock pup farm and a mol'gora thing each day as I can. I have some transmission stones and such, should I be spending those on moonlight summons or 4-5 star summons things? I farmed the Not My Knight thing pretty hard, is there a priority there for those types of events? I assumed the more expensive things would be the priority.
Friendship summons seem to summon a pile of crap - covenant gets a single better unit or artifact? Or a chance for better at least.
Readiness is a straight increase in the the units turn order. If you watch the turn order when you use a decreaser or pushback you will see the unit fly up/back in the order. Opposite for increasing readiness. Its a really powerful effect. Speed will increase/decrease the rate at with units go through the turn order bar. The turn order bar just shows the order at that second with speed and readiness it will change rapidly.
The summons are:
banner/event based: These can be a couple things. The normal will not increase the chance at getting a 5 star but rather the chance at the individual(s) listed. Like what we have now. There are also limited summons which will be a one shot chance to get that hero. After these are up you cannot currently get them again. There is a a gauranteed summon of these, like the gold transit stone at 20 summons, but its set at around 120 summons if I remember.
Covenant: This is the base summon. All non moonlight or limited summons are available here. You get one free a day but thats all you should be really investing here.
Moonlight: Alternate universe summons of characters. If you see a Celestial Mercedes, Martial Artist Ken, or generally any hero with a prefix to their name like that they came from this summon. Martial Artist Ken is considered the most op hero in the game and is only here. Lots of other really HQ 3-5 stars here.
Friendship: Fodder summons for leveling up artis or the like. Not really all taht usefull but can dump friendship points here from time to time if you are desparate for 2 stars for dogs promotion fodder, doesnt really happen as you get 2 star mobs pretty easily, or you want some 2 star or lower artifacts to level up a new arti for cheap and use the charms for the bigger levels.
1) What's the best way to level characters? I used a random friend that was only 1 rank above me but their character was 34. All of mine are like 12-14. Also I have a Carmainerose I didn't notice and she may fit in better than Coli, but she's only level 5.
2) Is there anything special with dupes? I got a 2nd artifact card and wasn't sure if they are used for anything other than having another.
3) What are Penguins used for? I just got some from a message.
Right now I'm just grinding on the event so I can try and get the last 5 covenant badges. Feels like summoning is pretty important here in the beginning to try and round out characters.
Epic 7 post the tutorial(Yes the tutorial is the first 10 Chapters when you unlock Moonlight summons) is a game about multitasking while grinding for materials.
Level characters while grinding materials.
Level wolves for 6*’ing while grinding materials.
Do the sidestory to level characters, while leveling wolves, while grinding event tokens, while...grinding for materials.
Mats are key for starring, as well as leveling abilities, which are fairly significant power boosts. As well as grinding for unlocking Yuna eventually.
1) Just as long as you are out of pvp your characters will gain xp on what they are doing. There are several ways to level characters. Once you unlock dispatch missions they are good chunks of xp a couple times a day. Labs will net good xp because of high encounters in them. Story mode will get good xp. You can rerun nodes over and over for xp if you like. The AP you get is not worthless. Not sure when that unlocks though as I had worked my way through storymode before that was added. Side story is usually good as well as you will grind out currency for that and get xp. The quickest way for me is to stick the new hero in a group with max leveled characters though. XP is split so if the hero is the only one that can get xp they will get all the xp.
2)Dupe heroes and artifacts can be pumped into the same hero and artifact for bonuses. For heroes it unlocks the additional effects which as you pump more heroes will rank it up to SSS max. These bonuses are great min max additions but behind RNG wall heh. For atifacts, if pumped into same artifact you will get a large bonus to xp given to rank it up. Ranking up artifacts increases the potency of what it provides in the text as well as the base stats.
3)Penguins I use to level up dogs. Phantasms. They are primarily what you will use to rank up/increase max level/increase stars of hero. You can add the dogs to your party to get them xp that way too. Generally phantasms are what you will use but you can also level up other 3 star trash mobs or heroes to funnel into
getting your heroes up to 5 star. I think penguins can be sold/transmitted as well for money and some stones.
Note: for dupe heroes you may find yourself saving them for both unlocking additonal effects and promoting them. If your main hero is leveled up max but is still the base star you will get both if you use the dupe for promoting. If you say have montramancy, a 3 star healer, and level one up to max (30), and you end up getting 3 more montramancys you can use those 3 montramancys to promote her to 4 star and get 3 unlocks of the additional effects as well!
Note2:You do not need to level up the heroes, trash mobs, dogs to max level to promote another hero. Just the hero you are promoting needs to be max level. Dogs when you get them are 2 star for example from the farm. You can use two of the trash 2 star mobs you get questing etc to get them right up to 3 star level 20. You can then use these dogs to level up a 3 star level 30 to 4 star.
Just note that Memory Imprinting (which is when you feed a character to herself for bonuses) DOES NOT give its bonus to the hero who's giving out the bonus e.g. Ras with S imprint does not give his health bonus to himself, just his allies.
Also note that Memory Imprints only apply to certain squares. Most 3 star imprints will hit everyone, but 4/5 Star imprints are sometimes more selective.
Finally, YOU CAN imprint a regular hero with its moonlight version and vice versa, e.g. Purrgis and General Purrgis can imprint each other.
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Since I just finished another statue reputation: Always click on everything, chests, statues etc. There are reputation unlocks for pretty much everything and it does seem that even if you are full hp it will count as long as you click the statue etc.
Phantasmas you get them in various areas. They also come in various stars when you get them 2-4.
Dont ever use the 4 stars ones on 4 star heroes. Dogs come fully leveled to the stars. So you can promote the 4 star ones to 5 stars with just 4 other 4 stars