QT Connoisseur Tutorial Videos

General Info
Here we will go over some of the basics for the game, along with many helpful hints for any new beginners

Beginner Video
Below is a video made by QT Connoisseur. It goes over a lot of the basics of the game.

Important timestamps:
0:00 – 0:20 (Brief overview of the game): "Hello and welcome. Since its release on July 5th Project QT has been making steady progress on their game. The Project QT team have been actively engaging with the players in efforts to make improvements, changes and correct balance issues. After playing this game myself throughout the period I hope to share some tips and recommendations for newer players." 0:20 - 0:47 (Immediately after the opening tutorial): "For new players, the introduction to the game and the following tutorial sequence should explain the basics quite nicely. Take your time reading the prompts and you should have a good idea of what the game is about. However, once you finish this you may be feeling a little lost as to what to prioritise next. You will have a filled AP bar fresh out the tutorial stage since you will have just leveled up. I would recommend you make some headway into the story missions, so as not to waste it."

0:47 - 2:04 (Elemental advantages, sweep scrolls, and AP refresh): "In Project QT, each character is associated with one of four elements. Fire, wind, lightning, and water. Each has an advantage and disadvantage to another. Some awesome members in the discord community were helpful enough to produce a chart that specifies type matchups as well as enemy element prominence in story stages. I will link to this resource in the description below for you to reference as it is very helpful later in game when you have more characters at your disposal. The key thing to do if you are a new player is to work your way through the beginning stages while you have AP and try and complete each stage with three stars. Each stage has three mission requirements to be able to acquire the stars for that mission. Doing so will allow you to instantly replay the mission with sweep tickets. This saves time and makes obtaining character enhancing material more efficient. Obtaining all the stars also nets you additional rewards such as character pieces, seduction items and gem rewards among other things. To make the most of your AP early game and due to the low amount of exp required to level up initially you may be leveling up faster than you can use all your AP. AP refreshes itself each level up so there will be some loss in early levels until you can learn how to sweep efficiently to take advantage of AP refresh upon level up. Sweeping stages when you are close to level up in order to reduce AP loss."

2:04 - 3:08 (Leveling up characters, AP from friends and story stage mission requirements): "A helpful tip for manually playing stages is that although you can sometimes link multiple special effect spaces on the game grid, it isn’t always the best thing to do as can lead to reduced potential combos.

Completing the first few stages will reward you with a new character Chris which is helpful as it fills another slot on your team and she boasts a large health pool. Also ensure you have leveled up your current team by checking their individual pages. Raise them to their current available max level to help clear stages more reliably and efficiently.

Another means of obtaining AP is from friends. Each day you can send and in turn receive, AP from each friend. So head to the friends tab and add pretty much everyone on the recommended section. In the following days, you will want to maintain an active friends list to get the most AP from them as you can.

Prioritize completion of story mode stages right from the start. If you are able to three star all stages as you go that is even better as you’ll get even more rewards. Obtaining all the stars in a chapter will often reward you with gems and a summon ticket which will be very valuable in helping you complete the newbie 7-day rewards."

3:08 - 5:55 (Daily quests, the tower, new player 7-day rewards): "In order to level up fast, you will want to be completing the daily quests each and every day. Doing so will net you a total of 895 exp. Admittedly you will not be able to complete certain quests like arena battles which are reliant on you completing chapter 2. But by prioritizing the completion of story stages you will be making fast progress.

For perhaps not so new players who have reached rank 30, the tower is a great way of obtaining useful items and character pieces to aid in strengthening your team. If you have access to it and can reliably complete it each day I would recommend you collect battle permits, sweep scrolls and character pieces from the reward exchange as doing so will help in the long term when you are needing to enhance characters and farm for materials to do so.

If you see an exclamation mark icon waving at you it is usually a sign you have completed a quest or are able to claim some kind of reward. Check the main screen every so often to claim these rewards. New players will have access to newbie missions which offer 7 days worth of tasks to be completed. From enhancing characters, clearing stages you will be able to complete most of them just by doing what I have previously talked about. However, an issue that some new players were calling attentions to in the discord server was the missions requiring you to summon a certain number of times each day. Now understandably, being a free game Project QT has to have some way of making money. The game does contain microtransactions, most of which contain character summoning resources. Those of you not looking to pay for character summons will need to rely upon collecting gems and summon tickets from every source available to you in order to meet quest requirements for summoning x amount of times. Some story stages, when cleared with three stars, reward summon tickets and most reward a certain number of gems. Clearing all stages in a chapter with three stars rewards a larger number of gems and a summon ticket. Checking in every day in-game rewards a variety of rewards, some days it is gems, others its coins and energy. Ranking up usually rewards gems and summon tickets so it is in your best interest to level and complete daily missions each day for the most exp possible.

Occasionally, after completing stages or arena battles the secret shop will open. This is available to you for one hour and sells items you can purchase using gems. It is sometimes possible to find 11x normal summon tickets in here. If you have the gems, getting them from here saves you 500. As it normally costs 2500 gems to do an 11x summon. If you are able to acquire these while the newbie 7 days quests are still available to you it will help you reach the summoning quest total. Also, don’t forget you can do a free normal summon once each day.

7-day rewards from the bonus tab offer new players two 11x summon tickets which will definitely help in completing the newbie rewards quests. You will need to save all the gems you can and think carefully about what you use them on if you are concerned about completing the newbie rewards and obtaining the 800 gem reward." 5:55 - 6:53 (VIP tiers and microtransactions): "For those of you in a position to spend some money on the game, a recommendation I would make would be to obtain the Monthly reward card and the Golden monthly reward card. Doing this should put you at VIP 3. VIP tiers in these types of games offer extra bonuses and rewards for players depending on what level they obtain. VIP 3 allows you to opt into the growth package, found by going to the bonus tab. This rewards you every ten ranks. And although costing 1000 gems, offers an immediate return on investment if you are already rank 30. Vip 3 also enables you to make use of the bonus chests from summoning. After summoning 60 times at the basic summon you will obtain 50 character pieces for a 3rd-year character. I’m not suggesting you should spend money on the game. I only wanted to highlight some of the potential benefits of doing so, as VIP systems and microtransaction benefits aren’t always explained prior to their purchase." 6:53 - 7:35 (Closing remarks and outro): "I hope that this has helped you out and provided some form of direction if you were struggling with what to do. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment. I will link to the games discord server in the description below as there is a lot more information and support options available there. I would be happy to provide a more advanced guide with more tips and tricks for farming arena and tower strategies or an in-depth analysis of certain characters abilities and usefulness. If this is of interest to you, leave a comment below with things you would like to know. Thank you very much for watching. Take care."

Intermediate Guide Video
QT Connoisseur goes over some more in this video. Enjoy!

Important timestamps:
0:00 – 1:26 (Intro + coins and energy): "This guide will be building off the tips and recommendations I made in the beginner’s guide video. It will be a little more in-depth and as such, I hope you are able to follow it okay. Lets jump right into it, the first topic of this video will be on two of the main resources used in the game, coins and energy. Coins, in addition to character pieces, are used to evolve characters, they are also used in character promotion to a lesser extent. Energy is used in upgrading, essentially levelling up characters. These two basic resources can be obtained from the portal. By completing Energy and Coin missions daily you can obtain a steady income of them, the amount will vary depending on which level mission you are able to clear. You can attempt the coin and energy missions up to three times each day. The energy mission boss is water element, so to make it easier for you, using a team mainly consisting of lightning characters would be best as they will inflict an additional +50% damage against the boss. The good news is once you have cleared these stages you can use sweep scrolls to automatically complete them each day. As you rank up and upgrade your characters you will be able to clear the harder levels of energy missions and get more energy for the AP you expend completing them. In the same way, you can attempt the coin missions each day. The boss for this stage is lightning element, so you stand the best chance of completing it if you use a wind team. I highly advise you to be completing these missions each day as these resources are used in pretty much all aspects of character enhancement." 1:26 – 2:34 (Materials): "The next topic of this video is materials. Materials are used to promote characters and increase their stats. Some materials can be obtained from the portal in a similar way to the coins and energy, club material missions reward materials specific to characters clubs, literature, sports, art and science. Whereas elemental material missions reward materials specific to characters elements, fire, water, wind and lightning. Like the previously mentioned missions you can complete three of the material missions each day. Whether it be just three club missions, three element material missions, or a mix of the two.

All story stages reward materials, if you are looking to promote a specific character or check what materials you need to do so, you can find out by going to their profile and tapping promote. This will show you the combination of materials you will need to collect. If you are lacking materials, tapping the material you need will bring up a list of story stages that will reward it. If you are lacking more than one material type, you can sometimes find a stage to complete that offers both materials as a potential reward, making your AP expenditure more efficient." 2:34 – 3:34 (Enhancing characters): "I have mentioned promotion to enhance characters but there are a few other ways to increase characters statistics. One way is to evolve characters. Evolving characters requires the use of character pieces and coins. Evolving a character increases their star level. The star level corresponds to characters skills. As characters evolve and increase in star level their skills and base statistics will increase accordingly. Each star level requires more character pieces and coins to unlock than the previous level. Another method is to upgrade characters. Upgrading characters requires energy. Upgrading essentially levels up the character, the max level your character can reach corresponds to you own rank. Upgrading also increases all three of the characters base stats. However, each upgrade will require an increasing amount of energy.

As previously mentioned, promoting characters can increase all three statistics, quite significantly. The cost of doing so requires the correct materials, specific to each character in addition to a certain amount of coins." 3:34 – 4:02 (Bonds): "A slightly more difficult way of increasing characters stats is to complete character bonds. These vary for each character, but by increasing promotion grade or star levels of other characters some characters can increase in a certain statistic. The easiest way to see this is by clicking the bond tab on a character you want to increase the stats of, see what is required and what stat it will affect, then go to the bond target character and enhance them to meet the requirement of the first character." 4:02 – 4:42 (Monster girls): "The last method of increasing character stats is to upgrade the monster girls loyalty levels and upgrade their skills. Doing so grants characters of an element type or characters of a certain club, passive boosts to health, attack or even recovery. This method is easy at first but becomes increasingly more difficult as you get into higher skill and loyalty levels. To upgrade the monster girls you will need coins and gift items and seduction materials. Gift items can be obtained from the portal in a similar fashion to the coins and energy. Gift missions can be attempted up to 2 times a day. The boss for these stages is of the wind element, so using a fire team should help greatly." 4:42 – 5:35 (Exploration): "Seduction items, among other things, can sometimes be obtained from the exploration feature. These are used to increase monster girls loyalty and upon reaching new levels increase the max skill level available to be enhanced. Exploration offers a range of rewards. In order to complete explorations you will need to form parties from the characters you have already summoned. To stand the best chance of a successful exploration you will need to satisfy the requirements of that exploration, which is stated below the item name. Forming your party from these types of characters will increase the success rate percentage. Each exploration will take a varying amount of time to complete. And sometimes upon completion will offer you the chance to battle, clearing the battle will reward double the amount of item(s) for that exploration. The number of explorations you can complete per day and the number of simultaneous parties exploring is dependent on your VIP level." 5:35 - 7:15 (Hard mode story stages + tower): "In the previous video we discussed story stages, now that you have a better grasp of the game and upgraded a few of your characters, you should be able to start working through the HARD mode story stages, these can be found by tapping the story icon and tapping on HARD near the bottom of the screen. These require more AP than normal stages to attempt but reward a lot more materials. Each hard stage can be completed a maximum of 3 times a day. Once again, take note of the enemy element from the spreadsheet and choose your team carefully to achieve the greatest advantage. One thing you will aspire to do it complete the tower challenge. To begin you will need to select eight to twelve characters to battle. Keep in mind that each character can only battle five times. So ideally you want to have at least two good teams and a few strong interchangeable characters to swap in to counter enemy elements. The tower consists of twelve stages, and plays like arena battles, in that there is no player input in how battles play out beyond selecting the team that fights. If your attack on an enemy team fails, the damage you inflicted will be carried over the next time you attempt to challenge them. Clearing each of the twelve stages rewards challenge coins, among other items; These are used to obtain rewards from the tower reward exchange. Every three stages you will be able to pick one of four cards to obtain a random reward, you can get sweep scrolls and AP potions reliably from here so it’s good if you are stockpiling for weekend event stages. To get a better idea of what characters you should use or which you should save for later tower stages, tapping on enemy units on the map will show you the teams you have yet to face. This way you can reserve certain characters for later use and plan your attacks on each stage." 7:15 – 7:45 (Outro): "I sincerely hope these guides help you out and would love to attempt to answer any questions you may still have about the game. I will link down below to the games discord server and other useful resources. I hope to create a more advanced guide, explaining the arena. This is an important part of the game so I want to include it in a dedicated video. I would like to say a quick thank you to the Project QT team for making me a mod on the discord server. If you see me there don’t hesitate to say hi. Until the next video, take care and have fun. "

Arena Guide Video
Qt Connoisseur explains the basics of the arena and outlines a strategy for earning points.



Important timestamps:
0:00 – 0:57 (Overview of arena): "Hello, in this video I will discuss the arena in Project QT. Let’s start with a brief overview. The arena allows you to battle other players and earn honour, the honour you collect can be exchanged for various rewards some of which include character pieces, memory fragment boxes and sweep scrolls. By default, you will have 5 free challenge attempts per day, this may be reset to gain more attempts if you have a VIP level of 3 or higher, with higher VIP tiers offering more arena reset chances. When players battle you, they will face off against your defence party. You’ll want to set a strong team here to minimise point losses throughout the arena season. Each season lasts 28 days, after each season all players ranking, and points earned are reset. In the arena, additional elemental advantage is set at 25% as opposed to 50% outside of arena, like in story stages." 0:57 - 2:08 (Punching up and down): "Now that the basics are out of the way lets move onto more of the tricky stuff. In arena it is better to try and punch up and challenge targets with more points than you. If you win you gain more points potentially than punching down and attacking targets with less points than you. Also note, that in the event you lose a battle punching down you stand to lose more points than the average point gain for that rank so consider this when attacking players ranked lower than you. It is therefore better, if possible, to attack players with higher points than you to minimize setbacks. Losing to higher ranked players only deducts about half the average point gain for that rank. So it isn’t as bad. The amount of points you gain at each rank D through to S, varies. For example, at D rank you gain an average of 20 points per successful challenge. Compared to S rank where you gain an average of 5 points per successful challenge. So, progressing through the higher ranks in arena will take longer. A rough idea of the break even points for challenging players of similar rank to you is as follows. D = 20, C = 18, B = 13, A = 8 and S = 4" 2:08 – 3:08 (Arena mail rewards): "Each day you will receive rewards in the mail depending on your current rank. For example at D rank you will get 200 honour and 10 gems per day. Each week you will also receive a reward based on your point total. This is your position in the arena relative to all other players in your server. At minimum you will receive 1000 arena honour and 50 gems. However, this can be increased up to a massive 10,000 arena honour and 1500 gems if you are able to secure the number one spot in arena for that week. As previously mentioned, arena honour can be exchanged for various rewards. Clara, a third-year wind element character can only be obtained via this method. And is definitely worth the investment if you have the honour available to spend on her. I’ll cover more about individual characters skills and utility in future videos but for now, in order for you to stand the best chance in arena I will highlight the importance of team order and skill cooldown times." 3:08 – 4:31 (Skill cooldown and attack order): "All characters have unique skills, these have slightly different effects depending on whether they are being used in PvE or PvP. By checking their character pages and looking we will see the cooldown time. In this case we are looking at the Arena skill cooldown. For sports characters the cooldown is 5 turns, for literature and science characters it is 6 turns, for art characters it is 7. There are some exceptions to this rule. For example, despite having the literature club attribute Una has a cooldown of 5 turns. And Jessie has a slightly longer cooldown of 6 compared to the rest of the characters with the sports club attribute. How is this relevant for arena though? Well when you are battling other players you want to ensure your team is using their skills soon after they become available to maximise their efficiency. It is no good having a character like Alice’s skill become available but have to wait for two or three more turns before she can activate it. In this way you are missing out on her heal over time and losing the opportunity to restore precious health throughout the battle. You should aim to have your characters activate their skills as they become available. Plan for this when selecting your team, consider choosing team members from each club attribute. And work out where they would best be positioned in order to use their skill efficiently. To help you understand this a bit better I’ll show you how I might make up a team for arena." 4:31 – 7:00 (Arena team selection example): "I’ll explain my first character selection choice later as it is easier to work from slot 2. The second character you choose will potentially utilise their skill first if you have chosen a sports character, or Una. Being the character who attacks on the 6th turn, she will be the first to come off her 5 turn cooldown. My third character slot choice is Clara, who has a 6 turn cooldown on her skill. Placing her here means that when she attacks on the 7th turn she will activate her skill which will have come off cooldown as turn 6 ended. My fourth character choice is Camille, who has a 7 turn cooldown. Placing her here means she will activate her skill when she attacks on the 8th turn. Now back to my first character choice, Elva in slot 1. Elva has a 7 turn cooldown, the same as Camille. But I decided to place her here because her skill will come off cooldown at the same time as Camille and she will use it on her turn after her. I also want her here because I want Elva to activate her skill which does increased damage in the same period as Una’s skill remains active. After una activates her skill in turn 6, for the next 4 turns a percentage of the damage I inflict to the enemy is restored as my health. So I want Elva’s skill to activate in this period to gain just that little bit more HP. This is my preferred strategy for arena. There are no doubt others who might rearrange my team or use entirely different characters. It all depends on who is available to you and how much you have enhanced them. Sure, there are occasions in which you may want to delay a characters skill activation. For example. You may want to set Clara’s position a few turns after her skill activates to counter any buffs that the enemy team activates. Coming up with different strategies and plans of attack in arena is one of the many things I enjoy about this game. If you are not sure if a team is viable or will work, try using it in the tower first against teams in there. Just remember however that elemental advantage is greater there so you may be able to beat a certain level player in tower but have a more difficult time with the same / similar team in arena due to the elemental advantage being reduced to only 25%. Another useful tip to know is that you can quickly shuffle team members positions by holding down on them and dragging them to the slot you want. Although weaker, the effects of elemental advantage do help greatly in arena. Selecting a team to counter opponents elements will yield the best chance of a successful attack." 7:00 – 9:58 (From D rank, to S rank 1 + bot opponents): "For those of you aiming to reach the tops spots in arena and farm the daily and weekly honour and gem rewards you will need to have a strong start at the beginning of each arena season. I experimented a little myself and within a few days of a new season, was able to reach a position among the top players in my server. I want to share with you the methods I used to achieve this. I will state that clearly now that I am not a free to play player. But don’t let that dissuade you from following my methods. I started off the arena season ensuring my defence team was comprised of my highest level and enhanced characters. Also carefully positioning them based on skill cooldown efficiency. The next step is challenging other players. The hardest part without a doubt is progressing through the lower ranks, as this is where everyone starts, so most of the players you encounter there will be real players. Try to challenge players with more points than you. Utilise elemental advantage and pick your battles carefully. For free to play players, you will be able to do 5 battles per day. For those of you with the option to reset arena challenge attempts I would definitely recommend doing so to get an early lead in points. The faster you can push your way up the ranks the better chance you stand of appearing less frequently on other players challenge list. The way arena works is it selects random players based around your current point total for you to challenge. The higher you can climb the less likely it is for you to appear on other players lists. Less challenges from other players means less potential point loss for you. Don’t be discouraged by other players attacking you. Keep attempting your challenges every day and work your way up. As you get into the higher and higher ranks you may start to notice a certain pattern in the names of players on your challenge list. They will be capitalised at the start and in the middle. These are bot players. Put in to ensure that no matter how great the point total of a player is there will always be opposition for them to challenge. Bot players usually have weaker teams and generally appear with promotion level 3 – 4. They can appear with more points than you by about 100-200 in some cases so are perfect for punching up to and securing those bonus points. By farming these bots, you can very quickly secure yourself some easy wins. Once you have reached S rank you will nearly always be able to find them in your opponent list or refresh to find them. Farming these bots will enable you to maintain your position above s ranks and reap the highest daily reward arena offers. Pushing into the top 10, 5, 3 or even number 1 position is a little more difficult as there will often be fierce competition from other real players. They will attempt to attack you and take your point total down to get a lead or refresh their opponent list specifically to take down a certain player. Watch out for these guys. Try to either maintain such a lead that they won’t find you or position yourself below them so that they won’t affect your point total as much. The rewards gained by making it to position number one or even in the top 10 are definitely worth the effort put in to getting there." 9:58 – 11:06 (Recap and outro): "So here is just a quick recap for you: Make sure you’ve set a strong defence team. Push hard and fast after the arena season starts. Punch up if possible, utilize element advantage and adhere to my skill cooldown position guide. Use all your available challenge reset chances to get that early lead. Farm bot players for easy wins at higher ranks. Try not to be discouraged by other players attacking you. Most importantly, enjoy it and have fun!

I hope this guide to the arena has been helpful. I wish you all the best with your challenge attempts. If you have any further questions about the arena or have suggestions for future videos please leave a comment. I really appreciate all the support I have been getting on these videos. I really enjoy making them. I will link to the games discord down below, feel free to pop in and say hi to me and the other mods there. I’d also advise you to follow the games, twitter or other social medias to stay up to date with all the new events and exciting teasers. You all stay awesome and I look forward to seeing you in the next video!"