New Players Guide

What's this Guide For?
This Guide will go over things to avoid, things to hoard, and some other various basics. If there is something missing or wrong feel free to add or edit.

Recommendations

 * 1) VIP 3 - Get to this VIP Level. This will unlock the ability to unlock the Bonus Chests in the Summon section. One of the Best ways to get VIP 3 is to buy both Monthly Cards (Gold and Silver). It costs the equivalent of $15 USD to get both and will get you VIP 3

Things to Avoid Doing

 * 1) Leveling Up Characters - Do  NOT  try to level up all your Girls evenly at the same time. You will quickly run out of EnergyEnergy.png and won't have enough to level up the ones that matter.
 * 2) Promoting - Try not to promote your characters all to the same level at once. Not only can this greatly diminish resources fairly quick, it can also lower your overall strength in the short run. Try focusing on Promoting a few characters at a time, primarily focused on your Arena teams. The Arena is one of your primary sources of Gems. It's better to have a few very strong Characters overall.
 * 3) Don't use girls with a weak element in PvE Stages (Story and Portal), but aim for 4 girls of the strong element against the element of the enemies in that PvE stage. For more info about PvE, please read the Battle Tutorial
 * 4) SecretShopIcon.pngt Store - Don't waste Gems on this. The deals may look enticing, but it is literally a Gem Sink. The only time it might be viable to spend Gems on this is when you are maybe 1 or 2 Memory Fragments away from Evolving a Girl. Only other time is if feel like completing the tasks in Monthly Carnival (which is not recommended).

Things to Spend Gems On

 * 1) Friends List - Use your first 300 Gems to Max out your Friend's List Capacity. It maxes out at 50. By doing this, you can get a maximum of an extra 50 APAP.png from your friends Daily.
 * 2) Growth Package - If you have VIP 3, invest 1000 gems into the Growth Package. You can collect rewards from ranks retroactively, and it will pay itself off by level 30, and gives back a total of 10.5k gems by player rank 90.  Depending on how many other players in you server have purchased the growth package, there are additional rewards, including BasicSummonTicket.png Summon Tickets.
 * 3) Events - Certain events like the H-Scene Events, the Seasonal Events are the best to spend gems on. The Seasonal Events (aka Step-Up Events) generally require 35,000 Gems, on average, to get the Character to 5 Star evolution.
 * 4) Newbie Mission - the amount of Basic Summons needed to finish, grows very steep in the last two days, so don't aim to complete more then Day 4 or 5 on it.

Items to Hold Onto

 * 1) BasicSummonTicket.png Summon Tickets - Hold onto these for Monthly Carnival. You use these to complete Tasks in that event
 * 2) EventSummonTicket.png Summon Tickets - Hold onto these mostly for Limited Summons like Camille and Little Reislin or Revival of old Step-Up Characters. Camille is only available in Event Summon and these tickets are the best option to use. Other Year 3 Girls will show up in these Event Summons, but they will eventually be available in the Basic Summon Pool.
 * 3) APSmall.png Restoration Potions - Save these for AP Intensive Events (i.e. Sub-Space)

Quick Player Levelling
There are some tricks to level far faster then most other players in the first one or two days: reaching Rank 31 on the first day is doable. The thing to note is that for every 1 AP used you gain 1 EXP and every Level Up will refill your AP completely. Completing your Daily Quests gives a good EXP boost. Finishing a Chapter of the Story will also reward 100 Exp as a separate Achievement. Thus your plan to level as fast as possible at the beginning is:


 * 1) Level your Characters as high as you can, Level 10 is unlocked right from the start, regardless of your own Level.
 * 2) Progress as far as you can in the Story. Don't use Characters of a weak element for a stage after Chapter 1 anymore.
 * 3) Once you're stuck, promote your Characters as high as you can.
 * 4) There is a hidden Newbie-Boost active until you unlock your first Y3 Character, which guarantees a Full-Pull of a Y3 Character. Use this to unlock the current Step-Up Girl, those are generally pretty strong and will help a lot in the beginning, those 900 Gems to buy the three needed Step-Up-Tickets are well invested. Do not use the x11 Basic Summon Ticket obtained in the end of Chapter 1: it cancels that hidden bonus.
 * 5) Until Player Level 15 you will have more AP available then you need to reach the next Level. So don't ever use Exp from sources other then beating Stages and using up your AP.
 * 6) After reaching Level 15 the refresh of AP thanks to a Level-up will no longer be enough on it's own to reach the next Player Level. So start to use other sources of Experience after using up all your AP. Take care to use as little of those other Exp as possible, but still enough to reach the next level.
 * 7) Those other sources are: Daily Quests, AP Pots (Gotten from the Coinshop if lucky, or guaranteed from Rank-Up Rewards), Achievement for beating the last Stage of a Chapter, Daily AP Reward (50 AP in your Mail from 12-16 EST and 18-22 EST) and one* 100 AP refill for paying 30 Gems.
 * 8) Cleverly using those other sources of AP and Exp to reach the next level after depleting once own AP makes it possible to reach Player Rank 31 on the first day. But even reaching Level 28 with it, already makes for a really good start!

After that you should follow the following things to keep ahead in Player Level in regards to others:


 * 1) Make sure to have 50 active Friends which send you AP daily
 * 2) Don't let the AP you naturally regenerate completely fill your AP gauge, as that time will be lost.
 * 3) Do all Daily Quests that award Exp every day
 * 4) Make use of the daily AP refill, if you have Vip Levels, getting the second one is also recommended. Using more then the first two strongly depends.
 * 5) Keep an eye out for when you reach the next Player Level and make sure to have as few AP remaining as possible when ranking up.

Arena Tips

 * 1) Cooldowns - Pay attention to your characters skill cooldowns. This determines what order your characters will be in the arena.
 * 2) Character Order - This can seriously be the difference between winning and losing an arena fight. Pay attention to your skill cooldowns to determine character placement.
 * 3) Attacker Advantage - Attacker's will always have an advantage in Arena.
 * 4) They will always be able to change their team to fight your defense.
 * 5) They always have first attack
 * 6) In Normal Arena there are bots. They are easily identifiable by their names.
 * 7) Their names are consist of two capitalized names put together (i.e. PrecherCliff, DivineKate, MoonBalk, ExantorEunice)
 * 8) For a more in depth guide regarding PvP, you can read the PvP guide