Beginner Guide

1. Xia Xia's Climbing Encouragement

You will get rewards by completing missions and reaching specific floors in Adventure.

Key rewards include:

22 copies of [Revolution] Bam

11 copies of [Healing Flame] Yihwa Yeon

1 copy of [Wolhaiksong] Urek Mazino

540 Welcome Advent Tickets

3 Legendary Floating Ship Schematics

~2640 Normal Summon Tickets (More with Red Suspendium)

~980 Black Market Tickets (More with Red Suspendium)

~6900 Green Revolution Fragments (More with Suspendium)

~99350 Orange Revolution Fragments (More with Suspendium)

400 Purple Revolution Fragments (More with Suspendium)

Growth Materials and Miscellaneous

These missions have two tiers, one free and an additional one that will ask you for some additional currency.
I would recommend unlocking all the tiers that can be bought for Coins and Suspendium. (Except for Master Keys and Shinsu Sea Whetstones)

When you start putting your teams together, the first thing to figure out is who your DPS units will be.
After that, focus on understanding what they need to perform at their best, and identify which units in your roster can provide those things.
It will take some practice, but in the meantime you can have a look at the unit page on this website and see the Teambuilding section for some ideas.

Positioning is also important, it's not always optimal to place a tank in the front-middle position, there might be times when placing it on the side or in the backline could yield better results.
Observe the flow of the battle and then react and position the units accordingly.

Some teams are bad against certain enemies, when you are struggling try to swap teams to try and match each team with their ideal opponents, when possible.

Watch this video or this video for some additional information.

Make sure to check out the Tri-Essence guide because some teams WILL NOT work if your Swiftness is too low.

For your reference, on the side you can see some example teams using low investment units that should always work regardless of when you start playing.

The Story Mode is a good source of Shinsu and Normal Summon tickets, but you can only obtain the rewards once.

From my point of view it takes a long time to complete, especially the initial Acts, but eventually you should get them done.

These are activities that you have to complete every Day, Week and Month to get additional rewards.

The rewards are important and add up quickly, so remember to do them and don't skip them!

From the Weekly and Monthly Missions you also gain some Revolution materials based on your Adventure Progression.
The amount you get is not insane, but it is one of the few ways to get them.

Range

One of the first things to consider of a unit is whether the unit is close-range or long-range.
This will have an impact on the decision on what to build on them, as their survivability will be impacted by this.

Damage Type

Each units deals one, and ONLY one, type of Damage, either Magic or Physical.
To understand which type of damage a unit deals, open their page (image on the right), and look at the 3 small icons in the top left corner.
The one in the middle is the Damage Type icon, if it is a Staff the Type is Magic, if it is a Atom the Type is Physical.

Proficiency

There isn't much to this system, it is made up of 10 levels and at max level you unlock the Exclusive Equipment.
You earn experience by using instruction manuals or having a unit take part in a fight.
In total a unit will get 10 ACC and 10 EVA from Proficiency, which is a negligible amount.

It is important to note that you are also going to earn 600 Suspendium when taking a unit to Proficiency Lv. 10.
When you have spare instruction manuals, use them to take all your units to Lv. 10 Proficiency.

Rapport

You can give gifts to units to increase their Rapport level.
Their favourite gifts will give 200 exp, Neutral gifts will give 100 exp, and gifts they dislike will give 50 exp.

You get useful stats for improving rapport with a unit:

25 Swiftness (Rapport 4)

100 Evasion (Rapport 5)

100 ACC (Rapport 6)

Your carry units should be taken to Lv. 6 rapport, while for tank and Supports can be initially left at Lv. 4 for the 25 swiftness.

Each level of Rapport also gives Suspendium, and getting multiple units to Rapport Lv. 3 or 4 is a really good way to obtain substantial amounts of Suspendium early on.

Lv.	Total Gifts	Suspendium
1	1	50
2	5	100
3	14	150
4	38	200
5	87	250
6	161	300
7	175	350
	TOTAL	1400

Exclusive Equipment

After reaching Proficiency Lv 10 you unlock the Exclusive Equipment.
The EE has 4 Effects that will improve a part of the unit's kit, they are unlocked at +0, +10, +20 and +30.
At +5 you unlock an additional stat, and this gets improved at +15, +25, +35 and +40.
You need the EE at +20 before you can unlock the Carrier for the Ignition Weapon.

Going +40 is pretty expensive, as it only provides some basic stats and is NOT worth it most of the times.
I recommend stopping at +35 for your key units, and +30 for everyone else.

Gear

You can equip 4 Gear pieces to every Unit and they provide some important stats:

Slot 1 and 3 provide ACC and EVA

Slot 2 provides Critical Hit Rate and Critical DMG

Slot 4 provides Magic and Physical Resistance

Gear comes in different ranks, but don't even consider pieces that are not S-rank.

These pieces can be leveled up to +5 and if the color of the Gear piece matches the color of the Unit, it will give a 30% increase on its stats.
Leveling a piece to +5 requires 7.2 million coins, and I would NOT invest in them unless you really need those specific stats.
Flat HP, ATK and DEF have 0 value as they do not scale with link levels, ignore them.

Limit Break

You will need to pull a unit a total of 22 times to get them from 0 Dupe to Rainbow 5.
There are different tiers for Dupes: [In Order]

Green 1 to 3 [G1-3]

Blue 1 to 3 [B1-3]

Purple 1 to 3 [P1-3]

Red 1 to 3 [R1-3]

Orange 1 to 4 [O1-4]

Rainbow 1 to 5 [RB1-5]

Completing each tier will give you certain Stats/Buffs based on the unit's rarity, you can see those in the Pocket Certificate. (Accessed from the Limit Break tab of a unit)

All copies up to Red 3 will let you level up a Skill, except the Special Move that will automatically level up when the tier is complete.
Once you reach Red 3, all your skills will be at Lv. 5, which is the highest level for a skill.
Orange and Rainbow will just give you additional Stats with each dupe and access to higher Revolution Tiers.

Stats

There are a variety of Stats that a unit has, we are going to look at the most important ones and provide a general overview.

Unfortunately, this game tries its best to hide information on how their damage formula and stats work, so most of the things we are going to mention are going to come from experience and testing.

I might do a dedicated guide for stats at a later date.

In this game you don't level up your units, you level up the slots that make up your team.
To level them up you will need 4 materials:

Link EXP

Shinsu

Coins

Soul Crystals

Soul Crystals will be needed only to Limit Break your links from E rank to SS2.
Limit breaking increases the stats and, more importantly, raises the Level Cap.
You obtain Soul Crystals by pulling for units.

Once all of your links are at level 400, the Links will automatically Limit Break to SSS.

The bottleneck when it comes to leveling up links will be the Link EXP, this is mostly obtained from AFK Loot and it will take a while to generate.
Leveling up the links will be quite fast up to Level 1000, because they nerfed the amount of materials you need.

There are a couple of items in the bag that you should be aware of:

Link EXP Amplification items

SSR and SSR+ Selection Chests

You should NEVER user your Link EXP Amplification boxes, unless your are stuck and you see no other way of progressing other than increasing links.
Not before 350 deficit, depending on the builds you are running.
Link EXP increases a lot with every stage clear, especially after F106, so the more you hold onto them, the more value they get.

Shinsu Amplification and Coin Amplification boxes can be opened whenever you need that resource, the increase from AFK loot is minimal so in this case there is no problem.

For SSR and SSR+ Selection Chests, I would only open them when trying to get a unit to R5.
If you have one chest and you use it on a unit that is G1 to get them to G2, that box has been wasted as it gave you no real value.
You should use the chests to finish off a unit so that you can stop pulling on them.
For example if you have 3 SSR+ Selection chests, you reach pity on the new SSR+ banner and that unit reaches RB2, you could at this point use the 3 chests to get that unit to R5 and stop pulling.

Trial of Chaos

The Trial of Chaos will require you to deploy 1 team (2 from trial 1000+) and there are no restrictions.
This will give you a great amount of Suspendium and other resources like Normal Summon tickets, Black Market tickets (only from trial 400 to 600), Link EXP, Coins, Shinsu, Master Keys and Revolution Mats.
You should see the Trial of Chaos as a content you do on the side and that you can easily auto, there is no time restriction on it and you don't have to worry too much about clearing it quickly, leave it in auto when you are done with the other more important things and you go about your day.

Trials of Origin

The Trials of Origin are separated into 5, one for each Color, and you can only deploy units of the matching color.
Like the Trial of Chaos, you will need to deploy 1 team below trial 1000 and 2 above that.
These Trials can only be cleared a limited amount of times each day, so it is important that you do all the ones that are available to you.

The initial rewards are nothing too important, but starting from Trial 355+ you obtain 1 BM tickets every 5 trials, which counting all the attempts you have in a week it is a total of 60 BM / week.
This number increases to 3BM every 5 trials at trial 600+, for a total of 180 BM / Week, an really high number, so DO NOT skip these!

Normal

NEVER buy anything here!!
The only exceptions are the 24h coins and the 24h Link EXP, everything else is a trap and it's not worth your suspendium. If you are F2P, I wouldn't even buy those two, just ignore this tab entirely.

Alliance

The Alliance Store now has access to some cool items, like Black Market tickets, 24h Link EXP boxes and Green Revolution Mats.
You can exchange for things you need, but I would prioritize those.
They are quite expensive, so don't expect to get them too often.

Arena

The Arena Shop is good to buy the Instruction Manuals needed for the Origin Orb, and as soon as you don't need them anymore you can save.
Revolution Mats are not bad, but are really expensive, this Shop will also get a rework for sure, so I would wait until then.

Gem

This shop is pretty decent.
Once your links are at max Limit Break and your units have the Carrier unlocked you can buy some items using the Soul Crystals you have to spare.
(I would NOT exaggerate because you will need Soul Crystals for the Shinsu Core upgrades once you are at link level 1000+)
When you get dupes of already Maxed units you will receive gems of different rarities that can be exchanged here for other items.

Items worth buying are listed below, I would avoid the rest:

Tri-Essence Crystals [ONLY with Soul Crystals or Common Crystals]

Gift Selection Chests [ONLY with Common Crystals]

Instruction Manuals [ONLY with Common Crystals]

Master Key [ONLY with Soul Crystals or Common Crystals]

Rare Shinsu Sea Whetstone [ONLY with Soul Crystals]

Revolution Fragment [ONLY with Soul Crystals]

Shining Revolution Fragment [ONLY with Soul Crystals]

SSR+ Unit [ONLY with Uncommon Crystals or Rare Crystals]
Wait for the discounted unit you want, DO NOT buy them for 20 Rare Crystals unless you are a Whale

Pioneer Shop

Please refer to the dedicated section.

Race

You can obtain Race points during the Race events, the higher you rank the more points you obtain.
Those points can be spent here, and I will say most of the things here are a bit on the expensive side.

I would focus on buying the Revolution Ore here and ignore the rest, their cost is too high for what they give you.
ONLY buy Revolution Ore when you actually need it, otherwise just save your points, they might rework this again!

How to get the Pioneer Remnants?

The first source of Pioneer Remnants is the reward for clearing each Hard Mode Floor [12K Pioneer Remnants per Floor].

The second source of Pioneer Remnants is the AFK Loot.
The number of Pioneer Remnants obtained from AFK loot increases based on your Progress in Hard Mode.
Below some references of the amount of Pioneer Remnants you get at different stages:

Floor 50 Stage 60 Cleared: 600/h [201K per Update Cycle]

Floor 100 Stage 60 Cleared: 712.5/h [239K per Update Cycle]

Floor 150 Stage 60 Cleared: 825/h [277K per Update Cycle]

They increase by 0.75 every 20 stages, so at stages 20, 40 and 60 of every floor.
In the initial 50 floors the increase seems to be steeper, but it stabilizes after that.

What to spend them on?

This will depend on your accout overall situation, but in the early stages you should focus mostly on the Black Market Tickets and that's it.
Once you unlock Inferno Tower (Hard Mode 300+), the amount of Pioneer Remnants you get increase a lot and you can consider a lot more items.
Some items you can consider in this scenario are:

Revolution Fragments [ONLY if your core units need them]

Shining Revolution Fragments [Quite expensive in this shop]

24h Link EXP

When does the Pioneer Shop resets?

The content of this Shop resets every 14 days on the day of the update.

This system is unlocked at F3-20 and will be important to provide additional Stats to all of your units.

Below is a table with the Stats you can gain when a unit meets the right investment level:

Condition	Stat
Unlock the Unit	+4 ATK
Proficiency Lv. 10	+1 DEF
Rapport Lv. 6	+1 ACC
Exclusive Equipment Lv. 30	+1 EVA
Limit Break Lv. 12	+0.2 Swiftness
Limit Break Lv. 16	+3 EVA
Limit Break Lv. 21	+3 ACC
Revolution Tier 3	+2 ACC
Revolution Tier 6	+3 ACC

There are additional stats and effects you can gain here, but they are mostly things for Spenders, you will get to know them over time.

This system is unlocked at F9-20 and will be important to earn Coins and S-rank Gear for your units.

You can achieve Max Damage (5.2B) in this fight once you are around Link Level 280, which is not hard to reach with the recent changes they implemented.

Simply deploy your Revolution Bam team and you are good to go.

Once you achieved Max Damage, you can simply Auto Clear it in the future and forget about it.

This system is unlocked at F15-20 and will earn you some Suspendium and Data Shards.

There are 5 Enemy Bosses, you get to fight a different one every 2 days:

[Data] Zahard

[Data] Khun Mascheny

[Data] Urek Mazino

[Data] Khun Edahn

[Data] Gustang

Don't worry too much about the ranking if you are F2P, having the right units and high Level Links will mean a lot here and there is not much you can do, but make sure to at least do 1 attempt to get the rewards.

This system is unlocked at F15-20 and will use Data Shards to increase ATK%, HP% and DEF% of different roles.

Every unit will be a part of one of these 6 roles, you can check the unit profile to know which one:

Fisherman

Spear Bearer

Light Bearer

Scout

Wave Controller

Special Position

Each Research starts at Lv 1. From Lv 1 to Lv 2 [and every 10 levels after that] the increase in stats is significant.
For this reason levels 2, 12, 22, etc. are good stopping points.

These stats will NOT play a massive role in Adventure or standard content, they will mostly help in bossing situations.
You can also reset each Research individually, for a cost of 300 Suspendium, in case in the future you want to invest the Data Shards somewhere else.

I would recommend focusing on Wave Controller, Special Position and Fisherman the most, leaving behind Scout, Light Bearer and Spear Bearer.
You could keep them at 20/30 levels of difference or something like that.
For example, you could take Wave Controller and Special Position to Lv 42, then Fisherman to 32 and leave the remaining ones at 12.

Regular Arena

This is the default Arena, you deploy one team and you fight the other people in your server to raise in the ranking.
The "Season" lasts for 2 weeks and will give some Black Market Tickets and Revolution Ores as a reward.
Every day you gain some Suspendium based on your ranking, nothing massive though.

Just remember to do the 5 Free attempts each day for free rewards and ignore the ranking part.
In defense deploy any decent team that you normally use for Adventure and it will be enough.

Ranker Arena

In this Arena you deploy 3 teams and fight other people in your server, like the previous one, but here you don't get any relevant rewards from the Free Daily attempts and can be ignored.
Also in this case the "Season" lasts for 2 weeks, and the higher you are in the rankings the more points you earn.
At the end of the season, if you are within the Top 20 you are eligible to join High Ranker Arena.

This mode gives you the Arena coins use in the Arena Shop tab of the Workshop Store.

High Ranker Arena

Mode for the best 20 of each Server, it will follow a classic Tournament style PvP event.
You will need to deploy 7 team, not all of 5 units, and will do 1 fight per day until the Tournament is over.
The higher you rank, the more Suspendium you earn and also some additional rewards (like Borders etc.).

This system is unlocked at F3-12 and will be a good source of Suspendium, Shinsu and Coins.

The requests you receive give different rewards and have different rarities, you will find the details about their chances of showing up by clicking in the Rates button in-game.

The more requests of a certain rank you complete, the higher your Reputation Lv will increase, the current Maximum is Lv 9.

There is the option to spend 100 Suspendium to refresh the requests that have not been started yet.
I would recommend NOT to do any refreshes until you are at least Lv 8, and even then do not exaggerate.
At times there is an event that doubles the rewards from the Agency, this would be a good time to reroll.
Aim for requests that give Suspendium and Shinsu, if you need it, and ignore the rest.
Make sure not to spend more suspendium than the one you earn, or this woul have made very little sense.

This system is unlocked at F7-20 and it resets weekly.

You can pick the rewards you want from a selection, and when you complete all the tests (they are just simple fights) you will get them.
Early on I recommend getting EE Materials, Premium Instruction manuals and the Tri-Essence Facility Crystals.
After you are done with those, move to Link EXP, Coins and Data Shards.
Always select the 6 Black Market tickets as your last reward.

You can do all of them at once on Sunday, or do them every day, however works best for you.

This system is unlocked at F10-20 and it will increase the amount of Link Growth Materials you earn from Loot.

The Astrolabe Keys used to upgrade these "nodes" are obtained only from Limit Breaking your units, so this will be a slow process.

Loot is the main source of Link EXP, and this resource is most of the times the bottleneck that will prevent you from upgrading your links, which means it is the one we will level up first.
Level Link EXP as high as you can, then invest in Coins and lastly in Shinsu.

Considering that the upgrade cost increases with level, the way I like to approach it is to keep Link EXP at 3 times the level of Coins and Coins at 3 times the level of Shinsu. (Rounded down)
Something like: Link EXP Lv 9, Coins Lv 3, Shinsu Lv 1.

If needed, you can always reset any of the "nodes" by paying 400 Suspendium.

This system is unlocked as soon as you limit break one link to A rank.

The Origin Orb is divided into 5 trees, one for each Color.
Unlocking nodes in a tree will provide buffs to the units of the respective Color.

Every tree is divided into 2 parts, with the first half being up to the +10 Swiftness node.
Starting from the second part, you will need to invest Suspendium, and it would be best to use the Expirable Suspendium that is given during some events.

These are the upgrade costs for 1 tree:

Part	Soul Crystals	Instruction Manuals	Suspendium
1	3850	19	0
2	11000	42	22000
Total	14850	61	22000

Upgrade first the Origin Orb trees of the Colors for which you have a carry, and leave the others for last.

ONLY invest in the Origin Orb when all your links are at SS2.

+22% HP

+20% ATK

+20% DEF

+8% Critical Hit Rate

+26% Critical DMG Increase

+18% Critical DMG Reduction

+10Swiftness

+230 ACC

+230 EVA

+80 Effect Hit

+80 Effect Resistance

+10% Physical Pierce

+10% Magic Pierce

+10% Special Move Pierce

You will unlock the Secret Floor upon reaching F18-20, and here you can farm Ignition Weapons to give to your units.
There are different Secret Floors, and each of them will let you obtain one of the two featured Ignition Weapons when you successfully clear it.
You have 3 free clears every day, and for any additional clear you will have to use a Master Key.

Ignition Weapons come in different rarities: C, B and A.
Each week, a Secret Floor will have a Rate Up event that will give you higher chances of obtaining A rank pieces. B and C rank pieces can be safely fed into other pieces to provide them with EXP.
DO NOT upgrade B and C rank pieces.

The secret floor also has Weekly rewards that you can obtain by clearing any Secret floor with 50 Restraint Points.
This might seem hard at first, but you will soon complete this with no problems.
I would recommend NOT selecting the last debuff "Blocks all allies's Special Moves".

To give an IW to a unit, you should upgrade their Exclusive Equipment to +20 and then spend 100 Soul Crystals to unlock the Carrier.

In the carrier you can equip up to 5 IW pieces, from Slot 1 to 5.
When you have pieces of the same IW, a 2-set or 4-set effect can be activated.
Having 5 pieces of the same IW is unnecessary, as there is no 5-set effect, and this will allow you to run a "off-set piece" with better stats.

Slot 1, 2 and 3 have a fixed Main Stat, but Slot 4 and 5 can have different ones: [In bold those that are normally useful]

Fusion

If you go in the Equipment tab of any Unit you will see a Fusion button in the top right corner.
This feature will give you the option to fuse 3 IW pieces you don't want/need into a different IW piece of your choice.

I see this feature as being more useful early on, but will quickly become more annoying than helpful.

Upgrading your Ignition Weapons

At first you should focus on upgrading the IW sets ONLY for your carry units.
On everyone else you can simply run 4 NOT upgraded Bari pieces of any rarity, regardless of the stats.

This system will be unlocked once you reach Floor 16-20.
Revolution is unique to each Unit and each of them might need a different amount of investment.

Revolution has up to 8 Main Nodes and 13 Subnodes, but how many a unit can access is based on their Rarity:

R and SR up to 3 Main Nodes and 3 Subnodes

SSR, SSR+ and XSR+ up to 6 Main Nodes and 9 Subnodes

EX up to 8 Main Nodes and 13 Subnodes

On top of that, you need an appropriate amount of dupes on a unit before you can unlock a Revolution Node:

B3 - Up to Tier 1

P3 - Up to Tier 2

R3 - Up to Tier 3

O4 - Up to Tier 4

R5 - All unlocked

The first 3 Main Nodes provide ATK%, HP% and DEF% respectively and only have 1 Subnode each.
All the other Main Node provide improvements to a Unit's Skills or PvP stats and have 2 Subnodes each.

The stats you can obtain from the subnodes varies depending on the Unit role, so a Warrior will have different stat upgrades compared to a Mage and so on.