Guides/Beginner's Guide

Blasting Through the Story Mode

 * Focus on getting through the story to begin with; at various level milestones, you'll unlock more and more types of content
 * Side note: the story is pretty enjoyable to read!
 * That said, if you want to skip it to play as much as possible, cutscenes can be rewatched in the Codex
 * Try to rush to level 35 and clear Stage 5-7 (Normal) to unlock your essential dailies and weeklies
 * This includes content such as Bounty Missions, War Zone, and Phantom Pain Cage
 * Put all of your eggs in one basket and focus on leveling one team only -- your Support Construct can be 10-15 levels below your Attacker and Tank
 * This team will carry you through War Zone (WZ) and the higher levels of Phantom Pain Cage (PPC) until level 80
 * Always bring a Tank, as debuffs are much more potent and important than buffs in PGR; in addition, the Tank Class Skill (available on every Tank and unlockable at S-Rank) lowers enemies' extra damage reduction
 * In your mail, you'll find an Item-SRankConstructPick.png-Rank Construct Pick -- you can accept it from your mail, but don't use it (from your Items menu) for now as you'll want to choose a Construct based on which S-Rank you got from your first pity
 * Join a Guild and do your three bi-weekly Boss fights; use the currency to buy Hypertune materials and Transcendant Shards from the Guild shop


 * If an Event is active and you're Level 40+, try to spend the majority of your Item-Serum.png Serum on the Event's farming stage
 * The Global version is now at the point where more and more Memories are in each Event shop, making the Memory farming stage less and less relevant
 * In general, you will want to grind the Event's currency farming stage
 * If it is missing a Memory that you need, however, such as Frederick, you may choose to farm the Memory stage until you get it
 * There are one-to-two days of down-time between events -- use this time to progress the story and other game modes that cost Item-Serum.png Serum, like Stronghold and Golden Vortex
 * Try to slowly gather your recommended end-game 6* Memory sets
 * You can use lower-rarity placeholders but do not invest in 4* and lower Memories and don't raise your 5* Memories higher than level 35
 * During the transition phase Memory placement does not matter but try to prioritize the optimal slots as shown in each Character's 【Punishing Pub】 Recommended Memory Sets section
 * Optimal placement becomes relevant once you'll start Hypertuning your Constructs' Memories
 * Rule of thumb for Hypertuning is to only Hypertune the bottom row Memories of your very best characters as those Memories raise the ATK stat
 * 5★ Memories to keep are event-exclusive Memories as they're limited and a 2-piece set of Richelieu, Samantha, Gloria, Voltaire, and Lantern Festival: Reunion each -- they stack with their 6★ counterparts and Lantern Festival is a very powerful buff-set used even at end-game
 * Prioritize Grid 1-3, as 6★ Memories have a significantly higher ATK value ceiling and are usually placed in slots 4-6
 * Raise your main team to Level 80; this is important as it is the biggest initial hurdle to Awakening your characters


 * Awaken - LINK NEEDS TO BE UPDATED ONCE THE FAQ IS PUBLISHED your main Attackers with their recommended Awakening sets
 * Support Characters are lower priority Awakening targets as they tend to enjoy less on-field time
 * Try not to overwrite Resonances to awaken as many Constructs as soon as possible -- this is a huge waste of resources and not worth it in the long term
 * Optimally, each awakened Construct should have their own personal set
 * Supports, especially DV-holders, can use a shared set
 * 4p Hanna + 2p Cottie (slots 4-6) is another great shared set for Babel and the lower levels of PPC


 * Finish your three Weekly Bounties -- refresh until 50 or 60 Item-BasicConstructRnDTicket.png Basic Construct R&D Tickets are available, up to 160 each week
 * - You have seven refreshes each day and the other rewards are not worth it, always refresh until all three Bounties reward Item-BasicConstructRnDTicket.png Basic Construct R&D Tickets


 * After your initial 30 pulls awarded from Beginner's Missions the only way to gather the remaining 10 pulls to hit the S-Rank pity on the Beginner's banner is through Weekly Bounties mentioned above, Daily/Event Log-In rewards, and the 1 USD pack in the Top-Up Shop
 * Do your weekly Joint Warfare runs -- you can do all six runs during stage two when all six maps are open
 * Do your weekly WZ runs
 * Do your weekly PPC runs -- you can do all 15 runs on weekends, as Saturdays and Sundays allow 8 attempts each
 * - WZ and PPC are your weekly main source of Item-BlackCard.png Black Cards, 500 each
 * - Scoring highly in WZ and PPC is not as important as finishing your weekly missions, as the additional rewards from higher brackets are negligible


 * Save your Item-PhantomPainScar.png PPC Scars for your favorite Characters or high-priority SS-targets - LINK NEEDS TO BE UPDATED ONCE FAQ IS PUBLISHED, like Rosetta: Rigor and Kamui: Tenebrion, whose kits improve significantly at SS-Rank
 * Do your weekly Autopoiesis Maze runs -- you can do all of your Exploration stages on Fridays and don't have to play daily
 * Visit your Dorm, pat your Characters, buy the discounted Item-CoatingSketch.png Coating Sketches, and finish your Dorm dailies -- you can craft three random Decors investing only three Item-DecorCoin.png Decor Coins and recycle them for an easy Daily mission completion
 * Buy the daily A-Rank Construct Shard from the shop -- the other materials are not worth it
 * Try not to farm more than one Interlude - LINK NEEDS TO BE UPDATED ONCE THE FAQ IS PUBLISHED (two runs) each day, as the Item-Serum.png Serum cost can skyrocket quickly while farming multiple Constructs' Shards
 * Prioritize farming event stages (event currency/Memories), as Event shops are always more efficient than Resource Stages
 * During lulls between Events, the best resource stages to farm would be Cogs, Overclock Materials, and AE-4/5, in that priority from highest to lowest
 * Always choose the 60-pull-pity, 100% banner once new S-Ranks debut -- even big spenders don't touch the floating guarantee 80-100-pull-pity banners
 * You can unlock new A-Ranks with their Shards from the respective event shop without pulling on their banner, but pulling each new S-Rank is highly advisable
 * - Don't forget to raise your new A-Ranks to S-Rank to unlock their Class Passive - LINK NEEDS TO BE UPDATED ONCE THE FAQ IS FINISHED


 * Don't overinvest in Transcendants -- most of them start to shine at SSS only and it will take a long time until they can be deployed together with Constructs