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** 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
* Clear Stage 2-4 (Normal) to unlock F.O.S Rating Committee. This game mode will go through the basics such as controls and combat techniques. Clearing this game mode will grant you [[A-Rank Tank Omniframe Choice Pack]], [[A-Rank Support Omniframe Choice Pack]], and weapon selectors for the respective characters
**At levels 30, 40, 61, and 70 you will unlock more combat tutorials and techniques
**At level 52 you will unlock a tutorial on [[Characters/Uniframes|Uniframe]] combat
* Try to rush to level 35 and clear Stage 5-7 (Normal) to unlock your essential dailies and weeklies
** This includes content such as Operation Guardians, [[War Zone]], and [[Phantom Pain Cage]]
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Getting Started
Level 1 - 40
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
- Clear Stage 2-4 (Normal) to unlock F.O.S Rating Committee. This game mode will go through the basics such as controls and combat techniques. Clearing this game mode will grant you A-Rank Tank Omniframe Choice Pack, A-Rank Support Omniframe Choice Pack, and weapon selectors for the respective characters
- At levels 30, 40, 61, and 70 you will unlock more combat tutorials and techniques
- At level 52 you will unlock a tutorial on Uniframe combat
- Try to rush to level 35 and clear Stage 5-7 (Normal) to unlock your essential dailies and weeklies
- This includes content such as Operation Guardians, War Zone, and Phantom Pain Cage
Team Building
- 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
- Depending on your chosen Construct from the S-Rank Construct Pick the Fire or Dark team would be recommended
- 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 S-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
Get into a Guild
- Join a Guild and do your three weekly Boss fights; use the currency to buy Hypertune materials and Uniframe Shards from the Guild shop
Level 40 - 80
Prioritizing Events
- If an Event is active and you're Level 40+, try to spend the majority of your 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 Serum, like Stronghold and Golden Vortex
The Right Memories Make a Huge Difference
- Try to slowly gather your characters' 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
- Try to make it a habit to utilize your Da Vinci 4-piece set effect right before you burst your enemy down — refer to the Combat Guide for a detailed explanation on how Da Vinci works
- During the transition phase Memory placement does not matter but try to prioritize the optimal positions as shown in each Character's 【Punishing Pub】 Recommended Memory Sets section
- Optimal placement becomes relevant once you'll start Hypertuning your Characters/Omniframes' 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 Grid 4-6
Einsteina's Elemental Resistance Theory
- As mentioned above debuffing enemies' Resistances is an important part of maximizing your damage
- Besides Tanks' Class Passive the Resistance-lowering Memories are a vital element of each team's build
- Catherine and Voltaire lower Physical Defense
- Einsteina and Gloria lower Elemental Resistance
- Gloria lowers all Resistances regardless of her user's damage type but Einsteina requires some research to fully utilize her effect
- It is important to take note of the damage type Einsteina's user inflicts on QTE/3-Pings as she lowers the corresponding Elemental Resistance only
- Einsteina does not lower Resistances if her user inflicts Physical damage on QTE, even if their kit contains Elemental damage, like Karenina: Blast ( Fire)
- Please check which type of damage a Character inflicts on QTE before equipping them with Einsteina
- If the damage type is mixed ( Physical/ Elemental) then Einsteina will lower the corresesponding Resitance once the Elemental attack hits its target
Maxing Out Your Levels
- Raise your main team to Level 80; this is important as it is the biggest initial hurdle to Awakening your characters
Level 80+
Awakening Characters
- Awaken 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 Characters/Omniframes 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 Memory set
- Support characters, especially those who use Da Vinci, can generally use a shared set
- 4-piece Hanna (Prioritize Grid 1-3) + 2-piece Cottie (Prioritize Grid 4-6) is another great shared set for Babel Tower and the lower floors of Phantom Pain Cage (such as Test and Elite)
General Daily/Weekly Tips
Operation Guardians
- Finish your weekly Operation Guardians runs
- It can be accessed from the Missions menu
- The board contains various nodes
- You have 8 Daily Action Points which you can use on the three Patrol Plans in the lower right corner
- Once a Patrol Plan has been used it will be replaced by a new one and your Portrait will move the respective amount of tiles
- You will always stop at the Starting Point regardless of the amount of tiles listed on the Patrol Plan
- Passing the Starting Point will increase your Daily Action Points by one
- Try to uncover all Unknown Event tiles (?) to plan your Patrol Plan usage accordingly
- The goal is to finish five Battle Missions, open three Supply Crates, and reach the Abandoned Warehouse three times during the week
- You'll be able to earn 60 Tickets from each Supply Crate for a total of 180 each week
- Battle Missions award Experience and Cogs
- Battle Missions award Experience and Cogs
- Abandoned Warehouses award Hypertune Crystal α and β
- Abandoned Warehouses award Hypertune Crystal α and β
Why It's Important to Collect Those Blue 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 Operation Guardians mentioned above, Daily/Event Log-In rewards, and the 1 USD pack in the Top-Up Shop
Game Modes To Do Weekly
- Do your weekly War Zone runs
- Do your weekly Phantom Pain Cage runs
- You are allowed to do 4 runs during each weekday, and 8 during each weekend day
- You can do all 15 runs on weekends, as Saturdays and Sundays allow 8 attempts each
- War Zone and Phantom Pain Cage are your main source of Black Cards, with War Zone giving 600 and Phantom Pain Cage giving 400
- Save your Phantom Pain Scars for your favorite Characters or high-priority SS-targets, such as Rosetta: Rigor and Kamui: Tenebrion, whose kits improve significantly at SS-Rank
- Do your weekly Simulated Siege runs
- Simulated Siege is your main source of Hypertune Materials and finishing it helps your guild mates acquire their rewards as well
Getting Coatings From the Dorm
- Visit your Dorm, pat your Characters, buy the discounted Coating Sketches, and finish your Dorm dailies — you can craft three random Decors investing only three Decor Coins and recycle them for an easy Daily mission completion
Buy Your Free Shard Daily
- Buy the daily A-Rank Construct Shard from the shop — the other materials are better farmed directly during Events
Farming Interludes to Evolve A-Rank Characters
- Try not to farm more than one Interlude Challenge Mode stage (two runs) each day, as the Serum cost can skyrocket quickly while farming multiple Characters/Omniframes' Shards
- If you've cleared the Challenge Mode stage before, you can Auto Clear it all subsequent times
Dead Days Between Events
- 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.
- During events it is also recommended to catch up on Story and Stronghold maps.
Make Sure to Pull on the Right Banner
- Always choose the 60-pull-pity, 100% banner (Themed Construct) once new S-Ranks debut — even big spenders don't touch the floating guarantee 80-100-pull-pity banners (Fate Themed Construct)
Unlocking New A-Ranks for Free
- 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 (Attacker, Tank, Support)
- Don't overinvest in Uniframes — most of them only start to shine at SSS-Rank and are mainly used within Guild Battles and Project Uniframe.