>>1545859
Simona/Auguste waiting room, otherwise my team is complete.

>>1545859
Saving for Cocoa

>>1546116
Yeah I need Auguste as well.

Kinda want to get Saffiyah, but she doesn't really fit my team at the moment so I'm thinking I should skip her so I can save for Auguste.

I'm like 100 pts away from Radiance
Almost gonna make it

>>1546257
Where can i see future units?

>>1545859
thank you, I was worried we wouldn't have a shelter in vmg when vg dies after honeymoon phase

>wasn't done rerolling
>launch rewards gone
well guess I'm not playing this shit game.

>>1546358
We've been on vmg longer.
>>1546483
The fuck were you going for?

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>>1546646
Putting Saffiyah and Auguste so close together is kinda cruel considering they're both top-tier characters.

I guess it goes
>if you use Dantalion on your main team and/or you don't have Col, pull for Saffiyah
>otherwise, pull for Auguste since there currently aren't any top-tier Breakers yet

>>1546649
Rawiyah alter is also a seeker and is a more reasonable prospect considering the amount of skippable characters before and after. Only really after the trio of death is Acambe as an alternate to Beryl, Homa if you want an alternate take on a Breaker, and Tristan for another alternate to Beryl. And Saffiyah alter is also coming soon, and you can't run both on the same team.

>>1546695
Acambe is more for mobbing and grouping enemies together, Homa is not a DPS and Saffiyah Alter can be run with the OG once she's released.

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>caring about meta
I'm just gonna save my rolls till I see a banner that makes my peepee go weewee, which from the looks of it seems to be that chocolate belly dancer that sometimes gets posted
Simple as

>>1546763
>they actually let you run both Saffiyahs
Rawiyah fans in shambles...
Also Homa is still the 2nd best breaker, and no one else gets close. Except Stormbreaker in AOE situations.

Was Rawiyah alter a freebie character for anniversary?

>>1546646
>alter this early
>alter instead of class change
this game keeps fucking up on purpose

This new event is garbage.

At least it lets you brute force the code so I don't have the interact with the retarded gibbons in my guild chat too much.

>>1547065
makes me wonder if other games let you run a whole team of a single "character", blue archive is probably getting close

>>1547644
Code Geass Lost Stories lets you run a team of 9 Kallens (out of a squad of 10) iirc. Unless they released a 10th Kallen since I stopped playing.

>>1546843
the best way to play is spirals anyway so who really cares about the banners outside of just wanting a unit

>didn't attempt the first day of the guild event
>it says expired
Motherfucker.

>>1548567
RIP your 100 luxite, account bricked

>>1547644
There are now too many Lucy alts for me to fit them all on one five person team in Seven Mortal Sins XTASY.
>>1548638
I think it's 120, RIP that guy.

>>1548930
>>1548638
Well, counting two days of inactivity means i lost 200ish in total but, eh.
Was pushed into playing triangle strategy to "broaden my vision" as my circle said it (my prior tactics experience was just the gameboy one). Surprising to say, the only thing i don't like from the game is the same as soc, the localization.
Thankfully i understand japon a little so i didn't get that much pain reading fanfiction.

What does the game even look like at level 60? Feels like this game is a race to the level cap.

>>1552704
Tower, PVP, spam Spiral as a roguelike when you have nothing better to do.

>>1552860
Pretty much this. Tower and PvP (the real-time version, not the dumb asymmetric version we have now) are the only game modes that matter in the long run, everything else is just side-content. Spiral is a good filler because it takes a lot of time to 100% it and it doesn't cost any stamina.

anyone has the answers for beryl event?

>>1554549
Trial and error my fwend.

>>1554549
They're all ridiculously easy. Which one are you having trouble with?

Got Simona on my first multi, nice. Now I can go back to hoarding.

Just started playing this today and got some flat bitch named col from the beginner legendary thing. Is it worth getting her battle pass shit eventually? What about the 5 dollar monthly subscription thing?

>>1555235
Col is good, her costume pass is kinda whatever. Monthly is fine for what it is.

>>1545859
I hit Level 38 today. Played a month, spent $20 on Cornucopia and the daily bonus. Dantalion was my first drop, then Garcia and Alexei, besides the starter chars. Dantalion is GOAT, especially since his banner buff stacks with the core characters'.

Events have been consistently meh, starting to lose interest in the game.

Best TTBRPG I have played in a very long time though.

>>1555320
Dantalion is good yeah, you can build a strong Iria team around him since his aura buff is great. Try to get Saffiyah once her banner comes along since she's a strong unit that synergizes well with him.

Alexei is potentially good but he's greedy in that you really need him to be at a high star level to get the most out of him. He's still arguably the best tank you're gonna get at the moment with his lifesteal and ability to become immortal for one turn (2 turns if he's 5*).

I don't have Garcia so I can't really comment on her.

I've got Gloria and Simona. I think I'll try getting Auguste once he releases since he's apparently top tier, and make a Union team. Are there any other good Union characters I should be on the lookout for?

>>1556088
Better off just running some generic good supports. Ballista is arguably the best generic Union unit, the others are either worse than the named or outclassed by alternatives.

>>1556075
Garcia is the best seeker so far imo. She finishes off units put into Dying state inside a 3x3 grid around her, her hook grab is another free attack, back attacks five her a huge crit bonus and her movement range is broken.

>>1556757
Yeah, I love my Garcia. Her only flaw is she doesn't have Jump like other seekers. I can't wait to get her to 5 star, I'm farming her shards now. I've heard she hits the highest single target damage among seekers at end game if you go all in on her, but that's a few more months away for me.

>do the Simona summon
>get Nergal
>it's the second time I've gotten Nergal and he's the only legendary I don't use

Think I'm gonna dump the game, the gacha shit ruins a great TTRPG. The summon mechanics are going to lush away paypigs.

>>1557143
You can play Spiral of Destinies if you don't want to bother with the gacha shit.

>The summon mechanics are going to lush away paypigs.
Nah, gacha sucks BECAUSE of the paypigs. It doesn't push them away because they love that shit. You can go on Twitch and watch people throw away hundreds just on a 0.4% chance at getting a single character they like or whatever. Being cucked out of the character you want isn't something they quit the game over because they'll just spend more until they get her. It's literally a gambling addiction, except instead of maybe winning something real you win pixels on a Chinese server.

>>1557143
>>1557346
Yeah I was going to say anything pay to win / get ahead is right up these retards alley. I saw a post that Langrisser pulled in millions and one dumbass posted that he hadn't even played the game in like months / years and came in and dropped $400.

Grabbing a couple purchases here and there to support a game you got for free is fine but these people are addicts. Same types that support OF whores, I imagine.

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>Japanese whales are single-handedly making the game successful

>>1557536
i kneel

So is there anything "worth" spending for in this game? Everything ive seen so far seems meh for the prices but I'm still new so maybe I'm missing something

>>1557536
as always

>>1558600
Blessing of hope gives 2700 gems for $5. It's more efficient than any way of buying gems even with the first time purchase doubler.

The Cornucopia's a bit of a mixed bag. At $11, it still gives more gems than buying without the first time doubler (680 vs. 800). The other stuff is... alright. 70k powder is helpful, but not enough to get a single piece of gear from 50 to 60. The coins, exp and dust are all still in abundance for me at level 54. The cornucopia weapons are good, but really need 5* (i.e. buying the pass 5 times). There's also a random trinket which is never bad.

I wouldn't go for anything else unless you're really after extra stamina to powerlevel.

>>1558600
selector and passes, maybe.

Stikk love the gameplay but the combination of gather hope luxite>worthless summons loop and ratcheting difficulty with artificial difficulty like placing grapple seekers is forcing me to metagame and pushing me away from the game.

>>1561759
what is artificially difficult about grapple seekers? I barely even see them in any mode.

>>1557536
Yet, no porn

How's this game for someone who doesn't log in daily and doesn't pay? Can I just do stuff with lower rarity/worse units?

>>1562479
You can but you might find yourself looking for youtube guide quite often.

>>1562479
There are videos of people clearing some of the hardest content in the game with only free low-tier units, so yeah it's possible. Takes a lot of trial and error (or following a step-cy-step guide) though.

There's also the Spiral of Destinies game mode which is like a story mode that's mostly separate from the rest of the game. It doesn't rely on gacha and has no stamina limits.

>>1562513
step-by-step*

>>1562513
>doesn't rely on gacha
Technically you can bring gacha characters for easier runs...

>>1562517
Yeah but you don't need to use the gacha to make use of that. You can just bring in some of the free units you get, and you get plenty of free units in SoD itself. You can even get units in SoD you can't get through gacha at all, like legendary versions of normal units.

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>finally max out all the weapon trials
>stuggled quite a bit with the lvl 65 bosses
>it's okay because I'm only level 52, so I'm still ahead of the curve
>out of curiousity, look up how other people are beating them
>mfw niggas on Youtube are beating them with level 40 non-legendary units

>>1558600
Not really outside maybe the monthly gems pass and the unit selector. The pull rates are not bad but getting dupes is really awful in the game since they are farmable and later upgrades take 2 or more copies of dupes. Thus, buying summon currency is quite inefficient in this game.

Everything else offered by the packs are either farmable or does not provide enough to make a difference. The castella that let you open more skills is probably the most unique thing to buy since you can't easily farm it, but you don't really need them unless you are raising a bunch of units, or completely messed up your build.

I'd pay for skins but there are only 2 now and one is behind the stupid wish system.

>>1545859
I rolled Magnus on my guaranteed beginner. Is it over?

>>1563640
Nah, Magnus is pretty useful. The tier lists for this game honestly don't matter much since different characters are good for different game modes. For example I've got Iggy who is low tier on almost every list, but he's been my MVP on Tower of Conquest more than a few times. And if you really need a top-tier tank, there's the Cocoa banner coming up next week.

>>1562513
Thanks, I'll give this game a try then.

Damn the game should've had the trading post mechanic as a default feature in SoD. The new Elaman storyline is more fun than any of the others because of it. It could stand to be more complex but at least it's more interesting than just sending dudes out on combat missions every week.

>mission where you have to guard the border crossing while inspecting civilians
>the civilians count as enemies for some retarded reason
>when my flame sorceress inspects them, she automatically sets them on fire because of her passive
Fucking hilarious.

>>1568046
There's a similar one where you're distributing supplies to refugees and if you put her on top of Samantha at the start she'll set her on fire and Samantha will bitch at you about it. Thankfully I had teleport to warp her away before her turn started.

Is this a taiwanese game?

>>1570213
They're based in Shanghai.

When's auguste.

>>1575655
Gonna take a while. We'll get Acambe next (confirmed), after that it's probably either Saffiyah or Homa (or both), and after that Taair or Auguste.

>>1575716
>We'll get Acambe next (confirmed)
Oh my God, how long am I gonna have to wait for Saffiyah? Global is crazy.

>>1577297
Looks like it'll be Acambe -> Saffiyah -> Auguste -> Homa

Which is kinda bad for me because I want Saffiyah, Auguste and Homa. Doubt I'll be able to get all three of them without whaling, since my luck hasn't been great so far.

>>1577846
Jesus, how many Luxite can i get by speedrunning Spiral of Destinies?

>>1578303
Not enough.

>>1577846
>Which is kinda bad for me because I want Saffiyah, Auguste and Homa.
Oh shit, I'm the same as you. This is gonna suck, I'm pretty sure I've had the worst luck of anyone still playing global. My 10k lux surely won't be enough as I've never gotten a banner character without hitting hard pity.

>Saffiyah next week.

Fuck...

>>1584402
I've got about 80 pulls saved up. Hopefully it'll be enough, but I'm not looking forward to having nothing left for the next character debut. I get that a game like this is designed around not giving people enough resources to do everything so you're pressured to spend real money, but it still feels bad.

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Hag wife.

Kinda wish I had a Deck for this. Or a better phone with a controller attachment I guess

Damn this game is fucking boring. The town simulator mode is fun, but it always feels like I might as well play a real game.

>>1587049
Right now the best content gameplay-wise is the Tower of Conquest IMO. High level Tower is the only game mode where you actually have to think about how to approach a level.

Fool's Journey and Spiral of Destinies are basically just for the story, in terms of gameplay they don't have much to offer. And everything else is only there for the daily grind.

>>1586386
I've had to skip pretty much every banner to avoid losing my guaranteed 180 debut pity before Saf gets here. Just a few more days...

>120 pulls on Saffiyah
>get Inanna and Xavier
Kill me.

>>1589491
Rough. I got her in one x10 pull. Did have about 40 summons from previous banners as pity.

If I want a team that's good with acambe. should I get saffiyah? I really like the idea of positioning enemies and fucking them up.

>>1592201
Acambe needs people to buff him and people to feed him NRG, especially if you don't have the Cornucopia Staff for NRG. So characters like Cocoa and Edda work really well with him.

>>1592201
DESU you'd be better off running them on separate sides for TOA, unless you plan on/have enough rolls to also get Auguste (or don't mind sacking TOA until Rawiyah alter).

>>1589491
>be me
>start playing 2 days ago
>get coco on my 30th beginner banner roll
>get saffiyah on the first roll after that
>get iggy soon after

>>1593337
built for caging

>>1593337
Are u having fun? Was thinking about starting too

>>1592201
Safiyyah is great on her own, the character you really want for him is Taair and he's either after Auguste or after Homa.

The achievements on the Fireside chat are absolutely fucking ridiculous. 8 turns to handle giga-nigger enemies is retarded, fuck these dumb niggers for this.

>>1595129
Have fun, the next event is about as enjoyable!

Is there a good place to look for guilds?

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It was fun until it became a chore and then not fun, especially with everything being thrown at us. I hear it's only going to get worse. It's a shame, I even had 10 days left on my monthly.

>>1595262
>>1595335
Yeah, I'm out actually. I beat the one I was aiming for, and the next two have the same modifiers, but require massive AoE, hav revives, and after that you can have the joy of playing the same stage with the same 8 round time limit.

I should have known when I saw videos of that future tower content this game was going to be retarded. These chink devs can go fuck themselves.

I wanted to know if there were good places to look for guilds that aren't just shitty and dead.

>>1595533
join a /vg/ guild, I'm in Sorceress Hat
Apply to it then reply to the OP or recruiter in /socg/ with the last 4 digits of your UID and mention the guild you are applying to along with your current profile picture.

>>1595335
>>1595426
Godspeed to both of you, and may you find a more fun game.

>>1595335
>>1595426
I feel you guys, I hate this Voyager event and haven't even tried the new one 'cause all I keep hearing is how hard it is. They're really squeezing me with all this limited time content too, I wanna take advantage of the cool training event that gives tons of exp from the daily dungeon because I'm tapped out on exp from bringing people to lv60, but I can't spare the stamina when the Voyager event gives insane amounts of other highly bottlenecked resources. I'm not uninstalling, but this is definitely the most unpleasant the game has been so far.

>>1596041
Doing just a couple of runs in Fireside Chat without having all the modifiers maxed out (which is what makes it hard as balls) gives you a ton of Canned Octopus which helps with grinding. If you don't want to spend a lot of time on it, you can just do like two runs and get the most important rewards (the secret fates and the three items). Then you can focus on the Voyage of Discovery and focus on the Talent Materials which are going to be the most important in the long run. Neither of these events are worth 100%ing IMO unless you simply enjoy the challenge. Meanwhile Voyager's Conondrum just requires you to be in a guild that isn't shit and it takes like 20 seconds a day to complete, and the New Chapter event can be speedrun in under 5 minutes by just clearing repeatedly 0-8-2 in one turn. I agree that the pace of events is too high, especially having two high-difficulty ones like Fireside Chat and Voyage of Discovery running at the same time, but if you're not a completionist you can at least get the most important rewards in all of them with minimal effort.

Also, I wouldn't worry too much about EXP since you'll get it passively anyway. If you already have a decent team, training more units isn't the highest priority. The Level-up Training and Rank-up Trial modes having 99 bonuses per day is a huge trap, you don't want to spend more stamina on them than necessary. Aside from hitting your dailies (which doesn't take much) and making sure to keep up with Weapon Trial and Memory Retrieval, focus your stamina on events and Star Trial.

>>1596083
Thanks for the detailed breakdown bro, really appreciate it. I finished the Fool's Journey event, the guild one isn't an issue and I haven't done any extra runs on the level up campaign like ya said. I'm focusing stamina on Voyage of Discovery (I can't beat the boss on Diff 5 so I'm doing Diff 4) and trying to get all those 99 talent chests.
For Fireside Chat, it immediately wanted me to select one of three difficulty levels (highest being lv55) and I just backed out; is that something I can change later? I'll check it out later today and get those most important rewards you mentioned.

That just leaves the Elaman route in SoD, which I haven't touched. I have until Nov 5, I hope this route isn't as long as Iria Route, which is the only SoD run I've done since launch (got the good ending).

>>1596471
>I can't beat the boss on Diff 5
Remember that the final level is randomly chosen from a preset group. Some levels are hard as fuck, others are relatively easy. Since you only spend stamina if you win, you can just nope out on certain boss fights and restart the run. It costs a lot of time but this way you can finish level 5 with relative ease.

In my opinion, the boss difficulty is as follows (hardest to easiest):
>Agatha
>Safiyyah + Nungal + Nergal
>Gloria + Auguste
>Rawiyah + Maitha + Faycal + Beryl
>Miguel + Col
>Wolf
>LilyWill
>NonoWill
>Teadon
But of course it depends on which units you have available and which buffs you picked along the way.

The Elaman route is fun, but it's not especially short. It's not any longer in terms of days spent, but once you get enough caravans rolling at once you'll have more battles to fight per day. On the bright side not every caravan results in a battle, otherwise it would be too tedious.

>>1596496
Yeah, the only times I've made it to the end in Diff 5 it was Agatha, then Safiyyah+Garcia, then Agatha again, so I guess I'm really unlucky.
Also, I remembered why I needed so much exp. I still have to do the final tarot and weapon trial stages (65, not the 70s that just came out) and that means having exp to level up like 10 low rarity characters I haven't built yet to follow the only video guides that don't use legendaries I don't have.

>>1595590
I see I'm going to hold off to see if I want to keep playing. I like the game and I have the team I want to build but with the way stamina is gated it feels like the game doesn't even want me to play unless I spend money. It's a horrible system. I don't mind a casual play once a day kind of game but it also is expecting me to grind like 4 different events and the fucking story. I don't understand the logic.

>>1596843
It was better if you started day 1 but even day 1 players are getting tired because of how hard the events are.

>>1596963
I don't personally care how hard they are. I get it's a problem but I just want to experience the content which I can't because it's just something that requires a shitload of grinding.

I had to create a new email for this stupid game because despite saying my account was bound, it wasn't fucking bound and now it's saying I used the account in multiple places so I have to wait. I spent a few weeks before picking a team but this shitty system sucks.

Aw yee I got Auguste.

Time to start saving for Homa.

>>1602562
Congrats!

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Why is literally every Clash battle like this now?

>>1605744
I don't think I've ever encountered that setup, but then again, that require me not to just tab out every time I hit auto at the start of battle.

>>1605935
The Nungal part is optional, sometimes it's Lilywill or Beryl, but the Assembly Beacon + Momo setup is ridiculously common at higher levels. Like 2 out of every 3 teams use it.

>China got 10 free pulls for the 100-day anniversary
>Global gets the equivalent of 2 free pulls (300 Luxite)
Wow brilliant decision I'm sure this will make an already unpopular game more successful.

>>1608851
Yeah, it's pretty fucking dumb. They've declared their intention for global to have an accelerated schedule since before launch which means logically they should increase pulls to match the schedule, not decrease.

>>1545859
>4 accounts
>no legendary
Great fucking game faggots

it's getting events and roguelite mode updates at an accelerated schedule, not new character releases

>>1618442
We're now down by up to 20 extra pulls from TOA...

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>>1618457
>ToA was exclusive to CN/TW
>Can't miss pulls that never existed
Checkmate atheist.

>>1618457
>>1621580
Aren't we getting ToA as well somewhere down the line?

>>1621586
Apparently it's called adversity trek now but essentially it's ToA 2.0 with better stuff

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New game mode coming up, I think this is the replacement for ToA?

>30 fights divided into 6 stages
>each stage has its own modifiers (similar to tower) and ends with a boss fight
>fights cost no stamina
>you can only use each character in one fight--after they're used once they get the Fatigued status and can't be used in this game mode anymore
>you also don't gain TP normally in this mode, you start with a full stock and once it's used it's gone for the rest of your run
>every day you get an item that removes Fatigued from all characters and maxes out your TP, you can store this item 6x max.
>if you lose a battle any damage you deal to enemies will remain, so you can soften up a tough fight with weaker teams with no real downsides
>if you reach the end you get:
>>1100 Luxite from Quest Rewards
>>1200 Luxite from beating all stages
>>1 Trinket, 2 Legendary Gear
>>450 Astral Shards
>Astral Shards can be used to buy signature gear which will be added at the end of the year, so don't spend them right away

>>1625109
Well, 4chan mangled that quote...
>1100 Luxite from Quest Rewards
>1200 Luxite from beating all stages
>1 Trinket, 2 Legendary Gear
>450 Astral Shards

>>1625109
>30 fights
>20 days to finish
>one recharge item per day
I guess the idea is to have 2 "main" teams which you recharge every day, so you can win 2 fights per day and finish the event in 15 days. Especially if you can use trash teams on suicide runs to make the fights a bit easier.

Also lol @ minimum level 40 requirement. Unless they do some scaling bullshit it's either going to be piss-easy, or any level 40 player will get absolutely destroyed.

>>1625109
Wild, wasn't this just announced for the TW server? Presumably the difficulty will be scaled back from the server that's way ahead of us. Looks kind of time-consuming, but also fun.

Goddamn, level 30 in Universal Derivation is fucking brutal. I just sent through half my available teams and only got it down to 86%. The three boss units seem to be immune to just about everything including direct damage.

>>1634449
If you check the bosses, they each have a Strength In Numbers passive, reducing damage by 20% for each surviving ally (including fellow bosses). You'll want to kill all the minions first. Once they're dead, kill the Lightning boss first, then the assassin boss, and then if the Candlelight boss is left alone, all she'll do is cast her buff on herself even if you have level 1 characters right next to her. You still have plenty of time left, so feel free to drop a Ragnarok on groups of enemies each day to wear them down.

The best trick with UD is to put your flying blade armguards and roaring flints on your weak characters, toss them in and use these gear skills to deal some percent damage. The minions have no resistance to it and while the bosses have 75% resistance, they still take a lot of damage. This way, even your unleveled characters can do significant damage and throwing a few waves of them at any minion will guarantee a kill.
Be wary of Lightning, who has high speed and can move to cast Phantom Storm on turn 1 and wipe your characters from their starting position. To counter this, take a defender, position them at the far right and since they outspeed Lightning, move them up a few steps and they'll eat the Phantom Storm. It'll be easy if you do all this, just might take a few days. Good luck!

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>>1634940
Thanks for the tips. After taking some time to wear down the regular enemies with my shit squads, my A-team managed to take the win.

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>>1635013

>>1635013
Nice, congrats!

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Young Rawiyah is way too cute.

Dead game.

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I just start playing 2 days ago and I went into that voyage battle event
everything was ok battles so far till the 7th stage, where they just wipe out a bunch of tanky as fuck bullshit mobs and a shewolf boss that literally takes 0 damage while having the health of my entire team combine
been getting my ass handed back to me for entire day
seriously, wtf, I did my best nukes on one of the weakest mob archer and it just bounced off the archer
this is seriously bullshit, how p2w is this game?!

>>1655749
VoD is pretty high-end stuff and you can get really fucked over by the RNG since the enemies you face and the buffs they get are randomized. Even if you have a perfect team the final stage can be borderline unwinnable. Agatha (the wolf chick) combined with some tanky buffs is a straight up nightmare. You can always just farm it at a lower level than your own team to reduce the difficulty though, sure you'll miss out on some of the quest rewards but you can still farm for most of the good stuff.

Depending on the team you have, I find that aiming for the HP-based buffs is typically the safest approach. The one where you have +200% HP buit then take 90% damage at the start of the match is amazing as long as you have a good healer, especially if you have Cocoa since her healing is based on her Max HP. If you have Agatha yourself, she also becomes godlike with that buff because her bonus damage is HP-based. But even if you don't have units that scale off HP it's still great because there's so much bullshit that can just one-shot you without HP buffs.

Gathering lots of crit-based buffs also works great but it's less reliable IMO, especially if you get some super tanky bullshit as the final boss of your run.

>>1655749
As a brand new player I wouldn't worry about the Voyage of Discovery event at all, it's not aimed at new players. Even if you're a whale it'll take you more than 2 days to get more levels, characters and equipment. If you're at least level 25 you can do a few runs of the lowest difficulty but otherwise you just have to accept that it's not aimed at someone who literally just started playing. Events vary wildly in what they require you to do and what level of difficulty they are. Some are relatively high difficulty and require both a decent team and a good understanding of game mechanics, like Voyage of Discovery, while others are way easier. Something like Invitation to Set Sail doesn't require a developed team because the game just gives you units to use in that game mode. Other events like Mobile Squad Attendance List require nothing at all, you just log in and click a button once a day to get the rewards. Your main priority as a noob should be the Voyage Momento quests. They're essentially the game's new player guide and give some really good rewards including free legendary characters. Getting Rawiyah + multiple upgrades for free is a big deal because she'll probably be your best DPS character as a new player. Doing your daily grind stuff in Crossing Worlds is of course never a bad idea either. The most important dailies in the long run are Memory Retrieval and Star Trial, but they're all useful to do once a day at the highest level you can handle. And if you have the time, try to spend all your stamina every day as much as possible, because the amount of stamina spent directly translates into the amount of XP you get.