Maria is the first one I evolved too, she is just too cute

I think you could evolve your max level girls. For me the hardest part is getting them to max level in the first place. You can easily bring them back up to level 20 or so with the manyus you have lying around and makes for a huge difference in strength. Even if you don't have much money right now, if you stop feeding manyus and focus only on dragons and gold you can gather the necessary materials pretty quickly. Give the advanced daily a try, it's much easier than the ultimate mission.

Well, feeding manyus to lvl 30+girls starts being too expensive if you uselvl 5 manyus. If what you want to upgrade is beyond that level, you should try to farm the advanced garden if possible. Depends on if you are able to clear 10-5 and 11-5 (don't try to 3* them yet).

And yup, evolving what has hit max level is a good idea. I think those teas shuld suffice to farm advanced dragon stages, maybe with a good helper, at least all but the magic one, since the boss changes depending on the element of dragons you are farming, and magic bss is a tad stronger than the other 3

Best strat for upgrading new girls as follows:

Feed 10 x lvl 5 manyu twice you should be around lvl 29-31.
Feed 10 x lvl 20 manyu after that and if possible save lvl 100s for girls over lvl 50.

That is the easiest way to level and not that bad gold wise either.
Of course the most gold efficient is feeding 10 x lvl 100 each time till max level but you don;t get that many lvl 100s easy.

I prioritize leveling/evolving the girls with character quests first. Their specific equips are really nice, especially since they have two bonuses and you won't likely have every equipment slot open on these 5* girls for quite a while. So far I've done Orchid Wydler's and as soon as I can evolve St. Paulia I'll finish her questline. Then it's just a matter of waiting to draw a Toad Lily so I can round out the set.

I hope they expand this in the future to include character quests for all 5* girls.

These equipments are rather meh, honestly

Except if you have 3+ equipment slots, I don't find them worth

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They are just slightly better than earrings

They stop being 'meh' when you get them to the ten levels higher than you can get normal earrings.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

They stop being 'meh' when you get them to the ten levels higher than you can get normal earrings.

I think the point was that they're not as good as the rings/bracelets (hence 3+ equip slots) since they're still just earrings

Agreed, with equipment I go in the following order:

Ring > Bracelet > Earring > Necklace

The reason is simple... more stats. Atk items don't get as much out of upgrading but they start so high that they are too good to ignore. I will make exceptions for girls with low defence tho and go Bracelet first just to keep them alive longer.

Oh and before I forget... ignore normal Items, just stock them till you get Mid Grade items to upgrade and IMHO don't bother upgrading anything less then +8, ideally stick to all +10 but realistically +8 and +9 are still worth the effort.