Thread: Hey There new Player looking for advice

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Bashira > Leanne > Iris/Mia (Alissa if gold is an issue) > Katie > Duelist > Soma > Belinda > Yuyu > Valerie

Not sure why everyone wants leeanne upped so quickly.
I pretty much ran straight to desert maps by lv50 with 3 CC units. Bashira+Katie+Iris.
Granted, i knew what i was doing and DMM has no shortage of silvers. (plan was to skip leeanne entirely, and it worked out)
That said, you'll still need leeanne in nutaku for lack of a better replacement. Hopefully the end of the year we'll have a gold rush with bernice.

Source: Leveling new account on DMM (1 month old)

Katie pretty much covers as a tank till the harder maps.
Soma can be skipped if you are close to spica (>100+ DC) -> I would advice a VH to replace as the 3rd range dps when you need one

he is decently leveled up and pretty far already. He will need a real tank....especially if he wants to do at least a part of the future event maps. Also , he is a newbie . It's better totell him the basics first , and when he knows what he's doing , he can alter his own team comps as he seems fit.

Originally Posted by lolix

actually i don't even see the point of rushing to cc soma before cc-ing belinda. Unless he somehow wants to rush DC farming , but having a cc-ed witch will help advance both the story and the quests.

And yeah , i agree that valerie/pallis takes priority over yuyu

Valerie over Yuyu is legit if he can't get a Pallis first, I'll admit, not sure why I said that. Soma before Belinda is precisely to make DC farming more accessible, since Spica access is a moderately high priority.

problem is that , unless he is willing to pay to recharge stamina , he won't run the DC dailies that many times (esp not the H map - which is the map that requires especially 2 cc-ed archers) anyway. That means , he will slow his story/quest by delaying to cc a witch

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Valerie over Yuyu is legit if he can't get a Pallis first, I'll admit, not sure why I said that. Soma before Belinda is precisely to make DC farming more accessible, since Spica access is a moderately high priority.

That, and you only get 1 guaranteed Pallis anyway. He's annoying to bond but like I said, it's hard to be picky about your AOE damage on a young account.

@Lolix: good point, except due to the discrepancy between Charisma and Stamina usage on Spirit Rescue and Crystal Keeper dailies, you can still get a couple story maps in on those days even if you do the dailies (assuming no Stamina refills with SC). Crystal Keeper H IIRC is 60 Charisma and 6 Stamina which is 3 and 6 hours of regeneration respectively. That's 60 charisma you can use on story maps per CK H run. Will he raise his witch slower that way? Absolutely. Is it worth it? I personally value Spica enough for it since I don't value witches that highly until the later story and daily maps which he's not ready for (considering he can clear up to War of Magic with non-CC Yuyu/Belinda and maybe a few other units in Phalanx 2, witches shouldn't be THAT high priority yet)

@Kayfabe: I don't even bother raising Trust on males I don't intend to AW. Their bases are naturally higher due to being much harder to raise Trust, plus the bonuses are much smaller than Affection bonuses. That said, it is indeed hard to be picky about the AOE damage on new accounts, so if he wants to raise and CC Valerie earlier than even the Duelist, he's welcome to do that, and it's not a bad idea.

I liquored him up but then again, that was back when the only reliable alternative to Val was throwing your DC at Cyrus and running into the same problem anyway. It would have taken 10+ months for the free stamp card booze to get the job done.