After reading through this thread (read: poring over it for a few days) I pulled the trigger and started a DMM account. There was so much of a difference in play and options that I instantly fell in love with it, and after watching me tinker at it, my husband actually made a DMM account too. I'm loving it. But I have to say....THE FREAKIN GACHA HATES ME...... I managed to start the game with a 5* girl, and I snagged the event girl within the first three hours of play time, I excitedly went to the gacha when I got my first 50 gems so I could get that adorable little tiger-chan.....got Echinasia and an army of 3* girls. >.<

In the process of farming my little tooshie off to level my army of fodder girls. *sigh*

Just out of curiosity, what's the advice here? Just level and play with the younger girls to get myself able to do bigger maps then go after the reissues?? Right now I can do the beginner and intermediate pretty faithfully. The hardest part was feeling my way through blind because I can't read japanese. I'm completing the daily quests from memory. I'm actually using my nutaku account opened up side by side screen so I can build teams to do the baby levels of the "lilywood" et al maps. should I just farm the lower levels of the reissue maps until my fingers bleed to build a decent stable of 5 stars?? or hold out for events and limp along with the 3 stars? And can someone please tell me what that tab full of maps that drops 3 stars and the medal looking things is??