Thread: new player needs help (DMM version)

Ok, for me the situation with the shop looks like this:

1) life crystals - I don't specifically farm life crystals, but you do get quite a few of them out of the event maps.
Each time the items get restocked I try to buy out only the rainbow and gold skillblooms and the cheaper second affection-unlocking jewels (the more expensive ones too, if I have a surplus of stones).
There's also a gacha ticket to be bought from what I can see, though that doesn't restock and I've already used it.
Blooming materials can be farmed so I never buy them in the exchange store.
Occasionally, there are also limited-time special maps that give you a lot of those, so I rather keep my currency.

2) bond crystals - I use them only to buy commander medals. Every time I got a surpluss I've bought one of the units in this store - I have them all now.
During one event (can't remember which) we had a good way of getting bond crystals, so it was just that much easier.
I don't feel the need to buy anything else from here, but since you gain more bond crystals than you can spend on the medals, I'll probably try buying something else next time.

3) commander medals - Since they're not farmable I use them only to get the gacha tickets.

4) rainbow medals - The whole system to get your guaranteed rainbow is not setup to be something farmable, it's more of a guaranteeed 6* of your choice
for actively playing the game, even if you have lousy luck in the gacha, which I think is a good idea.
Don't specially mind it, just keep collecting and one day you'll have enough (I have about 284 right now and I haven't used them before)
By the way, you don't need to repeat it 300 times - you get 20 (IIRC) rainbow medals for each commander medals' gacha ticket.
Plus, it's not like the commander medals' ticket is the only source of rainbow medals -
for each duplicate gold girl you pull you get 2 medals, for each duplicate rainbow you get 100.
Additionally, sometimes a few are given out during events or login campaignes.

5) sun medals - No opinion on this one, as I'm not actively doing the whaleship missions.
Though I will probably only buy the equipment pieces in this store section.

6) medals of honor - Also no opinion here, as I'm not strong enough for all unique missions yet and because of that, I've not farmed them.

7) gold - The exchange rate is quite bad, so I don't usually buy anything from here.

Exchange - I only use the equipment -> bond crystals one, occasionally low-rarity equipment seeds -> mid-rarity equipment seeds.
All manyuus are usuable for me, since I level everyone, even the low rarity units.
Right now I have more high-level manyuus than the low-level ones.

Equipment seeds - Once you get around to doing the reissued events, you'll probably start using the event equipment,
so I'd only collect the 10+ rings (mid or high rarity) and burn the rest to bond crystals.
Since I exchange low-rarity seeds for the mid ones, I don't really bother with low-rarity equipment.

FGs - You've got a good idea, I also use it for the gacha as a priority and to expand the inventory once I really need it.
Currently I'm waiting for another full (6* included) gacha for 30 FGs, which we had some time ago to appear again, though that might take quite a while.

About the progression you've mentioned - doesn't sound like a bad plan, though to be fair just adjust it to any current needs.
As an additional good event girl I recommend Hypericum, as she's a counter girl with high skill activation (even not boosted) and fully leveled hits quite hard.
Dipladenia will also be useful, as she has the rare "ignore speed modifying panels" ability, which really helps 3-medalling quite a few maps.
All in all - counter, evade, skill activation and a few specific ones (for example damage from small pests 50%) are good abilities to have.
One more thing - if you're strong enough try prioritizing the time-limited reissue once all of its stages appear - the earlier you get the girl/equipment (and FGs from the map) the better.

The level-up exp event gets you 10% more exp during character and equipment upgrade and a higher chance of great success (the gold text during upgrade).
I'd use it as far as your resources (manyuu/gold) allows, though not till you have 0.

The garden's flower pots that are not golden only have a different design as far as I know and no functional differences.
The golden pots give you skill blooms for the exchange shop girls plus Azalea, a special event girl from a few events back - you'll need to wait for her reissue.

DMM gives you a lot more freebies - right now I'm sitting on 381 FGs waiting for my chance.