I made it

Originally Posted by etherealspiral

Seeing all of these strong teams makes me hope I can get there someday. Ive just been spamming the second phase 15stam one(How do you name these levels? I see the ?-number but whats the ? for?) and Im at 987 tickets so far. Only lv25. I havent done much else in the game yet just to focus on getting what tickets I can. This has been the game Ive liked the most so far tho Im hoping as I progress I get more stuff. I basically dont wanna see these same girls till the end of time. ;; Atleast Ill get an event character to add in.

Why is there such a big jump in difficulty also? Is there a reason or just how it is? I can beat 2nd Phase Beginner easy now but if I try the next stage I get smacked down. All in all I just wanna get as many tickets as I can. Atleast this game seems to let you grind events to try and get higher rather then simply needing to be a beast or get screwed on anything cool.

I think you can do a perfect Canna, with your current amount stamina without mentioning any SG event tickets in the worst case, until the last day 20/9.

after that a look at the tips section of the game to evolve your girls and get gain faster lv/xp.

I particularly did not play much the initial normal quests to win Lv and increase Lv of my girls.

I played a lot of the usual quests 5-3 alternating with 5-4, good gain xp /SG for begginers.

Originally Posted by etherealspiral

Seeing all of these strong teams makes me hope I can get there someday. Ive just been spamming the second phase 15stam one(How do you name these levels? I see the ?-number but whats the ? for?) and Im at 987 tickets so far. Only lv25. I havent done much else in the game yet just to focus on getting what tickets I can. This has been the game Ive liked the most so far tho Im hoping as I progress I get more stuff. I basically dont wanna see these same girls till the end of time. ;; Atleast Ill get an event character to add in.

Why is there such a big jump in difficulty also? Is there a reason or just how it is? I can beat 2nd Phase Beginner easy now but if I try the next stage I get smacked down. All in all I just wanna get as many tickets as I can. Atleast this game seems to let you grind events to try and get higher rather then simply needing to be a beast or get screwed on anything cool.

Good news for you, then: ?-5 (Phase 2 first map) is all you REALLY need to get a perfect Canna (event girl). You need 2k tickets, it occasionally spawns a special Secret Garden that gives you 30 tickets by itself, on top of the map itself giving 10-15.

So if you're new, here's a pretty good strategy for clearing (note, NOT 3-medaling, just getting stage clear) most maps: Pick a single girl you like and level her AND ONLY HER as much as you possibly can. Visit the Friend ID thread on this forum and grab some powerful helpers. Ride the helpers' squads to clearing maps until you get enough Secret Garden spawns to get enough manyus to level the rest of your teams. Continue until you reach 12-3, where you place all 5 squads on the top-left camp, thus bypassing the entire left and bottom sides of the map and heading straight through at worst 3 pest battles and some nests to the boss. Spam this map, getting as many SG spawns as you can to level the rest of your squads to 40+. This is the fastest way to power up in this game AFAIK.

Reasoning: a single powerful squad can get a stage clear on almost every map in the game (note: pest-heavy maps like 12-5 can be an issue if the team does not have Edelweiss and/or Toad Lily and/or full team of max/near-max Gold/Rainbow units. However, helper squads' strength is scaled down to your own highest level single unit. Therefore you powerlevel a single unit to get more out of your helper squads, and rely on those squads to clear maps you'd never clear on your own without 40 hours of grinding.

side note: daily missions: completely ignore the dragon ones for now, you need max level units for those to be relevant. Manyu dailies are hit or miss depending on what you need and if you're willing to sacrifice your commander level gain for them (all dailies suck in terms of Commander XP and gacha seeds, and the only one that gives good Gold is Saturday, which gives literally nothing BUT Gold). Saturday is only worth a run or two (no more than that should be necessary) if you're really short on gold.

@Shurato: the vast majority of vets highly recommend staying away from Missions 5-10 due to the SG spawn being inferior to the Beginner (1-4) and Advanced (11+) ones. Recommended if you're not using the method I list here is 1-3/2-1 spam until your units are level 30ish, then 12-3 spam until you're strong enough to clear everything else.

I used 5-3 and 5-4 to Lv up faster while SG cost 12 appears sometimes, the initials 1-3,2-1 and other's not give me xp that I wanted.

But now I'm doing just 12-5 and some other's left to me to complete 3 * in all maps, Left to complete 3 * from 10-5, 13-4, and 13-5.

atm I'm in Lv 92 playing for free . i like to have a high Lv cause I can play more times with High stamina points/gathering.

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Good news for you, then: ?-5 (Phase 2 first map) is all you REALLY need to get a perfect Canna (event girl). You need 2k tickets, it occasionally spawns a special Secret Garden that gives you 30 tickets by itself, on top of the map itself giving 10-15.

So if you're new, here's a pretty good strategy for clearing (note, NOT 3-medaling, just getting stage clear) most maps: Pick a single girl you like and level her AND ONLY HER as much as you possibly can. Visit the Friend ID thread on this forum and grab some powerful helpers. Ride the helpers' squads to clearing maps until you get enough Secret Garden spawns to get enough manyus to level the rest of your teams. Continue until you reach 12-3, where you place all 5 squads on the top-left camp, thus bypassing the entire left and bottom sides of the map and heading straight through at worst 3 pest battles and some nests to the boss. Spam this map, getting as many SG spawns as you can to level the rest of your squads to 40+. This is the fastest way to power up in this game AFAIK.

Reasoning: a single powerful squad can get a stage clear on almost every map in the game (note: pest-heavy maps like 12-5 can be an issue if the team does not have Edelweiss and/or Toad Lily and/or full team of max/near-max Gold/Rainbow units. However, helper squads' strength is scaled down to your own highest level single unit. Therefore you powerlevel a single unit to get more out of your helper squads, and rely on those squads to clear maps you'd never clear on your own without 40 hours of grinding.

side note: daily missions: completely ignore the dragon ones for now, you need max level units for those to be relevant. Manyu dailies are hit or miss depending on what you need and if you're willing to sacrifice your commander level gain for them (all dailies suck in terms of Commander XP and gacha seeds, and the only one that gives good Gold is Saturday, which gives literally nothing BUT Gold). Saturday is only worth a run or two (no more than that should be necessary) if you're really short on gold.

@Shurato: the vast majority of vets highly recommend staying away from Missions 5-10 due to the SG spawn being inferior to the Beginner (1-4) and Advanced (11+) ones. Recommended if you're not using the method I list here is 1-3/2-1 spam until your units are level 30ish, then 12-3 spam until you're strong enough to clear everything else.

Well Ive leveled all my stuff a bit atm.

http://i.imgur.com/Ho6D9lS.png

Ive followed the beginner guide a bit but since I started during the event I really want her mostly cause I just want stuff that isnt 2stars. I can do Phase 2 first map solo even without a helper thankfully which has been a great boon. I didnt know a good friend would be helpful tho. Ive mostly just filled my friendslist with the strongest randoms I see while questing. Also waiting for 6 more thingies to do my first unit pull and hopefully get some cute girls #.#

Really enjoying this game tho so Ill see about looking more into 'proper' stratgies into getting further ahead without wasting stuff. Thanks for this info.

Originally Posted by Shurato

I used 5-3 and 5-4 to Lv up faster while SG cost 12 appears sometimes, the initials 1-3,2-1 and other's not give me xp that I wanted.

But now I'm doing just 12-5 and some other's left to me to complete 3 * in all maps, Left to complete 3 * from 10-5, 13-4, and 13-5.

atm I'm in Lv 92 playing for free . i like to have a high Lv cause I can play more times with High stamina points/gathering.

Fair enough. 1-3/2-1 spam is for leveling the girls, for leveling yourself you just do the highest stamina map you can comfortably clear. Higher level = more stamina for later farming so there are certainly advantages to doing it that way.

I personally am doing just the 80 AP one. Dont fancy the slow spamming of low level missions (to annoying for me). Approx 3600 right now, 400 more to go in next 4 days. Should be easy to do tomorrow, so I will be able to focus on Sunday manyus.

Originally Posted by Myrdin

I personally am doing just the 80 AP one. Dont fancy the slow spamming of low level missions (to annoying for me). Approx 3600 right now, 400 more to go in next 4 days. Should be easy to do tomorrow, so I will be able to focus on Sunday manyus.

Same. I just set up ?-8, hit start, and tab out to other stuff. Check back a few minutes later to see if SG/RB spawned, etc. At 3300, shouldn't be an issue to be ready for Manyu farming sunday. Have quite a few slice girls to level (Alpinia, Kerria, Orchid, Camellia; intending to swap Alpinia into Team 1 once she catches up to Fritillaria so Team 1 isn't so slow (slowest team I have by ~60 speed and it's the strongest by 30k+ TP lol)

I'm just glad that this event is a collectathon instead of medal counting. At least 2nd phase tickets has better RNG than medals. Currently at 1400, I think I can get full potential Canna by the end just like Southern Cross if the RNG continues being well to me. Will try to aim for 2400 tickets but it is just bonus to me if I managed to do it.

Originally Posted by nazrin992

I'm just glad that this event is a collectathon instead of medal counting. At least 2nd phase tickets has better RNG than medals. Currently at 1400, I think I can get full potential Canna by the end just like Southern Cross if the RNG continues being well to me. Will try to aim for 2400 tickets but it is just bonus to me if I managed to do it.

If you're new to the game like EtherealSpiral, I personally would discourage you from this. Why? All you get out of it is 1 of each ampy (farmable normally once you get to Missions 12 and 13) and it means you're not leveling yourself and your girls. You're better off stopping at 2k and heading back to 12-3 if you can manage it (using the tricks I outlined earlier, you should be able to) to get your girls leveled. This way, you're better prepared for future events, since Medal Counting events will be hard to get perfect girls if you neglect your leveling now for the sake of a mere 1 of each ampy. Of course, if you've been playing a while and have solid levels on your girls already, and have some other reason for only being at 1400 now, then feel free to go for it.