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.