Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have played about two weeks now. I read most of the stuff about farming, using stamina efficiently, weak attacks on raid bosses, etc. I am level 64 and have a full roster of 4* and 5* girls. I didn't bother leveling any 3* or 2*; selling those as I got them. I even have four or five of the girls already evolved. My total party strength is a little below 200k.

I can't clear event maps that take 80 stamina. At what party strength should I be able to do that to get the flower gem associated with it?

Should I be doing the re-issued and permanent reissued older events for those 5* event girls? If so, should I start leveling them immediately to replace a 4* girl in my main squad? Or stick with my current squad until it's "done" before moving onto other girls?

I assume that a 5* event girl with dress/skill blooms is better than a gacha 5* girl with none of the upgrades? For the non-event girls, I see "skill blooms" in the store that are purchasable for life crystals. Are their comparable things for equipment slots, dressblooms? Or is upgrading with a clone the only way? Maybe I'm still early enough in the game but buying a full set of skillblooms for one 5* (or 6*!!) girls seems like it won't happen. Life crystals become more abundant?

At what point do I start saving (and leveling) 2* and 3* girls so that the "world defensive battle" scenarios can have full parties?

1) You're moving along at a decent clip to hit 64 in two weeks; well done.

2) Power ranking in FKG is the most misleading stat; while generally higher power means higher overall strength, it doesn't take into account the special abilities and party modifiers that girls give their respective squads. Consider the difference between two Slice type units: St-Paulia vs. Lechenaultia:

a) St. Paulia, a 4* girl gives her squad a 3% increase in attack power, 5% after she is evolved. Her attack deals 1.8* against a single target.
b) Lechenaultia, a 5* event girl (whose permanent reissue should be coming up soon) gives her squad a 15% increase in attack power, AND a 10% defense boost to 4 squad members after she is evolved. Her attack is 1.8* against two targets.
c) Going by raw power, there's not much difference between the two (Lech at 18.5k and St. P at 20.2k with max affection and max level post-evo). In practice though, those abilities make a tremendous difference and Lech will outperform St. P by a country mile. Rule of thumb: keep total power comparisons between units at the same unit rarity: 4* vs. 4*, etc.

3) Some of the 80 Stam maps can be brutal for newer players. Just keep working to improve your girls, get them equipment and fairly soon you shouldn't have much trouble running those maps. Thankfully, the lower stam maps are almost always more efficient to run in terms of stam : currency, so you won't be really losing out by foregoing the higher ones that you can't complete. The FG reward is nice, but I wouldn't spend hundreds of stam trying to get it when that stam can be put to better use. If you check out the various maps/events on this forum using the buttons up top, you'll see Power recommendations (but keep in mind the second point I made).

4) Yes, you should absolutely be doing the re-issued and permanent re-issued events and swapping those girls in for your 4*s; focus on the re-issues first since those have a time limit. There is little point in wasting resources on improving <5* girls unless you have no alternatives. Later on you'll get into the special "Nation Missions" where you'll likely find yourself using 4* and even 3* and 2* girls and may want to improve some of them to fill out the rosters, but that's a long-term thing, in my view.

5) Yes, 5* event girls with full slots and skills will outperform a regular 5* girl with no slot/skill upgrades. That said, event girls are generally weaker in terms of stats so that in the long run, the regular girls with full slots will pull ahead. Not something to really worry about right now.

6) Clones are the most reliable way to open up equipment slots; dressbloom are quite rare and almost always require either FGs or NG to purchase. Not something to worry about right now; just throw a ring on the one slot and you'll be good to go.

7) Life Crystals do become much more abundant later; usually from the 80 stam event maps. Don't sweat them for now; they're a longer term goal.