Thread: Spare Gold: AW Fodder, CR Fodder, or Rainbow Crystals?

Well, as the above exchange should tell you, it depends on:

Are you willing to spend money on this game?

If so, gold units will end up being expendable in the long run. If not, it's recommended to hang on to them.

Assuming you are NOT going whale (big spender), it also depends on what gold unit. Bernice and Iris are mainstay gold units that are worth CR due to the fact they are highly useful and used often. Anemone is a great gold if you did not score Sabinne (the fact you're asking makes me pretty sure you don't have Horace) let alone Sybilla, since ranged magic attack has its uses. Julian is a more offensive alternative to Katie (higher attack, lower defense, same skill but easier to CR) and if you do CR/SU him he becomes preferable for the primary role of soldiers if you don't have Jerome (plat soldier). Kerry is a solid UP ramp if you don't have Dahlia, Thetis or Clissa. If you missed Belinda and haven't scored Adele or Despara, Yuyu is fantastic (even if you have all 3 of those, she has her uses). Zola is great for AoE physical damage, and Mehlis is a good mage (doesn't match up to the plat and black ones besides cost, obviously).

Ultimately, the biggest question is: Will I use this unit a lot? Most gold units are great for non-spenders but even spenders will get mileage out of Iris and Bernice, but some are just plain used more often than others, and some you might have alternatives for already. Did you pull Thetis? Kerry just got a lot more expendable. Got Jerome? Julian can hit the hay. Sasha/Garania? Not much use for the gold mages.

Also, the most common classes for AW fodder are soldiers (Gold: Julian, not counting Katie because she's currently unique), witches (Gold: Yuyu, Cloris is unique), Valkyries (Gold: Kerry), Healers (Gold: Iris, Fedora), Heavy Armor (Gold: Bernice, Garret) and Mage (Gold: Barbastroff, Mehlis, Cyrus). Out of those, the more "expendable" gold units are Fedora (generally outclassed by Iris as a healer), Garret (totally outclassed by Bernice for the job of a HA) and both male gold mages (Mehlis outperforms both under most circumstances).


Regardless of what you do, make sure you have units that can fill the role of the gold you're discharging or using as AW fodder. Last thing you need is to use your only Iris as AW fodder and be stuck with silver healers, for example.

Ok, so never awakening and from there choose at your discretion. I guess combining once just to get that guaranteed reduction and skill level is fine. Though I can't imagine Rainbow Crystals being a common thing for me... hmm.

I'm guessing RC will be used for something other than trying to get that Dark Knight unit? Anyone have a link or something to the units that we can use RC to get?

There are a few units I seen on videos on dmm that are from RC like the dark knight, but I have no Idea when/If they will ever come to nutaku

anyways heres the link to the dmm wikia

(If you use Chrome just translate everything to english)

As I recall you will probably get a copy of tatician (400 RC) (dmm gave me), last one for 20 RC is 2nd AW fairy just appeared at end of Oct,
oh in page there was the day they were implemented if my memory serves me right, you will see them one by one after the curse user event shows up 1.JPG

Hmm... difficult choices, difficult choices. Though right now all I would want is the strategist. Maybe just when I got doubles of someone. I dunno. Anyways, thanks for all this info.

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*after rechecking units*

Wait, that Cynthia girl wasn't a fairy? Man now I'm even more conflicted.

I won't recommend you brooding over RCs, I'll recommend you go straight dark knight if you have the RCs available because god knows when the others will come to nutaku.

Not to mention RC are for whales mostly, since you have to discharge Gold+ units (not very common if you aren't spending) and event units take a huge hit to their trade-in value. The only way to "farm" RC is to farm Demon Crystals on Thursday and trade for Cyrus (the only TP unit that's also in shrine and therefore gets full trade-in value). however, that's 100 DC for 20 RC and will take ages without SC spending which defeats the purpose of using this method in the first place (other than avoiding silvers mixed into your shrine rolls).

Anyways, AW fodder is generally a bad use for gold because you can farm silvers in events, CC them and use that instead. Using gold units as AW fodder is something only full-time whales would do. CR/SU for commonly used units is recommended by me, especially the first one (which is guaranteed). Rarely used units depends on if they're niche like Anemone (though this might become a common use down the road when we get more story areas) or if they'll almost never be used due to having better alternatives (like in my previous post's examples). Units you'll likely never use I'd keep one copy for scene completion and trade the rest.