Thread: Sacred Sword Princesses

Originally Posted by Semaphore

Start with Ortylia, and have a second girl with a strong yellow skill. Wait until Ortylia accumulates enough SP to use her blue skill, then use it. After using it, swap her out for the other girl, who will accumulate a ton of SP from the effects of Ortylia's skill. Use that SP to spam her yellow skill until Naila dies. Naila has about 20 million HP on ultimate, but takes large damage like a raid boss.

That worked for the hell version. Thank you!

Originally Posted by svid

Whats best to max out: Def, block, or HP -- if I want to be a glass cannon Assassin (Grace) with Vamp (health leach) with fast attack? (Faster I attack, faster I can recover HP).
So should I max Def (to reduce damage)? Or max Block (how does it reduce damage)?

If you get to pick which stat to put in a given slot, you usually want offensive stats: physical or magical attack (depending on the character), crit, and sometimes accuracy.

If your block is higher than the accuracy rating of whoever hits you, then you block the attack and take half damage. For a character with naturally low block, adding more block to still be lower than your opponent's accuracy doesn't do any good. Block can be more valuable for girls with naturally moderate to high block.

That said, you don't want to completely neglect defensive stats. Do forge up and star up gear in slots that give defensive stats, as you'll otherwise be underpowered. Defensive stats barely affect your power rating, but a girl who got to 400k power by powering up all stats is going to be much stronger than one that got there by ignoring defensive stats and getting a little higher offensive stats than the former.

Originally Posted by karragin1

So the Mac Version came out just recently and i was looking for any tips or information that might be important during the game.
Thanks for any information given

That and is it the mac version or is it just me and any time i try to enter raid it gives me an error?

There's a Mac version now? Or is that merely the observation that the browser version also works on a Mac?

Girls aren't going to be very powerful until you can get them to seven stars, so it matters enormously that some are much easier to star up than others. The easiest girls to star up are the one star girls available in advanced exploration. You could readily get them to seven stars and have a viable team within a month. Two and three star girls who are available in training and ascension missions can also hit seven stars over the course of several months.

Certain girls can readily hit seven stars from their launch event. I got Ortylia, Summer Naladia, and Perille that way. But if you missed the launch event, then you missed it, and just ignore that girl. Most girl launch events don't give you a non-whale way to get them to seven stars.

Some girls are also a lot stronger than others. Those with a higher starting star rank tend to have higher stats, but that doesn't always make them stronger. Some natural two or three star girls are just terrible.

Elnora and Chharodi are the strongest of the natural one star girls, and are available in the advanced training at the end of regions 3 and 4. 30 shards per day from that could get them to seven stars in under a month, and that will get you a viable team quickly. Naladia (end of region 2) isn't nearly as good, but isn't completely terrible, either. Trisha (end of region 1) is awful. Ignore her.

The two star girls with training missions are Grace, Seleia, Leina, Eremia, Frey, Shalutta, Fealty, Remy, Sasha, Celstia, Lilian, and Rigg. Don't focus on powering up two star girls not on that list. Of those, Grace, Seleia, and Leina are probably the strongest. The two star training missions go in a four week cycle, with three girls available each week.

The three star girls with ascension missions are Charlotte, Isabel, Angela, Claire, Khalis, and Yjer. They are available for two weeks at a time, with two girls at a time. Those are on a six week rotation. Other three star girls are basically unobtainable outside of their launch event unless you're a serious whale. Charlotte is the strongest of those six and by far. Angela is the only other one whom I'd regard as worth getting, and even she is only really useful as a counter to Perille in arena. Khalis, Yjer, and Isabel aren't bad, exactly, but they're not any better than Leina, Seleia, and Grace, and they are more expensive to get.

That said, while you aren't going to fully power up and use most girls, you do eventually want to star them all up. Star rank bonus makes a huge difference.

When you reach level 20, you want to join an established league that is ranked relatively high. It doesn't have to be a top ranked league, but at minimum, you want a max rank fat cat so that you'll get 5x coins from missions. The top leagues have also maxed their fairy ranks by now. You don't need to get into the #1 ranked league, but even one that is ranked #20 on your server will be massively better than one that was just created.

Each league has a feast at some four hour period every day that will refill some of your AP, arena banners, and raid horns. Make sure that you get a league whose feast is at a time that you can usually make it. You only have to click at some point within the four hour window, not be there for the whole four hours. It would be better to be in the #20 league and make the feast than the #5 league and miss it.

You generally want blue or purple gear for your characters, and mostly purple. Purple gear comes from raiding. You'll naturally get a lot of blue crystals over time, so having one blue set of gear that you star up can get you a decent set of gear for one girl to supplement what you get from raiding.

The scarce resources for powering up girls are universal crystals and amethyst evolution crystals. You'll get other things like coins, experience books, and forging materials much faster. Always buy universal crystals when they're available in the noble shop, even if they cost diamonds.

My priority for spending diamonds is:

1) universal crystals in the noble shop
2) reroll league missions until I get one that is good for at least 150 league tokens
3) gift chest and sometimes fine gift chest from the gift shop if there is some particular girl that I'm trying to rank up affection; ignore this otherwise
4) action points, where the first two refills per day only cost 50 diamonds, and then next three 100 diamonds. Those costs reset daily, so I generally spend 400 diamonds per day for the extra 200 action points.

Occasionally an event will have something worth spending diamonds on. Spending diamonds on gachas is generally poor value unless either you're a whale and need more stuff to spend diamonds on, or you're trying to spend little time on the game so that you don't want the action points.

If you want to be one of the top ranked players, then you'll need to either:

a) be a whale, or
b) be able to raid assist for hours per day

The latter doesn't mean focusing on the game for hours per day. It does mean being at a computer or near your phone while doing something else, and then checking back every couple of minutes to join another raid.

Regardless, if you want to be one of the top players, you'll also need to be able to only infrequently go over 10 hours without logging in and using your action points and so forth. If you can log in briefly in the morning before school or work, send the next batch of girls on purification, burn through your action points and arena banners, and then log off, that makes an enormous difference.

That doesn't mean that you can't play at all if you only play once per day. But it does mean that you'll never be one of the top players. Which is fine if you don't feel the need to be competitive.

The game isn't really dominated by whales. I've probably spent about $50 in total since the game launched, and was recently the #1 player on my server in total squad power. I've also had several weeks where I went undefeated in arena while always challenging the higher ranked player for 1.5x rating gains.

Thanks semaphore i do eventually plan on playing competitive but as a f2p if thats possible. Ill keep all your advice and tips in mind from now.
I also think that they finally released it to macs as before it was only for windows but it is a little buggy but they have been releasing a lot of patches in the last 2 days so thats good.

question : what do you need to do, to get the "luxurious first top up gift pack" ?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

question : what do you need to do, to get the "luxurious first top up gift pack" ?

I'm not sure where you see that, but the answer is probably, spend real money on the game. In online games, "top up" seems to invariably mean spending real money.

Originally Posted by karragin1

Thanks semaphore i do eventually plan on playing competitive but as a f2p if thats possible. Ill keep all your advice and tips in mind from now.
I also think that they finally released it to macs as before it was only for windows but it is a little buggy but they have been releasing a lot of patches in the last 2 days so thats good.

For what it's worth, if you're active and go for one star girls first, the basic schedule is:

1) Within a month, you can have a full team of natural one star girls ranked up to seven stars with over 200k power each and be able to easily clear all content except for level 50 raids and the top tier of some occasional events.
2) In about 4-5 months, you can have a full team of stronger natural two- or three-star girls ranked up to seven stars with maxed talents and seven star purple gear, at around 400k power each.
3) In about 7-9 months, you hit 260 total star rank and have caught up to the people who have been playing since launch.

That assumes that they don't make it easier to catch up in that time. They likely will, as the general trend is that games make it easier to get stuff as the game is out longer. For example, at launch, no two-star girls had training missions, only three three-star girls had an ascension mission, and those ascension missions generally cost about 36 AP per shard for the level 50 version--which players couldn't do yet, anyway.

Later on, a lot more one-, two-, and three-star girls had advanced exploration, training, or ascension missions to give their shards, but the drop rate was low. There was some randomness, but the average AP cost per shard was about 15 AP for a one-star, 20 for a two-star, or 36 for a three-star. Then they increased the shard drop rates dramatically so that those figures are now 4, 8, and 10, respectively. That allows you to star up your girls much faster than you used to be able to.

Does the latest update have more of the story as well?

They added chapter 6 not that long ago, but it wasn't the most recent update.