Resource Management Tips

Miscellaneous Resource Management Tips and Tricks

This page is a collection of various best practices for optimizing a specific resource.

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What do I do after making them SSS?

3★ units: Sell them for Pledge Emblems by pressing "Send Member" on the bottom right of the members view.
An SSS 3 star unit will give you 8 Pledge Emblems when sold.

Some 3★ units are worth keeping an SSS copy of, including:

• Yibee, Mulier, Hinorie, Pantasia, Petra, Lana: Potential PVP application

• Mulier, Layla, Cindy, Pamela, Kagura, Blossom: Potential PVE application

• Tracy, Bonnie, Patea, Silbal, Mikael: Red Hunt units (do not keep if you have better alternatives)

4★ units: Do not sell them unless you're done with the unit. You should hold onto the SSS copy of the unit that you've just made until you find another copy of it. Then, sell the SSS copy and hold onto the new one to turn into SSS once again.

If you can do Affection Farming or EXP Farming (Read Below) you should keep your SSS copies until they're Level 40 from gaining free EXP. Then, promote them to 5★ before selling them for a nice profit in star-up crystals.

All ML (Light/Dark) 4★ units should be kept. Make sure to have at least 1 SSS copy of them if possible.

Useful RGB 4★ members to hold onto an SSS copy include:

• Joyce (Very powerful healer both for PVE and PVP)

• Louis, Dildri, Dorin, Galornia, Julia: Can be used in PVE (Hunts)

• Haluti, Galornia, Carolyn: Can be used in PVP

• Louis, Julia, Matilda: 10 Speed Team Potential (Speed Imprint for PVP)

What bonds should I keep?

You should keep 1 max potential copy of all 4★ bonds. Most of them are useful in some context. Lock your first maxed copy, make another one in the future, then sell that one. 

Most 3★ bonds can be sold right after potential breaking them. Some of them are worth keeping, including:

• Forest Clash, Internet Famous, Glazed Eyes, Fallen Miracle, Just the Two of us: Often-used PvP bond

• Love Mark: Earlygame bond for improving crit rate on units with bad gear (Sell this bond when you no longer need it)

• Princess' Desire: Bond used by some Red Hunt debuffers (Sell this bond if you don't need it)

Every 4★ and 5★ units have an associated achievement. 3★ units (even those that are upgraded to higher level) do not count and cannot be farmed.

DO NOT Sell "Useless" 5★ units before they're at least Affection Level 5! (10 recommended if possible)
You never know when you'll find 5★ units again, so you should get skill mods out of them before you send them.
If you have multiple duplicates of the same 5★, you can sell the dupes immediately.

Affection progress is gained by completing and winning stages using the unit. The unit can die in the battle and still get the progress. You can get 1 skillmod when the unit reaches Affection level 5, and one more is given on level 10, for a total of two skillmods per unit.

The required number of wins for each affection level milestone are as follows:

• Level 0 > Level 5: 370 wins

• Level 5 > Level 10: 2670 wins (3040 total)

A good shepherding team has enough damage to quickly kill any weak minions, some form of healing or sustain, or both. Beginners can start with Erica and Joyce.

If you can, make sure that everyone in the team (including the actual DPS who carries the team) are below 10 affection.

You can use your Shepherding team in the following content:

• Story mode: Regular Story & Event Story normal stages & Urgent Missions

• Arena NPC Battles

• Element Exploration

IF YOUR MARSHA IS NOT AFFECTION 10 YET PRIORITIZE HER. This is especially relevant for new players! Use her early and use her often!

Hunt teams with less than 4 units

Similar in concept to a Shepherding team, if you can complete a hunt with 3 units or less, you can include a unit to farm affection. 

The ultimate example of this is the Chaldea Solo Blue Hunt. Chaldea (Nenookasi) with Lifesteal gear can solo clear the Anubarak hunt (As outlined in the page). This is one of, if not the, best and most efficient Affection Farming method in the game.

Using Alternate units for hunts

Instead of making a Hunt team work with only 3 units or less, you can make your Affection Farming fodder unit contribute to the team by leveling & gearing them. For example, you can use Galornia as your Red Hunt frontline to farm Galornia's affection.

Make sure not to upgrade any skills. Spending skillmods on an affection farm unit would defeat the entire purpose especially if you're planning on selling them later. This however means that units who rely on skill upgrades (higher activation chance on skills, etc) can be much less effective.

Similar to Affection Farming, you can passively gain EXP and levels on a unit by including them in PVE stages and winning. The unit can die in the battle and still get the progress.

Follow the "Maintain a Shepherding Team" guide above and use them in stages.

• Story mode: Regular Story & Event Story normal stages & Urgent Missions

• Element Exploration

Arena NPC Battles do not award any EXP.

Command Center Dispatch Missions (Jobs)

Sending units to Dispatch Missions in the Base also gives them EXP. This is however not recommended for EXP Farming.

The reward for Dispatch Missions scale based on the star rank of the units used. Each 5★ or 6★ unit used will increase rewards by 10%, for a maximum total of 40% more reward per dispatch mission. This means that your units sent for Jobs should be 5★ for maximum energy and time efficiency, leaving no room for 3★ or 4★ units to EXP farm with.

When should I use Growth Potions (Syringes)?

Syringes are passively generated in the Production Center of your base. You should only use syringes when:

• You have prepared every possible resource for an anticipated unit debut, to build them for PvP as fast as possible

• Your passive EXP farm is too slow and you need them at full level urgently

• The unit gained Affection lv.5 from EXP farming and you need them out of the team to make room for another unit

Saving syringes regularly will give you more flexibility and options later on, and might save you on a rainy day.

Star-Up Crystals

The basic math

There are three tiers of star-up crystals.

• Common (white) : 12 is needed to upgrade a Lv.30 3★ unit to 4★. 

• Advanced (yellow): 16 is needed to upgrade a Lv.40 4★ unit to 5★.

• Superior (purple) : 20 is needed to upgrade a Lv.50 5★ to 6★. Lv.60 is the maximum possible level.

• Lower tier crystals are automatically converted to higher tier in a 5:1 ratio. (25:1 Common : Superior)

It is possible to "profit" on crystals by selling the units:

• 3★ units give 4 White crystals when sold.

• 4★ units give 4 Yellow crystals (worth 20 White crystals vs 12 needed to upgrade) when sold.

• 5★ units give 4 Purple crystals (worth 20 Yellow crystals vs 16 needed to upgrade) when sold.

• 6★ units give 4 Purple crystals (-16 crystals loss vs 20 needed to upgrade) when sold.

Using the common denominator of White crystals, you gain a +6 profit when selling a 3★ unit upgraded to 4★, and a +20 profit when selling a 4★ unit upgraded to 5★.

(Not) Getting the levels

DO NOT USE SYRINGES TO LEVEL UNITS FOR CRYSTAL FARMING.
Do not use syringes to level your SSS Potential Imprint units before you sell them.

Doing this on a 3★ unit takes 12 Common syringes and 27200 gold. (2:1 syringe to crystal conversion)

Doing this on a 4★ unit takes 42 Common syringes and 65200 gold. (2.1:1 syringe to crystal conversion)

This is a net loss for almost all cases & is not worth your time, even if you have a massive surplus of syringes; Gold is a valuable resource and this will deplete it very quickly. An exception can be made during urgent times but this is a judgement call based on your personal account status and progress.

Also, Utilize EXP Farming and Affection Farming. 4★ units will inevitably gain levels from being used in Affection Farming. When they hit Lv.40, promote them to 5★, then sell them. This converts free levels into star-up crystals instead of burning syringes and gold, absolutely maximizing the value of Affection Farming.

Making the most out of Resupply

What is Resupply?

As outlined in the Release Schedule page, Resupply is a recurring event that happens every 2 weeks. The event happens on Friday to Sunday and gives +50% drop rate boost on Hunts, Elements, and Story Mode.

Resupply is the best time to stock up on elements, burn batteries and gems for energy, and gain huge progress with gear crafting.

Since Resupply always starts on the Friday of the week without a new event story, if you start saving energy in the mail from the Saturday of the week with a new event story, you can save about 24 mails until the next Resupply without any of them expiring. 

If you have lots of gems in surplus but are in need of gear or gold, you can also consider pre-buying a whole day's worth of energy at the end of Thursday before Resupply starts the next day. Do this as late as possible since you're losing out on passive energy regeneration until you can use it back below the limit.

In case this needs to be said: DO NOT buy energy with gems or with Energy Batteries outside of Resupply!

Where do I spend energy on?

Your NUMBER 1 PRIORITY is always Hunts, Hunts, Hunts!

• If you ran out of Elements for discipline, Resupply is the best time to stock up. Save up a few hundred common element of every kind so you don't have to worry about it for a while.

• If you cannot farm Hunt 11 consistently and quickly just yet, farm Hunt 10, but do NOT buy energy with batteries.

• If you cannot farm even Hunt 10 yet, stick to Element Exploration.

(Not) Farming Story Mode

Event Story does NOT have increased drops during resupply. DO NOT farm Event Story stages during resupply!

Regular Story stages gain a +50% drop on CP, but story is not worth farming in general.
CP is used to exchange for Catalysts, but Catalysts are normally farmed in Event Story. Regular Story is almost never farmed.

If you have to farm Regular Story for Catalysts, check the relevant guide in the Wiki (Link) and farm the corresponding stage.

Banner value maximization

What banners do I pull and how many tickets do I sink into them?

There are three different styles of banners with three distinct strategies for maximizing banner value.

Normal banners & Event banners (Standard Format)

Currency: Recruit Contracts (Green tickets) 5x per pull
Pity: 120 pulls (600 tickets), obtaining the featured unit resets pity

RGB unit debuts are always on Standard Format banners.

Combo banners

Currency: Recruit Contracts (Green tickets) 5x per pull
Pity: 120 pulls (600 tickets), pity does not reset

Mysterious Banner