General Flow of the Game

=This Game's Main Objective=

While there are a handful of features in this game to enjoy (like creating your own Room to watch your most liked characters doing cute or funny things), this game's main objective can be stated to be this: beating lots of quests. To do so, you'll sooner or later need to have characters strong enough to beat even difficult quests, thus getting strong characters is just as important as doing quests. Rather, it's the first step to be done as otherwise, you'll find several quests you won't be able to beat.

Getting Strong Characters
To achieve this objective, you need to do the following two things: You need to summon diverse characters and you need to level them up.

Summoning Characters Efficiently
To efficiently summon characters, you need to save a lot of Starlight Stones, the currency needed mainly for summons. Thus this aspect basically equals to efficiently grinding Starlight Stones.

The only other aspect that's notable here is that you can either try to summon characters that are useful for beating quests and proceeding the game, or you can try to summon characters you like (either because you liked the original series they are from, or because you like the character/card design). There is no real answer on what to prefer here, just get those characters you want the most.

Leveling Characters
To reach a character's maximum level, you need to proceed with the following steps:
 * do 4 limit breaks on the character,
 * gain enough EXP so the character reaches her current maximum level,
 * evolve the character,
 * do another 4 limit breaks on the character
 * gain enough EXP to reach the character's maximum level.

To beat most of the regular quests, a character should be somewhere around level 60-70. For bosses, characters above level 80 are recommended.

Please note that 3* characters cannot be evolved, thus only the first 2 steps can be done for these characters.

Beating Quests
As the main objective is doing quests, here are the most important information you should know when trying quests.

General Advice
Besides the advantages and disadvantages due to strong/weak elements (for reference, see this chart), every boss has two different stats, one for DEF (physical defense) and one for MDEF (magical defense). In most cases, one of these two stats is higher than the other. Thus, the lower stat can be treated as another weakness besides the elemental weakness. The stats cannot be seen directly in-game, so the best you could do is trying to find out which stat is lower by trial and error. Apart from this, looking at data-mined intel is the only other option there is.

Besides weakness, some bosses come with a unique gimmick, which might require you to use very specific tactics. But these are rather rare, thus focussing on the weakness might be best.

Now I'll continue with the overview of the most important quests to do

Introduction of recommended Quest types
Main Quests=

Main Quests


For beginners, the Main Quests are a good choice to start the game. The difficulty (in normal mode) is set to be beatable even as a beginner (although the boss fights at the end of each chapter might cause some troubles). At the very least, it's recommendable to proceed the Main Story up to the end of chapter 4, as you increse the number of Series Buildings you can set in the Town.

If there is a reason not to do Main Quests but other Quests, it's because the Main Quests can be done at any time while other quests (Event Quests) are only available for a limited amount of time. Finally, there are half stamina campaigns for the Main Quest every now and then which halfs the costs to enter these quests. So you might want to wait for such a campaign to proceed with the Main Story.

Author Quests=

Author Quests


Similarly to the Main Quests, the Author Quests are also of moderate difficulty, thus recommendable even to beginners. Please note that the Ticket Boss Quest as well as the EX Boss Quest for each series are excluded from this; these two quests might be too difficult for beginners.

Author Quests can also be done at any time, thus you might want to do Event Quests first as these are only available for a limited amount of time. And there are some half stamina campaigns also for Author Quests, although these happen a lot less frequently than the campaigns for the Main Story. So waiting for such a campaign here might take quite a long time.

Event Quests=

Event Quests
Most of the time, some event is being held. Recently (up to August 2020), they are continuing consecutively, so there is absolutely no break between two events. This means that if you focus on doing Event Quests whenever they are available, you might not find much time to do anything else apart from Events. But the very reason why to do Event Quests is just because these quests are available only for a limited amount of time, thus all story parts, items etc. that come from an Event can only be attained while the event is still on-going.

The main objectives for playing an event are a) beating 250 quests (for clearing the Event Missions) and b) gaining all the items you want from the Event Trade Shop (which also offers Etoiliums and Limit Break Material for 5* characters). Many veteran players commonly play Event Quests most of the time to get the just mentioned items.

But Event Quests might be not recommendable for beginners, as the Boss Quest at the end of the event story, as well as the higher grinding quests might be too hard without strong characters (and beginners lack such strong characters at first). Furthermore, because beginners only have a handful of 5* characters, they are likely to not have many bonus characters to increase the number of event items gained from drops. Thus, even by playing the Event Quests, you most likely will only get some of the valuable items from the Event Shop.

Nonetheless, there are good reasons why even beginners should do an event, at least partly:
 * The event story boss should be beatable simply by choosing a maxed out support character. And beating this gets you a limit break item for 5* characters, which are hard to get as a beginner.
 * Not only the story boss, but also some of the higher grinding quests should be beatable by choosing a strong support character. If you can beat the 20 stamina grinding quest, you can get enough drop items to get the distributed Welfare Character, a 4* character which does not require Starlight Stones to get and is fairly strong when leveled in most cases.
 * If you just repeat the 5 stamina quest from the beginning of an event, you can clear many of the Event Missions, which give you additional copies of the Welfare Character (for awakenings, which not only strengthens the Welfare Character, but also gives you limit break items for 4* characters). Eventually, you can also get one Etoilium.

Challenge Quests=

Challenge Quests


The Challenge Quest is only held on weekends (saturdays and sundays). As the difficulty is rather high, these quests might not be recommendable for beginners. But there are still good reasons why you should do these:
 * Beating the quest every weekend gets you Challenge Medals, which can be traded for Etoiliums (or limit break material for 5* characters), which are valuable items.
 * This quest doesn't cost stamina but Silver Keys, thus these quests can be done additionally to whatever quests you do normally.
 * The amount of EXP etc. you gain here equal to a quest that costs 100 stamina. Such high rewards can only be found here, thus this quest is most suited for grinding EXP, as well as other things like bonds or Crea energy. This should be kept in mind even if you can't beat these quests at first.