Essential information

Essential info to read, even if you played Sword Girls.

## DAY 1 GUIDE

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v8ELI6srZbpkztz3BaMCGJMYsZnNR8rZxb8mS2tLkz0/edit?usp=sharing

## Early Tips

* Daily reset time is at 5AM KST, or 8PM / 20:00 UTC.
* Every day as a new player you will receive a newbie login reward for 5 days (on top of your usual attendance reward), including:
	+ A good Neutral follower that can go in any deck, An Extra Witness Kana.DPD;
		- Recommended to include within your custom decks at first and has longevity depending on your later preferences;
	+ 6000 white ore that can be converted into any non-neutral colored ore;
	+ 6000 green coins, which can be converted into Season 1 materials or white ore;
	+ 10 Raffle tickets (special draw tickets), which can be spent at the shop on special draws holding unique followers and spells;
	+ 100  White Coins, which can be used to craft Characters and unique cards (see the white coin article for specific recommendations);

* You can use *free rental decks* 20 times per day for episode dungeons. These rental decks become stronger when you go to harder episodes (rentals for ep8 have ~**1500** deck points). You absolutely should be using these if you are a new player. It's good to save your 20 rental deck uses for bosses or higher floors if you are going to be playing a lot in a day. You can see the rental decks available by pressing "Rental" in the upper right corner of the screen when selecting a deck to use.

* One of the main ways to get *spell and follower* cards in Kana Tales is through card packs. Alternatively, crafting them by grinding episodes and events is an option, though compared to Sword Girls' previous idea of it crafting is not as convoluted or complicated as before. That said, by regularly making use of Talentium Orbs it is possible to luck out on quite a number of cards without having to craft them. Be careful not to run out of orbs, as they are needed elsewhere as well.
	+ Battlepacks: which can be found in the screen after winning a duel below where it says WIN, cost 50% less orbs per card than store packs, and have cards that cannot be obtained in common card packs from the shop. You can buy two after every battle that you win (after each dungeon floor or fight match) on the WIN screen and they look like booster card packs from other card games. Each battlepack has 1 card for 5 orbs. These are the reason why you never want to run out of orbs because you can only buy 2 of these immediately after each battle you play. One battlepack will be for the episode of the dungeon or event you are doing. The other battlepack will be for a season (chance to get a card from all episodes of that season). If you clear a battle without orbs or don't open the battlepacks at that time, you miss out on your chance to open a battlepack for that battle after you close the WIN screen. (when it is updated in the future, see the battlepack article for specific recommendations);
		- Spending on seasonal battlepacks may be helpful at first, but it is generally better to focus on a specific episode/event battlepack instead, since as you complete your collection over time, the seasonal battlepacks hold less and less value, and targeting specific high-rarity cards may be more desirable.
		- Be sure to set a goal on the number of Special cards that are exclusive to battlepacks, as typically you only need one playset, typically 3 of.
	+ Common card packs at the shop may be helpful for beginners to get a quick boost, however do not spend too many orbs in this way as the packs cost 2x more per card than battlepacks and do not hold special cards exclusive to battlepacks. The only differences between draw rates for common card packs and battlepacks is that battlepacks have less of a chance of giving common cards and have a small chance to give the special cards exclusive to the battlepacks.
	+ There are main quests (on the quest screen, click main in the upper corner) that can give you 100 **free** cards (from tickets, 10 per voucher) per episode dungeon from tickets you can redeem for common card packs. This is a great way for new players to get card packs for free. Completing a dungeon 5 times gives 50 cards (5 tickets). Completing it 10 times givens 50 more cards (5 more tickets). Tickets must be exchanged in the shop for only the common card pack in the shop matching the episode you completed the quest for (ep 2 quest gives 5 tickets only for ep 2 card pack). The "complete dungeon 5 times" main quest for each dungeon appears only after you finish the "complete dungeon 1 time" quest for that dungeon. The complete 10 times quest appears after the complete 5 times quest.
		- For new players, if you have enough orbs and want to roll on common card packs: the ep 2 one is best to start with, then after you get the strong cards from that episode, ep 4 for crux or public players, else ep 3.
* The main way to get Characters and Unique cards is through using special draw tickets in the "special pack" card part of the shop. All of the options in that section appear to give unique rarity spell and follower cards, but pressing the "Preview" buttons for them show that most of the cards from that part of the shop are character cards. Special draw tickets are very time-consuming to grind for (only doable with GP from ranked pvp fights) and are usually what you should exchange event currency for first before anything else. Other events may give out special draw tickets. Other than those options, you can exchange 500 orbs for 5 tickets each week (from shop > Product > Package > Special Draw Ticket > all the way on the right), which can be a lot for newer players, however do not be discouraged from doing so if you have orbs to spare, as white coins are very important for gameplay progression long-term.
	+ The other common way to get character and unique cards is to craft them with white coins, which are **very** hard to get normally. White coins are most easily gotten by *dismantling other character or unique rarity cards*. White coins can also be obtained sometimes in coupon codes (explained farther down in this page) or at the Fever Times menu (party thing with ribbons button on main screen under calendar icon in upper right) at certain times of the week, usually during the weekend.
	+ Unique cards can also be obtained from exchanging 5 Mileage Cards (equivalent to 400 Mileage Books) in the Mileage part of the shop for a *guaranteed* Unique card, or exchanging 3 mileage books for a small chance to get a unique card in the Shadowland section of Mileage shop).

* Make sure to redeem coupon/free stuff codes *and* get their rewards out of your Mailbox. These rewards go to the Mailbox *first*, not your inventory, and *will* disappear if not taken out of the Mailbox. To redeem coupon codes starting from the main menu/lobby, click the calendar icon on the upper right below your number of orbs, click the "Coupon" tab on the left of the window that appears to put in codes. Tabs below the Coupon tab usually show what the codes and their rewards are, but not all codes are put here. Check the game's Naver lounge to see if there are any additional codes.

* Make sure your ad buff is on by tapping it at the lobby, waiting some seconds for the icon to turn green, then confirm and watch the ad, which will then turn red to signal it is active.
	+ The ad buff will not provide extra rewards against Bosses not residing on a Dungeon or Event Floor, such as:
		- Shadowland Bosses
		- Easy/Normal/Hard Event Bosses
		- Special Event Bosses (200~500LIFE) that retain their LIFE value when you are defeated

* Clear these daily quests whenever possible:
	+ Win 5 Dungeon duels for 25 orbs (this quest is hidden at first and appears after you clear the 1 duel quest)
	+ Clear 5 Fight duels with a D grade or higher for 25 orbs (duel in the only-AI/unranked section if you are new) (this quest is hidden at first and appears after you clear the 1 duel quest)

* Unless a balance patch temporarily allows some cards to be dismantled for full cost, cards will typically dismantle for only 1/5th of their cost. Your time is precious; do not craft or enhance cards until you are sure of what you want to do and know how to do it.
	+ Because part of the game involves PVP through Fight, and decks are separated into distinct card point ranks, it is recommended to save a playset of +0 followers alongside whichever followers you intend to enforce in order to avoid becoming inflexible in deckbuilding with those followers later, as enforcing follower cards permanently increases their card points.

## Faction considerations

Choosing your faction

**EXTRA INFORMATION**

Doing Quests are pretty much essential starting out, but become less rewarding as you progress.

First time Completion = 3 Diamonds, Run 5x = 50 Booster pulls, Run 10x = 50 Booster pulls, Run 25 Times = 1 Superior Card, Run 50 Times = 500 Talenium, Run 75 Times = 1 Superior Card, 100 times = Title

Getting Black Coins is an Extremely Rare resource. You get an opportunity every Calendar month to trade 100 white coins for 100 black coins. You should always trade as many as you can with every chance you get up to that 100 mark. Trading anymore than that is up to you.

Don't focus too much on completing the Album, the Reward cards are good but they are usually not worth trading in your white coins for unless you're absolutely close to completion.

Start doing Shadowland, Empire, and Muspelheim as soon as you can.

Shadowlands generally takes a Solid A to Low S Rank Deck to defeat the Extra bosses but Seasonal bosses can be defeated with a Solid B rank to A Rank deck.

Empire A Rank can be completed with pretty much any B rank Deck but you should always try to at least go for Empire B which requires a Solid B to low A rank deck to complete. Empire C requires an A rank to S rank deck to consistently complete.

It can be easy to be intimidated starting out the game and jumping into Muspelheim but any B rank deck, and sometimes even a Solid C can finish it. As long as you have a plan and a decently constructed deck.

Exchange your resource for whatever you want, generally speaking early game you can go get purple coins to quickly build up a solid deck. Then start slowly exchanging for Special Tickets to build up a stockpile for an event or episode you want.

If you're looking to enhance a DR you really like, exchanging your resources for Rico stones over Coins is much more efficient (6000 : 8000 coins).

You can not use Rico stones on Empire Cards they can only be enhanced using duplicates.

Running Shadowlands is the most efficient way of Grinding for Special Tickets, but the most F2P method is to play PvP Ranked (takes forever manually though).

You should always be running PvP Ranked over Normal Ranked as PvP ranked has no downsides and will reward you with points to use in the shop, and they still count towards your dailies.

As far as I know the Rift kind of sucks. The cards you get from exchanging them are good but not worth planning out for considering how little they give you. You should still do them but should do them at your own convenience.

COINS, PLAYMAT, and CARD SLEEVES are all customized in the Deck Screen Individually!