AP Management

This guide is general advice for mainly beginners and players who have limited AP resources such as Alchemy Drops and Alchemy Droplets to efficiently use AP resources. Those who are planning to build a number of units at once may also find this guide useful since it will drain resources fairly quickly.

AP can be obtained in several ways:

* Time: You gain 1 AP per minute.
* Items: Alchemy Drops, Alchemy Droplets, and other seasonal items. These can be obtained from gifts, shops, friends, or missions.
* Daily milestones: You will obtain AP from these missions as either items or AP directly (i.e. Phantom of the Alchemist daily missions).
* Training milestones: When you raise your player level to a specific number, you will obtain AP directly.

Before you spend AP in farming without suffering from shortage of AP on the next day or week, you should look at your playing pattern. Below is an example:

* Time: You gain

24
×
# 60
1440

{\displaystyle 24\times 60=1440}

 AP from 24 hours. This assumes that you manage to keep using AP without letting it reaches the max AP you can keep.
* Daily milestones: Each day you get AP items from the followings:
	+ Free AP (every 8 hours):

	9
	×
	120
	=
	1080

	{\displaystyle 9\times 120=1080}

	 AP
	+ Free AP (every day):

	10
	×
	120
	=
	1200

	{\displaystyle 10\times 120=1200}

	 AP
	+ Normal quests:

	2
	×
	120
	=
	240

	{\displaystyle 2\times 120=240}

	 AP
	+ Hard quests:

	2
	×
	120
	=
	240

	{\displaystyle 2\times 120=240}

	 AP
	+ Event quests:

	3
	×
	120
	=
	360

	{\displaystyle 3\times 120=360}

	 AP
	+ Friend gifts:

	2
	×
	120
	=
	240

	{\displaystyle 2\times 120=240}

	 AP
	+ Multiplay:

	3
	×
	120
	=
	360

	{\displaystyle 3\times 120=360}

	 AP

Based on these calculation, you will obtain 5,160 AP to spend every day.

Spending AP on a daily basis without running out of AP items is important in a long term since you may suddently need to farm particular units, items, gold bars, or gears in order to complete challenging quests. Let us assume, if you are to farm, say, 5\* unit shards from hard quests, it will cost

32
×
# 3
96

{\displaystyle 32 \times 3 = 96}

AP per unit. With the daily AP that you obtain, you can farm

5160
÷
96
≈
53

{\displaystyle 5160\div 96\approx 53}

 units per day without having to use additional Alchemy Drops and Alchemy Droplets. However, you will not be able to farm them in one go since time-based AP has to be waited, and you have to farm them bit-by-bit throughout the day, which is more of an ideal rather than a practical approach.

Note: During the Phantom of the Alchemist event, there will be daily milestones that give 500 AP. So you should plan ahead how you will use these extra APs and when you should claim the milestones.

A more realistic approach is to replace time-based AP with the max AP at your player level. Let us assume that your player-level AP is 300. Including all AP from the daily milestones will total 4,020 AP. This amount of AP will allow you to farm

4020
÷
96
≈
41

{\displaystyle 4020\div 96\approx 41}

units per day.

The calculation above can be tailored to suit whatever units that you want to farm. You just need to know how much AP costs to farm each shard (i.e. 16 AP for 1\*, 20 AP for 2\*, 24 AP for 3\*, 28 AP for 4\*, and 32 AP for 5\*) and how many times you can farm them (i.e. 1 time per day for EX quests and 3 times for hard quests).

So far the calculation assumes that you do not need to use any item to replenish AP. To further make it more practical, you may also think of two additional scenarios:

* You need to stock up Alchemy Drops: In this case, you should remove each 120 AP out of the daily obtained AP per 1 Alchemy Drops that you want to save. For example, if you want to save 2 Alchemy Drops per day, the total AP that you can spend on that day will be 3,780, which allows you to farm about 39 units per day.
* You want to spend Alchemy Drops: This is the opposite of the previous scenario. In case that you have plenty of Alchemy Drops and you do not mind using them to accelerate the farming rate. For example, you have 198 Alchemy Drops and want to keep only 100 Alchemy Drops (i.e. as a safety stock in case of needs) by the end of this week (i.e. before the reset), then each day you will have to spend 14 Alchemy Drops. Therefore, the total AP that you can spend each day will be

4020
120
×
# 14
5700

{\displaystyle 4020+120\times 14=5700}

, which allows you to farm about 59 units per day.

Please note that these calculations exclude all other events. If you are very tight on AP, you should include all other quests (e.g. daily quests) in the calculation before finding out how many units you can farm daily.

General advice on AP spending in a long term:

* You should not let your AP reach the max AP of your player level otherwise you will not gain time-based AP.
* You should use AP on whatever the bonus in that week. For example, if this week has 2x normal quests, it is better to work on building unit's jobs since you will save AP from farming equipment shards, rather than farming unit shards, unless it is urgent.
* You should create two lists of unit shard farming: one includes units that you need to complete quests and another includes units that you do not urgently need them. Then you prioritise farming the former list first, and when feasible, do the latter.
* You should always farm EX shard quests, and when possible Babel shard quests. This will depend how much AP you can spend daily.
* You should farm only the amount that you immediately need. When you keep playing the game and pulling unit banners, you will gain more shards that way.
* You should pay attention to your player experience. When you are about to level up, you should use up your AP so that it will not be overflown due to the 1000-AP cap.
* Before going to sleep, you should use up your AP so when you wake up, it will be replenished by time.
* You should have a safety stock of AP items in case of emergency.
* When it becomes too complicate to take note on every AP spending, a simplified version is to record the initial amount of Alchemy Drops in your inventory each day right after you log in. You should be able to determine the rate of Alchemy Drops whether it is increasing or decreasing from day to day. Then you can tweak the amount of AP spending. For instance, if that week you are farming unit shards. You currently have 180 Alchemy Drops and still have five more days to go before the reset. Based on the last two days, you determine that you have used 30 Alchemy Drops per day. However, you want to have a safety stock of 100 Alchemy Drops after the reset. As a result, in the next five days you can only use 16 Alchemy Drops per day. In other words, you must cut down the use of Alchemy Drops by 14 per day, which is about

14
×
120
÷
96
≈
18

{\displaystyle 14\times 120\div 96\approx 18}

 units that you should giving up farming.