Beginner Guide

# A Beginner's Guide to Sengoku: Yokai

## Overview

Here are some tips to get you started if you're new to Sengoku: Yokai.

### Equipment

As a beginner, you start off with 20,000 gold. You may use this to purchase the beginner's equipment set found in the Square at the starting city, Kanazawa. This will complete one of your first set of quests. For better equipment, you will need to craft them or loot them from enemies. Currently, there is a limit in place on getting loot from higher leveled enemies, and they will not drop loot if you're over 5 levels below them.

You may find or craft equips that are better than the other as well, and noted with different colors.

Item Rarity
 Blue | Magic
 Orange | Rare
 Purple | Unique
 For rarity and drop rate, 100% means 10000 drop/rarity rare points.

#### Finding the Locations page

On mobile, tap the three horizontal bars on the top right from the Homepage (after logging in), and tap Square. On a desktop website, you can find Kanazawa - Square on the middle left scrollable menu, right under the red health circle.

Screenshot of Desktop UIScreenshot of Mobile UI

### Leveling Up

From the Location menu, press the Map and then tap the next town, Shinrin. There you'll find several enemies in the Forest, starting with Baisho up to Tsuge Genichi. Upon death, enemies will drop gold, keys (for unlocking equipment for the marketplace), higher level equipment or materials for crafting later on. They can be collected in the Loot bag.

### Quests

Every day, you'll receive 10 (15 for VIP) quests asking you to kill specific enemies or talk to NPCs. Each quest gives a significant amount of gold and exp for the Season, so it is highly recommended to complete them before the daily quest reset.

### Attribute Points

In your first life, aside from adding a few points in endurance and will, you can hold off deciding on which build you want to go for until you receive a weapon drop you like. Weapon damage scales with a specific attributes, along with attack power (gained from Strength), and can affect how fast or slow you clear enemies.

Players have chosen a balance of weapon's/ability's scaling attribute, Endurance (HP), and Will (Energy) as a somewhat safe option, while others have chosen to go all in on a weapon's/ability's scaling attribute. It is player preference, and due to the nature of the game, any setbacks made can be corrected in the next reincarnation.

### Yokai

On a player's first life, it's ideal for players to make a pact with a useful Yokai with light expertise point requirements such as Buruburu, who only requires 13 EP points to contract. You will want to read the Yokai page and consider your options and preferred playstyle. Although levels 1-15 goes by quite fast, leveling does slow down significantly that any high EP required Yokai is difficult to achieve, especially with no skills outside a default attack. You can currently only contract one Yokai per life.

##### Finding the Yokai page

You can locate the Yokai page by tapping your character image to go to Character Overview, and then selecting "Yokai". You may also want to read through all the Yokai abilities and see what type of build you'd like to play.

##### Recommendations

* Buruburu (2 single target intelligence-based attacks)
* Tenko (Wisdom-based Heals)
* Ogama (only 11 EP)
* Zashiki-warashi (energy-recovery skills, in preparation to be paired with other yokai for the future)

Note: The first iteration of auto-battle will not use your combat skills intelligently, so certain utility skills such as healing and taunting may not be utilized efficiently.

### Expertise Points

Players receive 1 Expertise Point every level. Expertise points should initially go towards a chosen Yokai's expertise point requirements, and then used on any expertise of the player's preferred attributes.

### Reincarnation

On your first life, reincarnation is available at any time. After the first reincarnation, a 3 day reincarnation cooldown will start. The timer can be reset with premium currency.

Your Yokai pact, attribute points, expertise points and level will be reset. Gold, equipment/inventory, premium currency, and some abilities will remain. Depending your total level (although levels are reset, the total levels a player has gained is kept track), you may keep a certain amount of abilities, gain a few extra attribution and expertise points for your next reincarnation, and continue playing once again.

It is important to note that abilities that you chose **not to keep** will be lost entirely and reset back to level 1.

### Season Details

Players may gain Season XP from quests and other activities to receive rewards, such as gold, materials, and limited edition Yokai.