Beginner Guide

Welcome to Alchemia Story!

**<This page is still a work in progress. If you have any questions about something that isn't included here, please refer to other guides for questions and more updated walkthrough!>**

If you've never played the game before and are interested on starting your own adventure, then you've come to the right place: this is a simple guide for beginners, created to help answer whatever questions that might not be explained further in-game.

If you wish to learn more in depth about the basics of the game we also recommend watching video guides as they contain more information than this article. Still, we hope that this can help understand certain mechanics of the game that may have not been clear.

## **Character Creation**

When you first start the game, you can create your own character which can be a male or female. The game has two customization options, easy and detailed. Easy mode allows you to use the default customization options such as S, M, or L for body size; while detail mode allows you to control more specific aspects of customization. Don't worry, you can use both. Don't forget to enter your desired in game name (IGN) at the end of the process (You can change your name later in the game, however it's kind of expensive so it's recommended that you choose a name you truly like).

After entering a few cutscenes, you will find yourself again on the creation page. This time, you get to make your YOME, a partner for your character. The process is the same except you get to choose a voice for your YOME. There are 3 available voices for each gender.

You can re-modify your character and your YOME by using Beauty Room, an in-game item found on the expendable category of the shop.
You get one each for yourself and your YOME when you first start your game, and you can buy it in the SHOP in the top left of the screen

* Beauty Room (Player) - 500 Gems/Philosopher's stones
* Beauty Room (YOME) - 200 Gems/Philosopher's Stones

## **What is a YOME?**

YOME (Your-Own-Mate-Everyday) is your adventuring partner. Other players can't see your YOME and you can't see other player's YOME usually, however you can see someone else's YOME if you follow them into a battle. They represent your character on screen whenever you are involved in a quest scenario. YOMEs follow you everywhere, help you battle, can be enhanced and do other tasks for you. YOME can also be equipped with gears and have their own avatar. When you enter a party / boss battle area, your YOME disappears until you're out of the party. You can give gifts to your YOME to increase your bond and after you give them gifts hearts will float around them to show that they are happy. Keep in mind that gifts disappear ***permanently*** after they are given.

* + YOME does synthesis for you. This will be explained in one of the early quest chapters.
	+ To find the synthesizing menu go to the YOME menu, in this you can find "Synthesis" as one of the available options.
	+ Fun fact: Scenarios in the game suggest that your YOME likes you in a romantic way. This could be fan service or not.
	+ When you equip armor or weapons on your YOME, you won't be able to equip it on your character's gear nor your avatar as it's being used by them.

Unlike your character, YOME doesn't have the sub-gear option (Unless you get a charm and level it up enough to unlock sub-gear slots) so it's recommended to choose your second strongest weapon for your YOME.
YOME doesn't have the luxury of choosing what job they have (However they can unlock some of the benefits with charms!), this means that their level will stay as it is when you change your job. This comes in handy when you change jobs later on after properly leveling your first job because a high level YOME allows easier combat and other useful things.

* + As for YOME skills, all skills are available for your YOME to equip as long as they meet the job and weapon requirements (if there's any). You can choose to focus their skills so that they help you mostly attack, add buffs or do both - it's up to you.

* + In scenarios, your YOME's and Ena's height will be the same no matter how short or tall you make them. Their height only applies outside of cutscenes.

* **Battle Mechanism**

* + In general, battles usually occur in the following way: you run into an enemy, enter the battle scene and choose one from three random skills (out of the six skills chosen on your skillset). After a skill is used it will be swapped with another one that isn't currently on the bar. This allows you to strategically use a skill or hold out from using a skill in order to reach a skill combo. You change your target by selecting "Change Target" or tapping another enemy - this can be used to shorten your attack time since there are instances when your character delays attacks in favor of allowing your YOME to attack first. When you're weak, you're most likely not going to wipe out an enemy by just one hit. Changing target allows you to continuously attack another enemy while your YOME finishes off the injured ones.

* + The game uses real time battling system - so when you're in multi mode, other players can enter your battle and help you battle. The loot will not be reduced if you team up with another player, so it's highly recommended to battle with others against more difficult enemies. You can enter someone else's battle by running into enemies surrounded by two red-orange colored arrows with Xs on them.

* + Beware! When an enemy is about to attack you, there will be a red sign above their head with "Warning" written. You can't dodge but you can use a guard skill or kill it before it attacks you.

**I'm Dead!**

* Calm down. If it was your YOME that died but you survived, your YOME will instantly revive after battle. If your character died, you'll revive at the respawn point you've chosen unless you're in a dungeon which has the option to revive for a number of times (3 times a day). To save a respawn point, simply seek out a priest (you can usually find them in the town church) and select the "Pray" option. You can only have one save point at a time. The good news is that you will not lose anything if you die.

**Can I Battle Another Player?**

* Yes, you can. Seek out a player, open their profile and choose 'duel'.

## **Channel / Mode**

You can change your gaming mode into four modes: solo, multi, bond, or channel. Solo is the only mode that allows you to be the only player in the game, while multi, bond, and channel let you meet other people. Multi lets you meet all other players in your channel, bond lets you meet your bond-mates only, and 'channel' lets you into a customized channel where only people who know the channel number and password can enter.

## **Lotto**

By starting out alone, you already get 3,400 p-stone and 4 armor tickets. The ticket grants you one armor each and you are free to use the stone on a lotto. Some lotto offer guaranteed UR and some don't, so watch out for the guaranteed UR ones. Generally, it's more beneficial to spin the 11 times lotto as it offers one extra spin.

## **Harvesting and Treasure Chests**

To get certain ingredients you can harvest them at certain areas. The drop rate from a harvest is not fixed and you might not get the same item the next time you harvest at the same spot. To harvest, spot a shiny sphere with a diamond shaped light and press 'harvest'. These 'balls' will respawn again after some times.

* If you don't know where to find something it's recommended to do one of the following things:

* + If you don't own the item and it's not for a quest go to a market, find the item and click the purple "?" button.
	+ If you do own the item, go to your inventory, find it and click the purple "?" button.
	+ If the item is required for a quest, click the quest, select the requirements tab, select the item and click the purple "?" button
	+ Or look it up on this wiki if it has a page!

Treasure chests are hidden easter eggs with recipes inside them. An area may have more than one chest, or not at all - to easily spot treasure chests, turn off the MAP DISPLAY on the System > Drawing Setting menu. This trick can also be used to find harvesting spots.

## **Dungeons and Bosses**

There are multiple dungeons available in Alchemia. When you aren't in a party dungeon and you're trying to go near the end, look for the small blue lizards in front of the door. Even after you finish the dungeon (reach 100%) you can't find an exit at the end. So how do you exit the dungeon? There are 3 ways to do it: You suicide on the hand of a strong monster, use Ariadne Doll (dungeon exit item), or trace back your steps by looking for golden / yellow colored arrows. Note that the first method will likely not work if you're too strong for the monsters in the dungeon. The second method the quickest method, however it's quite expensive. You can get these dolls by buying them in the Shop > Trade Shop for gems, by earning them from Daily Quests or crafting them. The third method is the most tiring one. You can't use autorun inside a dungeon and you can't warp to the event area to gain instant access to your starting kingdom. Doing dungeons is a good way to earn EXP and level up, because enemies respawn in a short time and they're not as spread out as the ones on other areas. Party dungeons have bosses which provide large amounts of EXP after being defeated once per day. You can find more information about each boss in the following articles: Toppo (Underground Factory), Salamander (Fire Cave), King Teba (Valley of The Wind), Beninussy (Fire Cave [Abyss])

## **Where to begin leveling up?**

Chances are that if you're reading this article that you might be new and have a weak YOME. That's alright! There are areas where you can easily level up (Keep in mind that these aren't the only ones, they're just recommendations that you might find useful to start).

* Focus on doing main quests and sub-quests, main quests provide a decent amount of EXP, Zell and useful materials which can be helpful with leveling up. This also helps you become familiar with the game area and system.
* Farm on event quests. While you defeat monsters and earn EXP, you also get materials which you can exchange for extremely useful materials for becoming stronger and avatar gear to decorate your character and YOME.
* Dungeons. Beating dungeons can be a great source of EXP as bosses give a large amount of EXP after completion once per day. You can also earn magic coins which you'll find extremely useful later in the game.
* Beating dungeon and area bosses.

Bosses, on the other hand, requires boss tickets and the character's level to be at certain number. They give you way higher exp and a lot more loots, but also more difficult to battle. Find a group of people to battle bosses with and farm-raid them for fast level-up.

## **What should I do if my backpack doesn't have enough space?**

You can do one of multiple things:

* Gift low value unwanted items to your YOME (remember that once you gift them something, you cannot get it back).
* Sell/trade-in items on the market.
* Expand your bag space on the shop (5+ space for 300 Philosopher's Stones/Gems, 50+ for 3000)
* Put unused gear and other items you don't need but might find useful in the future in your storage.

## How do skills work exactly?

How does the Skill Deck work?
A skill deck consists of 6 skills of your choice. When you get into a battle you will be provided with three of them at random. Using one will trigger its cast time followed by its cooldown time. After that you will be provided with your next skill and the cycle goes on. Cast time and cooldown time should be kept in mind while building up a deck according to your role.

### What is Skill Buildup? How do I do it?

Skill buildup means leveling up your skills to be more effective. There are seven types of skills. Fire skills, Water skills, Wind Skills, Earth Skills, Dark Skills, Physical Skills and Support Skills. You can farm them at daily orb dungeons. To find these Orb dungeons, go to the Events tab and select the difficulty. Drops are fixed and they depend on what difficulty you're in: Begginer's dungeon gives Orbs(S). Intermediate dungeon gives Orbs(M) and Orbs(S) (drop rate of Orbs(S) is lower than Orbs(M)). Advanced dungeon gives Orbs(L) and Orbs(M) (drop rate of Orbs(M) is lower than Orbs(L)). It's recommended to change channels to Solo Mode when farming Orbs. You can get special Orbs called Rainbow Orbs as rare drops when defeating a Reami. They are used for maxing out skills.

The maximum level for a skill is 100. Orbs corresponding to the element of the skill are required to level up a skill. Physical and Dark Skills can be leveled up using Orbs Of None. Support/Buff skills cannot be leveled up. When a skill is maxxed out their level will be written in gold. Their damage output depends on your character build mostly.

## Weapons

Theres a large variety of weapons you can unlock and use, you can choose from the following weapons: 1 Hand Sword, 2 Hand Sword, Dagger, 1 Hand Axe, 2 Hand Axe, Staff, Spear, Gloves, Bow, etc.

### Weapon Enhancement

Weapons can be enhanced/leveled up to increase the damage output and reach the damage limit easily. You need enhancement swords to level up your weapon. You can farm them at the daily enhancement dungeons in the events tab. It's recommended to use the beginner and intermediate difficulty for new players as Advanced can be tough if you're not strong enough. Later on in the game you can also put Cores and Runes to further enhance your weapon.

### How can I get UR weapons?

There are multiple methods to do this. Below we will be listing some of them.

* Save up Alchemy stones.
	+ You can get them by completing achievements, daily quests and side quests. Save up 6000 alchemy stones and buy a UR weapon lotto ticket from the shop. Use that ticket to play lotto for a guaranteed UR weapon.
* Complete the weekly quest of battling 70 monsters
	+ After completing this quest, you can get a weapon lotto tix as a reward. If you're lucky you might get an UR weapon. Make sure you open up the free lotto everyday. Dungeon boxes also have a chance of providing you with a UR weapon.
* Save up Philosopher's Stones/Gems.
	+ The most obvious method is saving up Gems and purchasing a Lotto. While this can be expensive and might take a bit, it's a good way to earn UR weapons. It's recommended to do 11x Lottos rather than a single one as 11x Lottos give a free extra Spin with no added cost.

## Bonds

Bonds are similar to guilds. You can join multiple bonds at a time. Bonds can be extremely useful as you find a community you can rely on in the game, if you need any support with beating an enemy you can work together with your bond teammates, and you can also activate temporary boosts in your Bond by donating Bond Fragments.

## Chat Feature

The chatting feature is simple and straightforward. If you are in a bond, you can open your chat and click on the ‘Bond’ section to see messages by your Bond members.Bond messages are colored blue. You can communicate with people in your party by tapping on ‘Party’. There's also a Party category, messages by party members are colored green. It's recommended to return the favour when you're liked. This can help improve how you get along with people.

That's pretty much it, hopefully this guide can be helpful! More things might be added in the future to make this guide more complete.

*Articles that may be useful for learning more about the game:*

* Main Quests
* Fishing
* Dowsing
* Harvesting
* Hidden Treasure Chests
* Bestiary
* Charms
* YOME
* Dungeons: Underground Factory, Fire Cave, Bottomless Coalmine, Valley of the Wind