FAQ

How Can I Play This Game?
It is officially available on Apple's App Store for iOS and Google's Play Store for Android. If the official sources are unavailable in your region, the Android version can also be downloaded from QooApp.

If you want to play the game on your desktop PC instead of a phone, BlueStacks is the only emulator known to work. Note that you must use BlueStacks 4.170 or later. The game will crash upon being launched on all earlier versions.

Who Are the Best Characters?
In general, rarity makes a big difference. Outside of situations where specific abilities are important, any 3★ character will be better than any 2★ character, and any 2★ character will be better than any 1★ character. It's easy to upgrade a 1★ character to 2★, but upgrading to 3★ takes quite a bit more materials. Elemental advantages also make a big difference; if you're having difficulty on a stage, try to make sure that as many of your attackers have an advantage as you can.

If you play through the story battles up to Zone 5 or so, it's easy to get Akuta and Minagi up to 3★, so they're good starter characters. Akuta's auto-revive skill means he has a huge HP pool, and Minagi's trait that heals others around her when she takes damage is useful. Her chain also heals targets around her but hurts her, so it's conditionally useful. (If you want to use Minagi for healing, unlock her 3rd stage chain attack ASAP so she can heal herself as well, wait for it to be ready before using her chain unless you're OK with her dying, and do not use Auto mode - it will never continue chain attacks past the 1st stage.) For more opinions on which characters should be your priority, consult the Tier List.

How Do I Improve My Characters?
Characters can be made stronger in several different ways:

Levels
Characters level up by participating in combat or by using XP books on them. Character levels are capped at your current player level.

Trait Levels
Traits give passive bonuses that depend on the character. You can spend skill points to increase these, and their level is capped based on the character's Pact level.

Chain Attack Levels
Like Trait levels, you spend skill points to increase these, and they are capped based on the character's Pact level. A character has to reach Pact 5 to unlock the third stage of their chain.

Ascension
Ascending a character increases their rarity (or star level). This provides a significant boost to all of their stats, and a character must have a star level of 3* in order to increase their Pact level to 5 or higher. You spend magatamas to Ascend a character; every character has character-specific magatamas, which you can acquire from increasing their Pact level or buying them from the shop, and also generic magatamas, which acquired by getting duplicates in the gacha, can be used to Ascend any character.

Pact Level
Increasing a character's Pact level increases all of their stats. Increasing it to level 5 also unlocks the third stage of their chain attack and changes their artwork. Pact levels are increased by using upgrade items such as origami cranes; you get them from completing stages, doing expeditions, buying them from the shop, and completing character missions. Despite the many ways of acquiring them, increasing Pact levels requires a lot of them, so spend them wisely. You must read through Chapter 1 of the story before you can increase Pact levels.

How Do I Win Battles?
Battles are 80% about bringing strong characters, 10% about bringing the right strong characters, and 10% about using the right chain attacks at the right time. In general, bring your highest ★ characters with the highest combat power (these two things should usually match, but if they don't, give your high-★ characters more love,) try to take advantage of Elements when possible, and don't use AUTO Mode.

Make sure you have Mirage Mirrors equipped on every character. ★ rating corresponds to strength for mirrors even more strongly than it does for characters; unfortunately, unlike characters, mirrors cannot be ascended to a higher ★ rating. However, some common mirrors, like Cold Eyes, have potentially useful abilities, so do your research. For characters aside from your tank and healer, consider choosing those mirrors that can grant the highest attack bonuses (the mirror list shows this as "HP:ATK Ratio", with "40:60" being the strongest, but rare.) The best defense is a good offense.

Wait for 2-3 bars of Zeal to charge before chain attacking when possible, and use chain attacks wisely. If your characters are low on HP you might want to choose Benawi or Minagi's chain attack to rescue them, while if no one is in danger you can incinerate the enemy with Maroro or try to take down a specific enemy with Karulau. Continue chain attacks to their 2nd or 3rd stages when possible; it's more potent than using multiple 1st stage chain attacks.

See the Combat Mechanics page for detailed information on the combat system.

Should I Spend Gems on the Gacha Right Now?
If you're starting the game, you need to roll until you at least have a full team that you're comfortable with. After that, wait until the next Descendance Gacha and spent the rest of your gems on that. Not only do you have a significantly higher chance of getting rare characters and mirrors from it, you may be lucky enough to get Eruruu, who is a fantastic healer without which some stages are nearly impossible.

Oboro is in the gacha now, but the 3* rate in monthly banners such as Oboro's is standard, which means your chance of getting any 3* right now is not any better than the normal gacha. If you're trying to get anybody except him, wait until the next time there's a gacha with increased rates (currently only the Descendance Gacha is higher.)

But I Really Want Oboro, Should I Spend Gems?
The answer is MAYBE, but not until you've bought all of the tickets in the event shop, and you should exchange gems for stamina until you've gotten them all.

The first thing you should do is complete the story of the event and get Yuzuha. Put her in your party, then grind the Very Hard event stage until you have 5000 points and can afford to buy the The Bells Connect mirror.

With both Yuzuha and that mirror in your party, you will get 63 tickets every time you clear Very Hard. You can buy tickets for the event gacha in the store for 500 points, and it costs 19 stamina every time you run the stage. If you do the math, that means it costs approximately 150 gems to buy enough stamina for an event ticket, which is a much better deal than spending 300 gems on a single pull. Even if you can only clear Hard, this math still works out in your favor.

If you already have Oboro, or unless you're really worried about him being unavailable after 3/15, I would still wait until then to spend any gems or energy potions. It is likely that new stages will unlock on that date, and it will probably have a better return rate for event points, so you'll get better returns by saving up until then.

Should I Reroll?
If you've been playing since launch, you probably already know this, but don't reroll, especially if you have any of the limited characters or mirrors (Emushiri in particular is one of the very best characters in the game.) There's no telling if or when they will be available again.

If you're just starting, I would recommend rerolling until you have at least one or two 3* characters. In particular, Uruuru & Saraana make a lot of fights much easier, but if you don't have the patience to try to get one specific character, any of the 3*'s are good.

How Do I Reroll?
The game gives you a free 10-pull when you start, but this 10-pull is guaranteed to not give you any 3* characters. If you're trying to get 3* characters, you should play through the first few stages until you have enough gems to do another 10-pull, then do it and see who you get. If you don't get anybody you want, uninstall the game, then reinstall and try again.

Are There Any Guarantees for the 10-Pull Gacha?
No. You are not guaranteed anything and could easily end up with ten 1* mirrors.

For this reason, I recommend pulling one at a time so that you can stop immediately if you get the character or mirror you want.

UPDATE: As of October 2020, all Multi Draws guarantee at least one 2* item. Including your first pull on each limited time banner being 1500 Paid Gems.

How Do I Get More Origami Cranes?
You may also see these items referred to as "1★ Pact Prices" which is their formal name.

The easiest way to get most kinds is through leveling up characters of that element. Every character has character-specific missions that will drop cranes of their element every 5 levels. Unfortunately, that doesn't work so well for the rarer elements; only Akuta and Akuta (Black-Masked Heroine) are neutral, Cocopo (Dressed Up), Ulthury, Fumirul, Eruruu (Blazing Sand Protector) and Minagi (Midsummer Gunner) are light, and only Minagi, Mutsumi, Camyu, Uruuru & Saraana and Uruuru and Saraana (Moonlit Mystical Swords) are dark.

Other ways to get them include:
 * Expeditions usually drop four or five at a time if you get a big success
 * They will randomly show up in the zen (gold coin) shop; if one does appear, you can purchase two of them for 2,000 zen each
 * You can purchase them using the silver points you get from expeditions for 900 points each
 * You can purchase them using event points when there is an event running; however, event shops are usually missing an element or two entirely, and you'll have more important things to spend event points on.

The expedition shop is the most reliable way to get them, so get ready to grind.

How Do I Get More Pact Items That Aren't Cranes, Pearls or Cherry Blossoms?
You may also see these items referred to as "2★ Pact Prices" which is their formal name. The various types are Blood (an white owl-like statue), Meat (a round bun on a red stand), Hair (a comb), Skin (a set of tan cards), and Bone (a bowl with a white cone inside).


 * You can get a few from advanced character missions after using a character many times.
 * Rare expeditions may drop a few if you get a big success.
 * They will randomly show up in the zen (gold coin) shop less commonly than cranes; if one does appear, you can purchase one of them for 30,000 zen
 * You can purchase them using the silver points you get from expeditions for 5000 points each.
 * You can purchase them using event points when there is an event running; however, you'll have more important things to spend event points on.

Like cranes, the expedition shop is the most reliable way to get them, so get ready to grind even more.

How Do I Get More Pearls/Cherry Blossoms?
You may also see these items referred to as "3★ Pact Prices" which is their formal name.


 * Wait for an event to start and buy them from the event shop. Typically one of each type is available. This is the most reliable method.
 * Complete as much of the story as you can. You'll get a couple from one-time missions along the way.
 * Get characters to level 45 and you'll get one from their character missions.
 * Do 3★ expeditions. These have a mindblowing 0.156% chance of rewarding one of these items. Only certain expeditions can drop certain types, but with those rates, you're basically hoping for a miracle anyway.

How Do I Get More of the Wooden Expedition Plaques?
They are very rarely dropped from battles, but the more reliable way of getting them is by completing the XP / skill point / zen daily missions. For every three missions you complete, you'll get one plaque.

Rare (2★ and 3★) plaques are best acquired by repeatedly running the map Hard 4-1. This map, as well as all Hard maps following it, has a 5% drop chance for both 2★ and 3★ plaques. However, you may consider running Hard 5-3 instead if you want Pact Prices or XP mirrors too; this map has a higher drop chance for these items.

Hard maps starting at 6-1 have an even higher chance of XP mirrors but drop only only two specific kinds of Pact Price (Meat and Water for area 6, Hair and Wind for area 7, Skin and Earth for area 8.)

What Should I Spend Money On?
Top priority is always buying stamina potions. There are three types of potions -- small, medium, and large -- and which ones are available in your store are random, but you should always buy all of them.

Sometimes you'll see a Soul for sale, one for 20,000 zen. It seems expensive for just one, but buy it. Souls are rare and you'll need a lot of them to ascend characters.

You'll also sometimes see 1★ Pact Prices (origami cranes.) I always recommend buying these if they're neutral, light, or dark, but whether the others are worth it to you will depend on how many characters you have of that element. Rarer character upgrade items are also always worth it.

Other items are a toss-up. You'll get plenty of XP books through doing daily missions; the hourglasses that decrease expedition time are rarely useful; battle skip tickets are useful but are plentiful from other sources. If you have more money than you know what to do with, which is easy if you always do the zen daily missions, you can buy a shop reset for 100,000 and get more stamina potions.