NOTE: Use this spreadsheet that has ALL info on the available gems in the permanent Reminiscence stages, all story stages, all training stages and all non-event Battle roads!!

Rerolling is optional but gives a major advantage, I assume you will reroll, if you don't, skip the following two paragraphs

Rerolling doesn't require you to delete the game, just delete play data and start from the beginning; the tutorial is skipped when you reroll so it should take 5 or minutes per reroll attempt.

It's suggested to reroll for Erdrick on his own banner (deadline December 21st).

-After you get Erdrick, use 15k gems on Silver Week Banner (deadline December 31st). After this, save your gems for January unless stated otherwise.

-If you started after Erdrick Banner was gone (Dec 21st +) reroll on Silver Week Banner to get Young Terry. If you already have Erdrick, do not reroll of course. Once you get Young Terry, proceed to get the rest of the Silver Week Banner.

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You'll also have earned 1 darklord/hero ticket from doing beginner missions (check the top left of the screen to get this after you clear them all) AND 1 water ring from DQ5 reminiscence that lets you pick a bride for free.

-If you do not have Zoma, get Zoma. If you have Zoma, get Malroth.

-For Bride water circlet selection, if you don't have Bianca, get Bianca, If you have Bianca, get Bianca awakening 1. If you have Bianca awk1, get Debora.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:

-Focus on the FFBE event, do not neglect farming the free Mont (King of Leonis) and Moogle! You need them as high awakening as possible (awk5 / 40 dupes).

The same applies for Chocobo and Ifrit for part 2/part 3 of the FF event respectively.

For info regarding this units have a look at marcosls' event guide

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2. Some helpful Terminology and tips

• For both event and reminiscence token shops, buy stamina herbs first, scout tickets second (this applies to event shops only, since reminiscence don't have any), iridescent orb third, then illustrious irises fourth (you can get these per need), Fragments fifth (like Hero, ??? fragments etc), Rainbow flowers & rainbow twigs sixth (this only applies to very few reminiscences but almost all active events), Gold seventh (the BIG gold amounts only that are usually 1k gold per trade, not the 9999 "pity gold" as those are absolute last), then start getting materials you need for rank ups. You can get rank up materials BEFORE gold if you are at a comfortable level if you wish, just don't neglect them.

• Reminiscence/Remi = Older events that return are permanently available (with their respective token shops). More events are added over time to reminiscence, it takes about 1-1.5 year to add an event to it so don't expect new events to arrive on reminiscence any time soon. The order of events entering reminiscence is decided by the developers choices and NOT by the original timeline event release.

Through JP version's foresight we know the following event will arrive as reminiscence in the future for certain:

Dragon Quest 7 Event

Beast Fest

Trick or Treat Part 2

Christmas Part 2

• Ranking up = increase a unit's max level (biggest limit is rank 8), you'll want to rank 8 erdrick and 4 other units at first and focus on those. Ask here or on q&a for what to prioritize (young terry, diamond slime and dhoulmagus/fallen angel corvus are very very high priority in my opinion). Jamirus is also very high as he synergizes amazingly with Erdrick.

• Awakenings = Dupes. A dupe doesn't allow you to use two same units at once, it strengthens your 1 unit. 1st awakening is the most critical for tons of units, due to it allowing a special passive skill, but do not actively chase them with gems as there is a system that allows you to use 100 "fragments" (from dailies and token shops) to awaken a gacha unit once for free.

Do not ever use these fragments to awaken units that are on General pool (all banners) as you'll get them naturally over time.

• General Pool = units that exist in all banners, hence you don't have to go after them specifically since you'll get them all in time, especially via the weekly tact tickets & the free scout tickets that event shops give.

General Pool S units are:

The only exception to using fragments as stated above so far is Purrvis, if you have blossomed him he is worth awakening to 1 via said fragments if you need his big Zap-type physical damage.

• Battle Roads = a 0-stamina mode that can be done infinitely (can be set to be done automatically 60 times, you just have to have cleared the stage once to set this) that gives EXP to very certain units. USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. You can level up Blindfolded Hammerhood for free for example to its max level (120) while the Summer Holidays event is on only, provided it has the rank to reach it. Try not to put units that have battle roads on your exp leveling teams, just on teams to beat content that might harder to clear.

Reference this spreadsheet by myzekromntu for which units have battle roads and which don't.

• Blossoms = a system that is a counter to powercreep by making older units power up to more current standards. Not all blossoms are made equal so always ask what to prioritize. This system uses the rare Rainbow Blossom Flowers & Twigs + Gold, they can only be found in shops, be farmed once monthly by doing Blossom Door mode (high end content, beginners can clear around floor 10-15 normally, do NOT skip doing this when you unlock it) and be given as gifts on very special occasions.

Erdrick should be your first target to use blossom mats on (character builder)

Zoma should be your next target to fully blossom.

If you have Night Clubber, it should be target number 2 (you can skip his left HP nodes and come back to those after Bianca is done.

Bianca should be done after Night Clubber, but maybe before his HP nodes.

• People often question if free Farmable units are worth raising in this game since you have so many other banner units, and the answer is YES they are VERY MUCH worth it; the A rank and S rank farmables, most times, are worth farming to awakening 5, ranking them up to rank 8, and leveling them up to level 120/130 via the limited-time event's battle road respectively. You might not use them immediately, but there will be instances you'll use them and they are very hard to replace. This applies to all players. If you don't have enough time to do it or if it's too hard, try to aim for awakening 4 to get the heavy element resistances at least.

For more in-depth game mechanics section, you can reference the in game help section (upper right Menu button -> Help, it covers a lot of information!) and Thiago's 101 DQT Guide here

Regarding stamina, especially for new players, you get a lot from "refilling" when your player rank and max stamina rises, so be sure to clear story and to gain the relevant player exp from Feats Missions Tab on the Lower Right. Using 4 daily x40 gem refreshes is not a bad idea when you are crunching content as you get +320 stamina for 160 gems, which enables a ton of content clear from those. The reason Stamina Herbs are high priority on token shops is due to the extra content you can do with those, that help you get even more tokens/progress. For more in-depth info about stamina, you can have a look at lordgeovanni's stamina min-max guide here.

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3. Things to Avoid (SUPER IMPORTANT):

• Do NOT ever, EVER EVER EVER exchange your iridescent orbs for dragon crest orbs, you are throwing your very limited resources to the trash if you do this. Just pretend the Dragon Crest Orb exchange shop doesn't exist, it's absolutely useless for New players.

• Avoid the permanent gold shop in general. As a new user you might want to get a few rank up materials here and there but do so only when you lack materials and have gotten them from token shops that have them first. Do this at a limit and do not go overboard, as 1) it is a gold sink and 2) long-term throughout the months, from doing future x3 rank up campaigns you'll be swimming in these.

• From Tact Points Shop, ONLY GET IMPORTANT BANNERS' SCOUT TICKETS with tact points. Do NOT get exp scrolls and do NOT get the equipment as they are a Scam (you can obtain said equipment for free from doing other content like certain battle roads).

• Avoid overdoing alchemy, it might be a super big gold sink for no return. Reference this spreadsheet made by u/PrinceDavid05 when you alchemize and u/marcosls' pinned Event guides at the time.

• Avoid ranking up absolutely everything at once, focus on things you are gonna use as a beginner first, slowly expanding & widening your box.

• Do not rank up your S units to Rank 5 and leave them, you should either go to rank 3/4 (for master ranks for example) or full way to Rank 8 so they can actually be used. If you rank them up to 5/6 and not rank them up more you basically have a unit that cannot be used AND a unit that ate 2 precious iridescent orbs that are very much limited.

And that's all for now!

Thanks to everyone on this Reddit and on the people of Discord for helping, making all these amazing tools and for making the community a better place, if you have any questions & suggestions go ahead!

And last but not least, have fun!