Beginner's guide

Day 1

 * Read this entire page.
 * Progress in the story mode (world) until Grandshelt Catacombs to obtain tickets and Lapis.
 * Reroll if you want to, otherwise use tickets or multi summons ( or 10+1 ticket) to obtain several units.
 * Level up those units in the enhance vortex: Chamber of Experience (energy free until rank 15), or Cactuar Dunes which is open every weekend. Metal cactuars are fused to units to give them experience.
 * Once you have leveled enough, stop doing the enhance vortex and do any available events, but only if it's an exchange event.
 * An exchange event is an event stage that rewards special event currency upon completion. This currency can be spent on useful items, such as awakening materials or equipment.
 * If a raid event is ongoing, you can do that in tandem with enhance vortex.
 * Complete several rookie quests to obtain a lot of resources.
 * Learn how the account system works.

Week 1-2

 * Continue doing raid or exchange events to awaken your units and level them up further.
 * Increase friend slots and befriend powerful units. Use the help of community forums.
 * Continue with the story and obtain more espers and early equipment.
 * Finish the rest of rookie quests.
 * Finish easy trials for equipment. Use powerful friend unit to help.
 * Start doing easy, low rank expeditions, but only use units you can spare.

Future Plan

 * Finish any new event released.
 * Finish story season 1 to obtain Trust Moogle (ALL 100%) and lots of Lapis along the way.
 * Level up and awaken your esper. Raid event will help with magicites.
 * Finish more trials.
 * Start expanding your roster and summon more units.
 * Finish achievement trophies for Lapis and ring recipes.
 * Awaken abilities when they are game changing for your party.

Reroll

 * See also: Unit List, Unit Rankings, How to reroll

If you are just starting out, decide whether you want to reroll for good units or not. Rerolling is the process of resetting the game over and over in hopes of getting good or favorable units from the limited summons you get early in game. While it's not necessary to enjoy most of the game with random units, you may get more enjoyment from doing harder content with stronger units, or maybe you just want to steamroll your enemies. See how to reroll.

Lapis & Tickets
Lapis and tickets are the backbone of the game's ecosystem. They are primarily used to summon units. Units are what the players live and die for. And so it is unwise to waste Lapis and tickets without the knowledge of them. While both can be used to summon units, Lapis has a much greater use in the game, and is the game's premium currency that can be purchased with real money.

Summoning Strategy
The game divides the unit pool in two: Rare units and standard units. Rare units can be summoned from various banners, such as featured summon, daily summon, and others. Standard units are considered free units that are not useful for any challenging battles.


 * Base rarity: The lowest rarity of a unit. Summoned unit starts at the lowest rarity. Generally, a higher base means rarer and stronger unit.
 * Max rarity: The maximum rarity a unit can be awakened to. Currently, or  is the maximum for certain units. Any unit that cannot be awakened to  is generally not useful baring some exception.

Short breakdown of the summon rate of rare units:

It's generally advised to summon for a good or higher unit. If reasonable, try to aim for two of a single or higher unit to gain access his/her  form, which is most likely if summoning on a featured banner.

If you are free-to-play, consider completing a featured banner step-up, as there are usually guaranteed summons or exchanges. However, as much of the value is in being able to complete the step-up's, if you are unable to, you may be better off doing the daily summons. The summon is not recommended.

In the beginning, whether you plan to reroll or not, you should at least summon some units, either with tickets or multi summon. It helps you fill the party with decent units to start with; if you are lucky, you might get a strong unit right away.

Other use of Lapis

 * Upgrading your slot (units, equipment, materials, etc) is very important and low risk. Upgrade them whenever you are full, but still be mindful and fuse or sell off unnecessary units or items.
 * Do not fuse good units or units with high value TMR.
 * Gil Snappers' only purpose is to be sold for Gil.
 * Metal Cactuars can be fused to other units to increase experience.
 * Using Lapis to refresh your energy will vary depending on your rank. If you have low rank, it's better to buy the energy bundle instead, which gives 120 energy for.
 * Using Lapis to revive is not recommended, as you can simply retry the battle.
 * Premium bundles that cost Lapis are generally not recommended to buy, especially expensive ones that cost with awakening materials and metal cactuars inside.
 * Occasionally there are bundles containing a Rare Summon Ticket and other goodies. The value of the ticket is debatable. However, since a daily summon costs you, it's worth that much at least. You might find the ability to summon more on a good banner without being limited to once per day to also be important.

Sources of Lapis

 * Completing all of story and missions will give you over.
 * Season 1:
 * Season 2:
 * (Renewable) If you were to login daily and complete updated contents, you will obtain around per month.


 * When you get a pop-up asking you to give a rating and review to the game, click them to get . You don't have to actually rate them to get it. It'll be sent to your inbox. You can only get this reward once.
 * Daily Login Rewards gives you a varied amount of Lapis every month. Simply login every day to obtain the reward.
 * You will get every rank up.
 * Finishing 7 daily quests every day earn you . On weekends, you can do 5 more daily quests for an extra.
 * Participating in 5 Arena matches daily will reward you, whether you win or lose.
 * Finishing a whole dungeon in the story mode will reward you . Completing their mission will also reward you with Lapis. Advancing through story, finishing missions as you go along, will give you tons of Lapis.
 * Attaining the gold trophy will earn you each.
 * Reaching a certain Expedition milestone will earn you per week.
 * Spinning the Rewards Wheel up to 7 times may earn you up to per spin, plus an additional  after every 50 spins.

Sources of Tickets

 * Events will give out tons of tickets, especially the exchange events.
 * Reaching a certain Expedition milestone will earn you 1 ticket per week.
 * Reaching a certain limited-event milestone will earn you 2 guaranteed tickets.
 * Reaching a certain limited-event milestone may earn you 5★ Select Summon Ticket.
 * Campaign and promotion for tickets are pretty frequent.

Content Breakdown
The game might feel overwhelming to a new player given that it has been updated with so much content, as well as time-limited events. Unlike console games, content in this game requires energy to do, which refills gradually. You can only play so much in a day. Let us break down the content so we can determine which content you should do or prioritize.

World

 * Main articles: World Map, Towns & Quests, Dungeons, Explorations

Whenever you are exploring a new town or an exploration map, check towns and explorations pages to obtain all of their hidden items and quests. While it might be fun to discover them yourselves, it's very difficult to keep track of them, and some of them are really hard to find. Many quests require you to defeat monsters in subsequent dungeons, so save your energy by accepting all quests beforehand.

Espers can be found throughout the world. Aside from Siren, the rest of them are located in hidden optional dungeons. Esper can be equipped to a party, giving you stats boost and abilities.

Events

 * Main article: Events

Events can be found by clicking on Vortex. There are several types of events, each with a different system and different kinds of rewards. Event types aren't usually marked in-game, only story and raid events do. Some events, usually holiday events, are unique and differ from the rest.

Raid event and exchange event are good for beginners. They can give you a lot resources you need to strengthen your party. Since events are time-limited, make sure to farm them as much as you can.

Raid event
Raid dungeons use Raid orbs, similar to Arena orbs, instead of energy. They refresh once per hour, up to 5 orbs max. Ranking up or using Lapis refresh will fill up your orbs to full.

Raid event is extremely good for beginners as they can be done without wasting their energy. Coins from raid can be used to summon Metal Cactuar (EXP), Gil Snapper (Gil), Magicites (Esper EXP), and other event only unit/rewards.

Exchange event
By farming the event dungeons, you will obtain a unique currency that can be traded with King Mog/Mog Minister for various rewards: Metal Cactuar (EXP), summon tickets, consumables, awakening materials, exclusive event items, etc.

Exchange event is another good event for beginners, since it has most resources you need. Higher difficulty will yield higher currency per energy. To increase the amount of currency, you can use bonus units, including your friend's unit, in your party. A new summon banner is always introduced during the event that contains new units for bonus, it might be a good idea to summon several units.

Story event
Story events contain dungeons with increasingly high difficulty and energy requirements. These dungeons include story heavy elements.

Story events reward you with ability awakening materials, and various other rewards. The later dungeons might be too difficult for beginners to do. Unlike raid and exchange event, you don't usually farm this kind of event unless you want to farm for ability awakening materials.

Challenge event
Challenge events are usually introduced as a second week event complement to raid or exchange event i.e. If a raid/exchange event lasts 14 days, this second event will be introduced after 7 days.

As the name implies challenge events are mostly difficult boss battles. As beginners you may not be able to clear this for a while.

Exploration event
Just like challenge event, exploration events are usually introduced as a second week event complement to raid or exchange event.

However, unlike challenge event, exploration events are easier and they are introduced in several difficulty stages.

Enhance Vortex

 * Main article: Category:Enhance

You will unlock the vortex very early in the story. It can be accessed from the home menu. The enhance vortex is a special dungeon with multiple chambers. One chamber can be unlocked for free per day, while the rest can be opened with each. It's generally not a good idea to use your Lapis for these unlocks.

When you unlock one or more vortex, it will show the timer to indicate when will the vortex be locked. The timer itself doesn't start when you unlock it. Instead, every vortex will be locked at 00:00 PST.


 * Chamber of Gems: Drops Ability Awakening Crysts. Only useful if you need to awaken a unit's abilities, which should be a last priority. Considered to be an end game goal.
 * Chamber of Creation: Drops crafting materials. Not recommended. It's better to head to the material list, find the one you need, and look for the monsters that drop it.
 * Chamber of Awakening: Drops awakening materials used to increase the rarity of the units. If you are looking for Sacred Crystal then INT is your best bet, while Holy Crystal drops more on ADV. Otherwise use the material list to find specific material drops.
 * Chamber of Experience: Gives large unit experience. The amount of experience is generally much larger than the one found in the story dungeons. Recommended to use for leveling your unit. Better rates of experience are given by events, participation in raids, or Mog King farming events, but are generally limited in Metal Gigantuars given, or limited time. Cactuar Dunes gives better net experience when it's open.
 * Chamber of Riches: Gives you Gil. Not recommended. With a source of Gil Farmer on ELT, can be earned.

Trials

 * See also: Chamber of the Fallen, Chamber of the Reborn, Chamber of Arms

Arena & Colosseum

 * Main article: Arena, Colosseum

Expedition

 * Main article: Expedition

Rookie Quests

 * Main article: Rookie Quests

Trophies

 * See also: Trophies, Trophy Guide

Hero's Ring is an accessory that increases your ATK and MAG by 10%, which is very useful for new players. It's also used as material to craft stronger rings like Monarch's Ring, Domination Ring, Ruler's Ring, and Ring of Dominion.

Hero's Ring can be crafted using a recipe rewarded from completing 30 trophies. Most of these trophies can be completed through normal play in just over 2 weeks, as long as you keep in mind some of the requirements, whereas some you have to grind more for. See Trophy Guide for the full guide.

Power Creep
Power creep is a process that often occurs in games where new content (in this case units) slowly outpace the power of previous alternatives. This leads to players abandoning previous options in favor of pursuing the latest and more powerful alternatives, resulting in an inevitable increase in power throughout the game. As more, stronger units are released, older content will not seem as difficult due to the power level difference from whence the content was released to what was available at that time. As the game's life cycle continues on, newer content will be released to challenge what units are currently available.

Leveling up

 * Cactuar Dunes
 * Chamber of Experience

Money
Later you will find that you need more gil for things like Expeditions or Ability Awakenings. By this point, you should have many of the common materials from completing the game normally, and can just sell off stacks of them to gain a large amount of gil. This, combined with events that give you many Gil Snappers, will allow you to have more gil than you'll know what to do with.

Weapons
The first thing you need to get is a from Rookie Quests if you haven't already.

Accessory

 * Start by gathering equipment from towns, quests, explorations, and events (King Mog, Raids, etc.) to help establish an arsenal.
 * Tackle trial bosses as soon as you are ready; they often provide mid to high tier gear as completion rewards. Check out boss guides to get an idea of where you are compared to the power needed to defeat a specific boss.

Mission

 * Main article: Mission

Trust Master Rewards

 * Main article: Trust Master Reward

Advice

 * Don't over-invest into poor quality units at the start. Main character units like Rain or Lasswell under-perform when compared to other base units. Do a little research into the units you initially summon, and invest into those instead. See Rankings.
 * Don't play the story mode straight through. Your units won't level up appropriate to the benchmarks in the story. It's better to level up first in the vortex or from events. This will make the story much easier to play through.
 * Don't waste your Lapis; use Lapis very sparingly. Spending your Lapis on inventory upgrade will be necessary, but make sure to free up slots first if you can manage.
 * However, don't sell units unless you are sure you won't use the unit or obtain their TMR. Sometimes even a worthless unit has a good TMR.
 * Always do arena and daily quests every day. The amount of Lapis and bonus you get from them will add up over time.
 * Not making friends is a critical mistake a lot of beginners make. As you play you'll have the option to ask friend units to temporarily join your party for missions and quests. Start developing an eye for potential friends with powerful unit you can put onto your friend's list. A high-powered friend at early levels can easily carry your group through a tough fight; also, a friend may have a duplicate unit as the one you have, allowing you to synergize abilities or chain attacks without you having to own two of the same unit.
 * Don't chase after base unit without also accepting the risk! They are designed to be very attractive, and usually nostalgic, but the chance to summon them without spending a good amount of your resource or money is low.
 * Don't ignore great base units. They are summoned more frequently and can be the building blocks of amazing teams. Units like Ashe, Amelia, Warrior of Light, etc. have a lot going for them in the main game or in the Arena, especially before you start getting  base units. A good  base unit that can become a  max unit can potentially be as powerful or as useful as a  base unit depending on the condition of the fight.
 * Keep expanding your roster and leveling up more units. Don't just focus on a select few units after you max them.
 * Take note of your rank up timing. Ranking up gives you 100 Lapis, restores your energy by your max energy (e.g. 50/99 -> 150/100), refreshes arena, raid, and weapon enhancement event if raid event and/or weapon enhancement event is up. You should use up all of your orbs first before you rank up.
 * Join FFBE Global communities like Facebook and Reddit to get a feel for the game, its endgame, and a sense of the community playing it. Ask for help and advice to get quick responses.