User blog:Kitttn/Useful Tips for Beginners

We have almost everything in the wiki, but it's easy to miss some vital infos when you're eager to play the game and only skim over our wiki pages. Here are some tips for general playing that I think would be useful to keep in mind for beginners and young Saniwa.


 * 1) Always lock your swords
 * 2) * To prevent accidental dismantling, remember to always lock the swords you want to level or keep around so that they will not appear in the dismantling or refining material tab. For instruction on how to lock a sword, go here.
 * 3) Make sure your swords are equipped with Troops before sending them to Front Lines
 * 4) * Sending your team to Front Lines without troops is like sending them out without armor to shield themselves from attacks.
 * 5) Check and clean your inbox regularly
 * 6) * The game will only show the most recent 100 pages of items in your inbox, make sure to clean them up regularly by dismantling extra swords or you might miss the rewards or rare swords nested in your inbox due to the 30 days expiry.
 * 7) Repair your swords when they're in Severe/Medium injury
 * 8) * I found that it's always better to wait until they're in Severe/Medium injury to repair and use Help Token if they take longer than 6 hours repair. Otherwise you can leave them overnight to save up Help Tokens.
 * 9) Refine your swords only when they reach Toku
 * 10) * It is always better to wait until the swords reach Toku to refine them as their stats will reset and replaced by Toku stats. Take note that this doesn’t apply to Higekiri and Hizamaru.
 * 11) Upgrade your sword's Survival (HP) and Scouting  in Internal Affairs
 * 12) * Having a sword with higher HP is always an advantage in battle, but you can only upgrade your sword's Survival and Scouting point through Internal Affairs's fieldwork. Make sure to start sending them to fieldwork once they've reached Toku!
 * 13) Make sure your swords are in Sakura Fubuki status
 * 14) * You get 20% stats boost when they are in Sakura Fubuki status, and that boost will help you a lot in Front Lines. Read more about how Fatigue works in Fatigue page.
 * 15) * The easiest way to get your sword to Sakura Fubuki status is by running Front Line map 1-1 repeatedly.
 * 16) Rotate your swords in the Team Leader/Captain position
 * 17) * Team Leader position gets EXP and Fatigue bonus more than others. Make sure to keep MVP hogger sword types like Ootachi or Naginata away from Captain position unless you want them to level up faster than others.
 * 18) Keep track on your sword's Fatigue using Touken Ranbu Helper (PC version of Chrome browser only)
 * 19) * Sending team of swords with over 94 Sakura Fubuki (everyone in the team) to Expeditions will guarantee them to return with Great Success where you get extra resources and tokens/koban. Take note that this trick might not work everytime for expeditions less than 2hours.
 * 20) Send teams with minimum swords to expeditions
 * 21) * To minimize Fatigue loss in your swords, send expedition team consisted of sword(s) that passes the minimum requirement.
 * 22) *Example: B1 Expedition requires a group of level 50 or more with any sword type. You can send a team consisted of just a Lv.51 sword, or a team consisted of Lv20 and Lv31 swords.
 * 23) Do PvP for extra EXP without troop lost or sword repair
 * 24) * All PvP practice runs will give you some EXP depending on your battle results. If you prefer to keep your PvP Battle Records with high %, skip the last PvP slot as it is usually occupied by a high level player.
 * 25) * Occasionally some players will leave just a sword in the Main Party before they go offline for others to complete the PvP mission as an act of kindness. Pay it forward by being kind to other players too! :)
 * 26) Complete as many Daily Missions as possible
 * 27) * These missions give free resources daily and most of them can be easily cleared daily, eg. daily smithing, troops creating, and sorties. For more details, check the Missions page.

Please look forward to more tips about events for beginners and young Saniwa too! If you have any questions or suggestions/tips you think I've missed out, feel free to comment in this blogpost. Thank you for reading and enjoy your time in this game! o/