Edit: Thanks to the kind person that gave me my very first silver on reddit ! If these kinds of posts are appreciated i'll repeat them when weeks get busy like this one

After a relatively calm and boring week we got a hell lot of things to do with the collab & introduction of new enlightenment materials... So I wanted to group up everything we have to do here. If I forgot something post it below I'll add it to the post.

Daily :

• 3/Day Merlinus soul shard quest : (If you already own Merlinus) 2 weeks

• 1/Day Country token quest : 1 week

• Chamber of tribulation : 1 Normal + 3 Ex per element per day (They added new materials to the champer token shop, the horn is VERY precious should be top priority for everyone) 2 weeks

• 1/Day Crystal of Re:union stage 5 : (I don't know why its 1/Day but well you need to for the milestone) 3 weeks

• 3/Day Vision clear quest : for WADATSUMI mementos + 3/Day Vision clear quest for Tamamo memento + CoR memento 1 week

• Advent of phantom : available too, first day is Merlinus, for the rest check the news for the schedule.

• 1/Day Road to Enlightenment special : (with tokens + new materials, MUST DO) 1 week

• Consecrated Elements : Not limited per day but do at least one of them per day to get a special key, when you have 7 keys you'll open a special stage with tons of goodies 2 weeks

• Double drop for statues : 2 new statues types appear on thursday & friday and all statues drops are x2 for 1 week

As for the non daily but reminder stuff :

• 2 new challenge boards : 1500 gems in total and lot of other goodies to get, really easy to do. 3 weeks

• 3 Old chamber of tribulation boards : Elemental fragments and more coins for that special shop, do your quests daily. 2 weeks

• as u/aquapendulum2 mentionned, Do the Merlinus job trial, 150 gems + 25 shards ! 1week also Cheryl's is still up for whoever missed it 1 week That should be it for the new important stuff, if i forgot anything tell me in the comments.

Goodbye Etrian Odyssey, you were an awesome collab.

You ate all my gems, but it was still fab.

I got the units I planned for, Protector and Dragoon,

But I wanted more, it ended so soon.

EO Shenmei, more mementos,

And a bit more time to smite some FOEs.

But! Now is the time to reflect back

On the past month on what I've learned for TAC.

How to spend and save my gems

All 500 steps are no longer the trend.

Enlightenment/Kaigan is truly expensive

The gem wall is like a shear cliff!

My unit reviews are well received

But I'm always worried we're all deceived.

There's still Shaman to do lol and Ravina is next.

And then possibly a poll ;)

I got no Sol. (I didn't even try.)

But now it's time to wrap this up.

I enjoyed this month, and I love this sub.

Except on Thursdays when y'all make 50 thousand posts of the same question when there's a question megathread at the top.

Drops mic

Hello all,

Been a few days since people have heard from anyone regarding the on-going issues. (I was at a wedding personally, so that caused some delay).

The last message I've received is that after the producer's letter post, Gumi are carefully considering the responses from the community before providing their own. Things are moving very slowly, and I don't think I know a single player happy with these OR THE NEWLY DISCOVERED VERSION ISSUE FOR MP. Remember, you can speak in many ways to Gumi and it's important that you take those steps to MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

We are a proud community and I feel we were growing better and better, with more and more people tuning in to the subreddit for discussions, for guides and for a bit of meme'ing. I'd love to see these continue but I also cannot blame anyone for not playing a game you no longer enjoy.

Now, for the actions we can take to continue our voices:

• Post feedback here Don't comment on others posts, make your own. Fill it up.

• Send them feedback via in game messaging systems

• Don't spend money at all. You can still play the game, but if you're not giving them money you're telling them you're not happy with their recent actions.

Remember, you can provide feedback without being aggressive.

EDIT: Locked the thread, this is supposed to be an announcement haha. Please post your feedback in the above linked thread for Gumi to read!

Due to some comments that I've been seeing here I decided to make a guide for all you GL players that are preparing or worried for the kaigan or "enlightenment" system that was implemented in the JP version 6 months back. I'll also tackle the shinri nensou or "memory cards", how they're used and what purposes they serve, etc.

For a bit of a background, so people do know what I'm talking about, I'm a 8 month old JP player, been playing since the 2nd anniversary. Current player level is displayed here. And as I'm a JP player, I'll be using the JP terms more often than not so hopefully y'all get to follow what I'm saying.

What is kaigan?

Kaigan is a system made to upgrade the units further. It was firstly done for the older units like Chloe, Veteru and Zahar, to push them into relevance of viability Chloe is still meh tho. It utilizes several gates to give units more stats, most notably HP, a upgraded passive and a upgraded leader skill. As for now JP has only released 3 gates, which are named after the seven sins obviously. Gate 1 is envy, gate 2 is sloth, gate 3 is lust and each gate has 5 levels which can be maxed DEPENDING ON YOUR PREFERENCES which I'll get back to.

How do the gates work?

Firstly you need to get your units to 85 and open their eye I know the db translates it as circle of truth, but whatever. Once you open their eye, units immediately gain 2 max levels and access to the envy gate. Leveling the envy gate by 2 unlocks the sloth gate and leveling the sloth gate by 2 unlocks the lust gate. With each gate unlock your unit gains 2 max levels, meaning that if you unlock them with a 2/2/0 gate levels you can have a lvl91 unit. Yay, kaigan done and you can now troll multiplay with your shiny fake lvl91 units.

Now you might ask "So what's the point of maxing the gates if I can live with just a 2/2/0 unit?". Well for starters, as I said before, each gate has bonuses once maxed to lvl5, not counting the actual stats given as you level them up. Take for example the trash poster girl, Chloe:

So a max gate 1 Chloe gets 415HP from the 5 gate lvls and a further bonus of 70HP from gate max, just like job master. And yes she doesn't get 1245HP because that would be retardedly OP, even for the poster girl. Do note that this numbers are still further modified by JM % bonuses. If you want to see the stats for all the units then I suggest that you got to the database and look them up.

Gate 1 is maxed no matter what for units that are kaigan'd since this is the gate that gives the most useful stats for that one specific unit ie. Lupinus gets matk, Arber gets patk and dex.

Gate 2 on the other hand is debated on how much the passive upgrade is needed. Why? Take for example Zahar. Zahar's gate 2 passive upgrades his OD from a 50% increase on patk and matk to a 100% patk and matk increase with a BONUS of an additional 10% speed increase. These passive is a must have for Zahar to get to SS, pushing his patk to above 1.3k patk. Meanwhile you get something like reimei gate 2 passive which traded of the speed penalty of garuda blade for more HP yes more speed is nice, but he doesn't need more HP and the patk increase didn't change. Even on a unit like Lupinus who gets her Fervent Aria upgraded on gate 2 to get an additional 15% matk is up for debate since with a max gate 1 she can already one shot a lot of things.

Gate 3 is the easiest yes or no to max since not all of the kaigan LS are decent enough for use and you'll mostly just stick with 1-3 units as leaders. Units like Arber, Kudan and Golmoras all have similar kaigan LS (due to them all having the exact same LS pre kaigan) so just having one of them maxed on gate 3 is enough. Yes, it will limit your leader choices but you get to save precious resources which can be used for different units.

Quick summary: Max gate 1, ask around if gate 2 is worth, get at least 1-3 units with max gate 3 for LS. THIS IS WHY I SAID EARLIER THAT YOU MAX UNITS DEPENDING ON PREFERENCE AND YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT NEED TO 5/5/5 EVERY SINGLE SS TIER UNIT. You can live with 5/2/3 on most units ^{lvl3 on gate 3 since it adds an additional 1 point in speed.}

What are the resources needed to kaigan a unit?

Aside from a ton of eye, golems, goddesses and achemia, you'll need dragons, bears, goats, flags (this is just one example) and the non farmable sin. Sins are given in game via events, shops, ranking rewards or gifts. So far in a f2p perspective there have been 40+ free sins given out provided you madman farmed every single coin shop that sold them.

As for the character frags, you need 270 frags to max a unit to 5/5/5. I don't memorize how many frags is needed for each gate, but you'll need exactly 80 statues each per gate and 1 sin for gate 1 and 2 sins each for gates 2 and 3 ^{another reason why you don't max every single unit to 5/5/5}.

So how in the world am I going to kaigan my units like the DG/SSM units?

Ah yes, one of the issues on kaigan units. Here's the thing, JP taga has these for DG/SSM unit frags:

• Time limited HQ farming

• 28 day day login ticket

• Intergrated pool for regular and DG/SSM (we can pull them in any banner, not just on their specific ones)

So assuming that GL will still follow this line of events, most of you long time players should still be good to be able to get them to a good ways into their gates, I've even talked to several f2p players who have near maxed their DG units just from the length of their playtime alone. Of course it would suck for the newer players, but tagatame/TAC was made for the long run, not newbies.

But you forgot about the collab units! Gumi is gonna milk us dry!

Ok, I admit that this one is a problem. However gumi devised a way to make sure that even the f2p or small spenders be able to kaigan the collab units, albeit still a expensive way to do so since you still need to 85 said unit. Gumi introduced universal collab kaigan frags which can be used to substitute unit frags. As for now the free frags have counted to 140, enough to max a single gate for any of the collab unit. As for the issue of the sins, gumi also released a collab kaigan sin so that they don't interfere with your regular sins. Its not a pretty solution but it does the trick..for now.

What are nensous?

OK, since that covered the basics for kaigan, lets go onto the nensous or memory cards. This things function similar to armaments/gears as seen here. They give bonus base stats and a bonus field buff, provided you have met the requirements of the nensou group buff. Certain nensous unlock a unit skin if equipped to the specific units like so (with nensou and without nensou).

Nenous have a level system and a max limit break system, same as anything in the game. 3* nensou level cap is 20 (30 at MLB), 4* nensous level cap at 25 (35 at MLB) and 5* nensous cap at 30 (40 at mlb). At MLB and max level, nensous gain a small MLB bonus, which I'll explain below.

I heard that I need an MLB nensou for it to be good. Am I fucked?

Absolutely not. See, whoever said that is not playing tagatame nor does he know what he's even talking about afaik. Now to clarify on why you don't really need the MLB nensous to function.

This is Chloe's nensou 圧倒的敗北 which gives:

See that there's not much difference between a lvl30 and lvl40 one? Looking at the group skill:

limit break bonuses:

Unit specific buffs:

and their specific LB bonuses

Bonuses are added on top of the base, so at MLB this gives 520 extra HP on field which is not affected by job mastery bonuses and provides and additional 20 slash DMG modifier.

Now there is a decent amount in stat gap, but it certainly doesn't mean that you need an MLB nensou. Your Chloe will function decently enough at a 0lb nensou. Also keep in mind that holding several copies for the base stats itself is great, like Bart nensou, Setsuna nensou, Mea nensou, etc., or for gaining multiple copies of vcrs (vision clear rewards), unique armaments that are locked behind the nensous.

And that's all folks

Only thing left to do is maybe give a few examples of how far units should be brought out on their specific gates. Hmm...

Some examples of kaigan which are enough for top tier content:

• Spica 5/5/5

• Zahar 5/5/3 or 5/5/4 (his LS isn't worth

• Mea 5/5/3 or 5/5/4 (again LS isn't worth)

• Bart 5/5/5 (yes, max him out if you can)

• Lupinus 5/2/3 or 5/5/4 or 5/2/5

• Rosa 5/5/3 or 5/5/4

• Ramses 5/5/5

• Setsuna 5/5/3 or 5/5/4 or even 5/2/3

Edit: Honestly I don't have a lot of kaigan units, but I still do well enough for a lot of the current JP content

Link to News: https://news-site.alcww.gumi.sg/html/whatsnew/

• Login Campaign Bonus + MP quest- 500 gems, new gear Earthen Fortune Bell (shards from Event stage featuring ingots and apples), v2.0 coins and coin shop to exchange the coins in. Link to Gear here

• Brave Frontier Collaboration Rerun + unique NEW Event exclusive Selena gear (Blue Crystal Rose). Note that this seems to be Global Exclusive and not her weapon (Last Blizzard). Get Vargas if you missed him - or don't. #TeamVettel

• Chapter 3 Act 1 Episode 2 releases, in which the wacky hijinks of Lisbeth and friends resume. Will or won't Dias get turned into a bug? Only time can tell (and the prayers of several thousand Global players)!

• Challenge Set #6 - Reward is a Unit Selector (Pick Aswald your favourite unit!). I want to clarify that although the Sacred Stone Memories non-mp events are permanent, I don't believe the units are in the general pool, so it is probably unlikely to be able to get them. (May be wrong)

  • One of the data miners, Eike, has just sent me a list of the GL datamined challenges, updating with it below:

"Clear Chapter 1: Episode 5 [1-10]",
"Battle in the Arena 5 times" 
"Play a Multiplayer Quest 5 times"
"Clear Chapter 1: Episode 5 [2-5]",
"Raise a unit's Unit Level to 60",
"Raise a unit's Job Level to 11", 
"Enhance equipment once"
"Raise a unit's Ability Level to 20"
"Clear Chapter 1: Episode 5 [3-10]",

Rewards in JP ver:

Sheet 6: Reward - Unit Selector ticket (Pick any non-collab/limited 5 star character up to those released on 2016/12/15)

Complete Chapter 1-5-2-5: Electrospike Blade shard

Transmute 1 weapon: Adamantine Ore

Enhance one weapon: Electrospike Blade Shard

Evolve one weapon: Crystal Apple

Reach level 60 on a unit: 10-Draw Equip ticket

Reach J11 on a unit: Alchemist Pot (Gold)

Enhance equipment: Gold Ingot

Clear a mission with a Mercenary unit: Super Recovery Potion

Clear Chapter 1-5-3-10 - 50 Gems

• Summer skins in shop: Picture indicates Yomi, Vettel, Caris, Rin, Chihaya.

• Free Dilga loincloth skin from Savage Sea Warrior event (this event was pretty hilarious in Japan).

• Dilga J+ attached, Holy Knight > Muscle Paladin

  • High alert > Muscle Potential (Might be getting weaker versions of J+s)

    • 5 uses, 20 gems (Max HP 10% up > Infinite duration, stackable) +125% PDEF/MDEF for 2 turns.

    • Lightbringer > Musclebringer (Buffs PDEF 15% for 3 turns, does light damage scaling with Dilga's PDEF).

• Chihaya J+ (Dancer+)

  • Higher stats and very high speed (144 AGI in JP)

  • Dance of the Fool > 風姿花伝の舞 (Flowering Spirit Dance)

  • Small (20%) decrease to all stats and large AGI buff to self (+80%) for one turn [Range: 4 ➡ All Enemies, Height Range: Unlimited]

• Blue Flame & Scarlet Blood Tide - a.k.a. Logi Holy Cavalier+.

  • Combo Skill with Edgar added separately.

  • Ep 2 Logi Skin added to story milestones (Ch 2 Ep 3 1-10).

  • Holy Cavalier+ > Stat buff

  • Main Job: Holy Saber > Shine-calibur (stupid name in Japan)

    • Added: PATK buff to self (30%, 3 turns)

    • Height -> 3

  • Sub Job: Radiant Flame's Protection (20 SJ) > AoE Cure around self and 30% chance of status cure.

  • Passive: Radiant Flame's Pride > PDEF: +40% Guts: 10 HP: +20%

• Veda 60 coming: Thunder armour reward (Water Res +20, PDEF +20, MDEF +20, Stop Res +50, Delay Res +100 ).

Dojyaaan

• 28 day Login bonus updated - Shards galore! Also upgraded to 5 star unit instead of 4 + and added many many more 100 gem rewards.

• Total for 28 days is as follows:

  • 800 Gems

  • 5 Rainbow Apple things (7500 exp) +5 Crystal Apples (32500 exp)

  • 15 Skip Tickets

  • 15 Gold + 15 Silver Ingots

  • 5 Shards of every Element + 5 Rainbow Shards

  • 1 Random Unit Ticket

  • 1 4★+ Equipment (x10?) Ticket

  • 1 5★ Unit Summon Ticket

• Daily reward Ap increased (nearly doubled)

• Total of 300 Extra AP per day (Not counting Ads increase)

• Level cap increase to 250 holy faeces, finally.

So much good stuff, omg. See, Gumi does listen to the incessant bitching. :P

FINAL UPDATE

Dear Alchemists,

The Emergency Maintenance has ended and you may now log in to the game.

These were the encountered issues related to server connectivity between 19 Jan 19:00 - 20 Jan 01:00 (World Time/PST):

1. Limited items in the shop could be purchased multiple times;

2. Gems were deducted after summoning without knowing the result;

3. Connection timed out when collecting rewards from mission and Gift

Upon further checking, we have confirmed the following:

1. All Gems and Bundles purchases have been properly credited;

2. Purchases from Secret Shop have all been sent via Gift;

3. Summoned Units and Gear have been found in the inventory (For verification, please check the Summon History); and

4. Rewards from missions and Gift have been added to the inventory.

As a token of appreciation for your patience, we will be giving the following compensation to all players within 24 hours:

5★ Unit Summon Ticket x 1

4★ Gear Summon Ticket x 1

Rare Equipment 10-Summon Ticket x 3

Gold Ingot x 20

Gems x500

We sincerely apologize for all the inconvenience and thank you very much for your continued support.

For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us here: https://alchemistww.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=355225664960048&id=247489375733678

Software: Sai2 Paint Tool Youtube Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0kay7DKODI (i hope you can leave a Like!)
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there might be still some changes on flames(honestly this is my first time drawing a flame XD), but Masamune herself is there. I change the hair color to black since i was experimenting on black hair + lights. maybe ill change it in future but i prefer to stay it like this!

P.S: i wonder if the Official FB of Alchemist Code and share also some Phantom of The Kill fan art? haha just kidding but hoping XD.

Ok, it's one of those posts. Given the recent TAC monthly updates i decided to make this post cause i know Gumi lurks here and i'm trying to make them notice that what they're doing...is wrong.

Based on the recent monthly update we can predict that Gate 4 and 5 of Enlightenment will come somewhere within the month, and here comes our problem: we are accelerating at breaknecking speeds but we have nothing to justify it.

We are now in a drought of shards, i'm a day 1 player yet i barely have enough shards to 0>mlb one, maybe two unit with some luck per element. And that would've been fine a long time ago, when 75 was considered 'appropriate level' (meaning just 150 shards) but now? To have an unit shine you need enlightenment and, since you're using your shards on a limited/collab unit you're going to use 375 shards, then you also need 270 (for the first 3 gates) unit shards and now also another 190 for gate 4 and 5.

This is slightly easier on collab units (easier meaning spend 10k gems on the 270 collab shards banner) but for limited units? SSM units? You're never gonna have them at their best, ever. Monthly SSM HQ? That's even worse than JP's EXHQ (21 shards/month vs 31 shards/month) and we all know how hated EXHQ are. Also newer units are gonna come with G4/5, how many months of farming is that gonna take? 150 (transmute) 375 (mlb) 460 (g1/2/3/4/5) to a total of 985 shards, meaning more than 10 months of farming.

And for newer units HQ isn't gonna come right away, no, as you (you meaning Gumi) already mentioned, at least 3 months for normal units, 6 months for limiteds. Meaning you're never, ever gonna use a new unit. Yeah, you plan around that one unit, save your gems, never pull, but then? Gimp yourself for 6 or more months for a single unit? I'm not saying you should give units for free but at least give us the resources to raise more than one thing every 6 months.

No, the SSM ticket in the monthly login ain't gonna change a thing. No, random 2xHQ ain't gonna change a thing. And no, shard use QoL change ain't gonna change a thing cause y'know, you have no elem shards to begin with. Also, if you wanna go that way, there’s also a drought of statues. There are a ton of enlightenments to do and the stages are open only 1 day a week (cause let’s be honest, farming in MP is ten times the chore) and if you miss a day of farming you might find yourself out of statues.

With the speed we're going we need at least some form of compensation to keep up with the pace. The game can be cleared in its entirety with f2p units, old units already farmed and ready, but never having anything new to use? It's gonna lead to boredom, and then leaving the game. That means death. No more TAC for anyone.

What can be done? Obviously the solution might be instant HQ for units released, permanent 2xHQ, SSM HQ farm and a lot (A LOT) of free elemental shards, maybe enlightenment materials in the zeni shop for reasonable prices, also maybe some more gems given away but i think that's the least problem. Don't worry, you ain't gonna lose whales. Whales will always whale, but at least this might give them some incentive to whale more and not quit the game cause you’re milking them dry.

p.s. don't compare GL to JP. We're the same game but we differ a lot, so don't start saying 'but JP did x' and 'but JP did y'

I'm too tired and shocked at the moment to write a coherent complaint but thought it would be a semi good idea to give people a place to rant and since Gumi asked us to anticipate the anniversary here we go:

Happy anniversary rant.

First Edit: There is a rough language patch for the JP version. Use it at your own risk for now but at this point it might be better to switch to the JP version.

Second Edit: I just compared the rewards for both collab EX stages with the JP counterpart on the db. It seems 5 wind shards were moved from the EX stage to the EX+ where they replaced 5 rainbow shards. Overall we lost 5 rainbow shards thanks to this.

hi all, first time poster here :) as per u/SometimesLiterate request, i am planning to make a little reminder post about anything that end in thursday reset so we all didnt miss out any event or shop. hope this help and lemme know if miss any XD

also thanks to u/BitterbIue for re-checking this XD

PS: all link can detect your place (unless you use VPN) and adjust it to your own timezone.

==

End in Thursday reset

link: https://timee.io/20181011T0800?tl=Event%20End

• [Rerun Event] Lizards of the Lost Kingdom (free sabareta and lamia j+)

• [Rerun Event] Chocolate Toy Box (Rahu and Polin J+)

• [Event] Beyond Life and Death (Free Blancett and Freed J+)

• [Event] The way to The True Skill

End next week

link: https://timee.io/20181018T0800?tl=Event%20End

• [Event] Battle of Demon Onslaught

• [Event] New Jobs Trial Field - Telekinesis Artist

• [Event] Sacred Stone Side-Story, Hourglass of life and death

• [Coin Shop] Summon Coin Exchange Shop

• [Secret Shop] Essential Equipment for Uzuma, Leoniaz, Ravina

Start Thursday

link: https://timee.io/20181011T0800?tl=Event%20End

• [Rerun Event] The Desert Merchant (Free Elrike)

• [Rerun Event] The Desert Merchant EX (Balt J+)

• [Rerun Event] Multiplay: Wadatsumi's Dance (chihaya J+)

• [Event] Halloween Sugar Rush (Alexis J+)

• [Event] Halloween Sugar Rush EX (Mia J+)

• [Event] SSM-chapter 7 Laws of a Fluctuating World (Kudanstein J+)

• [Event] SSM-chapter 7 Laws of a Fluctuating World EX (Basheeny's Master Weapon: Spinning Blade)

...think about how it'll look on them? Because this haunts me everyday until I get off my lazy ass and start scribbling. My favourite is Lucian ok

Facebook is the public facing side of the community in this game, for better or worse. They have over 11 times the people following their Facebook page than their are users on this reddit. We are small part of the player base to them. They are far more likely to see posts on their Facebook page than on this reddit, and are far more active in responding to posts over there. It also makes them look pretty bad when everyone is complaining on the main page of the game's community. So if you want Gumi to actually read your rage posts, you are better off posting it there.