New Player Help Center

This list of resources should help you get started right on your adventure in The Alchemist Code.

First Steps

• Beginner's Guide - some useful basic starting guidance
• Reroll Guide - if you are trying for an optimal start, this guide will explain the process of rerolling and give some idea of which units to look for
• New Player Starting Bonuses - a list of all the initial benefits you get as a new player
• Tutorial Unit Overview - an overview of some of the better units you can pick from your new player selector (it is recommended you wait a week before selecting one)

Unit Mechanics

• Basic Unit Mechanics - this will explain some of the basics of how units work
  • Character Shards - guidance on how to get character shards to raise your units to higher max level and access additional jobs
  • Equipment - some basic guidance on how to get equipment and what it's used for
    • Best Places to Farm Equipment
  • Gear - some basic guidance on how to get gear and what it's used for
    • Permanent Free Gear - information on where to get permanently available free farmable gear
  • List of Units - lists all units currently released in the game
  • Free Units - lists all units acquired for free, from temporary or permanent quests
    • Recommended Free Units - some permanently available free units that may be particularly useful to new players
  • Memento - some basic information on what mementos are
  • Master Ability - some units receive upgraded skills from special quests (usually at level 80)
  • Enlightenment - this is an advanced feature for upgrading units once they reach level 85
• Jobs - this will explain some of the basics of how jobs work
  • List of Jobs - this lists all the jobs available to units currently released in the game with short summaries of what they do
  • Job Upgrades - this explains what job upgrades have been released and how they are acquired

Combat Mechanics

• Mechanics - covers many standard game mechanics, including status effects
  • Charge and Cast Time Mechanics - this GoogleDoc goes into depth on how the charge and cast time mechanics function in the game
• Mercenaries - explains how mercenaries work

What to Do

• Milestones - milestones are one of the main reward systems in the game, this explains the various types
  • Daily Milestones - these are generally recommended to do every day and are your primary source of AP
• Story Quests - these quests will give you many rewards through milestones and challenges, as well as provide access to good equipment farming quests and hard quests for farming character shards
  • Challenges - these are an additional reward system you can progress through when doing story quests (the 6th challenge board gives a 5 star unit selector)
  • Farmable Character Shards - lists which character shards currently can be farmed through hard quests and where to find their quests
• Event Quests - these quests are a mixture of limited time events and some permanent quests that are separate from the main story
  • Multiplay - many event quests have a multiplayer version (new players get 25 gems from the first 10 players they meet in multiplayer quests)
  • Babel Chronicles - this is a special permanent story event where you play units provided for you (except for the EX quests) and learn more about the history of some of the units
  • Event Archives - these allow you to replay some previous limited time events
• Trials
  • Mystic Tower Veda - this is a special event available periodically (usually once a month for 2 weeks) that you can slowly progress through to receive significant rewards
  • Mystic World Mobius - this is a special 2 player event available periodically (usually once a month for 2 weeks) that you can progress through to receive significant rewards
• Battle
  • Arena - this is an additional source of daily gems (for new players it's recommended to deliberately climb the arena ranks slowly to maximize gems)
  • PvP (Ranked Match) - this is a live player vs player combat which is available periodically (usually once every month or two for a week) which provides rewards for both participation and wins
• Raids - these are high end events to fight challenging bosses

Summoning

• Acquiring Gems - reference on the various ways in the game to collect gems for summoning
• Spending Guide - reference on how to best optimize spending of real world money in the game, including tips on ways to purchase gems without spending money

Other

• Team Building - some advice on what to think about when building teams for quests
• Leader Skills - some advice on what to think about when choosing a leader skill
• Friends - explains how the friends system works (a key source of mercenaries and friend coins)
• Current and Upcoming News and Events - overview of what new limited time and permanent changes are expected soon
• Alchemist Code DB - helpful database of units, items, gear, quests and milestones, as well as a unit planner
• The Alchemist Code Global Tier List and Build Guide - unit rankings and advice on optimal builds
• Zeni Management - how to manage/acquire in-game money
• Shops - some information on the various shops available and what you can get from them (for new players the beginner shop is a high priority and monitoring other shops for equipment can also be useful)
• Guides and Rankings - additional sources of useful information
• Glossary of Terms - clarifies common terms used in reference to the game
• Login Bonuses
• Alchemia Port - these are essentially guilds, primarily used for rewards from Raids
• Also feel free to ask questions in the Discord channel in #ac_questions