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
- Starting Unit Guide - this GoogleDoc will give you an idea of which units you may want to prioritize early on and whether you should consider rerolling
- 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
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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- Also feel free to ask questions in the Discord channel in #ac_questions