[Epic Seven] Skystone Farming Guide + Recommendations on Spending
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Table of Contents
Overview
Welcome to the skystone farming guide! We will be going over the list of all viable methods to gather and farm these skystones. Some can only be gotten once while others are recurring on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. In the end we will tally up the total and the number of skystones you can get each month.
This is especially important for F2P players, since you need to plan accordingly on where you should be allocating your valuable skystones (scarce resource) to advance in the game.
Adventure Missions
Each adventure mission will grant you 15 skystones if you complete all mission objectives. Most are pretty easy to get in regular adventure, while some are harder to get in world mode and requires some planning if your team is not high level enough or have the required equipment to do it.
When you complete all normal adventure stage objectives of a region, you get bonus 50 skystones.
For world difficulty mode, you get 100 skystones and 1 MolaGora seed when completing 2 and 3 mission objectives respectively.
Normal Adventure Mode
- 190 x 15 (Mission Objectives) = 2760 skystones
- 16 x 50 (Map Completion) = 800 skystones
World Adventure Mode
- 193 x 15 (Mission Objectives) = 2760 skystones
- 16 x 100 (Mission Objectives) = 1600 skystones + 16 MolaGora seeds
So total possible skystones is 7920! World mode is a lot harder, so you will need a good team (mostly max 6 stars with decent gear) to complete it.
Reputation Objectives
Many reputation missions are repeats of their previous ones but it does require more tries to get the next level rewards. I will be listing all the note worthy ones that will give you bonus skystones.
- Fame (Rank Up – just playing the game will get you these free skystones)
- A Holy Connection (Acquiring Guardians – complete normal adventure mode)
- Together Forever (Total Logins)
- Hidden Treasure (Entering Golden Goblin Chambers)
- Frontier Spirit (Stage Clears/Objectives)
- Gold Transmit Stone Collector (Get Transmit Stones)
- Explore Tirel Castle in Chaos 100% – 90 skystones
- Explore Great Farche Labyrinth 100% – 95 skystones
- Explore Nixied’s Sanctum 100% – 100 skystones
As you can see, you can get at least 1000 skystones if you complete a lot of these.
Daily Mission
The daily mission gives you a total of 50 skystones. The key missions that give you those skystones are:
- Complete 5 Arena Matches (You don’t have to win all) – 15 skystones
- Complete 2 Dispatch Missions – 5 skystones
- Complete all Daily Quests – 30 skystones
In order to complete the daily quests, you need:
- Summon a Penguin from the Forest of Souls
- Complete 5 Adventure Maps(Includes Special Event Maps)
- Complete 1 Spirit Altar
- Complete 3 Hunts (Wyvern, Golem or Banshee of any level)
- Summon once in Covenant Summon
Should you do all your dailies 27 days out of the month(should take about 15-30 minutes daily), you can get 1350 skystones monthly, which is enough to do 10 summons(buy the Covenant Booklet in the shop using 950 skystones) and have left overs for other stuff.
Heart of Orbis
If you max out Mirror of Light, you can get 9 skystones every 12 hours. Assuming you collect it once a day, you get 270 bonus skystones a month. This excludes the 30% triple reward chance from the reward building.
Daily Login (28 Days)
The login gives you 100 skystones every 6 days. In a month, you will get 400 skystones if you login for 27 days. You also get a free ML summon via 6 gold transmit stones after 28 days.
Abyss Tower
Abyss Tower rewards can only be gotten once and that’s it. Once you clear it, the only reward you get daily is bonus gold and stigma. I will be listing all the floors that contain the skystones. These will help you a lot if you can get them early.
- Floor 4 – 100 skystones
- Floor 15 – 200 skystones, 200k gold
- Floor 30 – 300 skystones, 300k gold
- Floor 45 – 500 skystones, 500k gold
- Floor 60 – 1000 skystones, 1 million gold
- Floor 75 – 1500 skystones, 1.5 million gold
- Floor 90 – 2000 skystones, 8 gold transmit stones
As you can see, the number of skystones you can collect here is very nice. Floor 45, 60, 75 and 90 requires good team compositions to clear, but the first 600 skystones from the lower floors are very easy to get by just playing the game.
Total here would be a whooping 4600 skystones.
Arena (PvP)
Last Update: March 28th 2019 Patch
Arena gives you consistent skystones weekly depending on your arena ranking. The good thing is even as a new player, you would still be getting a good amount weekly if you can stay in Gold rank arena. That is very easy to attain once you have a roster of 5 star units. Fighting NPC characters also nets you 15 skystones daily if you take on 5 of them.
Weekly Arena Ranking Rewards
- Bronze – 150-210 skystones
- Silver – 225-285 skystones
- Gold – 300-360 skystones
- Master – 450-490 skystones
- Challenger – 600-640 skystones
- Champion – 800+
Champion and higher is a bit out of reach for most F2P players. Gold and Master is more realistic for beginner players. Gold rank means at least 1200 skystones a month. Master nets at least 1800 skystones, which is almost enough to do 20 summons a month if you want to pull units. If you choose to do the NPC battles, that is an extra 450 more a month.
Automation Tower
This one gives 500 skystones once you are able to get to floor 95. For new players, you can get to 55-60 pretty easily, so that is a free 200 skystones a month.
Hunts
Wyvern, Golem and Banshee hunts now drop some skystones as well. It drops very little though, like 2-4 based on my experience so far. Not the fastest way to earn it but it does add up overtime.
Summary
So we are going to do an overall sum of all the skystones to give you a good idea of how much you can get early on. Now let’s assume you get your basic team of 5 to 6 characters to max level 5 stars and can clear adventure mode 10-10 normal. Below is what you can expect to get early on in your first 30 days of gameplay as a casual player.
- 1350 skystones from daily quests (assuming you skipped 3 days)
- 400 skystones from daily login
- 3560 skystones from completing normal adventure mode
- Ãbout 300 skystones from reputation objectives
- 600 skystones from Abyss Tower (pass floor 30)
- 180 skystones for Gold V in the arena
- 270 skystones from Heart of Orbis
- 200 skystones from Automation Tower
You would expect to get at least 6820 skystones. That is me being conservative and leaving out NPC arena and some reputation quests. We are also not including covenant bookmarks gotten from playing. Those are strictly for summoning characters.
How to Spend These Skystones?
There are a few ways to spend them. It also depends on where you are at in the game. Here are my recommendations on how you should spend it depending on your situation.
Building Your Core Team
If you were unlucky and not able to get any decent pulls after your selective summons, then it is a good investment to spend some skystones here. Just make sure to always get the Covenant Bookmark bundle for 950 skystones for 10 summons.
What do I mean by core team? You need a strong roster of 6-8 characters that can do all PvE content for you. Once you have solidify these units, then any other bonus characters you get are just icing on the cake. You will need characters in the following positions:
- DPS (Single Target or AoE)
- Buffer (Attack/Defense/Speed/Crit RateUp/Debuff Immunity)
- Healer (Heals, Regen)
- Cleanser (Remove debuffs)
- Dispel (Strips enemy buffs)
- Debuffers (Defense/Attack Down, Provoke, Unhealable etc.)
- Tank (High Hp and Defense)
When your team has at least filled all roles among 4-8 characters, you can invest in the core team that you use to do most content with. For example, if you were incredible unlucky in pulling, the F2P team will actually cover a good portion of the team:
DPS (Single Target)
The top single target DPS unit for F2P players. Her specialty change turns her into a good DPS with some survivability. With defense break on the enemy and attack buff on her, she can do a lot of damage, sometimes over 25k+ if you have the gear requirements.
Acquired through connections and can be a strong single target DPS unit if you don’t have any other options. However, this game is loaded with good DPS units such as Sez/Bellona/Cidd that she doesn’t usually see the spot light.
Dispel/Tank/Debuffer
Kluri specialty changes into Falconer Kluri and becomes a monster. Her skills don’t sound all that impressive but it does a lot for your team. She offers provoke, defense down and dispel all in 1 skill after specialty change. She also gives combat readiness to a random ally. Her passive also heals a small amount for the entire team, which is good in long fights.
Healer/Buffer/Debuffer
A decent healer that can apply unhealable debuff. A staple unit for Golem Hunt 9/10/11. She can also help out in most PvE content, including the Abyss Tower.
With specialty change, she improves the overall power of pure fire teams. A very niche unit but still very good.
Buffer/DPS AoE
A bit hard to get, but you will eventually acquire her through farming via connections. She provides attack and speed buff and also has a useful AoE attack from her first and third skill.
Cleanser/Healer
A budget debuff immunity unit that isn’t as good as Angelica, but she will do the job fine as long as you invest enough in her to survive.
Jecht isn’t a burst healer. He offers regen heal over time + speed buff and automatic cleanse of 1 debuff every turn. He is very useful in long battles once you can get him to 150+ speed.
Debuffer/Poison
One of the best 3 star units. She helps with tough Abyss Floors and also a staple Golem 9/10 unit. A must have for F2P players.
So to sum it up, even if you get nothing from your summons, the above units will get you through the game.
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I do understand that people want their waifus and husbandos, so you can disregard my advice if that is what you are after.
Stamina for Progress
This is where I recommend you spend a good chunk of your skystones on. Sure, it has a poor investment rate of only 60 stamina with 30 skystones, but it will help you get more 6 star units faster and also progress further into the game.
You can also use Leifs gotten from the game and convert them to stamina, but I usually use those for Labyrinth ticket instead.
Shop Refresh (For Your First 85 Gear)
A rare shop refresh that yields a good equipment
Last but not least, shop refresh is another great place to spend skystones on getting your first level 85 gear. Once you get your secret shop level to 10 (at rank 50), you can start doing so, looking for decent 85 white/green/blue) equipment to buy. Keep in mind you also need a surplus amount of gold of at least 3 million to buy a few decent pieces. Most of the tier 6 (85+) equipment costs 1.4 million gold. Tier 5(70+) are about 1.1 million gold.
Don’t go overboard with shop refresh as it is just a means to get the first few gears for the main stat boost on your right side gear so you can proceed to do boss hunts 9-11. There is where you farm for good right side accessories and craft good boots.
I suggest you prioritize buying in this order:
- Necklaces and Rings with percentage main stats (Atk%, Crit R%, Crit D%, Hp%, Def%)
- Boots (Speed, Atk%, Hp%, Def%)
- The rest
High level necklaces and rings can only be gotten from Labyrinth Raid and Boss Hunt 9 to 11. So your only other reliable source would be the secret shop.
Conclusion
There you have it! Hope that helps.