Etheria: Restart Beginner Guide

General Newbie Advice

Early progression priorities for rerolling, team building, lattice investment, and exchange shops.

Start Strong

Pulling, selectors, and the first decisions that shape the account.

Rerolling Strategy

Currently you are guaranteed the following animus on a new server: Raymerry(pve/pvp), Ninfoniel(pve), Lily(pve/pvp), Lingluo (pve/pvp), Kloss(irrelevant if you get Plume)

You want at least one premier Animus like or Xuan Li, Nathenn, Xuan Chi. They will dramatically improve your progression speed.

Target only Plume from her LD banner!!! You do not need Yeli.

Delay your Day 2 SSR Selector(usually Lily is the choice here, but if you get her, you can get Liliam instead) until you have pulled a good amount on Permanent Banner with purple discs.

If you do not have Lily, pick her from the selector. If you have Lily, delay picking and choose based on your pulls.

SR Diting, the purple one, is extremely useful and clears all single-target PvE content, so prioritize building him.

Do not spend a lot of gems for pulls unless the limited banner is Xuan Li or Raymerry. You get a ton of these just by going through the game.

Social & Unions

How to make friends: ask in chat. The community is welcoming and usually happy to help new players find their footing to join unions and make friends.

Unions: join whatever active union you can find. You will get access to a good shop that gives you some very useful items.

Progression Loop

What to spend stamina and daily attention on while pushing forward.

Early Game Priorities

Clear the story whenever you have a chapter available.

The most expensive currency is Golden Lattice for skill ups. Do not waste it.

Prioritize doing whatever the Hyperlink Charter tells you to do.

Do your dailies and weeklies.

Level up your main DPS first, then Plume and Lily.

Do any event you have since events are generally generous.

When you hit level or chapter bottlenecks, do Investigation or Growth Points Outpost for Animus you want to level up.

Shadowprints are timegated, so do not worry if you cannot promote multiple 5-star Animus immediately.

Max refresh energy every day. Abuse the 2x 14-day event for new accounts as much as possible and get to Inferno quickly.

Build The Core

Team structure and scarce Lattice choices.

Team Building

Lian is useful initially and since you get to lattice her for free, she can be a great option if you don't have any good DPS to replace her. Any lattice spent on her, will be refunded from the Charter quests for her.

Optimal initial team structure:

Buffer: Lily

Main DPS: Raymerry or Xuan Li

Second DPS: anything like SR Diting, Liliam

Debuffer: Plume is the best choice bar none. Kloss and Viper are okay too.

Healer: Lingluo from Day 7 login. Valerian and Sania are great SR Animus that do most of the part for some content.

Priority: level your DPS first, then Plume and Lily.*

Lattice Investment

Be careful where you spend your Golden Lattices. They are the main boost to your characters' stats and skills.

Notation guide:

111 = S1 no investment, S2 level 1, S3 level 1.

555 = all skills at level 5.

515 = S1 level 5, S2 level 1, S3 level 5.

Early game priorities and minimums:

Plume: 111 is fine for PvE. Optimal PvE investment is 413 or 414.

Lily: S1. Minimum: 511.

Raymerry: S3 > S2 > S1. Minimum: 155.

SR Diting: S3 > S2 > S1. Prioritize getting him 555.

Lingluo: does not need Lattice for PvE. Minimum: 511.

Xuan Li: S3 > S1 > S2. Minimum: 515.

Shop Priorities

Where currency should go first, and what to avoid.

Summon Shop

Only get yellow Lattice and purple Lattice occasionally.

Union Shop

1. Yellow Lattice fragments.

2. Pulls.

3. Shadowprints.

4. Whatever you need. In a good union you should be buying out the whole shop every week.

Etherena Shop

Get Lattice here if you can.

RTA Summit Shop

Get Lattice fragments, pulls, and save for Octanode at 8k points. Then get Animus copy cards.

Paid Shops

Never get modules from these.

The most valuable options are the 30-day pass and Battle Pass if you are a spender.

The daily $1 for 5 Lattice fragments is okay, but you should not consider it at the beginning unless you are committing to the game for real.

For value packs, ask in chat or Discord before buying if you are unsure.

Growth Fund is very strong currently. If you are a spender, get it.

Leveling Guide

Account-level progression milestones and shell farming priorities.

Level 0 - 35

Gear acquired here is garbage, use your resources to constantly push whatever hyperlink charter and levels allow you.

The only notable shells that you are ok running with are Budo Panda and Black Flag. But just use them till you get to lvl 35. The rest of the shells are bad, but just add whatever you have for the dps.

Focus on clearing all the content as soon as you can and progressing your hyperlink charter. You should be getting bottlenecks due to levels or level gated content. Do Investigation in the meantime to get the levels.

Level your gear up to lvl 12 at most, unless you are struggling to clear some content or have a charter quest to do.

Level 36 - 50

Niconana is the first good shell farm. You can farm it a lot to get White Fang Artisan Gigabyte. Alicorn is pvp, so disregard for now.

Put your DPS on Whitefang and level it to max. This means that you go to 40 lvl and then "awaken" it. It's important to awaken it because its a lot of base stats.

Continue clearing content based on hyperlink charter.

Focus on setting up your team for Doki Doki. She will be your priority to farm once you hit lvl 50.

Level your gear up to lvl 12 at most, as you will be changing it once you hit lvl 50.

Level 51 - 75

Clearing inferno is very important here.

If you did everything as the guide stated above and minmaxed as much as you can, you should have 2x from your 14-day guide. This means that you can 2x farm Doki Doki.

After farming Doki Doki, you can start clearing Terrormaton and Aurora. Vespera can wait a bit because she needs specific teams to beat her.

Once your 2x expires, start clearing the shell bosses. You should have enough gear to clear them all, but if you don't, it means you are shell bottlenecked, so improve your shells.

When you start hitting the upper bound of lvl 75, you should have cleared all infernos if possible.

Level 76 - 100

You are getting into the end of the early game. You should have cleared all infernos and shell bosses by now.

Here you have to decide what you're going to start awakening once you hit lvl 80. Current choices: Valerian (balanced), Sania (PvP bruiser/turn2/standard/GVG), or Turandot (speed cleave/CC/turn 1 PvP comps).

If you plan to do pvp, focusing on Shadowflame Hoyan is a good choice, cause Amber and Jackal shells will never be enough.

Level 100

You have hit lvl 100. Congrats!

Your focus should lie mostly on farming Helkid and clearing Anisync Echoes if you haven't already.

Uhmmm, clear everything you haven't already. At this point you should start gearing for PVP or competitive PVE (Nether Quarry and Cage Rumble)

If you focus on pvp, hoyan/helkid when out of 2x, and when in 2x doki/aurora. You are going to need a lot of Aurora gear no cap.

New to Etheria: Restart? Early-game priorities, starter teams, shop exchanges, leveling and lattice advice for fresh accounts.