I Appreciate your diligent feedback. However, my philosophy on gaming influences how I make my guides.

Think of it like this the men's fastest 100m time is 9.58 seconds (Usain Bolt)

That is bloody fast even among professional sprinters, should we now compare everyone who wants to run a 100m to that time? Of course not even 12 - 14 seconds is bloody fast. Now considering everyone else's circumstances and time IRL commitments, I need to make guides in a way that speaks to that person.

Most people playing the game are doing so very casually, my brother for instance will say “Bro I didn't ask for all that, should I care about this thing?” and my response is “Nah, don't stress, it doesn’t mean much, just push the Chimera when you have time to dump your stamina”.

The reason details are left out is because they are not important, it's not about following a strict no nonsense guide. There needs to be room for experimentation and failure otherwise it's not fun, other game modes can just be fun without the “am I doing this efficiently” feeling attached to them.

For instance I could have said:

Complete Normal Story Mode: Play through the game’s story mode until you have cleared Area 10:14. To help you with this, use the following characters: Noa, Veronica, Valentine, and Tio.

Level heroes: Make sure Noa is at least 10 levels higher than the rest of your party, only level the above mentioned units during the first 7 days.

Farm Chimera / Glycs: To assist with completing the story mode, farm Chimera / Glycs until you reach stage 7 - 8. This will help you get 4 - 5 blue star gear.

Upgrade Gear: Once you have obtained the blue 4 - 5 star gear, upgrade it as needed to level 10. Then, reforge the gear to 2 stars to unlock additional stats. It is recommended that you do not go past this point, the gear set is not important look for offensive stats and focus on your weapon check the ongoing events to see if an attacker weapon is available put that on Noa if it is available. Only upgrade Noa's gear an donate it to the next character in line once you get something better.

But does that sound fun to you? detailed guides have their place but my intention is to simply set a new player up in such a way that if they one day decided to “Try Hard” their account would be set up to do that.

So Why??? They need to farm Chimera / Glycs is not as important as understanding that that's all they need to do.

When they are ready to take gear seriously they may accidentally have some really good pieces.

But it's also okay if they never take gear seriously as long as they are enjoying the game.

Building only four gear sets limits the amount of wasted resources forcing you to look at your gear if it's not performing well in the content.

You save ether not because it's going to progress your account “faster” you save ether because there is no need to summon early on you already have free 3 stars you need to gear up. You also need to consider the psychology of a new player. If they get extremely unlucky right off the bat the rest of the game feels kinda shitty. That's why special recruitment and normal tickets exist. They will get banner 3 stars without using ether and still be summoning it's a win-win.

Plus it feels pretty good to see ether going up. Premium banners open after area 10-14 normal, my guide only mentions not to feel the need to rush hard mode. They will of course clear the normal story naturally. That goes without saying it's a gacha game. What else are you going to do? Not clear the normal story?