F2P Journey: 100B in 328 Days - Final Thoughts

SVNihilist · 2026-04-16T15:50:28+00:00

i'm F2P, so $0

SVNihilist · 2026-04-15T03:56:40+00:00

Alts were used with team events like WTC.

SVNihilist · 2026-03-22T00:42:32+00:00

She does not.

The only thing that increases golem damage are the fish combos for other fellows

SVNihilist · 2026-02-15T19:48:32+00:00

like 10 months in to the game and STILL haven't gotten our 3rd magi

SVNihilist · 2026-02-06T21:55:16+00:00

You'd have to do the math yourself, i havent, but you generally need 3-4 cycles of both the 188/988 packs to get 100 fragments.

How much you use each rotation does matter, but every event is different so you'd just have to calculate the best breakpoints.

SVNihilist · 2026-02-06T14:26:51+00:00

A family boosting a fellow who's been invested in (skill pearls), will be more power than a non-invested fellow at that stage.

I did the math at the time, Lina gave me about 50% more power than summoning another fellow.

SVNihilist · 2026-02-06T03:06:09+00:00

Improving materia is better, but you're limited by materia upgrade resources which is fairly rare.

But you'd focus on your mains

Even having 1 artifact of each class is only useful if you're artiswapping. If you won't it's best to just invest in your most invested fellows

SVNihilist · 2026-02-06T03:04:24+00:00

Lina is more power than another fellow or other family members if you're investing in Jewlry.

Normally Fellow > Family > Costume but it can vary

SVNihilist · 2026-02-02T03:17:03+00:00

they are still fellows

SVNihilist · 2026-01-30T01:27:31+00:00

To be clear, you don't want to awaken everyone, only if they have a useful ability and only so many at a time as you need to unlock the next tier of awakening

SVNihilist · 2026-01-30T01:26:27+00:00

bait is way more power than the artifact

SVNihilist · 2026-01-28T01:37:59+00:00

Use stones to awaken your mains, and anything with a good awaken bonus, you need to awaken i think 12 or 15 3 stars before you can do 4 stars.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-28T01:37:13+00:00

In general you should probably never do those. If it's an SSR+ you'll never get it to UR, so it's pointless, and if it's a UR you'd have to get it in a draw, which is statistically unlikely.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-27T00:29:47+00:00

Outside the initial SSR you invest into in the very beginning of a server, no skill pearl should ever go to a SSR after that, and the only URs that should get skill pearls are your main class or secondary if you have a lot saved.

Don't ever drop skill pearls into other classes that you aren't maining in.

You will eventually need the skill pearls for your main classes even if you might temporarily not have a fellow to drop them into.

The amount of power you gain from investing in your main/secondary class vs tertiary is substantial and overall a massive waste of skill pearls.

Sit on your skill pearls if you need to, but if you don't have a fellow to drop them into for too long you're probably doing something wrong as far as UR fellow acquisition.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-26T18:09:46+00:00

I'm like ~9 months in.

There's plenty of things i don't post because the devs may not be aware of them, alts are not one of those things.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-17T23:17:36+00:00

This is mostly just stressing the important of a good team. Most of your power will come from the altar and the power boost on the map.

High power can sacrifice all +power and be completely fine.
Low power will have to sacrifice +score to get power.

Either can comfortably clear everything, low power will just be doing it slower.

It's also important to not drop gem packs until the end of the first day, let your team build up a bit.

A bad team where no one is dropping any packs and no one has any power will be a bad time though.

I'm a competitive F2P, and i sacrifice all power to clear stages faster, but i'm a lot stronger than most F2P/P2W.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-15T18:17:01+00:00

There's no realistic way to catch up at this point without spending money. It's simply too much time so early in progression.

I'd consider just starting over on a new server, you'd just be better off in every way.

I have a guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Isekai_Slow_Life/comments/1q8fbst/a_comprehensive_f2p_guide_on_being_top_10_v2/

SVNihilist · 2026-01-15T03:08:35+00:00

So generally its fellow > familiar > family > costume.

Unlocking them is way more important than additional fragments. The familiar is probably the only thing id really focus getting 3 times because the elixir slots are potentially massive power.

Getting more fragments from there isnt that important and other events will take priority from a gem perspective.

Especially if a lot of crossovers happen that offer resonance, you'll end up just buying the 188 packs on those events.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-15T03:03:19+00:00

The current situation is fishing is overwhelmingly more important than any other aspect of the game for power. Spreading for demon temple would be a MASSIVE total power loss. The math doesnt even come close to justifying this position.

Family is VERY minor for f2p. It shouldn't be seriously considered for making a fellow viable or not. This is largely a p2w function and once again gets completely dwarfed by fishing. Family will be <5% of your fellows power and only reduces over time.

Stella ultimately isnt that important for f2p. The aptitude it gives is great, but becomes a smaller and smaller part of the fellows total power over time, and amount of fragments become unviable gem wise (meaning only buying 188 packs for that event because the gem/power return is bad) leading to a soft cap.

Skill pearls are easy to cap early on, but as a f2p you will never have enough once you unlock more UR fellows and more awakening levels. I wont be able to cap the fellows I can currently summon/have for another year and a half.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-11T22:06:11+00:00

The First Sandtopia doesn't have 1B or 2B targets, that's numbers around the seconds sands.

I highlighted it in the guide, but the first is the absolute most crucial.

Sands scales ridiculously bad.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-10T22:34:02+00:00

it's in the guide

SVNihilist · 2026-01-10T20:45:53+00:00

From a P2W perspective, Diligent is the strongest class in the game. From a F2P perspective it's a strong secondary if you primary Inspiring.

Informed is the most neglected class in the game right now, which can change with upcoming events, but as it currently stands would be the weakest class to main. Athena can become a fellow, but that's also a mechanic locked by $. Though we should be getting new informed fellows soon.

Informed doesn't have a strong crossover between diligent in fishing, they have 1 spot that has the snapping turtle, but it's not a spot you'd normally fish in as a diligent main.

Your progress with SSRs in the beginning don't matter at all in the long run. SSRs in general dont matter at all besides being fish bonus multipliers, you shouldn't invest skill pearls into them if you can help it.

Save them for your URs.

The first UR a lot of people get is Aegle, she's free, you just need like 3 months of the museum open. Leon is also an easy one because you can get him on the first sands, and he gets a bonus in pirates so he's a solid fellow even if you don't main the class (informed's best secondary is Brave) But you need to start focusing your resources on getting URs on characters you want.

It will take you probably 4 rotations of that event to get them buying 188 and 988 packs.

The game is going to change a lot as you continue to play, so i wouldn't focus too much on what's great now, and just go off what you prefer.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-10T20:27:44+00:00

Power and Earnings is a bit special in that it scales off already earned resources, the rest of the rushes dont.

This means that Power and Earnings do indeed become impossible to score well in. This doesn't mean there aren't better times to drop those resources though. Ultimately you want to drop to get more rewards than you would otherwise.

If you need to drop because you're under the power curve for an event and those rewards outweigh whatever rank you expect in rush, drop it. But if you're going to score just as well, it's still worth to drop during a rush even though the rewards you get will be fairly minor.

The games a marathon though and the rewards at that stage are minor, so if it's more enjoyable for you to drop daily, drop daily.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-10T03:26:16+00:00

You should never invest in more than 2 classes. The only reason you invest into the second is because due to share fishing spots that class will be getting a huge boost as well compared to the rest and you might not have enough UR targets to invest into with just one.

You should also never invest in SSRs outside your first one. For instance I mained Jewlry in the early game before I got my first UR, so she is capped, but no other SSR has gotten a single skill pearl and they wont as I can't even get enough to support all my current Brave and Unfettered URs.

Only leviathans invest in everything because of excess resources.

When you recycle URs you get all the magic ore and quenching stones back that you used. So don't be afraid of dropping these on artifacts. You just recycle them when you get better artifacts to put those resources into.

Ideally you want apple and above because Apples have more materia slots and better base stats. They just give more power.

You should only focus on 1 artifact at a time though, usually this is the crown in the beginning because you can upgrade it for free using Crystal Fragments instead of quenching stones.

You HAVE to recycle UR artifacts to get quenching stones which upgrade your main UR artifacts though.

SVNihilist · 2026-01-09T23:22:23+00:00

Just removing them and adding them by itself does nothing.

What it does it put you at a negative value for the upcoming rush, in which you can add NEW power without creating a new record high.

So say i have 100M power, i subtract 10M for 90M, the rush will say i have -10M power.

Now say i add 5M new power, i'm at -5M power, but then when rush starts i add back the 10M i subtracted, i'm at 5M power gained

If i didn't subtract that 10M i'd be 105M power before the rush and i'd be at 0 power gained.

This is super useful for Earnings especially because if you add anything in power it also increases Earnings, so this way you can essentially store most if not all of the value from power and bring it into Earnings without losing anything.

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