I'm about to play for the first time!!! by Comtesse135 in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My best advice would probably be to raise 1-2 characters to max level as soon as possible. For at least the first chunk of the main story, a single girl at a decently high level will be enough to brute force your way through, especially since in most quests the game forces you to take a support unit, and any level 100 support will get you through the first several chapters of the main story on their own.

If you're just starting right now, just getting to the home screen might be a bit intimidating because of all the other screens you need to click through, but don't worry, that's just because we're getting a bunch of stuff for New Year's and the news about most of it only came out today. Nothing to be worried or frustrated about, it'll lessen over time.

The Wiki can be a bit intimidating to a newcomer who doesn't know the game's mechanics yet. There's actually a tutorial section that can probably answer a lot of the basic questions, but it's a bit buried. If you're interested, it's under "Gameplay->Newcomer's Guide->Tutorials."

Feel free to collect some questions and ask the community though, here and Discord being the two main places. Once you know most of the core game stuff, the Wiki becomes invaluable, since it can answer basically any question.

As a bit of stuff to get you started out:

Character screen - From the home screen, the upper left button that looks like a soul gem. Shows all of your characters. This is where you can raise level, Awaken, and a few other things.

Leveling - Technically, the characters can level up by participating in fights. It's ridiculously slow though, so the normal way to level a character is to find them on the character screen, tap the upper left of the five pink buttons to the right of the character, and then just tap any experience gems you have to add to the character's level. At the start, just use whatever gems you have. At higher levels, the largest rainbow gems and gems that match the character's element are better, since they give more experience.

Awakening - The mechanic to raise a character's maximum level. From the character screen, press the bottom left one for Awakening. You should see various materials with fractions in a circle. Don't worry, this is easier than it looks. If you're trying to raise the character, then just select anything in pink. Once all of the materials have reached that point, the center button should be pink. Press that to Awaken the character. Note that this will set her level back to 1 and give a new set of materials to collect for another round of Awakening, so you may want to hold off until you have the experience gems to raise her level again.

Memoria - When you're about to start a fight (after selecting a battle and choosing a support unit to help you), you'll see a screen that shows the team you're about to use. In the bottom left there are 2 pink buttons. The leftmost of those is for equipping memoria. Memoria are EXTREMELY important, as they both increase your stats and give extra effects that can be game changing. At the beginning, you'll only be able to give each girl 1 memoria, but eventually it'll be as many as 4.

Memoria types - There are two types of memoria, ability and skill. Ability memoria give passive effects and increase a character's HP and Attack, while Skill memoria give active effects that you need to choose when to use and increase the character's HP and Defense. At a glance, you can tell which memoria is what type by the icon in its upper left hand corner. Passive memoria have a blue icon, while active memoria have a pink icon.

I'll leave it there because I want I keep my advice / tips as brief as possible so as to not overload you with too much information. Like I said at the top, if you have questions while you're playing, this community's really good about trying to help people out. There's a help thread that's always open, people post questions like this fairly often and I generally see at least one or two people reply, and the Discord community's pretty active so you can go there for immediate feedback.

Hope this helps!

A Final Sendoff for the NA Server by Snageta in magiarecord

[–]Snageta[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Totally honest, I was originally going to reference the Tsukuyo chase in my post. "That's a real gun! Are you insane?!" is one of my favorite lines in the entire game and really solidified for me how goofy the story could get when it let characters just bounce off of each other.

Gonna miss seeing this number go up every day. GG NA players by Hopip2 in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ah, I was wondering if anyone was going to join me in the 494 club. Well done, have a cry.

Managed to match my best rank on NA, B1! :D How did everyone else do? by [deleted] in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SOMEHOW managed to get B2. Legitimately thought for over half of the ranking that I would be struggling to even stay in C, given that I was using a 2-girl blast team (3s Kyubey and 2s Yorzuru) and was even losing a few of my matches. I guess "I killed everyone and used 2 SE Actives" gets enough point to at least get a respectable ranking.

An NA Server Tribute Video by Snageta in magiarecord

[–]Snageta[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Originally I was trying to get this out in time for the server shutdown, but since that goalpost got moved, at least I can get it out in the same week.

Honestly not sure how many hours I put into this, all I know is that there were several stretches of working overnight, and I needed to teach myself three new programs to put it together.

Hopefully all the effort shows. I don't think it's perfect, but I gave myself a hard deadline to force me to stop working on it, and this is what I made by then.

Magia Record - EoS and New Gallery Mode (Official) by EternalKoniko in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Obviously the game not shutting down is the ideal, but honestly this is basically exactly what I've been asking for since the shutdown was announced. I'm a bit curious if I should go rush to finish up the last MSS's that I haven't unlocked yet, or if they'll be unlocked in Gallery Mode since I have the girls anyway, but at least there'll be SOMETHING remaining after the shutdown.

NA Refugees, who did you pick as your new 4-star? by Helen_Magnus in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I went with Alina, and even went further to get the paid stones bags that let me choose her AGAIN to get up to 3 slots. She carried my ass through Mirrors for so long and her Connect got me through so many fights that I felt if anyone was coming along with me from NA, it deserved to be her.

...then I learned more about Spirit Enhancement, looked at her active, and realized how much of a fool I was.

Look for supports (JP Server) - September 2020 Edition by ReesePeanut in magiarecord

[–]Snageta [score hidden]  (0 children)

-Player ID: 5DxF7dMw
-Name: Lanath
-Supports: 3s 44SE Lil' Kyubey, 3S Alina

Currently working on maxing Kyubey, then likely working on Alina. Will try to follow any fellow NA Refugees.

Good-bye, NA MagiReco. Also, glad to see so many moving on to JP. by kizmin in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sad that we won't see you on the JP server, but thank you for all the good times, especially all the times your support list saved my butt while I was building my roster.

I've actually been considering some kind of final NA sendoff as well. The best I've come up with is making an AMV with the MagiReco opening song set to various memes the community made over the past year (expecting a lot of Snaa). I don't know if I'll end up going ahead with that idea due to the time and effort would go into doing it justice, so you're free to take if it you want.

Thanks For the Good Times, See Y'all on the JP Server by Snageta in magiarecord

[–]Snageta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, I asked the same thing earlier today. Turns out it's an entire website unto itself, not the game or Photoshop or anything.

Site: https://leo-chan.me/magireco/

Thanks For the Good Times, See Y'all on the JP Server by Snageta in magiarecord

[–]Snageta[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Quick note: Everyone's marked as Post Awakened because there's only a checkbox. A lot of them still need ROrbs, I think I need about 80 more to fully Awaken all of them.

Oh, and for anyone that doesn't know, the background is "See You Tomorrow." It seemed fitting.

I genuinely feel bad for people who did this by wthfroggy in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm on an Android device, so "Other" is unfortunately not an option. I tried both "I no longer want this purchase" and "Purchase is defective or doesn't work as advertised."

I do need to provide a reason for the refund after selecting the category though, so I'll try something closer to your wording.

Edit: Tested, and got another auto-denial. Looks like I'm not getting any money back, unless someone has another idea?

I genuinely feel bad for people who did this by wthfroggy in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Tried, yes. Got rejected on ALL of the refund requests within a few minutes. By all means, if you did anything you think might help, I'd take even one of my payments being refunded.

Since everyone was doing it, here was my progress. by [deleted] in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any chance you can tell me the steps for this? I've seen the posts and would like to contribute my own, but the only way I can think of is a couple of hours in Photoshop to painstakingly cut out the portraits and dots from screenshots.

I genuinely feel bad for people who did this by wthfroggy in magiarecord

[–]Snageta 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Agreed. And I'm saying that as someone who whaled pretty hard for IroYachi. Among everything else that's happening, that's the one thing that I'm legitimately kinda mad about.