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With Jewel Princess's open beta right around the corner, here's a few tips and reminders from closed beta to give you some direction as you start off. As long as things haven't changed too much, anyways.

- All units have 1-2 (usually 2) abilities. Keep special lookout for units who are able to inflict status effects, heal teammates, or have an extremely powerful single-target nuke on a long cooldown.
- All units from the preregistration gacha can come from the gacha at rarities between 3-5*. Since units can be upgraded, getting a low-tier unit will waste you money and time, but not much since it's pretty trivial to level a 3* up to a 4*.
- There are five types of units: blues (offensive mages), reds (offensive warriors), yellows (tanks), purples (universals/jacks-of-all-trades), and greens (healers).
- Healers are extremely useful and you will want to pick one up ASAP if you didn't have one already, no matter what team you're thinking of making. As of closed beta, there were only 4 healers:
>Seraphinite (single-target heals with a single-target rez and a free self-res on death once per battle)
>Amber (multi-target heals and the ability to remove status effects)
>Tourmaline (multi-target heals and a multi-target resurrect)
>and Aventurine (a single-target heal and multi-target heal with no resurrects or status cleanses).
- If you didn't pick up a healer, the game gives you a 4* Seraphinite (and Aqua Aura, a tank) simply for starting out.
- Keep dupes, since they're used to expand the level cap for units when they reach level 30 at 6*. You will need 5 dupes per unit: they each expand the level cap by 2 for the parent unit, up to a max level of 40. If you get more than 5 dupes of a unit, it's probably okay to sell extra unless they've added additional mechanics.
- Don't get too attached and don't invest too heavily into the free Spectra (5* base unit) the game gives you. I'm not sure their exact rarity but unless you whale, it's likely that the Spectra will be stuck with a level cap of 30-32 at 6* due to the level cap expansion mechanics and how difficult it is to pull dupes of them, nearly halving their stats compared to a lower-base-rarity 6*.
- Focus on clearing campaign maps when you first start off, sticking with the basic difficulty. Unless you maxed out your preregistration units and have a capable, sturdy healer the second and third difficulties of the story campaigns might be tough - they tend to be battles of attrition until you sufficiently outclass them.
- Units sell for ludicrous amounts of gold, so selling off units you don't care for will easily sustain your progress early on if you don't plan on maxing everyone you get.
- There are two big progress-stoppers early on. EXP of units can only be raised with EXP gems and a handful of gold, but the EXP gems are only easily obtained en masse from a daily dungeon that rotates in weekly. The same goes with evolution materials, which are used to upgrade a unit's rarity. There are keys to unlock the daily dungeons off of the usual day of the week they're accessible on - dozens were handed out in the closed beta but I'm not sure how prevalent they'll be otherwise.

>>18570582
Yes and no. Closed beta just started and I think that's now locked off unless you signed up for it previously, but the selection gacha for the game's release is still fully accessible from the main page.

>>18570621
If you got in there should be a purple button on the standard gacha page where the closed beta signup button used to be, click that and it'll let you in.

The game seems to be a fairly standard wave-based RPG so far, think Brave Frontier if anyone ever played that. Interestingly units can go below the minimum star total from the pre-registration gacha - I saw a helper with a 4-star Peridot (you can see her in the bottom corner; I think the unit takes the place of one of yours if somebody bites it) and I already have a 3-star Aqua Aura from the gacha too. Seems like a lot of the money is going to come not from unit acquisition, but the game's equipment gacha and premium skins. There's already a swimsuit version of Diamond, a school uniform Ruby, and a military uniform Aqua Aura available, all of which I believe are supposed to unlock different H-scenes upon the game's release.

And prepare for absurd amounts of jiggle physics, I think Morion and Zircon are the only members of this team whose chests aren't constantly spasming.