I reckon just save your coupons and only spend them to increase your power because ninjas will come to you eventually down the line. A bonus would be, taking advantage of the Rune Stone rebates and that Refine rune rebate. Save up all your Eight Gates chakra points and only spend it on initiative is important too.

By the time those events come and you've ac*ulated quite a few coupons, medium refine runes, and purifications from a variety of activities, you will eventually end up with quite a bit of power and initiative. Just give it time, since you're only F2P. This post was last edited by 115***@google at 2017-4-3 08:49

Purification,
Runes stone,
Refine runes
Quick runes

Rune cave, Quick rune, refine, purify

Easiest way to start is low-level refines in ranked shop, I suppose.

So with that, clear level 4 for all 20 pieces of equipment first before working on medium refines.

Refine your P1 character as high as possible (7,8 all of them and maybe a 9 if you have the resources). Then purify starting with your highest refined equipment until you have purple or golden on init (the rest of the stats you can get later using purification protection runes) - for this wait for a refinment event, should help alot if you have plenty resources

The rest of the characters should be at least level5 refines.

+ init cave runes, 8th gates quick runes, This post was last edited by Cypress at 2017-4-3 13:33 This post was last edited by Cypress at 2017-4-3 13:34 This post was last edited by Cypress at 2017-4-3 13:37

No way f2p is getting 9 refine, rofl.
Maybe 8 after a year and including the wish credits from 6 to 7.

It's very hard to get a 9 I admit, but it can be done if you save your coupons - this is just to give a goal to focus on.
Imo initiative is the most important stat in the game. I invested all my resources on init and especially on my main character and I don't regret it. I'm not top 10 on my server but I usually win against positions 4+ because I have barrier and higher init. This post was last edited by Cypress at 2017-4-3 14:25

Step 1) Maximize the refine runes you get, use group points and ranked points ONLY for Low Level and Medium Level refine runes.

step 2) Save your runes for a refine event. To use a refine event well, you really need a good stack. Somewhere around 200-400 of the type of rune you need (e.g., med or low level). refining 60 runes during a refine event wont get you anything unless you get really lucky (or unless we're talking about low level refine).

Step 3) while saving, use your purification runes wisely. Purify is the most underrated part of getting good init and I think most people don't do it wisely.

The goal: You want to have purple/gold initiative on five different types of items so you can put it on your main character. Also remember that purple is not all the same, sometimes you can have high 70s purple or low 60s purple.

Keep purifying the worst purified items you have when you have purifies. In general, you want to have a good stack of purifies, or coupons as backup if you want to purify.

How do we purify wisely? IMO, I value initit about 2x the value of crit, 5x the value of everything else. Control, Combo, Injury have their uses but dont protect them. Your goal is to get best initiative possible, then best crit possible, and if you can get good stats there, great. If you get an orange control and you keep trying to protect it, you'll run out of coupons.

So If I get a white init, I don't care what the other stats are. I will purify again.

Step 4) once you get the best purifies, refine that equipment with the stack of med refine runes you have. If you don't have a good stack, the best event to get them right now is Lucky Board.

Step 5) Hopefully you might even have enough adv runes to get it up to 315. Again, you want to try and get your main init as high as possible. A secondary goal is to get your team init as high as possible. Team initiative (the combined initiative of your team) determines whose barrier will stay on from the kage ninjas. Also, it can occasionally decide a fight if your 3rd or 4th pos goes before your opponent.

A second and third things to do are work on your BA (and level during a BA event) and save your cave keys for a cave key rebate. If you can't do SA difficult on both hidan and hanzo, you're missing out on a good stack of med thread. Also, you want to use your monthly points on Med Thread (also you can be using lucky board for this too).

You really want to do at least 100 cave keys during the rebate (200 or 500 are better obviously). Finally, you also want to try and get a quick rune from eight gates.

This post was last edited by rpa***@gmail.com at 2017-4-3 17:54 This post was last edited by rpa***@gmail.com at 2017-4-3 17:55