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These are all the ninja I have currently, along with the level 29 Azure Fang Main. EDIT: Recruited Kankuro & Neji

I have all 4 sets of equipment at the blue quality (and leveled up to 29) and am slowly gaining the materials to upgrade them further.

I've completed all of the level 20 Elite Instances at least once, so can sweep them all if it's worth doing.
Almost at the end of the Chapter 3 Plot Instances (Battle for Konoha Hospital is the last one I completed)
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Hi.

You should use your stamina to farm for materials to upgrade your equipments and awakening materials. Also, remember to save all your stamina potions for Monday because of the 2x instant sweep exp. If you do not want to level (which you will catch up to them at some point of the game because of the level cap), you can save your stamina potions for stamina events such as the character plates event we are having now. Elite instances aren't a waste. They give out ninjas which when unlocked, give you a small amount of coupon for unlocking a new ninja. There are also some really good ninja frags which you can farm (Kurenai, Sasuke, Guy, etc).

Always save your coupon. One day there will be a good event which you can spend on. One of them I'm talking about is the Treasure of the Sage event which you can obtain Iruka with coupons, which is one of the best ninja in the game thanks to his passive.

Only use your group contribution points to increase your group skills. Always donate regularly. These points will come in handy and its more worth it to increase your group skills rather than increasing the level of your equipment because it gives more bp when you increase your group skills.

As stated above, spend your coins on donating and upgrading your group skills. When you maxed them, move on to upgrade your equipment levels.

Get Kisame and Tobi in the ninja shop. Tobi is a really strong ninja for now. For elite instances, farm whatever ninja that suits your lineup. They are really great and useful. You c*so go for hidan but you won't find much use for him except in ranked battle due to how squishy he is. Kurenai is one of the ninja with mirror genjutsu, which is also a great passive.

Elite instances are never a bad idea; Gives you a chance to farm out new ninjas and strengthen those you currently have. Hinata/sasuke are never a bad bet to continue to grind out everyday. So as a f2p it really depends on your main who you want to grind out to work with your team, but hinata is always a good return for your grind. Guy can be great for your team in both pvp and pve with his leech for your team and interupt plus his stats buffs.

As for you coupons it's always best to save them for a favorable event which changes every Thursday and last a week, just be patient it may take a month or 2 of saving your coupons for them to reward you with something in an event. For instance Iruka is a very good ninja, he's in this weeks event and if you have the chance to snag him at 24coupons/fragment, thats 720coupons to recruit him(2stars). And well worth it. So be patient and if you're unsure if a current event is worth you spending your coupons c*ways refer here for insight on whether it is or not for a f2p player.

As per your group contributions It may vary from person? I personally would max my ninj/attack/*ion's first then work on life/res/def and then whatever is left. Donate max everyday! Then whateever is left upgrade your equipment.

As for the vendors it's whatever your preference is once again, while they may be cheaper in future shop updates it just means itll be even longer til you have that ninja if you're going to wait, so when push comes to shove currently its a tobi hype train and he's very good paired with hinata and someone who can repulse. Kabuto is a * good healer and generally used in most PVE content*cough* Strong Approaching* His clones and heals are undeniably the best and worth the buy. While this last one is utterly and completely preference, if you want to sacrifice the need not to get any ninjas in group/ranked shop you can obtain medium refine/low refines... Start stocking up at L60 they becomes super relevant for PvP, not that they aren't always so I'd just say get ahead of the game, just a forewarning it is expensive no matter how you look at it and as f2p this is the easiest way I'd believe.(Just start once you've got the ninjas you want or have spare coins)


As for your stamina it can be partially used on elite instances to grind out ninjas you want. If you can do strong approaching(When you reach of level of course), get it out of the way so you can grind out your battle armor to rank 3 and get your level up in it. And use the remaining stamina to grind out your mats for upgrading your equipment.



As A final reminder, I would recommend saving ALL of your seal scrolls until the L80 Treasure is released in a future update. while you may be behind now, when the meta changes and shifts possibly with Kage treasure when its released it'd be better to dip your hands into that treasure with far more relevant ninjas then wasting your time with ninjas who wont be viable anymore(Not to say they wont, but personally I believe it'd be the smartest move) and just use your free pulls and you're still bound to get something nice sometimes down the road. This will be the greatest testament to your patience and self ability to hold yourself back.

To add to the final reminder SAVE all your stamina pots for a thursday event that will be worthwile for a good ninja you can grind out purely on stamina. I have around 220stamina potions and 100 (10stamina) potions sitting around just for that cause right there. I know some people will say save them for monday expierence days, but truley... all you're getting x2 exp on missions so as a f2p youll be getting 3k instead of 1500exp per an instance sweep.... In the end it's not even worth it, You'll be stuck at the level waiting spots like everyone else and eventually be stuck at level cap... where as you couldve jsut saved them been patient on levels and gotten a kickass ninja out of it(And once again if you're unsure of stamina events and not sure if it's time to * your stam pots ask here and will help you to insure if its a green or red light to start drinking those pots)
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About your stamina just use it for sweeps now, soon you'll start needing stuff like awakening materials and such which will also need some minor farming. Mostly now just pick a couple ninjas to sweep for frags and the rest for materials to upgrade stuff or just exp.

If you can get 720 coupons in the next two days from all the milestone rewards and such you might wanna pick up Iruka from the current event at 20% discount otherwise just save up till another event with good returns comes along.

Group contribution should only be used in one thing, upgrading your group skills. The first 5 that raise your basic stats are the ones that give the most power in return so I'd focus on those first. Wasting contribution on Lucky Wheel is not worth it unless you already max your skills.

While your group skills are low it's a far better investment to use your coins to donate to your group daily and level them up with that contribution and spending the leftovers to strengthen a bit or spend them for materials and frags on the Black market.

As a Water Main you definitely want 3 star Haku and Tenten for the 9tails event. Hinata and Sasuke are also very popular choices for pvp once they hit 2 and 3 stars respectively.

As for the shops from Arena you might want Kurenai, from Ranked Sai and Kakuzu, from Group Kisame and Survival you want pretty much everyone but Lee. Tobi's great at the moment although will get nerfed at some later point, Kabuto is very useful and Suigetsu is amazing for Water Main 9tails teams.


Just a side note do not expect to have a universal team, different modes in this game call for different kind of teams and builds. So you're gonna be using a different team for PvP, a different one for ranked, a different one for 9tails, another for Strong Approaching(lvl 43+ instance) etc.

Thanks for the info Narbsy.

With sweeps, do you get as much in terms of rewards as you do from manually clearing the instance? It could have been bad RNG but it seemed like I wasn't getting any bonus 10 or 8 character fragments when I sweeped some Elite instances vs getting them every (or nearly every) run I did manually.

To clarify, I was specifically meaning at such a low level the elite instances might have been a waste, unless some of the ninja from the level 20 instances are actually useful? If so, which of them are actually worth doing and levelling up? I have all of them unlocked (bar Kiba and Kakashi, though I should get Kakashi in a few days from the 7 day log in).

Speaking of the Treasure of the Sage event. Should I spend any/all of the 287 coupons I have on buying Iruka then? Also is the price of his fragments randomised each time? If yes, do you knwo what the range is or what price it's worth trying to wait for?

Good to know with the group skills Vs equipment, I shall put the coins there instead then. Is there any particular order that's better to prioritise the Group Skills or to just keep them all on the same level roughly?

I'll work on getting Tobi unlocked through the survival currency, Kurenai with the Arena currency and Kisame with the Group Currency.

Those bonus frags you're describing were first time clearance rewards. In elite instances sweep and manual are the same thing, on Plot ones you get more coins if you manual and pick up everything in the map but noone does that(at least that I know of :P )

As for iruka I'd say wait till you have the full amount needed, since events are the only way to get frags for him now there's little benefit to having like half of them. The base price is standard, what is random is if they will appear with a 0, 10 or 20 % discount. So if you go for him refresh till you get 20% off.

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More awesome info, thank you.

So sweeps do give you as much as manually running the instance? Or is there a minor loss to compensate for the instant speed of a Sweep?
Also, am I right in thinking that (providing I am able to complete them) using Stamina for the Main Plot is better than farming the materials?

Ah good to know the value is fixed for buying Iruka. If I manage to get the extra 433 coupons I'll use them on him then.

What is or when will the 9Tails event happen? Is it something I should prioritise or something that there's a fair bit of time before it happens?

I totally get different teams for different situations. I worded my primary goal badly, I meant that I want to have sufficient ninjas to do each thing, whether it be a singular team or a completely different team for each thing.

Thanks again for all the info

Probably a dumb question...

What Thursday event are you referring to? The Double food for trial practice in rich field? or something else that I'm unaware of?

Ah yeah, that explains the bonus frags.

Yeah I'll wait til I have all or nothing for Iruka. Yeah the reduction is what I was wondering about being randomised. Good to know. I'll hold the keys until I have 720 then spam for the 24 coupon frags. Thanks

If you have instances in Main plot you have not completed then yes, it's definitely better to do those instead of farming stuff since they always come with a quest and quite a lot of exp if that's what you meant. If you meant sweeping Elite vs Plot then it's mostly what you need. I always do my Elite sweeps first to upgrade the ninjas I have decided are a "priority" like my Haku and Orochimaru and then move to Main Plot to farm materials for upgrading and awakening. If I get all I need there too I return to Elites and get some frags for some of my secondary ninjas. It doesn't mean that is what's best though, we all play this game differently so see what you like more and go for it!

The 9tails Invasion is a timed event that happens daily except Wednesday and Saturday at 20:10 server time. In short for 40 minutes you fight Kurama for a few turns before he kills you, you ressurect and do it all over again until time runs out or you kill it(damage is ofc *ulative from every single person participating). It awards coins, exp, a magatama and some coupons based on your damage and overall ranking. Since Kurama is immune to debuffs and combo conditions like low Float, Knockdown etc teams are focused on stat boosting, single target damage and chases that activate with x number of hits (like tenten's) This post was last edited by Wolfedood at 2016-10-17 18:25

When I refer to thursday events for both stamina event ninjas and saving coupons for thursday events I'm refering to events that or scheduled for a week team from thursday morning to the following thursday at server reset. These events included such as this weeks are "Treasure of the Sage" & "Ninja's Character Plates" Both of which are located under your "Hot Topics" tab. Come this next Thursday 10/20/2016 we will have new events.

Ah okay, so it would only be a case of using the stamina potion if that particular week's event benefits from it.

That makes more sense

As a f2p Ninetails is something you should prioritise. Not yet for u but soon when your server can kill him, the rewards is huge. For me it's normally around 1m coin, ~450k exp and at least 25 coupon per ninetails.
Ninetails start at 20:10 server time on mon, tue, thu, fri, sun.

I was meaning more what has now been cleared up with plot instances giving you some extra coins for picking up the treasures and purses vs sweeping them.

I shall * to Main Plot > Frag Farm > Material Farm then with the Stamina use.


I shall give the 9Tails event a try then. Do you have any idea what team comp from the ninjas I have would work best?

Would it be something like Haku, Main, Sakura, Hinata? For the Haku water buff on all except Hinata?

good catch, I mixed the times with Sage :L This post was last edited by Wolfedood at 2016-10-17 18:27

instead of Hinata I'd go with Naruto for the clones. Kurama uses a standard attack that hits the whole front column on rounds 1 and 3 which at your level will most probably kill whoever is there instantly so it's good to have clones there. On round 2 he will either use Exploding Hell which will damage the whole team or Roar which will lower your stats but do no damage. On Round 4 he wipes everyone. Also he's weak to all 5 elements and Naruto has a Wind damage mystery so he does extra damage with it This post was last edited by Wolfedood at 2016-10-17 18:33

Ah okay. Very useful info I'd have had no idea about :D

I assume since you want the clones on the front line it'd be something like http://puu.sh/rLUFx/03e782ffb4.png

somewhat but not quite. Another useful piece of info is the mark on your skill descriptions. Think of a battle split into 2 segments. In the first one the AI goes through your whole team in the Move Order you've put them(and the opposing team) and executes all the skills with the mark on them. On the second segment it starts from the top again and now executes their standard attacks or skills without again in the move order they are. If you check haku's skill(and every other skill that generates a field) that they are not a skill which means it'll go during the standard attack "segment" and after your main has attacked. So you want Haku to be ideally at Move order 1 or at least before any of your Water units.

The formation I'd use is:

Naruto haku x
Main x x
Sakura x x

On round 1 you activate Haku's barrier, on Round 2 you use Shark Bomb if that's unlocked, I don't remember what level that one opens. If not you go for Naruto's Mystery. Round 3 either the main's poison skill if Shark Bomb is not unlocked or Sakura's heal if it is and when Sakura starts using her standard attack activate haku's field again(the second one is a one) which should damage Kurama right before the round changes. On round 4 activate Haku's barrier again if he's alive, and use whatever is off cooldown after the barrier launches

Yes I have Shark Bomb, IIRC it was level 25 it unlocks at. For reference of what is unlocked:

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Thanks for the extensive help. I shall try the 9Tails event most likely tomorrow as I'll be out today when it pops up.