Tips & Tricks

Combat

• Always exploit weaknesses first — the extra turns snowball entire fights.
• Keep one Healer and full elemental coverage across the party.
• Spend MAG to inherit versatile skills so your team isn't locked to one role.
• Ambush weaker overworld foes to start battles a turn ahead.

Calendar

• Budget days: a little bonding every free day compounds into big power.
• Keep the Royal Virtue a bond needs rising so you never stall at a rank gate.
• Clear dungeons early to free up days for Followers and stats.
• Do Gauntlet Runner activities on travel days so no time is wasted.

Combat efficiency

• Open with the field attack to stagger a foe and start a turn ahead.
• Chain weakness hits to keep press-turns rolling and finish fights fast.
• Guard a vulnerable member's turn when a big attack is coming to deny the enemy icons.
• Refill at a shop or rest point before a boss instead of limping in.

Followers

• Each of the 14 Followers caps at Bond Rank 8 — story beats, specific requests and simply spending time together all raise it.
• There's no single "correct" answer in Follower events — some dialogue choices just pay out more bonus MAG, not a hidden affection score.
• Rush new party members to Follower Rank 4 early; most bonds hit a wall there until a later story beat reopens them.
• Match your stat grinding to what the next Follower event needs, so you're not stuck waiting on Courage, Imagination or another stat to catch up.

Exploration

• You can strike overworld enemies directly for a surprise-round advantage instead of always opening a scripted encounter.
• Fast travel unlocks at the Gauntlet Runner's Engine Room in late June — after that, both the map and the ship teleport you between towns.
• Fast travel only covers towns; getting back into an already-visited dungeon still means boarding the Gauntlet Runner and sailing there.
• Sweep every dungeon for its blue-dot items and chests before leaving — backtracking later wastes real calendar days.

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