Tower of Fantasy Guide

Free to Play Guide for Tower of Fantasy

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Table of Contents

Overview

The optimal way to progress in this game is to choose the 2-3 SSR weapons you want to use, research the best SSR matrices for those weapons (4 each), hoard all your resources for leveling up your weapons and matrices, then gacha pull until you have your ideal setup. This guide will help you choose your weapons + matrices and provide time-optimal methods to get pulls and resources for making them more powerful.

Other resources:

Getting Started

Choosing a Simulacrum/Character/Weapon

Simulacrums, characters, and weapons are the same thing, so for the purpose of this guide, I will refer to them as weapons.

Simulacrum Weapon Class Element Type
Claudia Red Lotus Blade Attack Physical Sword
Shiro Ring of the SeaBlade Attack Physical Chakram
Cobalt-B Blazing Revolver Attack Fire Gun (Shotgun)
King Black Crow Scythe Attack Fire Scythe
Tsubasa (Hane) Ice-Wind Arrow Attack Ice Bow
Crow (Karasuma) Lightning Blades Attack Lightning Dagger
Samir (Semir) Super Electromagnetic Double Star Attack Lightning Gun (Dual Pistols)
Meryl Rosy Edge Defense Ice Greatsword
Huma (Schumer) Melt-Down Shield V2 Defense Fire Sheild/Axe
Cocoritter Absolute Zero Scepter Support Ice Scepter
Zero (Rei) Veto Cube Support Fire Cube

When choosing a weapon, there are a few things you should take into account:

  1. Enjoyment

    If you don’t enjoy your weapons then you’ll never want to play, so you’ll never make progress. The most important thing is that you enjoy your weapon so you stay motivated to grind for progression.

  2. Shatter and Charge Rate

    Shatter is the value on the left, and Charge Rate is the value on the right. Stronger enemies will have a powerful shield that is very difficult to destroy if you don’t have any weapons with high shatter (10+). As such, it’s important to have atleast one weapon that can shatter enemy shields. Charge Rate affects how often you can use your discharge ability, and although it is important, it isn’t as necessary as shatter. Ideally you would have atleast one weapon with high Shatter and one with high Charge Rate. Some weapons have both high Shatter and Charge Rate.

  3. Team Requirements

    If you play with other people, consider choosing weapon classes that compliment their playstyle. In most MMORPGs a team of 4 attackers might technically be the best for clearing efficiency, but unless you’re a whale and have the best gear, it’s likely that your party will wipe many times in harder content. Playing as a support or tank might give your party a higher chance of success.

  4. Resonance

    Weapons are categorized into 3 classes; tank, support, and attack. Choosing a combination these classes will provide bonuses. This is known as Resonance and it will allow you to further specialize what kind of playstyle you want to have, especially in a team setting. Choosing a neutral/balanced resonance generally has fewer bonuses.

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  5. Element

    Elements provide debuffs to enemies when they are hit, however these debuffs do not stack, they only refresh. As a result, it is ideal to have a variety of elements within your party to apply as many elemental debuffs as possible

  6. Tier List (PvP vs PvE)

    ToF is not a perfectly balanced game so some weapons are stronger than others, though all of them are good enough for end game content with enough resources. If you want to be the best, I suggest looking at weapon tier lists which I will not cover in this guide as it will be constantly changing between patches.

Day-One Guide

This serves as a day-one guide, but is also applicable as a checklist that you can perform every day. It should take ~2 hours to complete.

  1. Main story quest up to the limit, indicated by the yellow exclamation mark
  2. Level 15
  3. Daily bounties
  4. Ruins
  5. Level 18 (level cap)
  6. Ability training (purchase special gift with training points)
  7. Black market / Hopkin’s secret box
  8. Cetus island arcade claw fox (this is quite hard to get to, don’t worry about it unless you’re up for a challenge)

Along the way you should also be doing the following if its nearby:

Optimal Resource Usage

As a free to play, your resources are limited, so it’s important you min-max them for optimal progression. Here are the limited resources you have access to, and the best ways to use them.

Pull rates:

Tower of Fantasy Currency Guide for Genshin Players: https://youtu.be/ss0lsfovfEs

Equipment / Armor

TODO: improve this section

Set milestone bonus:

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Relics

Relics are usually granted by completing a ruin for the first time. They are tools that have many uses like providing mobility, dealing damage, unlocking puzzles. It’s recommended that you make a Relic set so its easy to switch between them using a hotkey (default G) which will let you move around more easily while traveling and add some damage to your combos while in combat.

Cooking

Early on, it’s important to prioritize unlocking all the recipes rather than making the most efficient food. This is because unlocking a recipes usually grants an achievement which rewards you with a Black Nucleus.

Some foods grant different bonuses like resistance to a specific element, while others grant increase stamina. Many of the most efficient recipes use honey, so it’s important to destroy any hives you see and pickup the honey.

To get the chance of making new recipes to 100%, you need to put a total of 15 ingredients. You should fill the rest of the recipe with ingredient you have the most of. Because of this, you should start with the recipes that contain ingredients (Salad dressing, Onion, Rice, Milk, Carbonated water) you can buy from the food vendors (Astra beside Ruin A-01, Banges Dock) as you can get 100 at a time for very cheap which makes them great as filler ingredients.

All recipes are available on the database: https://toweroffantasy.info/food

TODO: other notes I’ve made that I need to organize into this guide

Personal setup

  1. Coco + 4x Coco Matrix
  2. Zero + 4x Coco Matrix
  3. King or Meryl or Shiro + 2x Shiro Matrix + 2x King Matrix