Rage of Bahamut Beginners Guide

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Questing and Leveling:

Since at this point you are level 1 and can't do much at all, let's get out there and level up through quests! Each time you do a quest you use Stamina. Each quest tells you the amount of Stamina it takes to do the quest. For level 2-1 through 2-5 it only takes you 1 stamina to do each quest. This is partially a lie, but partially true. It is true because you can do the quest in 1 stamina increments if you choose to. However, if you complete the quest in 3 stamina increments you will receive a chest which contains either a card, a treasure, or rupies. In stages 2-1 through 2-5 it takes 10 total stamina to complete each section.

You gain experience towards your next level each time you use stamina and do a quest. The amount of experience you gain is always 1:1 to the amount of stamina you use. Therefore at the same time you complete stage 2-1, you should gain your first level and become level 2

If you notice after you gain this level, your Stamina refills. This happens every time you gain a level and it also happens to your Attack Power and Defense Power. Since until level 10, you can't do much else besides level and quest, you may as well put all of your attribute points into Stamina so that each time you level you don't have to wait X amount of minutes for it to recharge. This makes leveling and progressing extremely quick and easy at the beginning of the game. In fact, I would recommend not putting one attribute point into Attack Power or Defense Power until you have at least 50 into Stamina.

You may notice that on your main page you have a stat called Fellows and it shows 0/5 (or more if you have leveled farther). As I stated before, you get 5 attribute points for each fellow you have so lets go get some fellows to help level up even faster. First off, what are Fellows? Fellows can be anybody in game. At the beginning, just try to ask anyone and everyone to be your fellow to get the attribute points. Eventually your fellows will be your friends, foes, ordermates, and trading partners. You can always drop fellows later, so don't worry about who they are at the early stages of the game they can be replaced . Every two levels you gain, you will be able to add another Fellow. Make sure you continue to take advantage of this.

Now that you've gotten more attribute points and can level through 2-5 fairly quickly what's next? Once you complete 2-5 you'll encounter a boss battle. You must defeat the Boss to continue onto the next section. At early levels it doesn't matter much what card you use, you'll be able to defeat the boss easily. Once the Boss is defeated you will go through a short story sequence and then be able to proceed to quest 3-1. Questing continues in this fashion up until (currently) section 33-5.

Next section: Level 10 and beyond!

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CARDS!!!

Finally, to the most central portion of the game! Everything revolves around your cards. Getting new and more powerful cards is what makes this game soooo addicting. So without further ado...

How to get cards:

You can get cards a number of ways:

1. Card Packs
2. Questing
3. Rewards
4. Trading

Let's start with card packs. When you start the game you are given a few cards, friendship points, and Legendary card packs. You can redeem card packs by going to the button on the upper right of your screen. The first option is the Friendship pack. These packs contain mostly normal and high normal cards with the very occasional rare sprinkled in. Supposedly you can get high rare cards through friendship packs, but I have yet to see it. Each friendship pack costs 200 friendship points. You earn friendship points by interacting with other players. In addition to that, each day you login to the game you get both 400 friendship points and a free card pack, essentially giving you a total of 3 free cards each time you login.

The second option is the legendary pack. This contains cards of rank rare and higher (supposedly also high normals as well, but again I have yet to see it). You get a total of 4 free legendary card packs as you progress through the game. 1 when you first start, 1 when you beat the first boss, 1 when you reach level 20, and 1 when you reach level 40. You can get more through event rewards or purchase with real world money.Each pack costs approximately 3 dollars or 2 pounds. You can get a small discount by buying in bulk.

In addition to these two packs, there are packs you can earn through referrals or rewards. These other packs typically obtain cards of rank high rare or better.

Method #2 for obtaining cards is through questing. As stated before, each time you complete three "quests" (kill three-five monsters) in a row you obtain a chest which most likely contains a card. You can only obtain normal and high normal cards this way. The first high normal cards begin to appear around quest 15-1 or so.

Method #3 for obtaining cards is through rewards. The first and most common rewards are Treasure Collection Rewards. Every 4 levels there is a new set of treasures you must collect. Each set contains 6 different colors of the same item. Once you collect all 6 colors of that item, you trade them in for a rare or high rare treasure card. These Treasure cards are fairly powerful, but not as powerful (or as tradable) as standard rare and high rare cards. Other rewards you can obtain are through events. Every week or two, there is a new event that lasts a few days. At the end of these events, high ranking players obtain rewards that can include powerful cards. One last way to obtain reward cards is through referrals (you can see my code at the top). For each person you refer to the game that uses your code, you obtain 4 levels of rewards. First is right away, you get 1000 friendship points. When the referred person reaches level 10 you get a Rare card and 100,000 rupies. When the referred person reaches level 30 you get 5 holy powders. When the referred person reaches level 50 you receive a high rare or better card pack!

Method #4 is trading. I talked in detail about it earlier so I won't re-hash it.

Next up: Evolving and Enhancing Cards

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Evolving and Enhancing in combination:

In order to create the most powerful cards, you must do a combination of evolving and enhancing. Let's return to our Jiao example. The absolute most powerful form of the Jiao (or any other card) is what is called an 8-14 evo. What this means is that you used 8 cards in the evolution and did a total of 14 max enhances (maximum level) to get to the final form of a [Shuddering Scales] Jiao. Once you get THAT card to maximum level (level 30), it's stats will be Attack: 5170, Defense: 5938.

To do an 8-14 evo takes a LOT of time and Rupies, so it is an uncommon way to get the most out of your cards. You can do very efficient evolutions by using 4-6 evo, 6-2 evo, or 6-4 evo. Using fewer cards, but more max enhancements becomes much more efficient when using more rare and expensive cards. Here are a few examples of the difference in stats between different evolutions of a [Shuddering Scales] Jiao:

8-14: 5170, 5938
6-10: 5150, 5916
6-4: 5104, 5862
6-2: 5056, 5808
4-6: 4995, 5738
4-0: 4477, 5145

As you can see, the difference isn't huge for putting so much time, effort and money in a perfect 8-14 evo. My personal preference is for the 6-2 evo method, but everyone has their own preferences. I can say that any 4-0 evo card is a lot more difficult to trade away for any value as opposed to a 6-2. A 6-2 evo goes for about double the value of a 4-0 evo of the same card.

I forgot to note earlier, whenever you evolve a card, the level of the card AND skill level of the card, both return to 1. It is important to note that it is not worth making any attempt to increase skill level until the card is fully evolved into it's final form because of this. Also worth noting is that while enhancing the fully evolved final form, it's a decent idea to used skilled cards as enhancers if you can afford them. It helps kill two birds with one stone.

Again, I know this section will come off as extremely confusing at first, but you'll get the hang of it once you play around a little.

Good guide! Let's keep this going!

You should put something in about events like Holy Wars and the one coming up

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The second of the two story arcs deals with the resurrection of Fafnir and is all PvE based. I started the game on the last day of the latest part of this event, so have yet to participate in one, so bear with me.

The first portion was the Easter Egg event, in which players race to complete as many event quests as possible. The event quests function very similarly to the current quests where you complete 5 quests and then must defeat a boss. Once you beat the boss you earn rewards. There were 100 levels to complete in the Easter Egg Event. Once those 100 levels were completed, players had the option of replaying the last levels to increase their rank for higher rewards.

The second portion of the Fafnir arc was called The Roar of the Dragons. In this event, players joined forces with their ordermates to defeat several dragons. Rewards were given based on the number of dragons an individual defeats, the number of dragons an order defeats, the amount of damage an individual did to dragons, and the amount of cumulative damage that your order did to dragons.

The third portion of the Fafnir arc is called the Tears of the Moon and is yet to take place. Based on information given by the developers, it sounds like it will run similarly to the Easter Egg event, where players must complete several levels to gain rewards.

Doubt it will get stickyed. I may try to do a FAQ but I've never done one before.