Evertale Beginner’s Guide (2024 Update): Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Build a Strong Account and Fight Battles Effectively

There are too many reasons for any turn-based RPG enthusiast to give in to the allure of Evertale.

From its rich main story, the individual tales and skills for the different characters and personas, and the frequent regular event quests—one simply has plenty of reasons to get into it.

In fact, what most consider as its head-turner trait–the artwork–is merely a bonus. ZigzaGames, the developer behind Evertale did serious work to load it with features that appeal to a lot of gamers, with the way they meld influences from franchises like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and other mobile turn-based RPGs that came before it.

Then again, one cannot fully enjoy a game that they cannot conquer. Evertale, with all its features, loots, sections, and the different modes you can participate in, can appear confusing, especially in your first weeks of playing it.

As we all know, confusion can get in the way of fun! This Evertale beginner’s guide is meant to make you cruise past that stage and be on your way toward building your account’s strength.

If you have only picked it up recently and you wish to make sure that you are pulling the right stops for your account, then this guide shall get you in shape.

1. STICK WITH THE STORY MODE

Upon creating an account, you will be directed to begin with Evertale’s base story or the Offline Story mode. In the story, you will be introduced to Finn, Astrid, Ludmilla, and the rest of the original cast.

In terms of the overall feel, this is where Evertale looks a bit like Pokémon. It will have its share of NPCs walking up to challenge you, grass patches with wild creature encounters, dialogue exchanges, towns with backstories, and crucial bosses.

You will essentially be limited just within the Story mode until you reach a certain account rank/level. It is best to enjoy this limited state and try to reach as far as you can. It will teach a lot of things that you need to know to be familiar with the game.

The first time you are stuck with an NPC opponent that you cannot beat, that’s your signal to begin grinding. For that, you will want to go to the furthest grass patch you have yet reached and keep on quickly beating monsters.

This will allow you to organically level up your characters and earn Silver, a currency you can use to buy in town stores. The max level for items and R-class characters is level 40 and anything beyond that will require spending game resources/currencies.

Grass Grinding tip: Stand 3 seconds at the edge of a grassy area, walk two grids into it, wait for another 3 seconds, and then roam within the grass. It will only take a few grids until a monster team battles you. This trick to force wild creature encounters—as for our experience, at least—only fails twice every 30 times.

To keep grass grinding easy, you may want to focus on leveling up the characters you have with an Attack All skill. Once they reach a good number for their Attack value with the help of level, weapons, and accessories (plus some Boost levels too, if you must), they will be powerful enough to clear a creature team in 1-2 turns.

If you have ones with a high speed—those with a Speed value of 280 or above—it will be better since they are guaranteed to attack first. Having reliable 1-3 characters for this fast-clearing trick will let you quickly level up any new units and weapons.

While there is the option of spending Gold to level up characters, it is strongly advised to just manually grind until they hit level 21 or so. Actually, in the Offline Story mode, getting your most used characters to level 40 is a feat that would come naturally, given the length of the entire offline campaign.

Take note though that you may need to spend a few thousand Soul Stones to summon some SR characters (and if you’re lucky, you might get an SSR too). Conquering the bosses in the Offline Story mode will be extremely difficult for a team that is heavily composed of Rs and Ns.

In general, apart from getting a good overall feel of the game, especially with the dynamics of a manual battle, the different free resources, SR items, and heroes you can get make it all worth completing this mode.

2. STOCK UP ON SOUL STONES

Each time you boot up Evertale, you will be greeted by summoning offers. Those shiny presentations of SSR heroes…can get really tempting. That’s especially true if you’re new to the game since the flow of Soul Stones is quite loose in the beginning.

It is not entirely a bad idea to let go of a couple of thousands, especially for a new account. That is because, as we previously stated, it will be impossible to complete the Offline Story mode just with the monsters and characters you can collect within the Story mode.

While you will get one free SSR it will not be enough—you will need to recruit a few more SRs and a set of decent Rs which is possible through summoning. Just make sure to keep an eye on the labels that suggest a better drop rate.

Once you have your solid 8 Story Mode characters at max default levels (no Limit Breaks) and proper equipment, you’ll be set. From that point on start farming and saving your Soul Stones so you can maximize the Lucky Fountain.

Take Advantage of the Lucky Fountain

The Lucky Fountain is likely the most important facet of Soul Stone economics in Evertale and it serves as the developers’ outlet of providence. It requires an incremental amount of Soul Stones that you must offer for a promise to have them multiplied.

The offering denominations have changed since the feature was introduced but currently, the offering goes from 30, 300, 3000, and 30000. In the name of milking it with its monthly reset, you must have at least 30k Soul Stone. This feature refreshes every 15^th day of the month.

If you will be purely on F2P, it is understandable to miss maximizing it in your first few months of playing Evertale. But don’t fret, even if you can only turn in 3k, the bonus Soul Stones will all help with your long-haul farming efforts.

3. ENJOY LEARNING THE GAME TERMS

Understanding the skills is a crucial part of Evertale and there are plenty of terms to get familiar with. From buffs/positive statuses to debuffs/negative statuses and what each skill name implies, it is simply a new world to dive in.

The breadth of terms in Evertale is quite immense; it’s hard to take in everything in-game in just a day or two. To help you get familiar with all sorts of skill labels, effects, and conditions, here is a quick reference.

BUFFS/POSITIVE STATUS:

Counter Stance – whenever a unit with Counter Stance (or given the means to Counter in a round/turn), it will automatically get its turn the moment it is actively hit with an attack. This means that damage ticks from debuffs won’t count.

Endure – grants a one-time protection against a hit that would kill the protected unit.

Enrage – the unit with deal 50% more damage on the next attack it lands.

Quicken – gives a 20% TU discount for using skills, thus enabling the unit to attack quicker or earlier on its next turn.

Stealth – the unit will evade attacks meant to hit two or more targets unless the attack tells otherwise. It is a required setup to use Stealth-based attacks. If a Stealth unit is attacked by a single-target skill, it will be removed.

DEBUFFS/HARMFUL STATUSES:

Burn – the user will take fire damage each time any unit takes a turn. A burning unit will spread the status to any unit that attacks it or it attacks. Among all the debuffs, the Burn status mostly comes as a requirement for most fire-based units to use their stronger skills. Granting Burn to an allied will overwrite Poison (normal) and Stealth.

Poison – similar to Burn but it comes in three modes: Poison (normal), Super Poison (x4 damage), and Mega Poison (x20 damage). All skills that require a Poisoned target will recognize any of the three forms.

Sleep – the affected unit will be disabled, usually for a period of 200 TU. This means that the user will not be able to cast skills. A unit can normally be slept just once per battle; unless the sleep-inducing skill tells otherwise. Receiving attacks and being inflicted with other debuffs (if cast by an enemy) will wake up a sleeping unit; save for specific attacks that are designed to prevent waking targets up.

Stun – a lesser disable compared to sleep. Its duration varies from 50 to 150 TU; it all depends on the stun-inflicting skill’s description. Apart from shorter duration, stuns can be resisted making it less reliable, especially against SSR units, including the ones that do not have an explicit stun resistance.

SKILL NAME BASE TERMS:

Blood – the skill requires to sacrifice an ally which is often a “mori” unless otherwise stated that any ally can be a qualified sacrifice. In manual battles, a confirmation pop-up will appear before activating the skill.

Desperate – the user needs to be under a certain HP% threshold before the skill is unlocked. The usual effects coupled with it are meant to regain health.

Dream/Poison + Eater, Devourer, etc. – these are combo skills that can normally only target enemies that are sleeping or poisoned. Such skills that allow use on non-debuffed enemies may deal lesser damage or require a certain charge mechanic or sacrifice.

Inspired – the skill will only become usable if a non-conjured enemy unit has been slain or sacrificed.

Over Drive – Sometimes simply uses “over” plus another word; such skills usually require a certain amount of Spirits before it can be used. Usually, it requires 7 Spirit but higher variants (those with a “+” sign) need less.

Time – the skill will only be usable or will deal full damage if an enemy unit is behind by a certain amount of TU in the turn order. For some characters, the skill’s damage can increase twice, hitting stronger against enemies who have longer turn wait times.

Survivor – Requires the user to stay on the battlefield for a certain amount of TU (300, normally) before it can be unlocked or deal maximum damage.

Savage – the user needs to kill an enemy with active attacks to unlock the skill. Kills from debuffs or bad statuses do not count, even if the damage tick that killed the unit is caused by the unit that has the Savage-based skill.

Vengeance – the skill will only be usable against enemies who have killed an allied unit of the user. If a Guardian (or a unit with Auto-Guard) redirects the attack and the Guardian has not killed a unit yet, it will be counted as an ineffective account, thus dealing weak damage.

Vigor – the skill will become usable or deal full damage if the user is above a certain HP% threshold, usually at 75% for normal variants and 50% for + versions.

If you carefully read the conditions of the skills above, you should have a general idea of which ones can be easily achieved and which ones will take time, luck, or a team-supported setup. Since you can have 4 units deployed at a time, be aware of which characters can complement one another in terms of “loading up” skills with stronger damage or implications that can turn the tide of a fight.

The ultimate goal in building a team in Evertale is to have 20 different SSRs to occupy your first 4 Platoons. It will take years of game time or investing a good deal of real currency to make that happen.

Since this is a Beginner’s Guide, we can shelve that endgame perspective for now and focus on the feasible options for a new account. As what we mentioned in the previous section, building your first solid 8 should be the immediate order of business.

To help you discern how formidable or lacking each character class is, here is a brief rundown:

N – Has three active skills, has the lowest total stats and power, and has no access to Awakening or Limit Break.

R – Has three active skills, has decent stats and power which are suitable for Story Mode, can be Awakened, and gain access to a fourth skill after a Limit Break.

SR – Has four active skills, has good stats and power which perfectly scales in the Story Modes, and can be competitive in PVP. Awakening and Limit Break options are available.

SSR – Has four active skills that are better versions of what SRs have. They have great stats and power which makes them formidable and dominant in PVP. They are the best and should be considered as the ONLY candidates for Awakening and Limit Breaks.

As the top-tier units in Evertale, SSRs have the best of everything. They also usually have the best speed values, which dictate the initial turn order in battle.

Unlike other games with turn-based combat, Evertale doesn’t follow the standard, alternating turn assignments. The turn of the 8 units deployed (the frontline 4 of each team) will be arranged from the fastest to the slowest.

The succeeding turns of a unit will depend on the time unit (TU) cost of the skill it casts in its previous turn. It will be like that until the fight ends or when the unit is defeated. If you actively choose to skip a turn, it will be worth 50 TU.

Outside of the characters and skills, the rest of the terms you must be accustomed to are with the items and resources. Whatever loot you get from fights, events, or freebies, all it takes is a tap over the unfamiliar item and you will learn what it is for. It’s quite impossible to get confused with them; save for the ones that look alike and only vary in color (i.e., Limit Break and Mana potions).

4. LOOK FOR COMPLIMENTING TEAM MEMBERS

Whether is it for your Story team or the Platoons you set for PVP, grouping units with complementary skills will prove to be advantageous. Fortunately, the skill descriptions have adequate information, making it easier to understand the conditions required for each skill.

The skill descriptions will be your guide in deciding what units you must deploy together. A quick example is units with Stealth. Characters that require Stealth for their better attacks must be deployed with a teammate who is able to draw fire to prevent the Stealth from being broken. Such units are collectively called Guardians.

Being a Guardian can be in the form of a “Guard Allies” skill and other variations of it. Some units have an Auto-Guard passive skill, which holds a percentage chance to redirect attacks to it. Guardians are essential parts of a lineup, no matter how basic or advanced an account is.

On the advanced spectrum, setting up complementary teammates goes beyond having a Guardian since dynamics like status-based/themed synergies, combos, turn manipulation, and disables come into play. The same goes for incorporating units that can break those exact elements—think of characters that can Purify, steal Spirit, or push a deployed enemy back to the reinforcement line.

If you wish to know who currently are the most powerful heroes in Evertale, do check out our Evertale Tier List: A Complete Ranking of All 130 Heroes.

For a new account, if you’re lucky enough to pull an SSR with your first few thousand Soul Stones, consider building a team around that hero. Meanwhile, if you only have a team of SRs, pay attention to which one or two have the better damage output or have the easiest to achieve combo-skill condition.

Later on, you can explore the possibility of tapping into the debuff-based lineups. The easiest ones would be Poison and Stealth since multiple SR and R units wield skills based on those statuses; some of which are characters and monsters that you can recruit in the Story Mode.

Basically, your resources and luck will be the limit to how strong or how many debuff-based characters you can pool together. Be patient in doing the dailies to amass wealth so you can stock up on Soul Stones and eventually try your luck to summon stronger SSRs.

When resources or luck is not yet on your side, do not hesitate to recruit an SSR as a mercenary; it is an option that is always present for PvE fights (events and Story). Naturally, you should pick the one with the highest level and has a skill set that will not negate or disrupt your team’s template.

5. OPTIMIZE YOUR TEAM’S EQUIPMENT

Just like the characters, weapons, and accessories in Evertale come in SSR, SR, R, and N classes. Likewise, they follow the power tiering. You can gain SSR weapons in the Offline and Online Story modes as well as SR and R accessories.

Fitting weapons is quite a no-brainer and only has a thin parameter—a character may equip ANY weapon as long as it follows the color of its preferred weapon. To be safe, since increasing damage is the primary goal for gearing up your characters, aim to equip your first 8 with the weapons that give them the highest damage possible.

Long swords, great swords, and katanas tend to give the most damage pound-for-pound even if equipped on a character that prefers a different weapon. Hammers, maces, and staves incline to give more HP while axes, great axes, and spears would be right at the middle.

                                    Using the Sort/Filter tool makes it easy to find any equipment of interest.

Taking into account the info above, arming everyone with swords of the highest class possible is the obvious damage-centric choice. However, damage is not everything and not all characters are meant to be damage-dealers. Ultimately, you must look to give everyone weapons that award the best stats and bonuses and by bonus, we mean being able to tap Weapon Skill.

Giving a character its weapon of choice is a forward step in fortifying a team. If a character wields its exact, preferred weapon, it can enjoy whatever Weapon Skill it promises.

Weapon Skills come with specific conditions before they can do their prescribed effect. The percentage of increase it pledges—particularly if it’s additional damage—could spell the difference between being able to one-hit-delete a foe or giving it a “chance” to survive another round and regain health.

Like heroes, weapons can gain level and be powered up, mirroring the same limits and accessibilities as characters in regard to their class. Naturally, you will want to upgrade the gear of your best fighters to boost their Attack and HP values

Accessories, on the other hand, can grant one or a combination of Attack, HP, and Speed. They also come in different classes/tiers but they are not upgradeable so you will have to actively replace what your PVE and PVP characters wear as you get better stuff.

Note that the weapons and equipment you get as loots or any claimed event rewards will be automatically distributed across your platoons. You will need to take time to manually reassign them to their optimal holders. It will be quite tedious to do but it will be worth it especially if you start battling in the Arena.

Deciding what accessory fits who all depends on a character’s role. It’s all about maximizing a character’s strengths and do not allocate equipment to balance out a weakness. For example, if a character has a speed below 200, forcing it to become faster by giving it a speed-giving accessory may be a vain attempt, especially if that character is not a designated damager anyway.

6. RESERVE UPGRADE MATERIALS FOR THE BEST UNITS AND WEAPONS

When it comes to character and weapon improvements, it will take a while to exhaust the Exp Coins and Boost Gems that you can regularly get–especially if you’re playing frequently. Upgrade materials can be obtained from multiple sources and points of freebies.

Despite the abundance, only pour max level and boost upgrades for your best units and their weapons. Getting SSR items is much more feasible than pulling an SSR character so you may end up upgrading more SSR weapons than eligible holders of such weapons.

If all you have at the moment are SR heroes, be content in upgrading just one weapon for each of them. Giving them two fully upgraded weapons of choice (despite their class-related stat limitation) is an investment that you can only profit from in the Online Story mode.

Note that later on, you will have to participate in the Arena because getting ranked there—even just in your own server—guarantees some Soul Stones per day. In PVP modes, fielding SSRs is the way to go and every SR will simply slide to supporting roles.

In general, as long as you will not loosely max. upgrade every single SSR weapon you have, you can keep sufficient materials for the best gear you wish for your top 8 to have. The same is true with pushing the Boost level for characters. In case you have multiple SSRs in your roster, consult our tier list to know which ones deserve to be upgraded first.

7. BE DILIGENT WITH THE DAILIES AND FREEBIES

Just like any online RPG game with a gacha element, Evertale has its own set of Daily Missions. As in most games, “dailies” are the actions with fitting bonuses claimable every 24-hour cycle.

It is not tricky to spot these actions as they will all be marked with the red notification dot. You can essentially freestyle your approach or do the tasks in any order that you wish. To make things easier for you, however, here is an efficient task clearance pattern:

Tower of Trials: Claim the idle bounty > beat one Tower of Trial floor boss > claim the three free exploration loots > use two of any Fast Forward denomination for Tower loots.

If you are yet below account rank/level 80, four hours’ worth of spoils from the Tower can promote you to the next rank/level. Keep this in mind if you wish to fast-track your account rank since you will have several Fast Forward Skips to use for this purpose.

Arena: To give you a decent chance to advance, go for opponents who are not too far ahead of you in the rankings. Think of a range within 20 to 50 places from you as the threshold. Remember that the lower the number you see, the stronger the player is.

If you have not been active in the Arena yet, it is advisable to “limit” your advancement little by little so you don’t run out of beatable opponents too soon. The daily task will ask you to fight 5 times and the results do not matter; you get to tick the job off as long as you use up your daily Arena Tokens.

Alliance: Naturally, you will have to join an Alliance first to gain access to this feature to this feature. Once you’re already a part of one, do the unlocked number of Alliance Quests and after which, do the Alliance Check-In which is simply done by tapping on the icon at the bottom of the screen.

Consume Mana: Straightforward as it is; you just need to consume 75 Mana. Choosing where to spend it depends on your account’s current standing. For newer accounts that are yet to finish the Online Story mode, it will be wise to spend it there. Re-matching fight nodes you have already defeated is an option, if you’re aiming for cost-efficiency. Note that you can always pick the Sweep option.

If there is an event at hand and you have already reached an EX stage that gives 800 of the event-locked token per win, pick the highest stage you have already beaten and go for the Sweep option.

Forge: This is best doneafter youhave claimed the freebies from the Friend Summon page. You can dispose of R-class or N-class items you get by forging them (Units > Forge > Weapons).

Forging spare R-class units after you have fully Awakened the ones useful for you is also an option. Either way, regardless if you choose to forge spare characters or weapons, you would still earn resources. A win-win, no matter what.

Completing all the actions above lets you collect all treasure chests in the Daily Missions cluster. It will give you several upgrade materials. Beyond that, sweeping the tasks guarantees a supply of 80 Soul Stones daily!

Don’t Miss the Freebies

One of the great things about Evertale is that, despite having a lot of different resources, there will always be an abundance of them (with the exemption of Soul Stones). If you consistently do the dailies, clear out the Offline Story, and finish a good set of Online Story chapters, you will be able to stockpile what you need.

As long as you won’t go blindly upgrading every single character that lands in your roster, you will be able to pay for enhancements of the ones that matter. Here are the places where there is free stuff every 24-hour reset cycle of Evertale.

The Daily Shop holds a bunch of discounted items and the first purchase of a few options comes for free. If you are in dire need of Mana Potions, Limit Break Potions, and other similar essentials, you can let go of some of your Soul Stones to net the preset deals.

Each page in the Summon Shop has a free-for-grabs Summon Chest in each. Just patiently scroll to each page and look for the treasure chest with the red dot notification mark. There is no need to summon anything for the freebies to unlock; it is there available once a day.

While the freebies are not a part of the Daily Missions, the loads of resources are a welcome boost to your wealth. Note that this is where you can regularly get a few free 100-Mana potions daily. You need to invest a lot of extra Mana to fully Awaken SSR items and take whatever SSR accessory an event offers.

8. MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MANA

The regeneration rate of Mana in Evertale is 1 unit per 180 seconds. Although three minutes sounds fairly fast and you can hold up to 300 Mana, it’s easy to burn through a full tank. Being efficient with Mana or knowing the right usage priority at least is a good practice.

Online Story fights start out costing 27 Mana, which goes up to 40 Mana each in the latter Acts. They are cheaper to take on compared to time-limited events which culminate at 80 Mana per fight.

Despite being more demanding, pouring your Mana on events should be the priority. The rewards behind each event take a long time to cycle back so you simply have to focus on grinding event-specific tokens so you can redeem the best two loots that come with each.

Events will always have one expensive SSR accessory with a stock limit of 1 and then another valuable loot that has a stock limit of 5. This second-best reward is often an SSR weapon or an SR character. Regardless of what is offered, the opportunity to fully Awaken an SSR weapon or SR character is something that you shouldn’t pass up!

Tip: Upon reaching an event “EX” stage that requires 80 mana per fight, you can simply choose the Sweep option and just pump Mana potions. That is the equivalent of grinding in time-limited events.

Finishing the Online Story should only be held as a second priority. Still, find time to complete all 11 Acts because of the SSR items, Soul Stones, and upgrade materials you can get from fights—especially those that stem from golden nodes (optional path).

Lastly, if you have cleared all Online Story fights and there is no event, you can choose to max out the Fluorite Mines. The only reward you should aim within is to obtain and fully Awaken the Scaleshatter.

And that’s about it! Believe it or not, those 8 practices are all that you need to ensure that you are building your account properly in Evertale.

Once you have primed your account right and have cleared all Story missions, it will only take about 15 minutes of game time daily. That should be enough to collect all login-related bonuses and sweep through the dailies without missing a drop of loot.

The general game plan of an Evertale player is simple: save up on Soul Stones, extract all resources you can get from events and features, summon SSRs in bulk, and keep your fingers crossed whenever you do!

No need to be extra. At the end of the day, Evertale is a gacha game so spending resources and summoning dictates the tempo and the meta.

We appreciate the time you spent reading through our Evertale Beginner’s Guide. We are glad to impart you with the sound basics that you need to start an account the right way.

Remember that our aim here is for everyone in our community to shine so if you have questions or need any clarifications, feel free to use the comment section below. Like a newly acquired SSR dawning, we all must glow together!