Quick n Dirty Tips For All New Players

Welcome to epTO!!! Here's some useful tips for you!!

General Info

Joining a guild can be essential to your guide forward. I suggest looking into joining one!

XP is x6 for quests and x12 for regular grinding, but drop rate is 1x
Paula is a good character but she is hard-tuned to be good in LATE game and very hard early to mid game while her DA is very low, I do not recommend her as a FIRST character but she is good as a second/third, especially if you are not experienced with speedrunning to late game.

You can SKIP Towns! Don't do Pop/Oops, if you can help it.
It may also be viable for you to go only up to GB and then start climbing CT, that's what I do and I get to 190 with a good set that way. I do not do Episode Quests past Episode 3, Chapter 1 until later 99% of the time due to their difficulty with scaling appropriately to the current equipment progression/suggestion system, and do not count it towards your total potential level when climbing CT from 130 onwards, so you may easily get to 190 without climbing the whole way.
Episode Quest Rewards are buffed here! Try them out. They may be a bit difficult with low leveled town gear though
Key Quests are not viable here, doing from lv 1 to lv 130 via Cora to Ghost Blue only grants you an additional 16 levels, compared to skipping Pop/Oops completely and doing only the bare minimum for the area. Not worth it if you already know how to get to the areas and/or have experienced them before and want to be efficient at leveling.

Lv 15 has a 10K WT feather charm, use it! You can grab it in the System Mail. You also get Ticket of Valiant in your System mail at 130
You can use town sets for trials, try it! They're buffed on this server. I like to use a comped mermaid set for generic trial use+climbing CT to Floor ~40
You can get gear through something called Eternal Tickets! You can get these by killing monsters (rare chance that scales based on area) or episode quests (guaranteed), and later on, you can farm easily in Harkon Defense when you have a guardian. You can exchange Eternal Tickets with Compounder Nadia in Mega Shop.
Character boxes do not rotate out here. They also are found in the Recycle Shop. For every about 5 equips, you can get another box out of them, for the highest level character box, at said Recycle Shop. They are always 3s now so they are worthwhile!
Patch notes are super useful, read them! Also, compare temper ranges from your current equipment to the ones in the ⁠#patch-notes or #⁠myshop-updates in the Discord