Great video RPW! I would note that for $6.99 in the Special Shop, you can get 2400K Paid Viz and 1000 Free Viz. A dollar cheaper with paid Viz. I would also mention that you can get 20 shards total per daily HQ, so its also important to grind the story up to atleast those units you have chosen HQs to then maximize the shards you can do. I played around with before and was able to 140 a unit after 5 days and have enough for the other units when i had the mats to do it.
Thank you for this video! I just started a few weeks ago and the game is awesome so far. I've been using your tier lists and meta snapshots from your more recent Leonis Review episodes so far to piece together what characters to invest into.
That was a terrific New Account video, Will! I don't think these kinds of videos are just for "New Players" at all! A lot of us are in guilds (or groups of guilds) that are welcoming in new players, and there is some legwork that goes into knowing the "perfect" recommendation to give at any given moment. Being able to point people at your video and have "thought it through with you" is a pretty high level thing to be able to pass down. Thanks again, both for this and for the time you spend adding recommendations to the individual review videos!
Thanks so much!! I know the game is past its "beginner" stage in terms of content creation, so thought it was overdue to put something out like this considering I've seen a bunch of FFBE players curious about the game.
Having started somewhat recently, the biggest thing I rarely see mentioned for startup players is the importance of elemental party clears in Hard/Brutal stages. A fairly well equipped friend unit can solo clear 98% of this (aside from a few outliers like recent Resnick Brutal) and the amount of XL Magicite given from these can bring your lvl99 espers online rapidly. If you full clear the events and use a farplane archive free unlock per day- the magicite flows fast for the first month. I had enough to max ~12 espers before the clear requirement doubled and slowed the income down.
Much needed video..ill link any new player that goes around asking for ideas.....there is 5 year aniversary soon....we probably get some new blood in here.. keep up the good work Mr ReadyPlayerWill.
If you're going the base payed route id do the 300 paid first since spiking either a support or a dps at lvl 99 basically makes the first 1/3 of the early story basically free to do and frees up the popularity banner pick. I would just pick espers regardless of route since there all solid picks. Dark shiva and bahamut are on almost every one of my teams and dark bahamut would probably be my third most used if i had it
@Ready Player Will great video as always brother, just a slight correction, all units in the Select Popularity Poll Winners is actually farmable, although Ashes of the Apocalypse units have limited banners, their shards can be farmed daily on hard quests, unlike special event units, so for a new player this would probably make the best time to get Ashen King mont, whom unlike Jeume is not on the regular poll units
The reincarnation festival ended, so is the Popularity poll pick still available? I'm 3 weeks into the game and idk if it's worth it for me to start again. I like Ice and missed out on GIlgamesh and Jeume. Just finished truststones and espers too.... Good vid man.
@@PadFeiLong it depends. In auto, I currently do pretty well in GB with Cloud and Jeume. In manual, you can beat anything with the right preparation! 😊
like numero said, jeume cloud is very good in the current meta (use fina or sresnick as the 3rd unit). the newgen is kinda balanced with each other if u know what are u doing
@@metaf2pgamer654 I do have both along with Seifer AKM @ 140 and I just pulled Skrek Fina and Gilg so I hope I can make an impact as the Guild Wars have been fierce
This game is really unfriendly to new players, especially missing some limited VCs that have a huge impact on the team. Additionally, the recent release of a large number of 100 cost characters and Holo VC has put a lot of pressure on the game.
This game has fallen. Gumi is releasing each week meta characters, added for 12k paid an option to buy, its going in the wrong direction, not to mention, after 5 years, we dont have 60fps option for mobile, and the game stutters af :) U just want to close asap. Think, this game will eos soon, i play for about 4 years, but now, dont even care aboit class match, quick pick, i just skip it, login in, dailies, shut down. Log in to play GW, quit. Thats how it looks like, wonder if there are many new players who are starting a new journey after this many years ;)
I would tell players how it is. The game sucks and has for quite a while. They aren't making it better. They have made it worse and worse since RTWW. And the game is dying. Reddit engagement has dropped off a cliff and most of the content creators have abandoned WotV because of how shitty the monetization is mixed with the lack of good content that just got worse as they gave players less and asked for more money in return.
@bcon1308 I literally couldn't disagree more. For new players this game still has dozens of hours of content and they do not have the pvp issues we have in guild war.
@@ReadyPlayerWill sorry but you're talking about it from a multi-year, whaled perspective. I played the game for 3 years. Started up a new account a few months ago and it was just an awful experience. You have to remember that starting a completely new account from scratch = extremely limited resources after a couple of months and egregiously long character building times due to lack of stars and medals. Grinding is also awful due to not having an extreme reserve of NRG pots. Old VCs are horrible to build. New ones drain a ton of vis due to the higher pity cost and no stars to ever use for them. Newer content with the best rewards is dramatically harder than it used to be when you don't have a full team of newer units and/or some sort of stacked VC and equipment lineup. The list can keep going.
Great video RPW! I would note that for $6.99 in the Special Shop, you can get 2400K Paid Viz and 1000 Free Viz. A dollar cheaper with paid Viz.
I would also mention that you can get 20 shards total per daily HQ, so its also important to grind the story up to atleast those units you have chosen HQs to then maximize the shards you can do.
I played around with before and was able to 140 a unit after 5 days and have enough for the other units when i had the mats to do it.
@@cestrella0108 WELL SAID ty for pointing this out!!
Thank you for this video! I just started a few weeks ago and the game is awesome so far. I've been using your tier lists and meta snapshots from your more recent Leonis Review episodes so far to piece together what characters to invest into.
That was a terrific New Account video, Will! I don't think these kinds of videos are just for "New Players" at all! A lot of us are in guilds (or groups of guilds) that are welcoming in new players, and there is some legwork that goes into knowing the "perfect" recommendation to give at any given moment. Being able to point people at your video and have "thought it through with you" is a pretty high level thing to be able to pass down. Thanks again, both for this and for the time you spend adding recommendations to the individual review videos!
Thanks so much!! I know the game is past its "beginner" stage in terms of content creation, so thought it was overdue to put something out like this considering I've seen a bunch of FFBE players curious about the game.
Funny enough. It's been a while since the last time I've heard the WOTV soundtrack 😆
Maybe you should turn your volume on once in a while then oh blind one
@@MantaWOTV what for?
Having started somewhat recently, the biggest thing I rarely see mentioned for startup players is the importance of elemental party clears in Hard/Brutal stages. A fairly well equipped friend unit can solo clear 98% of this (aside from a few outliers like recent Resnick Brutal) and the amount of XL Magicite given from these can bring your lvl99 espers online rapidly. If you full clear the events and use a farplane archive free unlock per day- the magicite flows fast for the first month. I had enough to max ~12 espers before the clear requirement doubled and slowed the income down.
Stellar video. This should definitely help new players and guilds that want to bring in those new players :D
You could do this again as they updated the 120 free unit banners. You can now pick Shurecca, Gilgamesh or Jeume on the last step
Much needed video..ill link any new player that goes around asking for ideas.....there is 5 year aniversary soon....we probably get some new blood in here.. keep up the good work Mr ReadyPlayerWill.
If you're going the base payed route id do the 300 paid first since spiking either a support or a dps at lvl 99 basically makes the first 1/3 of the early story basically free to do and frees up the popularity banner pick. I would just pick espers regardless of route since there all solid picks. Dark shiva and bahamut are on almost every one of my teams and dark bahamut would probably be my third most used if i had it
@Ready Player Will great video as always brother, just a slight correction, all units in the Select Popularity Poll Winners is actually farmable, although Ashes of the Apocalypse units have limited banners, their shards can be farmed daily on hard quests, unlike special event units, so for a new player this would probably make the best time to get Ashen King mont, whom unlike Jeume is not on the regular poll units
The reincarnation festival ended, so is the Popularity poll pick still available?
I'm 3 weeks into the game and idk if it's worth it for me to start again. I like Ice and missed out on GIlgamesh and Jeume. Just finished truststones and espers too....
Good vid man.
I missed Sephiroth and even having 98% of the rest of the cast I don't feel like I stand a chance in high end PVP
@@PadFeiLong it depends. In auto, I currently do pretty well in GB with Cloud and Jeume. In manual, you can beat anything with the right preparation! 😊
like numero said, jeume cloud is very good in the current meta (use fina or sresnick as the 3rd unit). the newgen is kinda balanced with each other if u know what are u doing
@@metaf2pgamer654 I do have both along with Seifer AKM @ 140 and I just pulled Skrek Fina and Gilg so I hope I can make an impact as the Guild Wars have been fierce
@@PadFeiLongYou already have the "excellent stuff" (units)! Try building your vision cards next.
This game is really unfriendly to new players, especially missing some limited VCs that have a huge impact on the team. Additionally, the recent release of a large number of 100 cost characters and Holo VC has put a lot of pressure on the game.
Do they still have the beginner F pack available?
Hi im a new player can you do an updated one for this please? Thank you so much
im anticipating EoS either early next year or maybe around xmas, sales are really down according to recent earnings :( also rip FFBE
This game has fallen. Gumi is releasing each week meta characters, added for 12k paid an option to buy, its going in the wrong direction, not to mention, after 5 years, we dont have 60fps option for mobile, and the game stutters af :) U just want to close asap. Think, this game will eos soon, i play for about 4 years, but now, dont even care aboit class match, quick pick, i just skip it, login in, dailies, shut down. Log in to play GW, quit. Thats how it looks like, wonder if there are many new players who are starting a new journey after this many years ;)
@@ՏԵk I think this is a crazy exaggeration
I would tell players how it is. The game sucks and has for quite a while. They aren't making it better. They have made it worse and worse since RTWW. And the game is dying. Reddit engagement has dropped off a cliff and most of the content creators have abandoned WotV because of how shitty the monetization is mixed with the lack of good content that just got worse as they gave players less and asked for more money in return.
@bcon1308 I literally couldn't disagree more. For new players this game still has dozens of hours of content and they do not have the pvp issues we have in guild war.
@@ReadyPlayerWill sorry but you're talking about it from a multi-year, whaled perspective. I played the game for 3 years. Started up a new account a few months ago and it was just an awful experience.
You have to remember that starting a completely new account from scratch = extremely limited resources after a couple of months and egregiously long character building times due to lack of stars and medals. Grinding is also awful due to not having an extreme reserve of NRG pots.
Old VCs are horrible to build. New ones drain a ton of vis due to the higher pity cost and no stars to ever use for them. Newer content with the best rewards is dramatically harder than it used to be when you don't have a full team of newer units and/or some sort of stacked VC and equipment lineup. The list can keep going.