Tales of the Rays: Top 10 Tips & Cheats You Need to Know

Here are the top 10 tips/tricks/cheats you need to know for Tales of the Rays.

1. Select the Strongest Helper With the Right Element and Let the Game Choose Your Equipment

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• Before you take on your next mission, you’ll need to pick a Helper who can assist you during battle with their Mirage Artes. When making that decision, it’s always smart to choose someone who’s chosen element (which can be seen in the top left of their pic) matches up with the element of the level you’re about to explore. That way, your entire team will get a beneficial boost that will make their next task much easier to complete. And one more thing – always click on the “Best Equip.” tab before you go exploring. The game tends to always know which equipment to give you, which usually leads to your character getting a boost in power level and usable Artes.

2. Always Check on Your Missions, Collect Your Rewards and Log in Daily

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• While your clicking through tabs on your airship’s bridge, always make sure you check on the missions. The missions are broken down into Norm, Daily, Event and Limited. It’s easy to knock out a bunch of missions at one time just by playing through one chapter. Always keep an eye on your bridge so you’ll know when your rewards become available. Even if you don’t plan to play the game for an extended period of time, just make sure you log-in everyday to nab your daily gifts.

3. Vanquish Every Creature and Collect Every Item on a Level

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• As soon as you enter a dungeon, explore it manually. There’s really no need to enable Auto-Play since it’ll choose the shortest path that’ll take you directly to the main boss. Doing so means you’ll run right past valuable chests, come away with less Mirrogems and miss out on getting more experience by avoiding other enemies. A lot of the missions you’ll need to complete are tied to how fully you explore a dungeon, so clear out a dungeon completely. Using Auto-Play during battle is also not recommended since your character won’t land Just bonuses at all. What’s a Just bonus, you say? It’s that instance during battle where you land an Arte with perfect timing, which leads to your chosen character getting extra Mirrage Gauge points for their Mirrage Artes. Just control your characters during battle and become victorious through your own efforts.

4. Try to Change up Your Attack Structure

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• Landing three normal attacks that ends off with an Arte is always a viable option during battle. Try not to use the same Arte repeatedly though since that will cause it to enter a “Stale” state and weaken its overall power. Alternating between the Artes you use keeps them in a strong state, plus you’ll have a much better chance at getting a Just bonus by landing an Artes attack after your normal attack combo.

5. Breaking Guard!

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• Your foes tend to guard against attacks as you hack and slash ’em. But pulling off a Guard Break ends up getting rid of that bothersome problem. In order to activate a Guard Break, stop your attacks and wait for your CC gauge (the meter next to your character’s icon during battle) to fully refill. Then pull off an Artes attack to finally break an enemy’s guard. When it comes to pulling off a Guard Break on bosses, that’s a bit tougher since they have a more passive guard called “Iron Stance.” In order to break that guard, you’ll need to furiously attack the boss until they lose their stance. Afterwards, go crazy with Artes and Mirrage Artes in order to get maximum damage before they go back into their Iron Stance.

6. The Best Passive Types for Weapons: Part 1

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• There are certain Passive attributes applied to the weapons you collect over time. HelpMeWithGames.com made sure to list all of ’em, which you can refer to here and with the following tip below:

– Dash Arte weapons: Very useful to avoid any attacks from enemies. Really simple but very effective!

– Heal Arte weapons (especially AoE): Early game, it’s not that useful, but as and when monsters will be stronger, it will for sure be super useful!

– Iron Stance breaking passive weapons: It is pretty annoying when enemies still can attack when you focus them. If you have an Iron Stance breaking passive, you will be able to break down that faster!

7. The Best Passive Types for Weapons: Part 2

• And here’s the last three Passive attributes that are tied to certain weapon types:

– Multi-hit Arte weapons: With an Iron Stance passive, you will be able to destroy enemies’ Iron Stance with only a few hit. Even without that passive, a full combo will probably destroy ennemies’ Iron Stance.

– Healing passive weapon: You might not heal a lot, but you let enough time for your healers to heal you! Especially OP with a Dash Arte weapon.

– Shot Arte: If you are in a bad situation (basically if all you allies died, and you are alone against the boss), shot Arte can be pretty useful!

8. Check Out Those Daily Dungeons and Collect Certain Rewards

• Besides special events that you can complete in order to get extra rare weapons and new characters, you can also throw yourself into special dungeons. These dungeons change up their Anima Sync type based on what day you’re playing the game. HelpMeWithGames.com also broke down each daily dungeon type and the type of Chiral Crystals and Anima Orbs you’ll gain from them:

– Monday (Green Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Slash / Anima Orb Bash
– Tuesday (Blue Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Shot / Anima Orb Spell
– Wednesday (Yellow Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Spell / Anima Orb Shot
– Thursday (Green Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Bash / Anima Orb Slash
– Friday (Violet Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Random / Anima Orb Random
– Saturday (Brown Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Random / Anima Orb Random
– Sunday (All Type Anima Sync): Chiral Crystal Random / Anima Orb Random

9. Always Make Sure you Enhance Your Weapons With the Same Material Type

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• You’ll get the chance to upgrade your weaponry with certain material types. Those materials happen to be small or medium Chiral Crystals and these are the types you’ll come across – Slash, Spell, Bash, Shot and Super. Always make sure you upgrade your weapon by matching it up with the same Chiral Crystal type. You can tell which weapon type you’re currently trying to upgrade by looking at the icon near the top left of that weapon. You’ll get extra upgrade points that way.

10. 1x Summons are Actually Worth it…the First Time Only, Though

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• When you click on the Summon tab as an early adopter of the game, the price of Mirrogems you’ll need to pay for a 1x Summon will be cut in half. Hop on all the 1x Summon sales on each banner. Take advantage of that sale ASAP cause you never know which star rarity type weapon or mirrage you’ll acquire for your characters. Honestly though, it’s best to do nothing but 10x Summons after your first 1x Summon purchase. 10x Summons may cost more, but you’re guaranteed a 4-star rarity type weapon/mirrage and bonus prism currency for your costume purchases.

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