Etheria: Restart Beginner Guide: Best Tips for Fast Progression

Welcome to Etheria: Restart, a world where humanity faces extinction, and only the strongest will survive. This immersive RPG survival game throws you into intense battles, strategic decisions, and non-stop action. If you’re just starting out, this Etheria: Restart beginner guide has everything you need to build strength, progress faster, and avoid common mistakes. 

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Prioritize Story Progression

Your Etheria: Restart journey begins with the main story. Completing story chapters unlocks essential game modes like Investigation (for Animus EXP), Grim Pursuit, and Threshold, which are critical for farming resources. However, story progress may lock at certain player levels, requiring you to level up through other activities.

• Tips: Push through story chapters as far as possible. If you hit a level gate, farm Investigation for Animus EXP or complete Hyperlink Charter missions to gain EXP and unlock the next stages. Story progression is your key to accessing the game’s full potential.

Getting Started with a Powerful Animus

Animus are your playable characters, and choosing the right ones sets the foundation for success in both PvP and PvE battles. High-powered SSR units like Lily, Dokidoki, Freya, and Lingluo excel in both modes, making them top picks for beginners.

• Reroll Strategy: To secure these SSRs, use the reroll process. Since Etheria: Restart doesn’t support guest accounts, create new accounts with different emails or on different servers. Focus on the RGP standard banner, which has higher drop rates for light and dark SSRs like Lily or Mio.

• Targeted Summons: Save targeted summons (where you pick a non-light/dark SSR) until level 25, when content like Dokyoki gets tougher. Top choices include Roa (excellent for Dokyoki), Hellkit (strong for Terramaton), or CLS (support for Dokyoki). Avoid summoning for Lingluo, as you’ll get her free after completing the 7-day commission quests.

• Free-to-Play Option: If rerolling isn’t for you, don’t worry, free-to-play characters like Leanne are strong enough to carry you through early content.

Building Your Team

A well-balanced team is crucial for tackling Etheria: Restart’s four- or five-man stages. For free-to-play players, here’s a solid starting lineup:

• Leanne (Main DPS): Your story protagonist, strong early-game, especially in green (Hollow) stages.

• Gray (Secondary DPS): Deals damage while providing a crit buff and defense down debuff.

• Chiaki or Diana (Support): Offers buffs or crowd control to enhance team performance.

• Dorothy or Sonia (Healer/Support): Keeps your team alive with healing or additional buffs.

For five-man stages like Async Echo or Threshold, add an SR like Marvel or Dina. As you pull SSRs from the permanent banner, swap them into matching roles (e.g., replace Chiaki with Lily for support or Sonia with Lingluo for healing).

• Tips: Prioritize elemental synergy to counter enemy types, especially in blue (Odd) stages where Leanne struggles. If you pull characters like Roa, Rosa, or Tiamat, use them to tackle these challenges.

Follow the Hyperlink Charter

Lost on what to do next? The Hyperlink Charter, found in the top-left of the lobby, is your quest book. It includes missions like Module Modification Tasks, Arena Trials, Commission Chronicles, Shell Tuning, and Animus Fate tasks. These missions reward summon tickets, Athetheria coins, shadow prints, Hydra Crystals, and training data for shell companions, essential for progression.

• Leanne’s Charter: Rush Leanne’s Hyperlink Charter for massive rewards. During the first week of the game’s release, you can use Animus Reconfigure (see below) to refund resources invested in her, making this a high-priority task.

• Tips: Check the Hyperlink Charter regularly to stay on track and claim rewards to boost your roster.

Use Elemental Advantage for Your Attacks

Mastering the five elements, Reason, Odd, Hollow, Disorder, and Constant, is key to winning battles. Each element has strengths and weaknesses:

• Reason beats Hollow.

• Hollow beats Odd.

• Odd beats Reason.

• Disorder and Constant counter each other, unaffected by the above.

Using the right elemental matchups increases damage and crit rate, while mismatches reduce effect accuracy, crit rate, and damage.

• Blue (Odd) Stage Challenges: Blue stages like Dokyoki are tough early on, as Leanne (Reason) is countered by Odd enemies. If possible, use Hollow-element characters like Roa, Rosa, or Tiamat to counter them. Until then, focus on green (Hollow) stages like Terramaton, where Leanne shines.

• Tips: Check enemy elements before battles and position your Animus to maximize elemental advantages.

How Combat Works in Etheria: Restart

Etheria: Restart features a turn-based combat system where you deploy a team of four (or five for some stages) to face opponents. Success depends on elemental synergy, battlefield positioning, and gear.

• Stealth Strategy: Stay out of the enemy’s focus to avoid attacks. Stealth tactics increase your chances of landing critical hits, especially against bosses.

• Gear Up: Equip powerful modules and shells to boost your team’s stats. Combine stealth with high-quality gear for a significant advantage in tough fights.

Power Up Your Animus

As you progress through Etheria: Restart’s chapters and stages, challenges grow tougher. Powering up your Animus is essential to keep up.

• Leveling: Gain EXP in battles to increase stats like HP, ATK, DEF, and SPD. Farm Investigation for Animus EXP to level up faster.

• Star Ascension: Use shadow prints (blue, purple, orange, red) to ascend star levels. Higher stars require rarer shadow prints (e.g., blue for 2-star to 3-star, red for 5-star to 6-star). Prioritize Leanne for early ascension to complete her Hyperlink Charter.

• Animus Reconfigure: During the first week of release, use Animus Reconfigure (in Events) to refund all resources (e.g., shadow prints, EXP) invested in Leanne. The first reconfigure is free; others cost crystals. This lets you reinvest in stronger Animus for late-game content. Even without the event, Leanne remains viable for Terramaton farming.

• Tips: Max out Leanne early to clear her Hyperlink Charter, then reconfigure to optimize your roster.

Farm Modules and Shells to Beat Bosses 

Modules (weapons/gear) and shells (companion-like equipment) are vital for defeating powerful enemies. Farm them strategically to enhance your team.

• First-Time Clears: Complete first-time clears in Grim Pursuit, Threshold, and Investigation for extra rewards like shells, modules, and Animus EXP. These are one-time bonuses that give a significant early boost.

• Shadowrunner Farming: Until level 10, farm the Shadowrunner shell boss on Hard mode. It drops starter shells like Unbridled Science, which boosts turn meter after actions and provides healing, perfect for early-game progression.

• Smart Investment: Avoid heavy investment in low-rarity modules, as recycling returns only 40% of resources (vs. 70% for shells). Focus on epic or higher modules with strong main stats (e.g., attack bonus for DPS, HP bonus for supports) and set bonuses like Onslaught (+45% attack at 12 pieces). For shells, prioritize those with valuable passive effects (e.g., turn meter boosts) and matching set effects, as guided by Hyperlink Charter.

• Boss Drops: Each of the three main bosses drops unique gear sets that enhance attack, HP, or defense. Aim for Mythic modules for the best stat boosts, available from later stages like Nightmare or Hell Dokyoki (level 35).

• Tips: Only upgrade modules and shells when hitting progression walls, such as in Hard Dokyoki or Nightmare stages.

Join a Union and Tackle Side Challenges

Joining a union and engaging in side challenges accelerates your progress with minimal effort.

• Union Benefits: Access check-in rewards, Anchor Recon (a guild world boss), and the union shop for summons, lattices (skill upgrades), and shadow prints. Join a union from the lobby to maximize rewards.

• Async Echo: This no-energy side challenge offers gear and summons. Progress as far as you can, as it’s a low-effort way to stock up.

• Cubic Game: Play this daily mini-game for extra materials to support your Animus and gear upgrades.

• Tips: Check the union and challenge menus daily to claim rewards and stay ahead.

Resource Management

Efficient resource use is critical for fast progression.

• Crystals: Avoid spending crystals on summons, as the game provides over 300 summon tickets in the first week through missions and events. Instead, max out daily stamina refreshes in the store for 1,000 extra energy daily. This boosts EXP gain, speeds up leveling, and unlocks endgame content like Nightmare or Hell Dokyoki at level 35.

• Shadow Prints: Prioritize red shadow prints in the store for star ascension, especially for Leanne early on.

• Tips: Check event menus for limited-time rewards, like 7-day commission quests or level-up bonuses, to claim free shadow prints and summons before they expire.

Conclusion

So, are you ready as an Etheria: Restart beginner? Then follow all these tips in this Etheria: Restart guide and mark your victory. All the working strategies are here for your success, so take your chance. Save humanity today. And if you want to level up even faster, play Etheria: Restart on your phone using OSLink,  no installs, no lag, just pure PC power in your hands. Try OSLink now and farm smarter, not harder.