Ayakashi Ghost Guild Topic Resurrection?

[Jq1790]

Well, since some people on the IRC expressed interest in the game I decided to revive this topic that I hear was around a couple years ago.  Format imitated from the PAD topic, so credit for general layout goes to whoever made the original topic design.



Ayakashi Ghost Guild is an Android/iOS CCG game with really beautiful artwork.  It plays like a collectible card game in a way.  It's completely free to play, but has premium features through purchasable "gold," the game's premium currency which allow for increased daemon storage, tries at a couple different types of "rare summons", and more.

You can collect all sorts of daemons, from incarnations of gods and goddesses to ancient warlords and heroes to embodiments of various weaponry and a bunch of other things as well.

You alternate between "investigating", where you fill up a progress bar and try to randomly collect daemons, and combat of various types, the man variety of which involves pitting your team of up to five daemons against another's similar team, or a daemon wandering in the wild basicall or as part of the story.

You have three stats:
Health- used for Investigating.  Investigating is how you level up, and leveling up is important in this game as I'll describe below.
Attack Spirit(AS):  Team cost for your Attacking Team
Defense Spirit(DS):  Team cost for your Defense Team

When you finish Investigating a given part of a chapter, you gain what is called an "Ability Point". This can be spent to increase either of the three above stats by 1.
When you level up, you get 3 points.
When you add a new Crewmember(friend), you gain five.  If you REMOVE a crewmember(Can only do once a day) you -lose- five points though, and if you don't have any unspent ones they're taken right out of your actual stats!

The above can be used as a way to help you "respec", since different event types will want different stats at higher levels.  (Someone more experienced can elaborate.)
(You can also reallocate Ability Points by using "Beef Bowls", with each type being able to remove a different number of points.) 

A tip for new players: You can join via an invite code for both you and the one who invited you to get bonuses!  These invitee bonuses include "Special Summon Tickets", tickets for a 'free' version of the Rare Summon.  Slightly older cards are put in there I hear, so while you can't get the latest and greatest stuff for free, you can get SOMETHING at least, and there are still powerful cards to be found.

EDIT:  The above is only half true now it appears, from some peoples' experiences who started at the time of this thread or later.  It seems the one to ENTER the code is not getting anything, but someone who had their code USED gets linked, s the invitER still gets stuff.  The stuff they get is described below:

Invitee reaches Lv. 5: SS Ticket x 1
Lv. 20 SS Ticket x 2
Lv. 50: SS Ticket x 5

Also, the first time the player you invite receives a 5 star daemon, you also receive a copy of it for free!
EDIT(thanks for the info, Aoshi!):  It seems the free 5* thing only works for your FIRST referred person, so keep that in mind.

This invite code can be changed to something easier(it starts out as a random string of letters and/or numbers), but it can only be changed once.

Please note that one's invite code is only good for -20- shots.  Thus, then nunber of free SS Tickets from that that the inviter can get is 160 if all of your invitees reach Lv. 50.

For example, mine is 1790!

List of friends:

MotK name - AGG name - Invite Code
----------------------------------
jq1790 - jq1790 - 1790(Referrals: 1)
Lloyd Dunamis - Amanie - [waiting to be told his ID](Referrals: )
Aoshi - Hollander - 118120(Referrals: 1)
Noel Princess Lem - LemGambino - LEMMYG(Referrals: 1)
Chaore - Chaore - BUNLORD(Referrals: 0)


Feel free to share invite codes here so people can spread the love around!  To facilitate this, please mention when you've had someone use your invite ID!

[Chaore]

hahaha holy shit, that invite bonus sounds op as hell, god damn

now i'm kinda interested

[Jq1790]

hahaha holy shit, that invite bonus sounds op as hell, god damn

now i'm kinda interested

Don't get TOO excited; the 4* and 5* rates from their rare pull things are, shall we say, terrible.

Still get excited enough to join, of course.

Also the number of invites one can send out for bonuses caps at 20.  Forgot to mention that; editing the OP to reflect this.

[Chaore]

Don't get TOO excited; the 4* and 5* rates from their rare pull things are, shall we say, terrible.

Still get excited enough to join, of course.

Also the number of invites one can send out for bonuses caps at 20.  Forgot to mention that; editing the OP to reflect this.

That makes it even more valuable though, especially if you get an active base.

Like shit, even one person lucks out and you score bigtime.

[Third Eye Lem]

Downloaded the game, did a couple summons...I'm a little befuddled on how the battles work, are they really this automated?

Also, where do I find my invite code (and change it)? Found it...ID is LemGambino

EDIT: Also wondering what's the best way to allocate AP, any advice is appreciated

[Jq1790]

Downloaded the game, did a couple summons...I'm a little befuddled on how the battles work, are they really this automated?

Also, where do I find my invite code (and change it)?

EDIT: Also wondering what's the best way to allocate AP, any advice is appreciated

Ah, did you put in an invite code?

To find your invite code and change it, look on the Home page for a banner advertising the invite system.  Click that, then there will be a spot where it lists your ID and lets you change it.

AP allocation varies based on what you're trying to do.  Someone like Aoshi or Lloyd would be better informed on that, so you can try asking them if they do pop in.  (I imagine they will since I got permission to add their IDs to the OP, so...)

As you'll notice, I'm Lv. like 59.  Those two are both over Lv. 100, if that says anything, haha.

[Third Eye Lem]

It seems I'll need more Attack/Defense spirit to support my ghosts, moreso than health atm...Though I assume an entire investigation run will cost me an entire health bar at later levels.

[Jq1790]

It seems I'll need more Attack/Defense spirit to support my ghosts, moreso than health atm...Though I assume an entire investigation run will cost me an entire health bar at later levels.

It'll cost you more than one bar unless you have a ton of health.  You gain less progress per click as you go, and each click costs more as well.

Where I am I get 5% per click, and it costs 15 health each time, for example.

[Third Eye Lem]

Yeah, that's what I thought...I'll figure out exactly how much AS/DS I'll need as I go, then pump up Health once I'm able to support my top-tier cards.

[Aoshi-shi]

EDIT: Also wondering what's the best way to allocate AP, any advice is appreciated

Dumping AP into Attack/Defense would be a good start so you can put stronger cards in your team sooner. (I keep mine at 1:2 for conquest events, but like JQ said, it depends on what events you're participating in.)

[hyorinryu]

There was a thread on this before?

[Jq1790]

I think I had heard such from Aoshi, but I moght be mistaken, dunno.

Either way it's here now, so why not hop on now?

[hyorinryu]

I played it for a little bit, and I didn't find the game too terribly interesting. The art seemed inconsistent too.

[Chaore]

I played it for a little bit, and I didn't find the game too terribly interesting. The art seemed inconsistent too.

This tends to be a thing with mobage in general.

Even PAD has 6-7 artists working on it- it's how well they are at disguising their different styles.

(one artist basically did all the girls with open mouths)

[Jq1790]

As of 5:30ish EST, there are 9 hours left on a special offer for earning free Gold!

1.5x gold can be earned from Tapjoy offers right now, so if you're looking to save some up, now's not a bad time to gather some!

To access offers, the fastest method I know of is to go to the Summon tab on the main menu, then scroll down until you see a button labeled "Earn Free Gold".

Good luck!

[Chaore]

As of 5:30ish EST, there are 9 hours left on a special offer for earning free Gold!

1.5x gold can be earned from Tapjoy offers right now, so if you're looking to save some up, now's not a bad time to gather some!

To access offers, the fastest method I know of is to go to the Summon tab on the main menu, then scroll down until you see a button labeled "Earn Free Gold".

Good luck!

I kinda got bored and made another pull instead of my original plan for that, whoops.

Regrets=High.

[Suikama]

I played this like a year ago then lost all of my save data :derp:

I'm pretty sure all of my cards were garbage anyways. Also back when I played the interface was godawful. Like in Pad if want to feed my monster a bunch of fodder I just select them, add many, and choose what I want from my whole collection on a single page. In this game the card list was separated into pages and every page took like 5 seconds to load. So if I wanted to feed a bunch of stuff I'd have to scroll through pages and wait for all the load times and ughhh. Also text everywhere. The card pull screen was extremely long and just filled with words words words which one am I supposed to click for regular pulls bluh

Mira was cute tho :>

[Chaore]

Mira is fucking adorable, and yeah the entire interface sucks tbh, even still.

[Jq1790]

You can theoretically get Mira as a daemon during anniversary events.

This is theoretical only, though, because if it's like the last two years, she's either Rare Summon exclusive(this was how the first anniversary one was), or worse, the Total Ranking Reward for the anniversary event like this year's was.

Only the whale-est of whales will get into Total rankings if she's a prize.  The competition for her is a massive bloodbath of epic proportions.

She -is- criminally adorable though.

[Suikama]

Oh yeah I remember that ranking bs

I remember doing one event like every single day when it was up, and then in the end I still got the last place prize >_>

Also there was this one event that like randomly ended while it was running or something?

I dunno this game is like so simple with there being literally no interaction in actual battles and yet still so incredibly confusing and just kind of a mess overall tbh

The only reason I played it was for Mira + the story lol

Someone needs to save Mira and put her in a better game :V

[hyorinryu]

Oh yeah I remember that ranking bs

I remember doing one event like every single day when it was up, and then in the end I still got the last place prize >_>

Also there was this one event that like randomly ended while it was running or something?

I dunno this game is like so simple with there being literally no interaction in actual battles and yet still so incredibly confusing and just kind of a mess overall tbh

The only reason I played it was for Mira + the story lol

Someone needs to save Mira and put her in a better game :V

Was Mira the assistant person? I think that was the main reason i bothered too.

[Jq1790]

Was Mira the assistant person? I think that was the main reason i bothered too.

Yeah, Mira is the girl who calls you Master and all that who hangs around you.  Pretty sure she's there so dialogue can happen in story events etc. though she also does the job of being stupidly cute.

[Suikama]

Oh yeah the music was actually good too. Way better than Pad's one goddamn track that repeats over and over and over and over...

[Chaore]

This game has the hare of inaba as an early summon confirmed proest game

seeya pad, agg for life

(also i rolled again, whoops, got asmo and a bunch of shinies)

[Jq1790]

Notice for Fusion Efficiency
I just realized this info was not put up yet so here I am doing so!

Noticing those 1* daemons you're stockpiling giving really little Exp each?  Well, you can partially remedy that, and here's how!

For best results, use 3 of the same daemon.  Also note that during events like the one currently ongoing, there is a bonus to Exp during feedings, though it's different based on if you're Bulk fusion or single fusions!

If you're fusing 1-by-1 and get a "big success" (which is possible anytime, but currently guaranteed, as the 'Big Fusion Success Offer' flashing on the Fuse button on the main menu shows), you gain 50% extra Exp!  Bulk fusions, however, only gain 25%.

As for the daemons themselves, assuming you get a Big Success with three of the same daemon, here's how you should do things.

Fuse two of them to each other.  This will net a lv. 3 daemon. 

Fuse the newly made lv. 3 onto the third lv. 1 daemon!  This is important but easy to mistake, so be careful!  The result if you did it right will be a level 6 daemon, which is the most efficient way to fuse!  Fuse those one at a time to your target for best results.

A lv. 1 daemon of same type (Phantom, Divina, etc) provides ~30something Exp.  A lv. 6 daemon, though, provides OVER 300!

[Lloyd Dunamis]

Yep, like what Jq mentioned just above, how you fuse your daemons greatly influences how fast your daemons level up! There's more EXP-efficient fusion combinations you should know, that hopefully I can explain soon, but for now let me just update you on something important right now that every Ghost Agent (Ayakashi player) should not miss...

There's a free 30-Day Summon Pack for everyone up for grabs! @w@
30-Day Summon Packs are usually bought for 1800 Gold coins. In celebration for their newly-added feature though, "Level Cap Limit Break", Zynga has given all of us that pack.
This is very nice, as there is also currently a x10 rate for 5* daemons in Rare Summon, running for 20 days!

To get the pack, go to the game's Homescreen, scroll down and look for the blue "Limit Break celebration. Get 30-day rare summon pack for FREE!" banner and tap it. Don't worry about it telling you "You're short of gold coins.", the "Get a gift pack NOW!" button should be tappable instead of grayed out regardless.
To confirm that you got it, there should be a countdown saying 29 days and 23hrs left, with the "Reward Already Claimed" button grayed out. You can then head to Summon page, scroll down to Rare Summon section and summon your first free rare summon!

Note: I believe you can miss a rare summon if you have not Rare-summoned for a day's 24 hours, so please try to login at least once every 24 hours. =w=;

...I still pray to Zynga's RNG God to give us lucky summons. I've heard many negative experiences with multiplied rates.


Meanwhile, I want to respond to posts here so much. xwx;;

[Chaore]

Free summons~ Free Summons~

This is basically more generous than any other game ever right now, dang.

I didn't check properly, but I assume the limit break mechanic is the same as most games- Fuse a copy to increase max level?

[Lloyd Dunamis]

o.o I am not aware of other CCGs doing this besides the one I'm also playing, Magic School Lussid (have not played enough CCGs maybe), but yeah it's like that. No need to Max Level the other copy or anything~.

Also, don't forget your actually-free 5* Da-Liu-Ren over the News feed, "[Critical Update] LIMIT BREAK!"

[Jq1790]

Note: I believe you can miss a rare summon if you have not Rare-summoned for a day's 24 hours, so please try to login at least once every 24 hours. =w=;

...I still pray to Zynga's RNG God to give us lucky summons. I've heard many negative experiences with multiplied rates.


Meanwhile, I want to respond to posts here so much. xwx;;

This IS in fact the case.  'use it or lose it.'

If you wanna reply to posts here, then just come on in and do so!  Now is a better time than ever to hang out with your fellow Ghost Agents in here, is it not, Lloyd? I mean, you inspired me to make this topic in the first place, after all.

Today I got some Anima who is apparently the spirit of the chain letter, 3*.   Oh well. 29 more to go!  Hoping for a good Phantom myself.  What are all of you after?

[Chaore]

o.o I am not aware of other CCGs doing this besides the one I'm also playing, Magic School Lussid (have not played enough CCGs maybe), but yeah it's like that. No need to Max Level the other copy or anything~.

Also, don't forget your actually-free 5* Da-Liu-Ren over the News feed, "[Critical Update] LIMIT BREAK!"

It's a derivative thing from basically the granddaddy of some most fuck knows how many mobile CCGs (Million Arthur), so it's possible it's more common in more derivative works.

Also picked up, rather nice of them to make most of them free.

Today I got some Anima who is apparently the spirit of the chain letter, 3*.   Oh well. 29 more to go!  Hoping for a good Phantom myself.  What are all of you after?

I got a yukionna, potentially what I want since she's a 3-star phantom. I think she's defensive though...

5 star dreams are my goal, obv.