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Early Growth - What Should I Buy in the Shops?

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Overview

The game has many shops, and each uses different currencies and sells different items. Shops are a key way to reliably secure growth materials such as Core Dust, Battle Data, and skill materials, so it is important to set priorities when buying.

Details

Cash Shop

A shop where you buy products with real money or paid currency. It mainly sells recruit tickets, Gems, and package deals.

Recommended

  • Monthly pass package
  • Event-limited packages
  • Recruit ticket packages

Not Recommended

  • Buying Gems on their own
  • Single-currency packages

Even for light spenders, the monthly pass alone is efficient and recommended.

General Shop

The basic shop where you buy items with Credits or Gems. Stock refreshes at set intervals, and you get one free refresh per day, so do not forget to use it.

Purchase Priority

  1. Free items
  2. Core Dust (purchasable with Credits)
  3. Battle Data sets (if you are short early on)

Not Recommended

  • Items bought with Gems

Core Dust is used heavily to level up Nikkes, so it is important to always keep stocking it.

Union Shop

You can buy items with Union Chips earned from Union Raid and more.

Purchase Priority

  1. Cube Batteries
  2. Harmony Cube-related materials
  3. Other enhancement materials

Harmony Cubes have a big impact on character performance, so it is common to prioritize Harmony Cube enhancement materials.

Especially early on, it is fine to buy nothing but 'Relic Cube Batteries'.

Body Label Shop

A shop where you buy items with Body Labels, earned from duplicate SSR Nikkes.

Purchase Priority

  1. High-Quality Molds
  2. Standard Recruit tickets
  3. Other growth materials

High-Quality Molds can give SSR Nikkes, so they are good to buy first.

'High-Quality Molds' are especially efficient early on, when your Nikke pool is small.

Arena Shop

A shop that uses Arena Vouchers earned in Rookie Arena or Special Arena.

Purchase Priority

  1. Code Manuals
  2. Code Manual Selection Boxes

Code Manuals are needed for skill enhancement past level 4, so it is important to keep collecting them.

Mileage Shop

A shop that uses Mileage Tickets earned through recruiting (gacha).

Features

  • Exchange 200 Mileage for a guaranteed SSR Nikke
  • Pick-up Nikkes can be exchanged

How to Use

  • Use when a pick-up Nikke you want appears
  • Use to get rare Nikkes

Mileage is a guaranteed acquisition method, so use it carefully.

Gold tickets are generally used during anniversary or 0.5 anniversary Pilgrim pick-ups, or limited Nikke pick-ups.

Silver tickets can be used to break the 160 wall, and after that at your own discretion.

Scrap Shop

A shop that uses the currency earned from Co-op Operation content.

Purchase Priority

  1. Buy with Bones
    1. Maintenance Kit boxes
    2. T9 gear boxes
    3. Teamwork Boxes
  2. Buy with Broken Cores
    1. Core Dust cases
    2. Other growth materials
    3. Bond items

Among items bought with Bones, T9 gear boxes are a big help especially in the early Nikke stage.

Core Dust is always in short supply, so it is common to buy it first.

Exchange Shop

A shop where you exchange specific content currencies for items.

Stock may vary by content or event.

It carries items like the ones below, but they are not efficient, so it is rarely used.

Main items

  • Recruit tickets
  • Molds
  • Enhancement materials

Event Shop

A shop that opens during events. You can buy items with the currency earned from event stages.

Purchase Priority

With event currency:

  1. Currency boxes such as Core Dust
  2. Skill Chips
  3. Console materials
  4. All other items (except regular Core Dust and regular Credits)
  5. Spend leftover currency on Core Dust

With Gems:

  1. Film - currency needed to view previous event stories
  2. Extra tickets - buy extra tickets with Gems near the end of the event (after clearing Hard 11)

Events are important content where you can earn large amounts of growth materials. If you started NIKKE mid-event, buy in the order above, but ideally you should buy everything in the event shop. Once you buy all the limited-quantity items, mostly Core Dust and Credits remain, so spend leftover currency on all the Core Dust.

You can also buy extra event stage tickets with Gems in the event shop. (Buying them is recommended.) Repeat-clear rewards are highest in the Hard 11 area, so be careful not to buy and use stage tickets too early.

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