Anime Expeditions F2P Progression Roadmap (Week 1 to Endgame)

Day 1 to 2: Redeem active codes, start the AFK Chamber, and work through Beginner's Path Chapters 1 and 2, which cover your first 10 summons (including a free Stone Alchemist money unit), early story clears, a Trait roll, a Stat Potential roll and your first equipment piece. Clearing both chapters pays 25 Beginner's Tickets and 25 Sprite (Grey) each, on top of individual quest rewards.

Day 3 to 5: Clear Map 1 Acts 1 through 5 on Normal for more Beginner Tickets and Essence, then spend everything on the Beginner Banner. Its 50-pull Mythic pity is realistically reachable by day 3 to 5 for most accounts just from quest-funded tickets, giving you a guaranteed Mythic without touching a single Gem.

Day 6 to 7: Start the daily Challenge mode routine (10 attempts a day for roughly 10,000 Gems) and the Daily login calendar. If your account reaches level 10 by the end of the week, join a Guild for the shared benefits; Guild creation itself needs level 20 and a 10,000 Gold fee, so joining an existing one is the week-1 move.

Once you've settled on a main damage carry from your Beginner Banner and early Standard or Mini Banner pulls, start routing Sprite drops toward that one unit's evolution recipe rather than spreading materials across your roster. Most Mythic evolutions need 20 of two Sprite colors, 1 Rainbow Sprite and 5,000 Gold plus a Unit Trial item, so check the full evolution guide for your specific unit's requirements before farming blind.

Begin banking Trait Crystals toward a Mythic Trait on that same main carry. Draconic's 300-reroll pity is the cheapest realistic target this early; save Unbound's 1,500-reroll chase for later once Trait Crystal income from quests, the Battle Pass and codes has had more time to build up.

Keep clearing Story acts on Hard mode for their first-time clear bonuses (400 Gems per act, versus 300 on Normal) and to push toward account level 20.

Level 20 unlocks Expedition Mode, gated specifically behind clearing School Grounds Expedition on Normal Act 1. This is the point where your progression splits into a new track: permanent Research Lab upgrades and Building tiers that compound over every future Expedition run.

Start on Normal difficulty Expeditions until your team can clear without losing the payload, and prioritize the Research Lab's Economy branch first, since faster income compounds into how quickly your other Buildings become worth investing in. Note that Expedition Mode pays Expedition Coins, Fuel, Map Resource, Equipment Scrap and Yen, not Gems, so keep your Gem farming routine running separately through Story and daily Challenges.

By the end of your first month, Season 1's Battle Pass should be well underway from normal play alone; the Free track's 5,750 total Gems accumulate passively as you play, no dedicated grinding required. If you're deciding whether Premium is worth it, its roughly doubled rewards and Shiny capstone unit at level 50 are a real value purchase specifically for players already planning to finish the season.

You'll also start accumulating duplicate copies of units you already own, and every duplicate forces a choice: Fuse it for a fixed EXP payout scaled by rarity (500 for Rare up to 7,500 for Secret), or, if the duplicate is a non-Shiny Mythic-rarity unit, spend it on Ascension instead for a small but permanent Damage and Range boost. Reserve Ascension for units you've already committed to as long-term roster pieces, since it competes directly with Fusing for the same limited duplicate pool.

Once your roster has at least one evolved main carry and a support or two, Solo Tournament and Duo Tournament become worth entering weekly for their percentile-based Gem and Trait Reroll payouts, even a modest top-40% finish returns real value. Tower of God is worth starting even earlier and revisiting continuously, since its reward ladder is Trait Reroll only and only your single best run counts, making it a low-risk, high-value F2P grind alongside everything else.

Long-term F2P goals stop being measured in days and start being measured in weeks or months. Secret pity on Standard Banner sits at 10,000 pulls (500,000 Gems), a genuine long-haul target reached through consistent daily Gem income rather than a single farming push; the gacha pity guide has the full Gem-to-hours math behind that number.

On the Expedition side, climbing from Normal into Hard and eventually Nightmare difficulty unlocks progressively better Anvil rolls and higher reward multipliers (1.25x on Normal up to 1.75x on Nightmare), while your permanent Research Lab tree keeps every future run a little stronger than the last. On the competitive side, Global Tournament 1 through 5's shared five-map rotation and worldwide leaderboard become realistic once your roster has genuine Waves-Cleared coverage rather than a single burst carry.

Use this as a rough pace check rather than a strict deadline: