As an idle RPG(ish) game, Your Chronicle relies on an increasing decline in 'babysitting' after you start to find your flow. Unfortunately it can be rather tricky to understand the mechanics behind gaining strength and growing in rank.

• What is a rank in Your Chronicle?
  
• How do I rank up?
  
• What does the Dark Ritual actually do?
  
• What is talent, and should I reset my rank?

What is a (or my) rank in Your Chronice?

Rank describes your experience, and this rank goes up through XP earned in game.



Note the "XP" iteration under some actions

How do I rank up?

XP can be gained from actions and defeating enemies. You can view the gained XP on the right-hand notes of any dungeon during combat. Defeating enemies is the fastest, constant path to XP gain

Rank increases as you grow, and different interactions in-game, new scenarios and worlds become available with higher ranks.

You can view your rank at any time by tapping on "Ritual"


What does the Dark Ritual actually do?

The Dark Ritual resets your rank to zero, and resets your Daily Routine gains for most categories except Energy. This may sound bad, but it isn't. It took me a long time to realise it was necessary to progress in the game.

I recommend resetting at rank 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 if your Talent is higher than last time.

Use the Sacred Ritual Daily Routine called Worship to increase your XP gains here! Always have this running by a few clicks.



What is Talent? Should I reset my rank

Talent (you can see mine in the screenshot above showing the Dark Ritual) increases your XP earnings and speeds up the ranking process tremendously.

1. Use Dark Ritual **ONLY** if the Next Talent number is larger than the Current Talent number. This doesn't stack, it replaces.
2. Use Dark Ritual every few new ranks from your previous highest.
3. Don't be afraid of Dark Ritual or rank resets.

With higher talent you will flllyyyy through your old ranks. Try it out!

YES! You should reset.

It took me awhile to realise I was fighting alone! I thought I'd summoned creatures and our stats were conglomerated. You must add your summons to your party. Let's see how!

• How to summon a new party creature
  
• How to add a new party creature to your party
  
• How to level up your party creatures

Short, sweet and to the point. This will be a basic introduction to get your party-balls rolling.

How to summon a new party creature



Looking at this screenshot of the Slime you'll see "Slime Research 1:1 --> 1:9...30%"
This 30% indicates the base drop chance of Slime Research upon defeating a Slime.

Accumulating enough research for any creature in your Bestiary means you can now summon one! The summon is permanent, and the creature is forever available to you.

POTENTIAL CONFUSION: "Summon" on the party tab doesn't mean summon. It means level-up for that creature. When you hit Summon on any creature (or on You), you are powering up that being.

How to add a new party creature and level up your party creatures



*Newly available creatures will pop up on this tab! Press "Summon" and start building them up. You need at least 1 research to level them up generally. You increase their Physical, Magical and Special powers with seeds.

Let's face it, Area of Effect (AoE) just doesn't work, right?

It does, but understanding how to activate it may be something players aren't aware they need to do. In this quick tip, I'll show you how to activate your magical and physical abilities so you're not throwing in the towel.



Understand formations

Formations don't show up in the beginning of the game, but are unlocked after you've ranked up a bit. You'll see this little drop-down menu here, but the game doesn't give a good indicator that it exists. Keep an eye out!

Magical, Physical and Friendly formations have inherent attributes:

Physical Formation boosts: Physical attack and defence by 20%

Magical Formation boosts: Magical attack and defence by 20%

Friendly Formation boosts: Research chance drop rates

These formations last for 30 seconds on their own, and have a 3 minute cooldown for each. You can use one formation, then another, and then another, waiting 1.5 minutes for the first to cooldown again.



Why aren't all these abilities working!?

It's a fair question! But most of these abilities only trigger while your party is in a Physical, Magical or Friendly formation. Some of these abilities remain up at all times, but far from all.

This means you'll need to be more engaged in fights where you're progressing the game (and not farming). You can go to a formation and click the ✅ to have it loop (I do this with Friendly Formation).



Tap on the "Additional Effects" button in the upper-right of your party skill menu. Here you will probably now see the Magical Formation (et cetera) denotations for each skill. Anything marked with Other is likely to be active at all times.



When engaged in combat, your active effects will appear by your name (same for enemies).

There's a lot left unsaid in Your Chronicle when you move through the game, but don't let it stop you!

The following items, stats and features went over my head for awhile–don't let it happen to ya:

Routines

Routines expand on your abilities, making it easier to regenerate things like magic, stamina and destiny without having to be involved in Loop or Area actions. Cool stuff!

All routine gains drop to zero after a Dark Ritual except for Energy.

I recommend always having "Worship" running with a few Habit clicks for experience.



What is Habit?

Every time you gain a rank, you gain a Habit point.



**Never** have unused Habit points laying around. Visit the Daily Routines tab and level up your stuff! Focusing on Energy is always smart. Stamina increases are very easy to achieve.

Skills

A learned skill will show under the Party tab when you select Skill at the top. You can apply the same skill to multiple party members at once.

If a party member cannot use that skill (Like an HM or TM in Pokemon) it simply won't be available.

To apply a skill to a party member, tap on Party -> Main -> Skill next to member name.



Shop

The shop isn't just for paying real money for in-game currency. Always check in the Shop to use items discovered in-game. You'll get rubies for free as you play, but I recommend purchasing a small pack to say 'Thank you!' to the hardworking dev team and community managers.

Visit the Help Guide and look for the secret Reward code ;)