Constantly checking the guide now and then to fix typos and rephrase some things.

April 26th 2025

- Added more tips to the Fractal Vice section

April 24th 2025

- Added the Fractal section now that it got revamped

In a world where gacha games have a stamina system to restrict progress, Tribe Nine stands out by allowing you to free roam everywhere to farm as much as you like. This means you can max out your main picks in a pair of days at most.

However, you need to know how to handle farming properly. And given Tribe Nine keeps adding QoL updates, this guide might even be obsolete as better options are added in the future.

See this?



Completely ignore it. Everything you see can be easily farmed by just defeating enemies, and some loot boxes you get from some events, battle pass, and PvP. Said loot boxes have a very slim chance to unlock skins as well, and otherwise you get a special currency to purchase them anyways.

There's only two reasons to buy with real money:

- Gacha for characters (Cards are very optional given how the system works). See a character you like? You want to go all meta? Time to pay for pulls.

- Upgrade the Battle Pass ONLY if you want the featured card and skins. Everything else you get from the premium pass, once again, can be farmed, and getting rolls for the standard banner doesn't have much value.

Boosters are the main priority to obtain in most farming routes. It gives you access to rifts, which are full of high-level enemies to get EXP, as well plenty of loot of all kinds. Usually is only provided through daily missions, but you can actually get them from enemy drops. This will be your main goal when farming no matter what.

To do so, you must find a location where enemies spawn close to a checkpoint/teleporter. Each time you warp to an area (Or the same one), or by simply interacting with the checkpoint, it will respawn all enemies in the area.

You might have to do a bit of research to find a route with enemies you want a particular drop from. However, if your sole target is Boosters, you have to go to Odaiba Plaza in Minato City (Where the city's boss resides).



To the right there's a bunch of enemies walking in groups. If you are at a much higher level, you can insta-kill them with a single hit (Not even entering battle). Usually this might be tiresome, specially as some of them might start running away. But try to use either Enoki or Saigo to attack them, as their sprite animation has a larger hitbox and can strike several enemies at the same time.



It only takes 5-7 seconds per lap by using either of them, and as soon there's no more enemies, go back to the checkpoint, interact, and quickly leave.



Boosters are indeed quite rare drops, so might take arround 2-4 minutes to get a single one. If you're a bit luckier, you can get several drops in a row. Up to look, but on average you can get the max number of Boosters in 20-30 minutes.

Bosses have no much mistery behind them when comes to farming. You can beat them? Then do so as many times as you want. There are some particular builds that you can defeat them in seconds.

However, let's say you are not in the mood to play, yet you still want mats to upgrade a character or for crafting that will be explained later. This is where the AFK strat comes to help you.

Saigo is far from the strongest character, but is the tankiest by a huge margin and will rarely get killed. With two strong characters controlled by the AI that can provide some healing, this will create a build where you can be doing something else as your partners take care of the boss.

To do so, not only you need to upgrade Saigo and his healer(s), as well obtain some equipment that will make him sponge hits, but also have the right cards to stay alive. Here's the build.



Boss level doesn't really matter, but is highly preferable to go the highest your character(s) can handle.



After that, you are good to do anything you want while Saigo keeps the boss busy attacking him. On average will take 3-5 minutes, but is mostly up to how you build the characters controlled by the game.




This strat is specially useful if by any reason you can't be playing the game, and/or you are away from the computer/steamdeck. Install the game to your phone, and let it AFK through the boss as you are working or whatever is keeping you busy.



Lastly, THIS STRAT IS SPECIALLY HELPFUL AGAINST FRACTAL BOSSES. Fractal Bosses are incredibly tough for some players, and can be frustating to retry them for others. If you use the Saigo team and AFK away, in 5-7 minutes you'll have a defeated boss.

Rifts are the gold mine of Tribe Nine. Not only each has exclusive mats that you'll need to upgrade characters, but also strong equipment, money, and (unless you wanna avoid enemies) plenty of EXP.



With lots of Boosters you farmed for half an hour, you can quickly obtain tons of items to max out one or two characters in no time. However, the main selling point is to open chests and obtain equipment in the form of Patimons.

One main rule about Patimons is to Ignore their Set Bonus and only focus on obtaining as many golden colored skills as possible. While Tribe Nine lets you farm as much as you want, it copies the current gacha trend to RNG all equipment, and aligning both set bonus and gold skills can be torture. Fortunately, if we just focus on skills, is way easier to obtain a powerful build for our characters. To do so, is highly preferable to wait to achieve the highest tier in the game (Tier 9 at the time of writing this, with Tier 11 in Fractal runs), and then use PARs.



As the description states, PAR tries to transfer skills from our equipment towards whichever drops you obtain. So if for example your Iroha has a Patimon piece with Attack IV+ skill, as long this item is active most equipment drops will also have it along any other golden skills. The more golden skills in the Patimon part the PAR is replicating, the most likely you'll obtain a drop with triple golden skills.

Remember that I mentioned that you must farm bosses for crafting? This is that part. To obtain PAR, you must first craft a tape that mainly requires boss drops to obtain. Therefore, the more you farm bosses, the more tapes you can turn into PARs.




If you follow the AFK strat while you are doing other things, is quite possible to obtain more than enough to roll hundreds of Patimon parts after each Rift run. Given that dismantling Patimons also gives you an item to also craft PARs with, you can keep recycling junk drops for more PARs.



Keep the cycle going until you get atleast a Patimon part with two golden skills. Then equip it and make the PAR use it as template for the following drops. Soon enough, you'll have powerful gear that will make any of your characters solo most content. Obviously there's a chance that higher Tiers will keep coming and make your Patimons obsolete statwise, but you can still use them as base to transfer their skills into stronger gear.

After completing Chapter 2, you'll get access to Fractal Vice. A special maze where you can loot through multitude of chests as enemies keep getting tougher after each area. This will be your weekly grind as the dungeon and bosses in it reset along the missions that will give you loot boxes and other things like gems for your gacha pulls. Fortunately, after a full revamp, you can do the weekly missions in less than 15 minutes if you have the right build.

However, Fractal is not just about doing your weekly stuff along other gacha weeklies, but is also where the highest tier of Patamons can be obtained. This is the best opportunity to use as many PARs as you can. Specially since there's a score system where you can keep obtaining rare loot even after skirmishing the entire maze.



At the last area of Fractal Vice, a boss along a few mobs awaits with a big chest. Said chest can only be opened ONCE PER WEEK, and will give you the items needed to increase the characters' skills beyond Ex.

However, the more you explore the maze and more enemies are defeated, the moment you defeat this last boss it will drop as much loot as your total score. THIS LOOT CAN BE OBTAINED AS MANY TIMES AS YOU COMPLETE FRACTAL VICE.



Therefore, if you want the best equipment the game can give you at the moment, do as many runs as you can to reach the final area, always making sure your PAR is active when opening chests through the mazes as well this final location.

If you can find a route with plenty of enemies, you can guarantee a big number of chests to open at the final area. However, there's really no need to beat every single enemy, as although you'll miss on a few chests you still are rewarded with plenty of loot in the final area. If so, I recommend to ignore all enemies until a gate gives you this notification:



Defeating enemies in high-level areas give you more than enough points to get a big loot, so everything else can be skipped and you only have to battle in the last two areas.
Make sure to amplify your encounter range in settings. Defeating several waves in a single encounter increases your score, so try to pile as many enemies as possible together before a fight.




Usually you wanna aim for a score of 6K-7K, and by skipping most enemies in the early areas you can do runs of 5 minutes-ish each.

The majority of Tension Cards, no matter rarity, are powerful under the right combination. Either they make a character like Saigo unkillable, or turns the likes of Iroha into boss speedrunners with one hit kills. However, you don't really have to roll the gacha over and over to get the perfect build, as most enemies drops their respective card with helpful abilities. You can follow the same strategy to farm Boosters to do so.



Obviously that means you have to farm enemies to get their card at their best performance by obtaining five copies of each. However, after doing so, card drops obtain a new purpose: Become currency for the shops.



Going first with the most expensive currency and hardest to obtain since is mostly through gacha. DON'T SPEND IT EXCEPT FOR THE CARD SHOPS, even if purchase entities for gacha is tempting. You can keep saving to obtain SSR cards without having to spend in Card banners, so just ignore it completely until you can get a powerful Card like the one shown.



Now we can go for those dropped by enemies. The average enemy card will turn into a bronze currency that you can exchange for items and gacha pulls. Usually for the latter, so will become mostly useful to have once per month.



Mid-bosses' cards (The enemies that will track you down if you to their area) become silver currency. While can also be used for more gacha, this one is specially important as will be mainly used to obtain Judge Robots. This item can be crafted into Fractal Boss items, required to upgrade characters beyond Ex. Usually Ex upgrades are optional, but if you want extra skill points for your favorite(s) is still worth saving for them.

Keep on mind that mid-bosses can become normal enemies in later cities, making them easier to track and even insta-kill if we have a higher level. So if you are struggling to farm cards (And their mats), it becomes much easier as you progress through the main story.

Tribe Nine is a blessing among other F2P games by letting us spend an afternoon farming for items, when the competition will either restrict enemy/loot drops and/or limit playtime to a few minutes with a stamina system. Tribe Nine can spend a week or two with no new content, and not bother you at all since you can decide to go through Rifts for EXP and Patimons, or AFK away to pile on boss drops.

If you are highly invested on a team or character, you can have the perfect build in a day or two. If you just want to save thousands of enemy drops for future content, then do so. The game's devs also are caring for their playerbase and keeps adding new and needed QoL updates, so these strats might become even easier or completely pointless in a month or two. Nonetheless, now that you know how to make a proper team, go ahead and farm.