Re: [DMM] Tentacles Tactics
not sure what leveling up does anyway besides unlocks some kinda skill that mostly seems meh
Leveling up is definitely useful. Each level increases your ST maximum by one. You say you are at level 11? You won't be able to upgrade most R cards without bankrupting your ST for the day, and SR cards will be out of the question . . . some of them actually take 55 ST to evolve. At level 11, you would have . . . around 20ish ST? That is two hours worth of accumulated ST, which means that you can only play a little bit without running out.
I'm at level 101, and I have 110 ST. I can play tons of stages, which is important, because some of the later stages actually cost 20 ST to play each time.
It also increases your BP capacity (same benefit as ST) and friend limit, which is another way of saying "free RP points".
Are R cards really worth using? They cost so much and even with level 6 regen, id only have like 1 char on screen for awhile
Are you getting your girls up to level 10 obedience? That is the first thing to do if their cost is too high.
R cards are the backbone of most teams. Almost all N girls are useless at the mid-to-end game (special mention goes to Nishiki, Akeno Hibiki, Cleopatra and N-variant Valentinius), as they die in one hit to anything. Most R girls don't cost too much . . . ranging from around 90ish to 140ish for the average girl.
There are some high cost R girls, that I like to call "pseudo-SRs" that take a very high amount and are correspondingly stronger . . . these include Kanu, Hybrider 1 and Hybrider 3, who each take around 400 points but hit like a tank and tank like a boss. However, these are an exception, not the rule. Most R girls are NOT expensive, and that "90-140" point cost is just intimidating because your energy regen isn't that high yet. You might also look into stacking girls . . . when you use more than one of the same card, their cost goes down. For instance, if you use two Elfellas at once, not only can you summon two in the same time it takes to summon one, but BOTH of their energy cost is reduced. This stacks up to 5 times, so you could run a team of 5 Elfellas and summon them all for a dramatically cheaper cost than normal. This is one way to counteract a low energy regen rate, and works wonders with prohibitively expensive cards like SRs (you should have seem my 9 Comet team for leveling up).
Ultimately, your team will be comprised of mostly R girls, MAYBE 1 of the specially useful N girls, and 1-3 SR girls. And if you think R girls are expensive, just wait until you get some of the most costly SRs like King Arthur, who's evolved cost at level 10 obedience is a staggering 770 energy. When the Halloween event came out (during which I got my first SR card), my 8-slot team was 2 Jeanne's, 1 Elfella, 1 Yoshitsune, 1 Sarutobi Sasuke, 1 Y-Poola, 1 Maia Mercury, 1 N-variant Valentinius . . . all of which were R-girls except Valentinius (who is useful anyway as a buffer). Not a single one of those girls costs more than 126 energy evolved and at 10 obedience, and Sasuke and Y-Poola only cost 84. That really isn't bad at all.