When you play Grand Quest, you must upgrade your characters constantly to keep up with higher-level enemies, especially bosses. In this guide, we’ve discussed the various ways to upgrade your characters such as levelling up, ascension, weapon upgrades, and the like. However, notice that all these methods are impossible if you do not have enough resources such as Mermaid’s Milk (for levelling up), Tears of the Sea (for promotion), Gold, and much more. Collecting as much resources as possible is just as important as upgrading your characters in Grand Quest. In this guide, we’re going to talk about the various ways you can acquire resources needed for upgrades and how you can efficiently maximize these.

Table of Contents

1. Story Quests and Traveler’s Notes
2. Dispatching Characters
3. Fighting Battles
4. Completing Missions

Story Quests and Traveler’s Notes

The most straightforward way to earn Mermaid’s Milk and Gold is by simply completing story quests as well as bonus daily quests called Arcanist’s Travel Note for more rewards.

Grand Quest has 16 chapters in its main story and each chapter contains several levels that reward you with resources upon completion. You can get a preview of the rewards by clicking on the “Reward” button just before starting a chapter stage. The caveat with story quests is that they cannot be repeated once completed. However, the hard difficulty is unlocked upon completing the chapter in normal difficulty. This option allows you to play harder versions of the same levels in exchange for greater rewards.

Do not miss bonus story quests called Arcanist’s Travel Note. These are daily quests that allow you to obtain more resources which include Mermaid’s Milk, Gold, Revo-2 Firing Pin Trigger (weapon upgrade part), Tesar-MK2 (for tactical props), and Amoe-C3 (for tactical props). Unlike story quests however, you do not exactly know what enemy types you’ll be up against in Travel Note quests so you have to refer to the recommended power rating to see if your team can do the quest.

Dispatching Characters

Another bonus feature provided by story quests is dispatching. This is a good passive way of earning resources while you are offline.

There are multiple regions which you can dispatch characters to. When dispatched, a character becomes unavailable for a maximum of 10 hours. During those 10 hours, they collect resources hourly. The resources depend on the region they are dispatched to. For example, the Lower District area grans 240 Mermaid’s Milk and 12 Crystals every hour. More regions are unlocked by completing story quest chapters. To maximize this feature, always dispatch your characters before you go offline for a long time. For example, you can dispatch your characters before you sleep so that the 10 hours can go through quickly.

Fighting Battles

Battles are a set of game modes that are designed for farming specific resources. You unlock more battle modes as you complete certain story quests.

Memory Dreamscape – Travel through the Dreamer’s memories to obtain Circuits

• In Memory Dreamscape, you can deploy up to four characters. One character is the Dream Walker, two characters are the Dream Helpers, and one character is the Dream Caster. Defeating the enemies in the dream rewards you with circuits like Havoc, Vigor, and Nova that you can embed into your character for upgrades.

Gold Rush – Defeat monsters to earn Gold

• Deploy your team to eliminate waves of enemies to earn only Gold and nothing else. You can also deploy up to two support characters per main character, however you cannot deploy an assistant character from a friend. Gold Rush comes in three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. The harder the difficulty, the more Gold you earn.

Cargo Escort – Drop lots of tactical material

• Deploy your team to eliminate waves of enemies to earn Skill Material and Tactical Material. You can also deploy up to two support characters per main character, however you cannot deploy an assistant character from a friend. Cargo Escort comes in three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. The harder the difficulty, the more materials you earn.

Hero Trial – Drop character upgrade materials

• Deploy your team to eliminate waves of enemies to earn Mermaid’s Milk and Tears of the Sea. You can also deploy up to two support characters per main character, however you cannot deploy an assistant character from a friend. Hero Trial comes in three difficulties: Easy, Normal, and Hard. The harder the difficulty, the more upgrade materials you earn. Note that Hero Trial does not tell you who exactly the enemies are unlike Gold Rush and Cargo Escort.

Fission Field – Defeat enemies to get rich rewards in Stage Challenges

• The Fission Field consists of multiple “floors” that need to be cleared. To do so, you must complete the objective assigned to the floor which usually consists of defeating several waves of enemies in a certain amount of time or successfully defending a crystal from invading enemies. Fission Field quests reward you with resources like Gold and Blazing Star Iron.

You need to spend challenge chances to play Gold Rush, Cargo Escort, and Hero Trial. All these game modes share challenge chances. Every day, you are given four challenge chances.

Completing Missions

If you want to quickly obtain Magic Crystals, then you must complete missions.

There are four types of missions: Daily, Weekly, Story, and Achievement. All types of missions reward you with Magic Crystals with the differences being the amount rewarded to you and the difficulty of their respective missions.

• Daily – these have the most number of missions. Daily missions are quite easy (i.e., logging in, competing in the Arena once, levelling up a character once) but they only reward as little as 15 Magic Crystals per task. These missions refresh daily.
• Weekly – these are slightly more difficult than daily missions. Each weekly task rewards 50 Magic Crystals. These missions refresh weekly.
• Story – these are missions related to completing story quests. They can only be done once in an entire playthrough.
• Achievement – these are missions related to completing certain milestones in the game (i.e., collecting 10 characters, reaching player grade 10). These can reward 50 Magic Crystals. Like story missions, these missions can only be done once.