Earth's last hope in quelling the Aragami nightmare.

1. For getting 100 urgent mission clears, shoot for the 3 stage, survival missions. Each one counts as 3 clears.

2. Getting the full set of rank 14 armor is easiest at the endgame. Save your Generic Compound Cores for this one. Kill old version Dyaus pita for a guaranteed drop that makes one of a few weapons. Farm his mission and you'll probably get GCCs. You can also farm Arius Nova for its piece that makes its rank 14 weapon. The first route is easier. Once you have enough to make all the weapon and armor types at rank 14, save before you do this, craft all the 14 gears to get the achievement, than exit the game. You will keep the achievement and your cores and what not to invest in other gear if you choose.

3. You can sell vendor items in the Withdraw menu at the terminal. At some point at endgame money is irrelevant.

4. Using covert team, mute/super, and proper positioning and stun bombs can allow you to kill Aragami in the open undisturbed by adds. It's easiest to do this in multiplayer.

5. It's best to combine all your useless God arcs up to the point where the rarity can't improve. This maximizes your chance at getting something worth while. To make sure you craft the God arc for the gear you want, make sure that most of the abandoned arcs you use are of the type of gear you want.

6. I personally don't use any other predator style on charge except the one that gives you Lvl 3 burst. Combined with mutual burst and burst duration, you can maintain burst for the duration of the mission with any npc including those that can't link burst. This lets you shoot them to replenish your burst.

7. You can stay in the air near indefinitely by using your air devour. Most of the dash ones in the air can help you dodge and still keep attacking. Takes practice to do this.

8. Mashing buttons while your stunned gets rid of stun faster.

9. Item effect is a powerful skill that boost healing from health items. Item duration lets you use buffs for a little longer. Item effect doesn't effect item buffs.

10. You can use any Support Npc in the slot as they all learn the same skills in the end. Some of their special skills vary in use.

11. The Ignore bond skill is useful if you are having trouble breaking certain aragami bonds or if you kill them fast.

12. Don't unerestimate the power of venom. It does a lot of damage and is a better option than using an elementless weapon or one of the wrong affinity versus an aragami.

13. Remember than when adding God arc skills that the skills don't increase others of the same name. The highest one takes effect (if you have Melee atk 2 and add melee atk 3, you will activate Melee atk 3). This means that skills that don't activate until 10 are worthless at anything but lvl 10. They will have an grey X in the skill list. God arcs with these skills are usually fodder for crafting.

14. Don't forget to create different loadouts for different enemies. Have a loadout for each element including a non-element one (unless you have dual element weapons). This is pretty important in multi-staged missions as when you swap Avatar cards (it allows your friend to pick a loadout that will work for them in the mission). I believe only the first 2 are recorded in the avatar card, so make those unique for most situations.

15. While leveling your support npc, learning Support Use +1, Support Redraw, and Team AP+ will produce the fastest way to level them up as well as give your whole team a bonus in AP. In this order, you will want ut activate (at the end mission screen) Support use +1, Team AP+ (if it's there) or Support Redraw (if it's there regardless if Team AP is there), then activate Team AP if you couldn't activate it first. Npcs that activate their skills at the end of the mission get an AP bonus for using their skills. Using an npc's skill multiple times results in stacknig a large amount of AP.

16. Don't bother learning GAP skills. You get GAP so fast and there are low requirements for their use. Also, Consumable rewards, ignore endurance/time, and reward credits are of low value (at endgame, again, credits are in overabundance).

17. Masked Ogre, as much as a love him, is a terrible character. If you use him, you should equip skills where he or the team benefits from his death. Making him a support healer gives keeps him out of the fray and is good option.

18. Sometimes blocking is the best option. Also, having elemental resistances (1 or higher) makes a HUGE different when fighting enemies of the same element.

19. Since I play with Short Swords almost exclusively, I will let you know the best weapons of each element. By best, I mean they provide the most damage and have decent or great skills. You can of course do well with any weapon in the game. By the way, I'm using their initial craft names:
Blaze: Serpent Dagger (From Hannibal)
Spark: Tigerclaw (From Vayra on Vayra path)
Freeze: Claudia (From Caligula though the skills are lousy.)
Divine: Superbia (all Arius Nova weapons are best). Runner up: Bestie Dolch (Dyaus pita weapon) and the Cursed Blade if you only want slash damage.
Neutral: Knife :3. Damage wise, Poison Pickaxe. Debuff wise: Wild Sword: yang.