Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-72.191.8.230-20151020010859/@comment-9571656-20151020025926

Will try to answer briefly for most of the questions you have.

1).  Summoning/Recruiting - You can always pull duplicates, they never get taken off the menu.  There are not really missions that "require" characters, although there are some that will only "unlock" or become available ounce you have certain characters.

2).  Friends - Really the only thing you get from "Friends" in this game is the ability to use their Party Leaders skills and abilities during a fight.  You also gain +25 Arcana Coins (used for summoning) for each time you use a friends character.  You also gain +25 each time someone uses YOUR party leader.  This is why you will want to set a strong and useful char to be your leader.  Oh yea they also added a feature which can let you get/send AP (used to do things) from them ounce every 24h.  Gives you slightly more AP todo things.

3). Fortune Rings - These can be aquired in multiple ways.  Doing the Daily Quests in Dawning each day is one way.  Selling 3* or higher arcana is another way.  Daily Login Bonus's and completing certain missions are also ways to collect Fortune Rings.

4).  Party Setup/Formation - Typically you don't want to use more than 2 of the 5 classes in the MAIN slots of your party.  This is to help get enough "Mana" for their special attacks.  For a lot of the game the best setup is usually 3 Soldiers (Red) OR Knights (Blue) plus a Cleric (Green).  Your 2 SUB PARTY slots are not as important early on and are mostly used to level extra characters.  EXCEPTION - They have just released a "Mission" system and eventually you will gain access to the Class and Alliance Missions.  The Alliance Missions require you to use 1 of each of the 5 classes in your party and are really good todo.  Especially early on as the fights are pretty easy.

5).  Prysma - This REALLY REALLY matters if you are going to stay F2P (Free to Play) or are going to P2P (Pay to Play) at all.  F2P is usually better only pulling during events for specific characters.  But it requires LOTS of self control....sadly a lot more than I have even though I am F2P.

6).  Arcana Rarity - NO it is not possible to "upgrade" a characters rarity level. 1*=Common, 2=Uncommon, 3=Rare, 4=Super Rare and 5*=Ultra Rare.  HOWEVER their have recently been released second versions of the 4 characters you start out with a 5* HERO and 4* Kain, Marina and Mechida (You will not get the new versions for quite a bit until you finish the first book of the main stroy and start the 2nd).  There is also a 4*version of Patricia available right now by doing a simple quest in Dawning.

Check out the forum below their are a lot of guides and be sure to sign up there and here. They have a nice live chat that you can always ask questions in as well.

http://chain-chronicle-forum.com/

http://chain-chronicle-global.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_System