Master of Ives is a very approachable game. For most players, a guide will not be required. If you are here that is because you want to streamline your experience and avoid a few road blocks to progression.
¶ Getting started
Your goal is to play through the Genesis mission as far as you possibly can before doing anything else. All other modes are locked behind Genesis completion so the quicker you finish it the better.
¶ Ives
There are a lot of ives and only a hand full of unique mechanics. Each mechanic has several Ives that are suited for the task. As you unlock new girls, you should be actively trying them out and level them to EVO 3. Reaching EVO 3 will unlock auto mode for that girl which will make her significantly more useful.
Though the end goal is to have all the Ives unlocked and leveled, there are a few that we recommend you invest in a bit more heavily starting out.
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Charlotte
The girl that all players start with. Her stats are not amazing but it is important that you invest in her. Mainly you need to invest all your early Endurance Tonics into her first 2 sex scenes to get her Spark rewards. -
Jennifer
Arguably the best Rare girl to grind Coins with, she is the recommended Ive for climbing Tower (only applies if the Blondes Tower is active when you start) -
Zoe and Vilja
Very useful for completing Chain missions so level her up a bit. Ranking up to EVO 2 can make that job easier but is not required. its very possible other better girls become accessible as new content releases. -
Patricia
Has a time stop fantasy which is really useful for end game content and generally ok otherwise. -
Nahia and Aya
These girls fantasy creates big orbs. Early on big orbs are hard to get and can make some mission annoying while you pray to RNG. -
Maya and Jin
The best coin farming Epic girls. You will need at least EVO 3 before you start to see their value though. -
Lisa
Has the best EVO 1 Fantasy out of all the legendaries for early game use. If you get her she will make completing a lot of early content trivial -
Leia
Great for getting big scores but unfortunatly sucks at generating coins. -
Ahmya
The best coin farming Legendary girl. You will need at least EVO 3 before you start to see her value though. -
Ayoka
Has a hidden score multiplier. When set as favorite, her multiplier will passively increase score. -
Nina
Has a hidden coin multiplier. When set as favorite, her multiplier will passively increase coins earned. -
Paula and Gabriela
The best Ives for generating large scores.
¶ Choosing Ives for missions
Later missions get difficult. Here are some things to think about when selecting who to use.
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Does this girl have a good stat for the objective? (Score, Coin, Fantasy, Big Echo...)
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Does the girls fantasy help to complete the objective?
- For most things Burst fantasies will work well
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Is my favorite girl active?
- must be a different color than the main girl.
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Does my favorite girl have the the target stat or at least generally good stats?
- Early on you should use the favorite slot to rank up girls to level 3. You wont have the opertuntiy to do so in many later missions.
¶ Magic Echoes
This is an imporant table. You will start needing it in Genesis 2.3
| Magic Echo | Chain Size | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Magic | 6-7 | - |
| Time | 8-9 | +2 Seconds |
| Star | 10+ (seems to spawn best around 10-12) | x2 Score |
| Coin | 10+ (seems to spawn best around 13-14) | +10 Coins |
| XP | 10+ (seems to spawn best around 15+) | +10 EXP |
¶ Special Echoes
These echoes are for specific tasks only.
¶ Gatcha
There has been some debate around how to use your resources to pull for new Ives but here are the general guidelines:
- If there is a purple gatcha pull from that first.
- Path A: Pull from the Yellow Box until you have a copy of every Epic girl, then switch over to the orange box until all your rare ives are maxed.
- Path B: Pull from the Orange Box with 4% gatcha to get a copy of the new girl (Elusive) or enough copies of Jenni or Charlotte reach EVO2. then switch to the gold gatcha till you have every Epic girl unlocked. Then switch back to the orange box till all your rare ives are maxed.
The main differnece between A and B is that B will guarentee that you can EVO2 Jenni or Charlotte early which is required for later Genesis missions. Path A can be a bit more RNG but unlocking epic girls quickly allows you to build up XP on girls faster. Its also very useful to have the girls unlocked for bingo and chase missions down the road.
Do not spend all your summons on the orange box. No one girl is enough. The goal is to go wide before deep.
¶ Resources
¶ Sparks
- An RNG stat boost system that requires huge amounts of resources
- A reward for completing sexy content like chat, h-scenes, or bingo
- Unlocks after player level 10
- When you have to play with a Ive with "x" Sparks, they don't have to be assigened, just recieved on the Ive
- Do not use any sparks on the girl until you have at least 400 gems per spark for rerolling
¶ Diamonds
- The rare currency in the game. Small amounts are given: daily, through the ranking system, and from pulling maxed evo Ives from the gatcha.
- From gacha, you get up to 50 diamonds daily. They are now capped (if the last drawn IveCard's value is above the threshold, it will be taken into account)
- Once you hit the daily threshold, all the extra IveCards will be stored in your account. You'll be able to utilize them as soon as Genesis Chapter 4 drops.
- Diamons are used to: rank up Ives EVOs, rerolling sparks, lowering mission difficulty, and shop purchases.
- Early on save all your diamonds to EVO up specific Ives
¶ Books
- Books contain gives a different number of cards depending on rarity 1-Elusive, 2-Legendary, 3-Epic or 4-Rare for any girl you choose.
- Be careful about using books. since they can give more than 1 card, if your ive only needs 1 card to max EVO you could be wasting some of the books value.
Evo Books should be used only after much consideraiton. They are the most valuable resource in the game.
¶ Keys
- Keys are used to run missions in the tower. You can read more about them here. (TODO add a link to keys)
¶ Bits and Endurance Tonics
- These currencies are use to complete h-content. you can read more about them here. (TODO add a link to bits and endurance)
¶ Tickets
- Used to pull girls from the gatcha. You can read move about them here. (TODO add a link to tickets)
¶ Completing Missions
Below is the mindset you should take when approaching the various missions in the game.
¶ Genesis
As you complete the genesis missions, additonal areas will become available to you. It is recommended that you get as far as possible as fast as possible on genesis mission before focusing on other areas. The farther you get in genesis the better off you will be.
Keep track of how much time is left on other mission types. You may want to focus on those if they have less than 5 days, but dont try to hard if the difficulty seems overwhelming. Ask for advice in discord. If you start late enough, completing some content will be impossible.
¶ Bingo
There is nothing special about when you start working to complete bingo mission. Generally it can be ignored until you get stuck on genesis missions that require sparks on certain girls. At this point, completing the first 3 bingos will let you complete all the genesis missions.
¶ Towers
- Tower events rotate on a (?5 week?) schedule.
- There are a total of 7 tower levels.
- The first 5 levels provide significant content rewards with the remaining 2 providing additional challenge for less substantial rewards.
- Each tower level has an increasing number of floors. 25,30,35,40,45,45?,45?
If you have a few weeks to complete it then the best method is to hold out until you have at least one of the 5 main girls EVO 2 or higher and level 10+ before starting. Keys are very valuable and you dont want to make any mistakes.
¶ Chase
Chase missions are based around an Elusive Girl. Having a copy of her will make all the missions easier in this mission. You are given a free copy of her mid way through Chapter 1 so there is no rush to go out and pull her from the gatcha. With this in mind its good to hold onto books and use them to EVO 2 the Ive to make thinks go faster and avoid spending your precious tickets on mostly rare pulls. (requires a aproximatly 200 pulls to get to EVO 2 with purly tickets)