No & no. For Gaff & Orleandeu to be viable you needed at least limit break 3 to unlock all their abilities. Without that you are are better focusing on other units.

As for shards you can only get them during the event or with medals obtained in the event. There will be an opportunity in the future to get more when part 2 comes out. No date when that will arrive.

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Level and save your gil/visiore. There will be more units released so check out the tier list and see which ones you want to aim for.

Noted. Thanks :D

I wont train Gaff, but I already accidentally raised Orleandeu to LB2 and he's been much more useful than my other units. Idk if I can afford not using him. He's alr competing for lightning shards with my Frederica though.. And frederica is not exactly able to endure attacks. The other strong unit that I have is Sterne, but he is somehow a bit glassy... I regret not rerolling for Mediena ;;_;;

No problem. Try and focus on one unit per element for now. Resources are tight especially rainbow shards and phantom spheres.

Short term LB2 Orleandue is good. Long term you want max LB for level 99. The good stuff will require higher levels like the equipment event we have now.

Tip for shards: avoid summon, refresh from shop + refresh multiple times a day

Thanks man. Damn, even Yshtola shards are gone. I wasted resources awakening her 3 times not knowing she's also a limited event character because I don't have Mediena.... Aaarggghh

in a case like those just put on hold, for gumi games they always bring exclusive stuff back at some point ... i started the game in the middle of the fft event and ended with cid half-way to cid LB5 and gaff maxed , it will help me to gather resources for later banners but i didnt know how LB and awakening worked at first , it took me a deal to discover the whimsy shop to buy shards there

if it makes you feel any better I rolled her but I dont even use her cuz she isn't viable at lvl 70 down