Memento Mori: Complete Beginner’s Guide + Tips

Memento Mori is a story-centered AFKRPG developed by Bank of Innovation, Inc. that relies heavily on auto-battles and AFK reward mechanics.

Though the game lacks any real-time, action-oriented gameplay and combat controls, there are certain things you must learn if you want to excel as a beginner.

This guide will show you how the game’s AFK system works, who to reroll for, and ways to increase your BP — along with a list of tips and things you should and shouldn’t do as a beginner.

Starting Out (Rerolling)

To reroll, all you need to do is follow these five steps:

Step 1: Finish the tutorial (Chapter 1)
Step 2: Claim your Presents in the Main Menu
Step 3: Roll for good SR Heroes
Step 4: Reset the game data in the in-game settings if you don’t like your pull
Step 5: Rinse and Repeat

What Heroes Should You Reroll For?

Recommended SR Heroes	Soul Alignment	Role
Florence	Azure	DPS
Cordie	Emerald	DPS
Amleth	Azure	DPS
Merlyn	Emerald	Support/Healer
Freesia	Crimson	Support/Healer
Fenrir	Azure	Support/Healer

I would recommend pulling at least one of these heroes, as any one of them combined with any other SR heroes can carry you far into the Main Quest.

Core Mechanics Guide

Memento Mori is predominantly an AFK-based gacha game, which means most of its gameplay requires little input from players.

For example, the combat in this game is fully automatic — from the order the characters execute their turn, the activation of their skills, and how often they attack.

This doesn’t mean you can’t strategize at all, though. Because you can still tinker with the formation of your party and optimize it according to factors such as skill targeting and buff/debuff placements.

Another feature that makes Memento Mori stand out from other conventional turn-based games is its AFK reward system.

The AFK reward system gives you resources based on how far along you are in the Main Quest, and the rewards accumulate every second until you claim them.

The more Boss Battles you’ve beaten, the more the population of your Kingdom grows, and the more of the following resources you’ll be able to farm:

• Gold
• EXP
• EXP Orbs
• Kindling Orbs
• Gear Pieces

Primary Tasks for Beginners

Here are the five most important things that you should achieve first and foremost as a beginner in Memento Mori.

Objective #1: Clear As Many Boss Battles As You Can

Clearing lots of the early Boss Battles in the Main Quest is essential for several reasons — the most important reason being that it unlocks other game modes and power-up features.

If you don’t focus on Boss Battles early, your progress will be stunted, as you will not be able to farm that many resources while you’re AFK.

If you’re a complete beginner, I recommend getting to at least Chapter 5 to Chapter 8 within your first week. Not only is this easily manageable, but it’ll also make your AFK farm more productive early on!

Objective #2: Unlock All Trial Modes

If you want to unlock all Trial Modes, you’ll have to get to Main Quest 5-20.

Here are the requirements for each Trial Mode and the types of resources you can farm from them:

Trial Modes	Unlock Requirement	Resources Farmed
Cave of Space-Time	Clear Main Quest 1	Diamonds, Gold, Kindling Orbs, EXP Orbs, & Space-Time Coins
Tower of Infinity	Clear Main Quest 2-14	Diamonds, Witch Shards (R & SR), Kindling Orbs, Gold, EXP Orbs, & Gear
Fountain of Prayers	Clear Main Quest 3-12	Gold, Gems, Diamonds, Witch Shards, & Kindling Orbs
Battle League	Clear Main Quest 4-4	Battle Coins, Diamonds, Gold, Kindling Orbs, EXP Orbs
Temple of Illusions	Clear Main Quest 4-20	Upgrade Water, Upgrade Panacea, Rune Tickets, Kindling Orbs, & EXP Orbs

Objective #3: Join a Guild

Joining a Guild gives you a lot of perks, but the best perk is having access to Guild Raids. These allow you to farm:

• Diamonds
• Gears
• Gold
• EXP Orbs
• Kindling Orbs

Not only that, but you’ll also be able to farm Guild Coins which you can exchange for a lot of useful items in the Guild Coin Shop!

Don’t forget to join one as soon as you unlock the Guild feature — preferably one that is active and already has several members!

Objective #4: Add Friends

Memento Mori rewards players for being outgoing and friendly through Friend Points, which you can get from your friends and use to pull in the Friend Point gacha.

And unlike in most Friend Point gachas from other games, you can get high-rarity (SR) characters here and not just fodders!

How’s that for a change?

Make sure to take advantage of this FP gacha system and add at least 20 friends on your first day.

Objective #5: Link Your Account

One of the most important things you can do as a beginner is to link your account once you’ve decided to stop rerolling.

You will not be able to recover your account data in case you lost your phone or deleted your app accidentally, as the game uses a slightly archaic backup system.

Linking your account removes this threat entirely, so I would highly recommend that you do it as soon as you can. The whole process takes only about a minute to complete.

Powering Up Units (How To Increase BP)

Here are the five best methods of increasing your entire party’s Battle Power as a complete beginner in Memento Mori.

Methods	Resources Consumed	Effects
Level Up	EXP Orbs, Kindling Orbs, & Gold	Increases your unit’s stats & skill levels
Awaken	Character Duplicates, Fodders, & Gold	Increases your unit’s max level & stats
Upgrade Equipment	Upgrade Water, Upgrade Panacea, & Gold	Increases your unit’s stats when equipped
Augment Equipment	Holy Water, Gold, & Dark/Holy Gear	Increases your unit’s stats when equipped
Equip Runes	Runes, Gold, & Diamonds	Increases your unit’s stats and provides various buff effects when equipped

Memento Mori General Tips

To help you make your way through the early game more quickly and efficiently as a beginner, here are several tips that you should keep in mind while playing.

Tip #1: Invest in Five Units Only

Leveling up only five units in the early game is highly recommended, as you unlock a feature called Level Link in Chapter 5.

The Level Link feature takes into account the level of your fifth highest-leveled character and allows you to copy that level to any character you set in your Level Link slots.

This means that investing in any more than five characters is unnecessary and a complete waste of resources.

But don’t you worry if you accidentally did! You can still use Reset on a unit and take back all of the resources you invested in it for the small price of 50 Diamonds.

Tip #2: Always Complete Your Dailies & Weeklies

Memento Mori, like most modern gacha games, features a Weekly and Daily Mission rewards system. This allows players to earn resources by completing tasks regularly.

Never miss even one of these missions as a beginner!

You need all the resources and materials you can get, and your Daily and Weekly Missions will give you a decent amount of them to start with.

Tip #3: Use Your Resource Gifts Wisely

Resource Gifts are consumable items that give you a set amount of Gold, EXP Orbs, and/or Kindling Orbs upon consumption depending on the amount you get per hour from the AFK rewards system.

The further you are in the Main Quest, the more you get out of the AFK rewards system and these Resources Gifts.

This is why I recommend that you do not use these Resource Gifts until after you’ve hit a wall in your progress — preferably around Chapter 5 to Chapter 9 in the Main Quest.

Tip #4: Clear Cave of Space-Time Stages Regularly

Trial Mode Stages are very easy to clear — especially Cave of Space-Time which is arguably the most important of them all.

You can clear Cave of Space-Time stages once per day, and there are a total of three stages on it.

Make sure to consistently clear up to Stage 3, since only then you’ll be able to farm the highest amount of Space-Time Coins.

You can exchange these Space-Time Coins for tons of high-rarity items in the Shop — most notably Unit Shards which I highly recommend you save up for.

Tip #5: Use Your Diamonds Wisely

Diamonds are Memento Mori’s premium currency and are among the hardest resources to farm.

They can be used to pay for several things in the game, but your Diamonds will be more well-spent if you exclusively them spend in:

• Unit Summons
• Unlocking Rune Slots
• Quick Battles (Once per day only)
• Buying some items in the Mystery Shop (Cave of Space-Time)
• Buying some Discount Packs from Shops/Events

Memento Mori Do’s and Don’ts

Memento Mori is a much simpler game compared to other gacha games. But there are still some things that you absolutely should and shouldn’t do as a complete beginner.

Do’s:

• Do clear up to Main Quest 5-20 ASAP
• Do join a Guild ASAP
• Do add at least 20 friends ASAP
• Do complete your Weekly and Daily Missions consistently
• Do participate in Guild Raids & Guild Battles often
• Do link your account ASAP
• Do save up Space-Time Coins for Witch Shards
• Do Smelt excess gear pieces for Holy Fragments & higher-rarity gear
• Do try to invest in units with different soul alignments

Don’ts:

• Don’t waste Diamonds on Refreshes and non-discount Shop items
• Don’t leave your Guild Activities unattended
• Don’t level up more than five units
• Don’t Awaken units you don’t plan on using long-term beyond SR+
• Don’t ignore PVP (Battle League)
• Don’t forget to clear your Trial Mode stages regularly
• Don’t spend Diamonds on Summon Banners if you can’t get pity (100 Summons)
• Don’t forget to set units in your Wish List before summoning in any banner
• Don’t spend your Resource Gifts too early in the game