Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-171.207.159.222-20140518051158/@comment-24553774-20140518221244

Hello! Welcome to Ayakashi: Ghost Guild!

The story is not exactly essential, but can be helpful toward to leveling up and xp.

The story offers you daemons that you can choose to either fight with or set on your defense team. They are helpful to you while  you are a beginner, but I highly recommend that you participate in events to get higher level cards, like 3 star or 4 star daemons, depending on how strong you are. You should use the daemons you get in story mode to level up the daemons you can get from the free summon, especially if they are 3 stars (look around the Skill Leveling or Fusion Tips pages here). Also, finishing chapters with 100% completion gives you special summon tickets to summon stronger daemons with (you can get 5 star cards, if you are lucky!). You can level up these daemons with the daemons provided in the story (especially magatamas).

(Also, once you are level 10, it is recommended that you join a guild for guild conquests. The quick-join option will help you find a guild to join, but from my experience, I was rejected several high-level guilds because I was an extremely low level player (I was like level 10 during the Galaxy Wars: Equilibrium event and got rejected from a few guilds lol). I'm happy in the one that I am in now, even if we don't always get to the level 50 guild bosses. I suggest looking up "active" in the guild search page to look for guilds that want active players (that's how I found mine), if you intend to play actively (as well as have a guild that is also active to help you defeat bosses and gain stronger cards).)

Sorry this ran long!>m< I wish you the best of luck and that you enjoy this game! Definitely take a look around this wiki, there is lots of information to help you out.