- Name: One Piece Treasure Cruise.
- Developer: Bandai Namco Games
- Available in: App Store / Google Play
- Free with IAP.
One Piece Treasure Cruise is one of those Gacha-based RPGs that have become so common after the success of Puzzles and Dragons. This game has the usual structure of these kind of games, so you must be thinking, what makes this game so awesome?
The answer is that is you collect One Piece characters (which is great by itself) either by doing Event Islands, grinding, or by spending your Premium Currency on a virtual vending machine. What sets it apart from similar games (such as Puzzle & Dragons) is a focus on traditional animation during gameplay, from characters to stage backgrounds to special attacks. The production value of the art and animation is much higher than most other mobile games.
- Presentation
- Index
- Frequently Asked Questions
- New Player's Farming Guide
- Links
- New Player's Farming Guide Continued (2nd post)
- Special Thanks (2nd post)
- ResetEra Tier List (3rd post)
Question: Is this game pulling any F2P trappings to make me sell my house, car, wife and dog in order to be able to do everything?
Answer: Not really. The game is really fair for F2P players. You get a gem everyday, one every few stages in story mode, and one when you finish a new event island for the first time. And they love to give gems when there is stuff like typos or minor bugs, even if they don't affect gameplay in any way. And you get 5 (or 10) gems after you finish a new story island.
The Premium Currency can be spent in various ways. On a virtual slot machine called "Rare Recruit" (and named Gacha by players), by increasing storage size by 5 and by refilling your stamina bar. This will be expanded upon later.
Finally, the game doesn't have Pop-ups or messages with special deals in order to encourage you to spend money.
Q: Is the game fair? Would I be able to beat everything being a F2P player?
A: Yeah, but there is a bit of preparation and theorycrafting when it comes to building a team. If you don't want it, thankfully, there are awesome resources with guides available. The Slasher class is basically made in order to allow F2P players to do most content. They have some of the best captains in the game with Mihawk and Doflamingo and others with great stats like Arlong, Crocodile or Lucci, and some good utility ones like Mr.1, Mr.3, Halloween Zoro or Brook. Slashers are balanced in order to allow you to clear most (if not all) content in the game if you use the right crew members.
The game is divided by Types and Classes. Types are "colours" and are key to the rock-paper-scissors mechanic. Classes vary depending on the weapon and fighting style used and aren't restricted to a single colour.
Q: And what about characters other than Slashers? And what if I want to pull X or Y character?
A: Then things become a bit tricky. There are some teams that work really well without relying on the Gacha, like Slashers, DEX (Green) or PSY (Yellow) teams, some that don't rely much on the game gambling mechanics, like Striker or QCK (Blue) teams, and others that rely quite a bit on them, like INT (Purple), STR (Red) or Shooters. Things will change as the game progresses, and you'll get many interesting units in the long term if you keep playing.
If you want to pull a certain character, you're probably going to have a bad time. Your pulls on the Gacha are totally random. You could get the character on your first pull or you could spend a lot of money and still not get it. Still, the F2P selection is quite large, has a lot of fan favorites and their sprites are as good as the premium ones.
Q: Is there some limitation to the amount of time I can play this game?
A: Yes, there is a stamina bar. It's half a curse and half a blessing, since the game is a bit grinding and unlimited plays will burn people out quite quickly in the long term.
At first it's like it doesn't exist. You'll level up so fast that you won't have to stop playing, since leveling up restores your stamina to max. As you play and it gets harder to level up you'll have to stop playing for a while. Most players play a bit in the morning and again in the evening. The current recovery rate is 1 stamina point every 5 minutes and there are 2 ways of restoring stamina. Either by spending 1 Rainbow Gem (Premium Currency) or by getting Meat in the Snail Jackpot (you can use it 5 times a day, the game sends a Tweet and you get the chance of obtaining different random rewards like boosters, stamina, beli or gems)
Q: Soooo I haven't run away yet. You've said the game is quite generous when it comes to premium currency. How can I use them?
A: First of all, there is the Gacha. A pull costs 5 gems, and you can get from crap to awesome units. You can't pull the characters from event islands and some of the farmable story characters aren't available either.
Then there is a stamina refill I already talked about earlier. If you're bored, you may want to use it in order to play more, but, in general, they're used during special 24-hour event islands called Raids or Coliseums. There you fight powerful bosses and, if you defeat them on the highest difficulty, you get a guaranteed drop. F2P spend most of their gems stamina refilling during those events, since these bosses usually have really good skills, and you want to lower them by feeding them copies of themselves.
And finally there are box space increases. You get 5 extra slots for a gem. Just upgrade your box at your own pace.
Q: You talked about 24-hour events. Can you explain it a bit more? How do they work?
A: They're the high end content this game has to offer and they give you some of the strongest characters in the game, but they only show up for 24 hours when Namco Bandai decides it. At least two different raid bosses tend to pop up during the week, and they usually introduce a new boss once a month and old ones on a more irregular schedule. Coliseum bosses are slightly different than raid bosses because you have to unlock them by defeating multiple stages when the coliseum is open. Fortunately, the coliseum is open for a few days during the week and the same coliseum batch is up for a few weeks. These raid and coliseum characters can be acquired by defeating them, but this requires careful planning and the right set of crew members.
While these 24-hour exclusives are powerful crew members to begin with, their true potential is unlocked by acquiring copies and combining them, which can lower the time required to activate their special ability.
For example, Mihawk, One Piece universe's strongest swordsman, is a powerful 24-hour unit that boosts all Slasher-class characters attack strength 2.5 times. His special ability damages all enemies for 30% of their current hit points, but takes far too long to activate initially. By combining Mihawk with additional Mihawk drops, this activation time can be reduced, turning him into one of the best characters in the game.
Q: Ok. I'm sold. How do I start playing?
A: There are two-day periods every couple of weeks when a special Gacha event called "Sugofest" triggers. In this short period, very powerful units called "Legend" (noted by the red wanted poster) become available, and there will be a higher chance that you'll get certain units (they vary each Sugofest). Having one (or more) will drastically speed up your in-game progress. When you start playing, you're given 2 free Premium pulls.
Q: And what if my results are bad? Can I re-roll? How?
Yes, you can. As said above, when starting a new game, you are given two free Rare Recruits. By joining the game during Sugofest, you have the best chance for these two free characters to be of the highest quality.
But sometimes luck is not on your side, so you can re-roll by deleting the entire app (or just your save data) and starting fresh. The truly savvy can manipulate the save data to reroll as quickly as possible, although the method is a bit shady. If you want to learn how to do this, there might be some GAF members willing to teach you, or even do some Sugofest re-rolls for you, if you ask nicely.
Q: Which units should I aim for while re-rolling?
A: Short answer: One of the better legends like time skip Luffy, Akainu, and Doflamingo..
Long answer: Give a look at the Tier List in the second post when it is written up.
New Players' Farming Guide: What Gets Priority?
You're new, you're eager to jump in, but you have no idea where to go. That's okay! In OPTC, you'll likely be spending about 75% of your overall playtime in fortnights due to their being always available and containing key units that will help you advance onto stronger content like raids and the coliseum. No matter how deep you get, you'll be right back to farming fortnights due to needing skillbooks for your new rare recruit units, farming sockets, or getting that surprisingly useful unit out of them. While raids and the coliseum will become increasingly important to you, they're not what you're immediately concerned with. In time, you get a sense for what you should be prioritizing tailored to your box as no two people have identical boxes, but what about at the beginning? What are the most important things to hit up first? This is intended to be a guide to give new players a sense of what's most important, as well as an idea of how they should be evaluating their priorities for farming content. This guide assumes that you have rerolled for a Legend, followed the Chopperman missions through at least the East Blue, and have familiarized yourself with the basic gameplay loop of farming content, feeding during a skillup event, farming harder content, etc. If not, seriously consider doing the above before proceeding to become familiar with the game's systems.
- Golden Pound Usopp(GPU) manuals: Arguably the best unit in the game, Golden Pound Usopp is key to clearing most early game content due to providing a 3 turn delay on a 10 turn cooldown. This means hitting up the Kuro FN. While Kuro's a decent beatstick, the FN doesn't really offer you much aside from him and Usopp books. Max Usopp ASAP then move on to bigger and better things.
- FN Alvida: Alvida is another fantastic unit that sees a lot of play throughout the entirety of the game, helping you overcome raids like Mihawk and Doflamingo due to her large damage reduction. She's also unique in that the big three(Akainu, TS Luffy, Nekomamushi) can all make great use of her due to her classes and typing, so your choice of starting Legend is likely no argument against her. Highly recommend getting one copy of FN Coby from the Cobymeppo FN, evolving him, and feeding the Cobys you get from Alvida's FN to FN Coby as sockets in the name of efficiency.
Universal Utility:
- Cabin Boy Helmeppo - 100% defense reducer
- Ghost Princess Perona - 90% damage reduction, 80% defense reduction, 1,000 fixed end of turn damage(poison)
- Longleg Blue Gilly, Jao Kun Do Martial Artist - 10 hits, defense reducer, non-matching shuffle of all orbs(BLK included)
- Gairam, World Pirates - 5 hits of 2,000 fixed damage, threshold damage reducer
- Wicca - Universal fixed damage on low CD
- Double Ironfist Fullbody/Dog Penguin/Namule Whitebeard 8th Div. Commander/Speed Jil, Whitebeard 14th Div. Commander - Single target fixed damage dealers on low cooldown
- Wire - 0.3x chain boost, defense reducer
- Baccarat, Gran Tesoro Concierge - Drop duplicator
- Smoker Shambles, Autumn Rain - Captain swap
Fighter:
- Damage Boosters
- Petty Officer Coby - 1.5x orb boost for two turns, always farmable
- Kung Fu Dugong, Sea Animal Pirates- Removes poison, potential 1.75x class booster. Primarily used for poison removal
- Decalvan Brothers, Subordinates of the Whitebeard Pirates - 1.5x class booster
- Wicca - 1.25x affinity booster. Other utility uses
- Sanji's Tea Party - 1.75x class boost
- 'The Fighting King' Elizabello II, Prodence Kingdom - 0.3x chain booster
- Trafalgar Law, Second Salvation God - 1.5x orb booster + orb manipulator
- Camie, Mermaid Cafe - 1.5x orb boost, slight heal
- Kingsbird Carrot, Mokomo Dukedom - 1.5x class boost, CD reducer of top row
- Orb Manipulators
- Pekoms, Big Mom Pirates - RCV/Empty to matching
- Tony Tony Chopper, Heavy Gong - BLK to matching
- Luffy's Tea Party - STR/PSY beneficial, 20% HP cut
- Madame Shyarly, Mermaid Cafe Manager - Shuffle all non-matching, delay
- Longleg Blue Gilly, Jao Kun Do Martial Artist - Shuffle non-matching, 10 hits, defense reducer
- Sugar, Trebol Army Special Executive - Two guaranteed orbs, move orbs twice
- Daruma, Deep Sea Fishman Pirates - Randomizes all(BLK included), damage reducer
- Pekoms, Big Mom Pirates - RCV/Empty to matching
- Utility
- Cabin Boy Helmeppo - 100% defense reducer
- Double Ironfist Fullbody/Dog Penguin/Namule Whitebeard 8th Div. Commander - Fixed damage dealers on low cooldowns
- Nico Robin, Mil Fluer: Campo de Flores - Bind/Despair/Silence reducer
- Nightin, World Pirates - Bind/Paralysis reducer
- Pappagu, "Criminal Brand Company" President and Super Famous Celebrity Fashion Desginer - Despair/Silence Reducer
- Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Dubious Samurai - Despair reducer
- Bepo the Martial Artist, Heart Pirates - Paralysis reducer
- Violet, Blushing Summer Vacation - Silence reducer + Silence immunity
- Monkey D. Luffy, Gum Gum Elephant: Elephant Gun - Nuke + Delayer
- Assassin Funk Brothers - Delay, 1.5x class boost if all Greats
- Sanji, Grill Shot - Fixed damage nuke
- Boo, Happo Navy - Barrier-ignoring damage
- Damage Boosters
- Baby 5, Member of Donquixote Family - 1.5x class boost, 10% HP cut
- Van Augur, BlackBeard Pirates - 1.5x orb boost, orb locker
- Heat - 1.3x cond. boost against reduced defense, color orbs to matching on captain
- Baby 5, Member of Donquixote Family - 1.5x class boost, 10% HP cut
- Orb Manipulators
- Marguerite, Gaurdian Warrior - RCV to matching, fixed damage, delay
- Boa Hancock, Amazon Lily Princess - <30%HP two orbs to matching, orb locker
- Franky, Rocket Launcher - TND/RCV to matching
- Laffitte, Blackbeard Pirates - Randomize non-matching, defense reducer, delayer
- Giolla, Trebol Army - All orbs to STR/DEX/QCK, damage reducer
- Izo Whitebeard 16th Div. Commander - All orbs to DEX/PSY
- Billy - All orbs(BLK included) randomized
- Marguerite, Gaurdian Warrior - RCV to matching, fixed damage, delay
- Utility
- Ghost Princess Perona - High damage reducer, defense reducer, AND poison. Fantastic unit
- Don Krieg Poison Gas Bomb MH5 - Poisoner
- Toy Soldier, Thunder Soldier - Bind/Despair/Paralysis/Silence reducer
- Mr. Tanaka, Gran Tesoro Security - Bind reducer
- Nico Olvia, Archaeologist of Ohara - Paralysis reducer
- Chopper's Tea Party - Paralysis reducer
- Dr. Indigo, Golden Lion Pirates - Nuke, damage reducer
- Gairam, World Pirates - Fixed damage, multihit, damage reducer
- Damage Boosters
- Daz Bones, Convict, Mr. 1 - 1.25x class boost, damage reducer
- Mont Blanc Noland, Lvneel Kingdom Explorer - 1.5x orb booster for 2 turns
- Loveseeking Lola, Thriller Bark Bride - 1.5x orb booster, defense reducer
- 'Ice Witch' Whitey Bay, Subordinates of the Whitebeard Pirates - 1..3x cond. boost on raised defense, randomize non-matching orbs
- Brook, Psychedelic Arts - 1.5x orb boost, BLK/TND/Empty/Bomb to DEX
- Abdullah & Jeet, Vicious Criminals - 10% HP cut at end of turn, 2 turns
- Daz Bones, Convict, Mr. 1 - 1.25x class boost, damage reducer
- Orb Manipulators
- Rumbar Pirates Musical Swordsman Brook - RCV to QCK, TND to PSY, fixed damage
- Curly Dadan, Head of the Dadan Family - Top row matching if 100% HP, 10% HP cut
- Brook's Tea Party - RCV beneficial, 10% HP cut
- Hyouzou, Fishman Pirates Bodyguard - Randomize all orbs, 10% HP cut, poisoner
- Inmate Buggy the Clown, Jailbreak Alliance - Empties all slots
- Little Succubus Sugar, Halloween Night - Masquerade - Bad/BLK/Bomb to G, CD reducer
- Ronse - BLK to STR, 10% HP cut
- Rumbar Pirates Musical Swordsman Brook - RCV to QCK, TND to PSY, fixed damage
- Utility
- Brook, Cowardly Skeleton - Poisoner
- Maelstrom Spider Squardo, Subordinates of the Whitebeard Pirates - Fixed damage, defense reducer
- Kingsbird Wanda, Mokomo Dukedom - Bind/Paralysis reducer, easy Perfects
- Escapee Morgan - Bind reducer
- Sergeant Helmeppo - Bind reducer
- Atmos, Whitebeard 13th Div. Commander - Despair reducer
- Blenheim, Whitebeard 9th Div. Commander - Despair reducer
- Dogra - Despair reducer
- Ship Cutter T-Bone, Marine Captain - Damage reducer
- Stainless - Damage reducer
- Haruta, Whitebeard 12th Div. Commander - Damage reducer
- Roronoa Zoro, Jack the Ripper - Delayer
- Brook, Song of Scratches: Blizzard Slash - Delayer, orb locker
- Smoker Shambles, Autumn Rain - Captain swap, non-matching randomizer
- Brook, Cowardly Skeleton - Poisoner
Links:
1. Useful Sites
- r/OPTC: The largest Global OPTC community. News, discussions, memes, it's got it all. The "Menu" bottom in the top left has guides to just about everything in OPTC, from the breakdown of a raid, to what to do with this newfangled red poster of yours.
- Gamewith(Japanese): Really useful Google translated source of information for content that Japan has already gotten. It's what every Youtuber making teams in anticipation of future content uses to get information. Also hosts a great deal of info such as Legend tier lists, a Sugofest simulator, etc.
2. YouTube Channels
- Zeenigami (English) - Global/JP - F2P guides for most content, news aggregator, meme lord
- 7 Days OPTC/OPTC Imset - Global - Detailed stage breakdowns, lots of team suggestions for upcoming content
- The Shattered Fortress - JP - Speedrunning 101
- Toadskii - Global - High quality editing, upcoming unit reviews, playthroughs(not guides). Provides a decent window into the OPTC grind if you go from the start of his channel onwards
- TemoShOPTC - JP - How to clear everything with everything
3. Resources
- OPTC Github Database: THE tool when playing OPTC. If you intend to play this game for the longhaul, you're going to get very familiar with it very quickly. It's got a massive amount of functions. It has a Damage Calculator, a Character Database, and so much more. Take your time to really explore everything it has to offer.
- OPTC Calendar: Calendar showing upcoming and previous events for both Global and Japan. Interactive, lists what each event drops, and links it all back to the character database too. A must have for plotting out your future plans.
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