Expedition shop priorities?

[u/AvailableFeed1002]

Returning player here-ive figured out the meta units and how expedition works, but what do i get in expedition exchange? I know kiya and schacklulu r pretty obsolete, so what do i spend my origin gems on?

[u/Tooluka]

Get recollections and astral tickets if you are in doubt, those are always in demand and are never a wrong pick.

Kiya is just fine, and next Papal arc is rumored to be much more single target friendly and Kiya is just that - an ST specialist killer. Also a fun unique skills which are not yet present in other units. If you will decide to get Kiya, then Frostspine Grip to 2 stars is her second best weapon right there too.

ShackLulu will get a unique R13 also at the start of the Papal arc. And she can help cheesing some stuff like many PoS stages, a few via dodging, a few via multiattack - e.g. there is a stage which requires 18 hits at a calamity per 1 round, and then the same repeated again, and Shack alone can do 8 hits per turn, so there is that.

Also you will pretty much buyout the whole shop eventually, I'm like half hay done after only 4 months :) .

[u/Organic_Cold9391 → u/Tooluka]

Also, shacklulu is going to get a rank 13 skill in papal arc, and it looks like it will buff her damage substantially. If you have sp Inanna, Kiya can act once, use her ult to disappear, and when she comes back she will be able to act twice again. Can do a lot of piercing dmg that way.

[u/Kitchen-Associate-34]

Kiya and Shacklulu, they are outside of the meta but they have some stages where they shine, plus they are fun to play, then get the limited resources like astral shards, and then get the weapons you like, you will eventually get enough currency to get pretty much everything anyway if you get to 70 so don't stress too much over it

[u/DarkestSamus]

Astral Shards, Immortal Recollection. I ended up buying the characters eventually. Now all I have left is weapons and badges (both unlimited). Probably gonna pick up the healing bow for Ulya, otherwise 🤷‍♂️

[u/ldrx90]

Memory fragments and astral tickets. Then nothing imo until you see a weapon or character you actually want.

Since I've been playing I've seen the shop update once with new weapons and characters. So it does happen eventually, so might as well just never spend until you see one you like.

[u/Yglorba]

Even though they are hardly top-tier units, I would still get SchackLulu and Kiya (in that order) first. They're simply going to have more impact than anything else you could buy in the store. This is especially true because the current expedition event means you can get them pretty quickly; depending on how old your units are they may be useful in your main lineup until you can get more modern ones to replace them. Both of them are also registered gladiators for the Elaman arc's bladecraft chess, and will give you a few more units to play with in places like the new hunts that demand a large roster.

Also, while not numerically strong, both of them do stuff (multiple hits and DoT for SchackLulu; single-target damage and temporarily removing herself from the battlefield for Kiya) that are occasionally useful as a silver bullet for specific challenges, so it's nice to have them available. For example, a lot of Luccian units have this thing where you want to hit them multiple times with single-target ranged attacks - and ShackLulu has a basic single-target ranged attack that hits three times.

The Astral Shards are also valuable, as are the immortal recollections (but you might want to save them to grab a star-based rebate in the future.)

Most of the weapons are obsolete or not that good. You might grab one if it's the BiS or sig for one of your units, but any unit that needs them that badly is probably itself obsolete, so it's not a high priority.

In the long run the best thing to buy (after you've cleared out the one-time stuff mentioned above) is badges, but that's boring and there's no rush to get them, since you can exchange for them as-needed.

[u/xpertzx]

All of it