Some useful Tips

[Misfit]

some tips that took me some runs to realize:

get npcs, the are a huge help when starting out. you can get gen the cat right away i guess.
go to 2nd left house in the village and get cat juice, give it to gen south of the hotel. now you can recruit him for free.
in the leftmost house there is also the son of the rich man, he will run off and join you if you die the first time.
you get some more npcs while playing the story.
they all keep their level between runs, so you should use them as soon as possible.

unlock the points shops asap, so you can get undo herbs to keep you equipment.
you have to do the pot guy lottery first, for that you need some money. you can return to town if you find an escape scroll, undo herb, etc. or after you finish a tower, which should be easy if you abuse the npcs to tank for you.

after you unlocked the points shop you can go with your best equipment every run, you cant lose it anymore with a undo herb in your inventory (costs 70 points, you get much more every run), if you die just select "escape" and your back in town with all your money and inventory.

choose weapon/shield combinations that produce an extra effect, here is a list:
https://mysterydungeon.gamepedia.com/Shiren_5/Swords
upgrade those as much as possible and most important plate them, this can be done by a random npc, scroll or in the 2nd town, after the first 3 towers. plating keeps their level if you step in those annoying -level traps, after you got your favorite shield and weapon plated they dont affect you anymore.

when your about to finish the 3rd tower, keep a juicy peach in a preservation pot, you need it in the next town. you get that from a hard peach, just have it in you normal inventory, i goes to normal>juicy>rotten.

you can sell any item to the pet license guy in town.

[Del_Duio]

Hey do you have to have an Undo Herb out of a pot in order for it to work like the Revive Herb? I didn't want to test it!

Speaking of which, start using the bank and storing Gitans ASAP too: You'll get some good rewards for the first time you hit some thresholds.

I found a Blank Scroll, possibly as a bank reward I honestly forget how I got it. Anyhow you can make it into any Scroll you want though you MIGHT have had to have seen a real one first. In the DS game there are a couple hidden spells you can write on blank scrolls. I'm assuming there are similar hidden magics in this game too.

[Misfit]

undo herb lets you choose if you want to escape or revive after dying.
i always choose to escape back to town, so you keep all you stuff, money and level your equipment/allys without any risk and you get them for bonuspoints, so its super easy to keep grinding this way.
stuff like escape scroll is risky, if you get killed by 1-hit you lose everything.

[Enlino]

Originally posted by Del_Duio:

Hey do you have to have an Undo Herb out of a pot in order for it to work like the Revive Herb? I didn't want to test it!

Undo works from inside pots. Undo herbs will also always trigger before revival herbs.

[RichRuzz]

Starting to remember the old strats I used but man I love the possibilities in these games, I use to + a bunch of weapons on the runs I survived or send them back mid-run to really create a strong setup... then die to some stupid thing I didn't think of. :P

[Yarrr!]

Originally posted by Del_Duio:

Hey do you have to have an Undo Herb out of a pot in order for it to work like the Revive Herb? I didn't want to test it!

Unlike previous Shiren games, Revive Herbs actually work in pots as well. Had one trigger for me that way a bit ago.

In fact only thing I've seen that lists it doesn't work in a pot is the Point Card.

[StrungSweeney]

I really hope something nasty can wipe points, seems very cheesy compared to the golden condor.

[RichRuzz]

Oooh maybe someone can tell me this... anyway to stop my AI partners from attacking synth enemies, xp nuts, etc? So I can fusion stuff or build exp multipliers? They keep attacking them automatically.