For my first play, I was a beast tamer

[Dizzzario]

It took me almost 3 WEEKS straight going through about 10 Dark rituals with the intervals of 1 day then the next 2 days then the next 3 days just enough to get a multiplier i.e. (1X to 10x to >100x every dark ritual reset). I entered this game knot knowing anything and just found these threads and reached the conclusion that I have played this game on hard mode !

To the ones looking for advice I recommend you to read first The First Reincarnation - Warrior By Pear. Also if you don't want spoilers what you do is to read only the stage you are in and do not skip! and spoil yourself. once you reach my stage at the end of the game you'll be able to enjoy more of the storylines you could not have gone through. With a warrior as your starting plot, one can finish this game in about 1 week without sleep.

I hope this helps this is a great game for people who like grinding and grinding for DAYS!

Cheers!

[Nico]

Btw, it is also strongly advised to do 1h Dark Rituals (DR) whenever you can and just do longer DR's when you really need the high rank for something like a new title. Since with all the additional inspiration you usually progress quite a bit quicker.
Also, before the last update the sorcerer class was the hard mode (which I did btw and never considered it as too hard, even when it took me a long while), but now it is actually not so bad anymore.

[Ket]

Yeah, should do at least 1 dark ritual per day, preferably several, if you wait too long you are missing out on vital inspiration, speed buffs on class routines, and cost reset on gluttony, and a lot of the dark ritual multiplier is from progressing and unlocking new stuff, like new summons, new mechanics like gluttony and maxing the luck level of summons. Time and high rank is only 1 part of it and the only part you really lose on doing fast rituals.

On my first playthrough I did tamer and I completed it mostly unguided (read an FAQ) in 7 days with 26 dark rituals

[Cult of Fortune]

Personally started with BT, saw the Warrior guide before completing a run, and took to grinding out Next Talent like a fool (not resetting with any regularity). A handful more runs in, I still trip into letting Next Talent settle for days at a time for some reason.

But, for speed, yeah, regular DRs are key.

[MP]

It boils down to how much habit you have. The more habit you have, the faster you get ranks and everything else.

And the best way to get a lot of habit fast is 1 hour DRs and dumping inspiration into habit. It'll snowball fast.