Raids: the only mode with its own economy

Every other mode pays into a general pool. You play Story, you get progression. You clear Challenges, you get currency and tokens that spend anywhere. Raids break that pattern: they pay a dedicated currency that spends in the Raid shop and nowhere else.

A closed loop changes the decision you are making. General income is always worth having, so you never have to think about whether to collect it. Closed income is only worth having if the loop's shop stocks something you want, which means the first question about Raids is not "how do I farm this" but "is there anything in there I need".

Because the currency has exactly one sink, the Raid shop is the entire value proposition of the mode. If the shop has something you want, Raids are the most purposeful farm in the game, because you can see the target and count the distance to it. If it does not, Raids are a mode you are playing for the feeling of playing.

So the correct routine is inverted from how most people play. Open the shop first. Decide what you are buying. Then farm exactly as much as that costs, and stop. Farming a closed-loop currency without a purchase in mind is the purest form of wasted time this game offers, because unlike Gems, the surplus cannot be redirected anywhere.

• The currency is captive. Surplus cannot be spent elsewhere, so there is no such thing as banking it for a rainy day.
• The mode is repeatable. Unlike a gated mode, nothing about Raids is a one-time unlock. That makes it the natural home of deliberate, purpose-driven farming.
• The shop is patient. Unlike event fragments, which rot when the event ends, raid currency is not on a countdown. There is no urgency, which means there is also no excuse for panic-buying something you did not want.

A farm loop rewards a fast, reliable clear far more than a strong one. The difference between a team that clears in six minutes and one that clears in nine compounds over twenty runs into an hour of your life, and nobody notices it happening because each individual run felt fine.

So bring the six that clear fastest, not the six with the highest ceiling. Check your element coverage across all 7 elements, because a coverage gap costs you seconds on every single repeat. And if two of your units are half of one of the 7 sourced Synchro pairings — and a Clash or a Drive keeps both towers on the board — that is a free speed increase on a run you are about to do dozens of times, which is exactly where free power is worth the most.

Wave counts, boss names and a stage list for this mode are missing for the same reason, and we are not going to reprint someone else's unsourced version of them. If Pro Game Guides, Destructoid, Beebom, Try Hard Guides or Deltia's Gaming publish either table, it appears here with their name on it and the date at the bottom changes.