Foreword

Guides

There's a big variety of shops available in AFK Journey where you can purchase

Invite Letter
Invite Letter
and other summoning currency,
S-Level
S-Level
and
A-Level
A-Level
character dupes, Acorns and much more.

To access the shops, you have to visit the Mystical House and then the Emporium. Currently there are 5 available shops:

  • Recruitment Store - contains summoning currency for Banners and Stargaze, Acorns and Soulstones. Refreshes monthly,
  • Guild Store - contains summoning currency for Banners and Stargaze, Acorns. You can also buy
    Celestial
    Celestial
    and
    Hypogean
    Hypogean
    dupes from here. Refreshes daily and monthly,
  • Arena Store - contains
    S-Level
    S-Level
    character dupes. Refreshes monthly,
  • Dream Store - contains
    A-Level
    A-Level
    character dupes. Refreshes monthly,
  • Friendship Store - contains Affinity items and Gestures. Refreshes daily.

To learn what to prioritize in each of those shops, check the sections below.

Recruitment Store

Guides

Focus on discounted

Epic Invite Letter
Epic Invite Letter
and
Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
first and only then buy their non-discounted version. As a F2P player you won't be able to buy anything else, but this depends on how many pulls you will do every month - as the currency required to buy anything here comes from summoning .

Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
are required to do pulls on the Stargaze banner as you can't use your Diamonds directly there. So the amount of Stargazing you can do every month is limited.

Important!

Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
won't appear in the shop until you unlock Stargazing which will require you do to 400 pulls on the other banners.

Guild Store

Guides

Always make sure to buy the discounted

Invite Letter
Invite Letter
every day as it only costs you 210 Diamonds (down from 300 originally). As for the monthly part of the shop, get
Epic Invite Letter
Epic Invite Letter
and
Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
every month.

Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
are required to do pulls on the Stargaze banner as you can't use your Diamonds directly there. So the amount of Stargazing you can do every month is limited.

Important!

Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
won't appear in the shop until you unlock Stargazing which will require you do to 400 pulls on the other banners.

As for the

Celestial
Celestial
and
Hypogean
Hypogean
dupes you can buy here, go for
Reinier
Reinier
first until you reach Mythic+ and unlock his EX weapon. For who to invest after him, check our Wishlist guide.

Season Store

Guides

The Season store contains characters from the previous season and other goodies. Priority order:

  1. Abyssal Essence is the priority if you're an endgame player and/or spender.
  2. S-Level
    S-Level
    characters dupes if you need them,
  3. A-Level
    A-Level
    characters dupes if you need them,
  4. Arena Coins and Dream Store Coins are the lowest priority - you should be able to get enough of them from playing the game daily.

Arena Store

Guides

The Arena Store allows you to buy dupes of many

S-Level
S-Level
characters dupes and
Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
.

As a priority, always get

Stellar Crystal
Stellar Crystal
first - both the weekly and monthly.

Get 1 copy:

  1. Brutus
    Brutus
  2. Rowan
    Rowan

Both are one-copy wonders who are able to fulfill their role in the early/mid game with a single copy,

As for the other characters, here's the order and some info about them:

  1. Hewynn
    Hewynn
    is a great Healer who compared to Rowan and Smokey, can affect the whole battlefield at the same time. Her only issue is that she's a bit slow and it takes her some time to use her Ultimate, so you often use her together with another Healer early on,
  2. Granny Dahnie
    Granny Dahnie
    is a great tank who also debuffs and CCs enemies and heal herself, allowing her to outlast the enemy team,
  3. Cecia
    Cecia
    is a great damage dealer and you will obtain a copy of her from your first 10-pull. She makes progression much easier and can be used in various areas of the game, but she's not the best anywhere anymore as she was on the game's release,
  4. Bryon
    Bryon
    is a magic Ranger who can summon a Falcon and who focuses on debuffing enemies while killing them quickly. Once you unlock his EX weapon he also gains the ability to revive once per battle,
  5. Cassadee
    Cassadee
    is an AoE focused mage who also can buff her allies. She shines in Magical teams as she also can reduce the enemy's MDEF, which makes her pretty good in Dream Realm.

Dream Store

Guides

The Dream Store allows you to buy dupes of many

A-Level
A-Level
characters dupes.

For this store, the choice is a bit more complicated as you have different paths based on the direction you want to take your account to and what do you want to focus on.

To learn more about the characters, check our tier list and their profiles for their reviews - this should help you with making your decision. Still, Dream Realm characters should be your priority, because the only way to obtain the currency used in the store is via Dream Realm itself - and if you perform better there, you will gain more currency.

Dream Realm characters:

  1. Odie
    Odie
  2. Koko
    Koko
  3. Korin
    Korin
  4. Kruger
    Kruger
  5. Marilee
    Marilee

PVE characters:

  1. Odie
    Odie
  2. Arden
    Arden
  3. Koko
    Koko
  4. Damian
    Damian
  5. Antandra
    Antandra

PVP characters:

  1. Damian
    Damian
  2. Arden
    Arden
  3. Odie
    Odie
  4. Silvina
    Silvina
  5. Koko
    Koko
  6. Viperian
    Viperian