Obey me Card Leveling Guide

Obey Me Card Leveling 101

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Hi!

If you're new to Gacha games like Obey me, the card system can be easily confusing, and massively frustrating. I've decided to write down and edit a guide I made some time ago to help newer players, or players who want a little extra help.

Note: While you're reading this guide, it's best to have the game open and follow along so you can have the added visual aid. But it is not 100% necessary.

First, what is the card system?

The card system is how you progress in the game, you obtain cards through the Nightmare function and then use them to clear the dance battles between chapters of the story. As you get further in the Lessons, the difficulty of the battles increases. Easy enough to follow, right?

Here you can see I've highlighted where to get cards from. In my other guide, I go over how to best collect cards and things you should do to collect as many as possible.

But let's take a look at your current cards. To do that, select contacts.

Cards are divided into 2 types: Demon cards and Memory Cards.

When you open the cards, this is what you will see. Cards are separated by type, demon or memory and then pieces are also separated by type.

By default, they'll be organized by rarity, but you can separate them with other filters here.

But that will come later. For now, let's focus on your most powerful cards, which will be those at the top by default.

What you want to aim for in Nightmare are the UR/UR+ cards as they're the most powerful in the game at the time of posting, none of the other cards (SSR, SR, R, N) can reach that level without breaking past level 100 and a fully unlocked devil tree.

A demon card is the character you will be using in battle, and can only appear once in the line up. For instance, you can't have 3 Lucifer cards, or 3 Mammon. You can however, have 1 Lucifer, 1 Mammon and 1 Leviathan card. This is important to remember as you develop a favorite character, don't single one out and only level up his cards! It'll make it harder on you in the long run.

The best strategy would be to have a UR or UR+ in every color for every brother. So 7 UR/UR+ Lucifer cards, Mammon, Levi and so on, through all the brothers and side characters, so that no matter what you can have your favorite in the line up and can handle the tougher battles more easily.

Think of a memory card like a magic card, it helps beef up your attack and can sometimes give bonus buffs for your team and nerfs the opposing team.

What's with the color on the card?

Each card comes with a border and a little cricle that will have a symbol and a color associated with it. If you've collected a few cards already, you should be able to see them. That is the cards leading attribute.

For example, this Mammon card has a Lust Attribute, and a pink border.

What's an attribute?

An attribute is what gives the card power, and there are 7 different attributes to keep in mind and each have their own color. They all correlate to the 7 deadly sins and go in this order:

Pride - Blue

Greed - Yellow

Envy - Orange

Wrath - Green

Lust - Pink

Gluttony - Red

Sloth - Purple

Each card will have a main attribute (the border color) and lesser attributes. You can see them here.

When you go to battle in the tasks area, you will see that your three cards add up their power for a total strength number, and it will show you how you stack up against the current opponent.

If you pay attention to the little smiley face beside your strength, it will let you know how close you are to beating the other team. With my current recommended team, I'm high enough that I can actually skip the battle completely and move along.

If you gather enough strength by leveling up your cards and unlocking nodes in the devil tree, you can too.

What's the devil tree?

When you select a card from your contacts, you will see a button that says Devil Tree

When you select the devil tree, a new page will open with a sort of skill tree.

Each of the bubbles that come with a sin symbol offers a little boost to the cards attributes and overall level.

To unlock nodes, you need items that are given during battles, and in game currency called Grimm. You gain that by winning battles, doing Jobs and completing the To Do List.

That doesn't sound hard, so what's the catch?

Well, as you can see from the picture above, it costs quite a bit of Grimm and tons of items to unlock nodes, and leveling cards up can be a painstakingly slow process.

Each win only grants 200 card exp when you actually complete the battle in normal mode. Meaning if you do a batch battle *x5 or quick battle *x1 then you won't get any card exp.

You will still get player xp, loot and Grimm, but no card xp

Hard mode grants 320

In early levels, it's easy to level up your cards, but after a certain point you'll be grinding days, if not weeks to get a card to its max level and to clear the devil tree for it to be max strength.

Also, each battle requires am amount of of energy, and like everything else in the game, it's a limited resource that needs be used wisely.

There are 2 paths in your tasks, normal mode which requires 5ap per battle and hard mode, which requires 8ap per battle.

You can find Assignment Points (Ap) bar, at the top of your home screen:

It takes 5 minutes for 1 ap to refill, and as you raise your level, you will raise your Ap meter until it reaches 100, once it reaches 100 it will no longer go up and is all you can have at once unless you collect Ap from gifts, rewards from events or from the Daily to do.

To make it quick and simple, you can gather rewards from the To Do List which updates everyday at 11am, if you complete 7 objectives, you can earn 18 dp a day.

DP, or Devil Points look like credit cards and are an in-game currency. They can be exchanged for card pulls in Nightmare, to buy Grimm, buy AP or battle chances. They're harder to come by, so don't waste them.

To make it simple, I've complied all the free ways you can gain Ap so you can battle and level up your cards while gaining Grimm.

If you click on the "challenge" button, it will take you where you need to go in order to complete the objective.

Free ways to gain Ap

60 from fridge missions (30, 2 times a day)

50 from friends

50 from videos

20 from surprise guest presents

30 from daily To Do

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210 AP free a day

Additional 200 if you use 10 DP (Devil Points, usually you should hold onto these for dear life, but there are times when it’s acceptable to use them, we’ll go over them in a bit.)

Ok, so I get the freebies everyday, battle to collect exp for cards and myself, then use the items to beef up my cards. What else?

Well, to save you some time and trouble, I made some simple plug in equations for normal, hard mode and events to help you guess where you'll land each day.

Simply adjust for your level and limits and it should show you an accurate count.

Normal Mode

Normal Mode is where the story takes place, and you can do Normal Mode battles as many times as you want–so long as you have the AP to spend.

Each Normal Mode battle is worth 5 AP. So let's find an equation to figure out how much AP and Grimm you’ll earn for your AP.

Normal mode:

5ap per battle (unlimited)

200 exp per battle

250 Grimm per battle

# of AP / 5 ap per normal battle = how many battles you can do.

200 exp X # of battles = total EXP 250 x # of battles = Total Grimm

My Example: 610 AP a day / 5ap per battle = 122 battles in a day.

200 exp x 122 = 24,400 exp 250 x 122 = 30,500 Grimm

24,400 Exp per card and a total of 30,500 Grimm from battles per day.

** In addition to Card EXP, you’ll gain User EXP (UEXP). When you level up, you will finish filling your AP gauge at the top of the screen. Also, as you level up, the amount of AP you can have at max will increase. However, since it’s so varied, we won’t be adding it into the calculations.

Other things I decided not to include:

AP, Grimm and DP given from login bonuses

Gifts from the Devs

Rewards from hitting certain milestones

rewards in Events

so just consider it a golden egg when it comes around! **

You can check how much UEXP you need by clicking around your level in the top left of your screen, it will tell you how many points you need left until your next level up!

How many battles do I need equation:

# of UEXP needed / 100 UEXP per normal battle = How many battles needed

My example: 52,070/ 100 UEXP = 521 normal battles

521 battles / 122 battles a day = 4.27 days

Now it’s time for Hard Mode

Hard Mode

8AP per battle

320 exp

500 grimm

160 UEXP

# of Ap / 8Ap Hard Mode = # of battles

320 x # of battles = total EXP 500 x # of battles = Total Grimm

160 x # of battles = Total UEXP

My example:

610AP / 8AP per battle = 76 battles

320 x 76 = 24,320 EXP

500 x 76 = 38,000 Grimm

160 x 76 =12,160 UEXP

Normal Mode: 24,400 Exp per card and a total of 30,500 Grimm from battles per day.

Hard Mode: 24,320 EXp per card and a total of 38,000 Grimm from battles per day.

You can see in my examples that hard mode and normal mode payout around the same amount of card EXP at the end of the day. Since Hard mode takes 3 extra AP for every battle, you don’t get near as many–but the Grimm and varying Devil Tree items make up for it. Especially if you’re trying to gain Grimm to unlock Devil Tree Spaces or unlock past level 100 for a card. Not to mention, every so often, the Dev teams boost hard mode lessons to increase the chance of item drops, so it's a good time to stock up on Devil Tree items for the future!

Now here’s a trick so you don’t lose out on many battles early on.

No matter how high in the lessons you go: THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME.

Yes, you read that right. Now what does it mean for you?

You can do Lesson 1-4 (the very first battle in normal mode) and still manage to get the exact same EXP, Grimm and UEXP as if you did lessons 61-2. So, there’s no need to push your luck every single time. When you lose battles, you get a little exp, grimm and UEXP to help you out but it’s definitely not worth the cost of Ap. So, stick to lower-level lessons until you’re ready to knock the harder ones out of the ballpark.

Oh, and did I mention you can buy card levels with Grimm? No? Probably because it gets hella expensive 🫰 as time goes on.

Go Back to buying levels with Grimm, why would I grind when I can just buy?

I said it earlier, it's expensive! The higher the level, the more Grimm it takes. Also, Demon and Memory cards have level caps that you need to unlock before you can level it up to 100. You do this with the Devil Tree located on each card.

As you unlock spaces in Devil’s Tree, you’ll unlock +10 levels for the card, extending the level cap. So, if the card is maxed out at lvl 20 and you unlock the Devil Tree Space, you can level it up further to lvl 30 and so on. But you’ll need items you gain as rewards from battles in both your tasks and events.

Take down the amount of Grimm you’ll get from your Normal and Hard Battles, then I want you to go into your :D JOBS section of the app and look at the highest unlocked shop you have to send the boys to work at.

:D JOBS is a great way to gain extra Grimm when you’re not able to battle the day away.

Free players get 3 slots to send characters away to work for a few hours (ranging from 30 mins to 8 hours).

Here are the details for each job:

Hell’s Kitchen: 30 mins, 500 grimm per worker

Hocus Pocus Magic Shop: 45mins, 750 grimm per worker

Akuzon Delivery Center: 1 hour, 1,000 grim per worker

The Fall: 2 hour, 2,000 Grimm per worker

Majolish: 3 hour, 3,000 Grimm per worker

The Royal Library: 4 hour, 4,400 Grimm per worker

The Mausoleum: 6 hours, 7,200 Grimm per worker

Ristorante Six: 8 hour, 10,400 per worker

In order to get to higher paying jobs, you have to complete working lower level jobs a certain amount of times. If you manage to log in and get the boys working again quickly, you can get the rewards several times in a day.

The best combo for free players would be putting 2 boys to work at Ristorante Six which would equal 20,800 and one worker at The Mausoleum for 7,200. If you got to make them work twice in a day, you’d easily make 56,000 Grimm passively–even if you couldn’t battle.

Ok, now what about Devil Points?

I already said before, but I'll say it again: Every day after 10:00AM you can start on your Daily To Do list, located in the app. If you do 7 tasks, you gain 18 free DP every single day.

18 DP a day x 7 days = 126 in a week!

(You also get some from login bonuses, events, presents from the devs! But since they’re so varied, we won't count them).

The Chores!

These are your everyday To Do List challenges and what they're worth!

Win a battle (Hard Mode) with 3 stars (12 times) (500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 5 wrath gems)

Win a battle (Normal Mode) (10 times)

(500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 5 Pride Gems)

Win a battle (Hard mode) (7 times)

(500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 5 Envy Gems)

Summon a Card in Nightmare (3 times)

(500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 1 Devilgram Story Key)

Go to :D JOBS and work (3 times)

(500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 5 Lust Gems)

Level Up A Card (3 times)

(500XP, 500 Grimm, 5 Sloth Gems)

Unlock Spaces in Devil’s Tree (5 times)

(500XP, 500 Grimm, Gluttony Gems)

Meet with a Surprise Guest (3 times)

(500UEXP, 500 Grimm, 10AP)

Win a (Normal Battle) with 3 stars (15 times)

(500UEXP, 500 Grimm, 5 Greed Gems)

Send Ap to your friends (3 times)

(500UEXP, 500 Grimm, 10AP)

Succesfully complete 3 orders in Akuber (3 orders)

(500 UEXP, 500 Grimm, 10AP)

Total rewards: Once a day you get

5,500 UEXP

5,500 Grimm

5 of each color of gem *7 colors*

30 AP

1 Devilgram Story Key

Here is the thing though, unlocking Devil Tree spaces cost at the very least 500 Grimm per space. (We’re talking about a brand new, untouched card. I recommend picking a random unleveled card to get this chore done, unless you’ve been saving Grimm and can afford to level up a higher card easily)

5 DTS (devil tree spaces) x 500 Grimm = 2,500 Grimm being spent minimum every day to complete the To Do List entirely. So of the 5,500 you’re given, really you’re only making 3,000.

Also, every 48 hours (24 if you’re VIP) you get a free summon in each of the 3 regular Nightmare summons, but if you don’t time it right–it’ll be 3,000 grim to summon from Chapter G for a grand total of 9,000 Grimm. Things will quickly get you burned if you aren’t careful!

You only need to complete 7 of the 10 tasks in order to get your 18 DP, so don’t worry if you can’t land every single task. (like the ones that cost you a lot of grimm!)

DP points can be used to summon in nightmare (please don’t unless you want extra chances at a limited time summon during an event!

Chapters A, M and G will never go anywhere and you can summon them for free once every 48 hours for A and M and every 24 hours for G!)

Dp points can also be used for AP. Normally you can redeem 1DP for 10AP, but once a day when you run totally out of AP you can get a prompt that will ask if you want to spend 10DP on 200 AP and 5,000 Grimm. I typically take the deal for the extra AP, especially during events I like in order to fly through the story and collect as many rewards as quickly as I can (which include more Ap, items, gifts AND MORE DP and Demon Vouchers!)

You can use DP in Akuzon to buy things like glow sticks (to help give a boost during battle), presents for surprise guests (better intimacy points), Devil Gram Story Keys and Demon Vouchers (to summon in Nightmare)--I recommend skipping out on these unless you just have to much to spend. Everything in Obey Me can be achieved somewhere else for free. It might take longer, but it’s free.

Here is where you can spend your Raven, or buy DP as well as bundles and sign up for VIP status

DON’T FORGET ABOUT RAVEN!

Raven is a special currency that’s probably forgotten about. But as expensive as say, like Demon Vouchers, there's only a few ways to obtain it. You can sometimes get it from drops in :D Jobs, but you can also get 2 everyday from Surprise Guest gifts. 2 a day, every day begins to add up once you let yourself forget that it’s there.

You can buy:

Demon Vouchers (cost: 45 Raven)

Rainbow Glow Sticks (cost: 8 raven)

Food Gifts for your Surprise Guests (5 raven each)

Clothing options for the main and side characters (300 raven each)

and most recently added: pieces of certain cards!

You can buy the pieces 1 by 1 or in batches of 10. You need 80 for the UR and 50 for the SSR’s.

You said you wouldn’t add in the login rewards, but what are the F2P login rewards anyway?

The login rewards are as follows:

1. 1 blue glow sticks (lucifer and diavolo)

2. 3,000 Grimm

3. 1 yellow glow sticks (mammon and barbatos)

4. 30 AP

5. 1 orange glow sticks (levi and luke)

6. 1 raven

7. 1 green glow sticks (Satan and Simeon)

8. 5 Devil Points

9. 1 Pink Glow Sticks (Asmo and Solomon)

10. 4,000 Grimm

11. 1 Red Glow Sticks (Beel)

12. 30 AP

13. 1 purple glow sticks (Belfie)

14. 5 Devil Points

So in total you’d receive:

1 glowstick of every color ( 7 colors for 7 total)

1 Raven

10 Devil Points

60 AP

7,000 Grimm

But since it takes the span of 14 days to login and claim the rewards–it would make each day so varied that it’d be a big pain to try and make a schedule for all 14 days–and since everyone's cards are different–there is no guarantee the guide would be tailor made for you specifically–so you’re gonna still need to do some thinking for yourself.

It's up to everyone reading to take a look at their cards and where they’re at currently to make the best decisions.

All I can tell you is this:

When you log in: make a conscious effort to look at the reward for the day and say: how can I use this to my advantage today?

1.

Send Ap to your friends and collect any they have sent your way. That’s 1 to-do list chore done. (send ap to your friends 3 times)

To send your friends ap, click on the phone app and then select friends list

There are buttons to send and receive Ap!

2 Send your boys back to work if they’ve completed over your sleeping period. (My recommendation, pick a short job and put one to work. When the lowest completes, send them to work again at a longer job) that's your second chore done. (work a job 3 times)

3. Do your Free summon from Nightmare Chapter G.

4. Set up your pages; (page of Pride cards, Greed cards, Envy etc)

Take a look at your current cards. They’ll already be separated by rarity, so start looking at level, colors and characters. What are your highest rarity cards? What character are they and what color? Are they your strongest? Are you stuck in Devil Tree, needing items or is the lack of Grimm holding you back?

Then click the “edit teams” button at the bottom right hand corner. Adjust the 7 pages after the Recommended one by color until you have one of each color. Fill each of the color pages with your 3 rarest Demon cards and Memory cards of the same color.

Once you have that done, start looking at the Devil Tree for each of them. What are you missing? Do you have Lessons unlocked that will grant that item? If so, farm them. (DO THE INDIVIDUAL BATTLES, NO BATCH BATTLING. Also, batch battling gives you more varied amounts of Grimm vs individual battles). If not, start farming the first battle until you’re ready to scream.

Take a second, scream, make yourself some tea and then get back to work!

Look at that, you got your chores done! That’s 18 free DP, and 30 extra AP to use!

1. Win Battle Normal with 3 stars 15 times

2. Complete 3 Akuber Orders Successfully

3. Win Battle Normal 10 times

4. Win Battle Hard 7 times

5. Meet with a surprise guest 3 times

6. Work a job 3 times

7. Level up a card 3 times

And you didn’t have to spend a single grimm to do it!

After you’re done for the day then reassess where you are currently. Did you rack up on Grimm? Gather the materials you needed for Devil's Tree?

If so, then level up in DT, don’t buy levels yet, just focus on unlocking those level caps and raising the attribute numbers of the card. Levels can come later. You’ll be spinning your wheels if you let your card catch up to the level cap.

If you haven’t got the materials needed to unlock more, then rinse and repeat my fellow student. Keep going until you get your rarest cards to level 100 with a full Devil’s Tree. (or as full as you can make it. You need repeats of the same card to unlock further DT spaces toward the end, and we all know that those pulls aren’t exactly generous with a lot of us.)

Then move on to the next one–better to have it and not need it as my dad likes to say.

If not, as much as it’ll pain you: DO NOTHING. Don’t spend a single grimm, or a single DP. Close the app and let your AP refill itself. Make note of what you currently need and make a plan on how to conquer it tomorrow after the reset at 11AM if you can't manage to come back when you have more Ap today.

Then attack the day again as best you can. When you notice your Team attack power getting higher, take a minute to look at the lesson you’re currently struggling with. Are they getting closer in number to the enemies numbers? If so, and you think you can pass without using a rainbow glow stick, or with less glowsticks than max (3), give it a try and see where you stand.

If you get your tail burned, go back to level 1 and grind some more. It’ll be boring af, and it’ll feel like a total drag–but soon you’ll be at or above level to handle the lesson giving you shit and you can move on without spending all the DP you can get your hands on.

[From the writer: not really guide related but wanted to share my struggles. And how I came about figuring this out.]

When S2 came out, I STRUGGLED. I would farm that DP every single day as well as the milestones, sinking all the grimm and AP I had into getting more and more raven and DP so I could immediately buy glow sticks. I was constantly broke and couldn’t understand why it got so hard and why I was having so much trouble. I shudder to think how much I just wasted because I didn’t put a single thought behind what I was doing.

That’s when I realized I had no Pink cards. I’m not exaggerating very much. I may have had a single SSR pink card and it was low level because I had several other SSR and a few UR’s that dwarfed its numbers. I also had very few Oranges. And most of my high-level stuff was centered around Mammon and Beel (because I wanted their chats from DT as well as clothes and unlockables from Majolish.)

It wasn’t until I took stock of my cards that I realized I’d also neglected my memory cards horrendously because I foolishly thought my UR 1001 Arabian Nights memory card could lead me to victory on it’s own as far as being leveled up goes. (and through S1 it did)

Once I started balancing out my cards color and character wise and made better decisions regarding my resources–it became much easier. AND CHEAPER.

I FLEW through Lesson 61 because it had become so cheap to bridge the gap between what was asked of me for battles and where I stood. I had an abundance of glow sticks because I refused to push my luck as much for a good while.

We have long break periods between seasons while the devs get everything ready. And then releasing a lesson at a time gives you even more time to level up when you catch up. Think about how long we went waiting between season 2 and 3, all that time can very

helpful if used doing this method to prep yourself when it comes time to wait for the next season!

When you know you can skip the whole battle, or are guaranteed a win, you don’t need to waste a glowstick. And I realized that when you farm endless perfect battles, you always get UEXP and card EXP that’s worth it–which means my AP is wasted a lot less, therefore I make better progress–even if it feels like I’m standing still for a while.

I know it’s hard to wait for things, we all get as Greedy as Mammon can be when it comes to new Lesson’s dropping. But we need to be like Satan and play it smart rather than recklessly fast. We’ll all get there, just have some faith!

I'd love to hear if there's something you'd like added, and if this technique works for you!

So let's recap what we know:

You can gain EXP, UEXP and Grimm from battles in Normal and Hard mode.

At the end of the day, Normal and Hard mode put out the nearly the same amount of EXP per card. But you gain a little more Grimm in Hard Mode. Sometimes Hard Mode Levels are boosted to drop better rewards.

Doesn’t matter if you do the very first battle or the very last, it’ll all be the same rewards, so farm the lower levels for easy clears. You’ll rack up with Grimm, EXP and UEXP and make quick work of newer cards while stockpiling what you need. When you get in a better position, push the level you’re on but try to avoid failing.

Set up your other pages after your Recommended so that you can level up cards based on color. You can’t favor just 1 color, or 1 character you need to make sure you have 2-3 of every color (and variants of characters) for both Demon and Memory cards, that's around 42 cards maxed out in total.

Choose your highest Rarity and swap them out when they hit a level cap. Go for UR+, then UR, then SSR. if you don’t have any then don’t fret too much about leveling up your SR, R and N cards, they’ll be replaced quickly enough.

Conserve your glow sticks! They’re EXPENSIVE. AS ARE DP AND DV

You can passively gain a lot of Grimm from :D Jobs once you unlock Ristorante Six ( if you can manage to put them to work 2 times before reset, that's around 56,000 paired with a worker in the one below it, twice a day. If you’re insane like I am then that’s more like 84,000 Grimm because you’ll lose sleep over that third time collecting before reset. )

You can use that grimm to buy levels. And if you have gained EXP on a card, the amount of Grimm needed will be less than if you had 0 exp on it.

• Example, if you have 1,000 EXP out of 2,000 needed, it will cost half of what it would have if you had 0 / 2,000 EXP.

You don’t need to complete all 10 tasks in the To Do List in order to gain the free 18DP.

Time and Utilize your free summons, free Ap and natural refills so that you don’t end up having to spend more DP, AP or Grimm than the daily recommended amount.

I’m going back over cards cause it’s the backbone of the leveling:

• Level up your rarest 3 cards per color. (3 blue, 3 yellow, 3 orange, 3 green, 3 pink, 3 red, 3 purple), this goes for both Demon Cards and Memory cards (DO. NOT. NEGLECT. YOUR. MEMORY. CARDS.)

• Make sure your 3 battle cards are not repeats of the same character, because you can only use 1. (no team of Mammon cards, etc)

• After a certain lesson the attribute (color) of the card matters, so make sure you have enough to cover the bases! (7 colors).

• Check your team's power and the state of the smiley face BEFORE you attempt a lesson battle. Ideally, your team strength should be more than the opponents before you attempt to use a glow stick, the lesson isn't going anywhere, don't waste it!

• Devil Tree and Buying Levels on cards gets EXPENSIVE, make sure to save all the Grimm you can.

• You can gain DT items from both Normal and Hard Mode, so don’t worry about missing out on them from things like the Charge Missions or Events.

I wish you all luck with leveling your cards and I hope this helps you understand the system a little better and helps you shoot ahead in lessons so you can catch up!