Arsenal creation Always have at least 8 to 9 Auras in your arsenal, or else you will be lacking in Aura at the beginning of the mission and waste skills. Also, have a balance between long, medium, and short range attacks. Have perhaps 3 long range, 4 medium, and 3 short attacks. Make sure you are equipped with enough defense skills, especially low cost skills that you can use to block attacks that do not cause damage (such as Erase Skills). Finally, make one of your 2 classes the Nature class so that you can use healing skills like Healing Water.
New begining skills At the beginning of a duel either in multi-player or scenario mode, as the timer is counting down if the skills you have in your arsenal are bad or you do not have any Aura Particles to start with, press Back before the timer reaches zero. You will reshuffle your begining skills. This can only be done once per duel, but it is a good way to avoid a bad situation.
monsters *Phantom Dust* Select versus mode, then hold L + R while selecting a character at the selection screen. Your character portrait will remain the same, but you will appear as a monster during game play.
Move while seeing enemies If you are trying to move around and still want to see the enemy but do not want to lock on, press White. Their names will appear, but you will not lock onto anyone. This is a good way to keep track of your opponents but retain the freedom of moving the camera. *** Always lock on to sum1 before trying to launch a defense skill unless it auto launches.