Boards Tips & Tricks

Written by Sefhi

Published on: 2024-12-29

Updated on: 2025-03-04

Intro

Although Trickcal is kind of a meme and casual game, there are a lot of systems that if not properly used will completely brick your account long term considering how long it takes to level up and acquire some of those resources.

One of those systems are the crayons and character boards that give you extra stats, like this one.

We will go into each topic more in depth below, but here’s a TLDR of the crayon system:

• Each character board has a different layout
• There are 3 boards per character, which you can access by opening a “Gateway” when you finish the current one
• You don’t need to fully unlock every node to move to the next board, and you can come back at any time to finish previous nodes
• There are some nodes that absolutely YOU SHOULD ALWAYS pick and some that you can completely ignore, more on that below
• There is a game mode to farm crayons, but you can obtain them in events and shops too
• There are 4 types of crayons, gray, blue, purple, and the most important ones, gold
• Normal nodes apply only to that character, but glowing nodes apply to all characters, making them really important and the focus for most players

Where do I farm crayons?

You can use your “dark stamina” to farm different resources every day, including crayons.

This stamina will be consumed depending on what you are lacking the most. All of them are equally important but the food farm, since you get a lot from events and shops.

Gold crayons only appear at level 5 or more of the crayon farm, so DO NOT farm previous levels since it’s meaningless. As a new player, you should prioritize unlocking higher levels to start farming rather than wasting stamina on lower stages.

Board nodes

1. Normal nodes: These nodes apply only to the current character and are usually cheap, costing only gray and blue crayons
2. Dark gray nodes: These nodes apply TO ALL CHARACTERS ON YOUR ACCOUNT. They usually cost purple crayons and are important to get
3. Dark gray rainbow nodes: Same as before, they apply to everyone and cost gold crayons. They provide the best buffs in the board and are the priority for most characters

When to open Gateways

You do not need to unlock all nodes on a board to move to the next one. You only need to make your way to the gateway and pay the price to unlock the second (or third) boards.

It’s important to note that the price of unlocking nodes will increase on each consecutive board. It applies to all nodes, but here’s the example with rainbow nodes:

• Rainbow nodes cost 2 gold crayons on the first board
• They cost 4 gold crayons on the second board
• And 6 gold crayons on the third board

When should I open gateways?

A good strategy is to focus on unlocking the rainbow nodes on ALL YOUR CHARACTERS before you move and start unlocking gateways for your main units. Gold crayons are a scarce resource even at endgame, so don’t heavily invest in units you don’t plan on using more than the first board (2 gold crayons).

Stats to avoid

Before we talk about recommended stats, it’s essential to know that there are two you should “always” avoid: Physical Defense and Magic Defense.

Unless there’s a node with those stats leading to a rainbow node, never pick these two stats, they’re useless. Damage reduction is “useless” in Trickcal because the combat power difference in story makes it take no effect at all.

Stat priority

Attack > HP > critical hit > critical DMG > crit resistances

• KR forums recommend taking a ratio of 2:1 when it comes to attack and HP nodes
• If you clear all of them, you can move into critical hit and then critical damage
• When it comes to crit resistances, please only take crit damage resistance, not crit rate

There are some monsters that ignore crit hit resistance, so it’s worth less than critical damage resistance. These monsters only appear in KR in later chapters, so you should be fine at the beginning.