After level 45

What changes on global

From the datamine of the global client. This is why the Korean route no longer works as is.

Map point	On your map	On the enemy map
Sealed dungeon (?)	Daevanion Crystal ×2, 2 skill points, wing / statue material	Kina, 1,000 AP, 2,500 Enhance Stone
Stronghold	Noble Belt Enhance Scroll ×2	AP

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• Enemy ? marks lost the Daevanion crystals — they used to be the top goal at launch; now clear them at your own pace.
• Feathers (Empyrean Trace: Altgard) are nerfed — collect them all, but last.
• Gear has a lower item level on global (for example True Dragon Lord Greatsword: 70 on KR/TW, 62 on global) — lower item level means cheaper enhancement.

Hardcore route: enhance a cheap blank, then transfer

Same steps as above, but saving every enhancement stone and kina. Depends on the datamine holding up — if transfers are limited at launch, skip this.

• Enhancement cost grows with item level (Vakron Cloak, 76: 380 stones and 9,500 kina a try; Abyssal Bracelet, 84: 420 and 10,500). After +10 the chance drops (+13 → +14: 25%, +5% after each fail) and a try at the top costs about 2 million kina. ▶ 11:48
• A transfer stone (Transfer Stone: Weapon (Unique), Transfer Stone: Armor (Unique)) moves the enhancement level and rolled stats to any item — even from the cheapest gold piece to the best one. Made in Substance Morph from gold gear.
• Plan: wear the lowest item level gold gear, don't enhance new drops. When a long-term upgrade drops, take a cheap blank for that slot to +15 and transfer it. Works for weapon, armor and guard, not accessories (no cheap sources).
• It is slow without alts: 3–4 extra characters bring the additional enhancement stones.

TitanTheF's route: Abyss farm and a crafted weapon

Source: TitanTheF

Another route from TitanTheF's progression sheet (Taiwan experience): less waiting for dungeons, more Abyss and crafting. Needs a lot of play time.

Right after 45

• Every Shugo Festival. Only at level 45 do you get the full rewards — including gold gear and craft materials; global also added Stigma Shard. Chests and jumping games; skip the tiles — newcomers ruin them.
• Clear the map: every ? and campfire, the green side quests, and pick up hidden cubes and feathers on the way. After that you should have about 420 of 570 Daevanion points; the rest come from Shugo and Nightmare. Feathers take the altar to level 30 and give a title.
• Then one of three: kill mobs until every pet is level 3 (all pets together give 55k combat power), go to the Abyss (the same pets plus wings), or get a party for 3–4 runs of Draupnir. TitanTheF picks Draupnir — first gear, kina and enhancement.
• Spend the daily Nightmare entry. One run of the first Transcendence for white arcana is enough — you only need to open floor 2. Watch the market for T1 dungeon materials and pick up everything for the season shop.
• The goal of the first days: currency for a crafted T1 weapon — it is the one you will enhance and roll stats on.

Farming the Abyss

• At launch you won't just stand on a spot. Buy the quest scrolls from the NPC at the Abyss base — all of them, white to gold (about 1.4 million kina) — and do the white, green and blue ones.
• Tag along with players doing the same quests and skip the fights — they pay less. Reroll quests towards gold materials or PvP boards, but watch the currency. Then the gold quests in the centre, then a side island to farm.
• Go in pairs: two players get more AP and materials, then split the gold gear. If farming is impossible, do the same quests in the world — there is a merchant in every big city. And don't forget Shugo.
• Kill every world boss once — a chance at a drop plus a participation title. The timers are on the map; there is one in almost every zone.

The crafted weapon and after

• As soon as your item level allows, clear floor 2 of Transcendence as well (different arcana). Then Vakron and Urugugu (T2 dungeons) — watch your energy, sell what you don't need and buy T1 materials.
• With enough T1 materials, level your crafting (about 2 million kina, see Gathering and crafting). Craft at least one gold level 60 blank — don't wear or enhance it. Then the T1 weapon: in the first days it should come out at no more than about 30 million kina.
• Don't take the weapon above +10 yet — next are the rings (three times cheaper than weapons). Try ★3 Transcendence if energy and gear allow, otherwise kill more mobs. The solo dungeon with enhancement stones: go only for the stones, and only after raising your item level — more mobs killed, bigger reward.
• Back to the Abyss: not the centre — a corner with a small pack of mobs. 8–10 hours of this gives a pile of AP, kina, gear and materials; nothing pays better in the first days.
• Finish the ring, then arcana; with blue arcana and enhanced gear try the T3 dungeons. Roll stats only on T3 dungeon gear. When the energy runs out, roll the genus (about 10 million kina for all of it): don't lock stats before level 10; hidden cubes give 1,000 crystals — enough for level 10.
• Don't spend unbound kina on enhancement — only on buying materials.
• Later: energy into T3 dungeons, ★4 Transcendence with a good party, arcana up to level 20. After 2–3 days Abyss kills pay well; buying the necklace for Abyss points and enhancing it is fine, but not the whole Abyss set at the start — the first AP go into stigmas. Don't skip Abyss activities, weekly bosses and artifact battles — they give medals for the PvP set. Earrings can come from Kromede; the next upgrade is a crafted guard.

The economic route

For those who can play 10 hours a day: Shugo as usual, the rest of the time gathering. Priority — Odyle and wood, also sapphires, rubies and diamonds; level gathering fast and forget your item level. People who know the game buy gold materials and materials in general, and crafting gets easier for you too. You can also buy kuna for kina on the auction house and flip paintings, materials and leather (cheap now, ten times more a week later). Bots are a risk here.

Alts

With 10–16 hours at launch, put the time into your main and start alts after 1–2 days, when the starting zones are emptier. With less time, take 4 characters to level 22 first and only then finish the main — by then the alts' energy is full.

How gear upgrades work

Source: TitanTheF

The five Enhancement tabs in short: Enhance, Manastone, Theostone, Soul Binding and Transfer.

• Enhance. Gold gear has a 100% chance up to +10, after that it drops. A fail never breaks the item — only the materials and kina are spent. Above +15 you also need Amplify Stone (Unique), made in Substance Morph from Amplify Stone Fragment (Unique) and Enhance Stone.
• Manastones. The number of slots depends on the rarity: white 1, green 2 and so on. There are two kinds — for weapons and armor, and for accessories — each in a normal and a PvP version (Superior Manastone).
• Theostones go into the weapon and the guard: damage, damage over time or control. They trigger with a chance on attack — the higher your combat speed, the more often (Theostone: Jumentis's Dexterity).
• Soul Binding. Tab 1 raises the quality of the stats, tab 2 rerolls them — with any unneeded gold gear or reroll items — tab 3 uses books. Sync Stone (Unique) comes from the battle pass, hard dungeons and dungeons from 2,800.
• Transfer moves enhancement and stats to another item — see the hardcore route above.
• Titles each give passive stats; the title info shows how to get one.
• The season lasts 2–3 months. Season points buy crafting materials in the season shop.

Tips for everyone

Daily contracts (Journal → Duty → Mission) reset every day. Only the first random reward is guaranteed; the others are a chance that drops along the list — 100%, 50%, 33%, 25%, 10%. ▶ 14:18

• Take every contract with the golden key in slots 1–4.
• No key: short on enhancement stones — the one with the most stones; otherwise the one with the most rainbow and other pet stones.
• A gold item or resource at the end of the list is almost always a trap — skip those.