Currencies, materials and content, and what each one is for

Currencies

Currency	What it’s for	Where it comes from
Kina	Almost everything: upgrading gear, the Market, shops. There’s bound Kina, which can’t be traded, and free Kina	Quests, monsters, expeditions, Odyle cubes
Quna	Cash shop and passes	Real money
Odyle Energy	Claiming the reward at the end of an expedition	Recharges on its own; membership raises the cap
Abyss Points	Stigma shards, consumables	PvP and Abyss requests; weekly cap
Centuryroot Token	Shugo Festival shop	Shugo Festival
Phantasmal Fragment	Nightmare shop: wings, appearances, Soul Codex	Nightmare, solo bosses
Oath Coin	Season shop	Season quests and ranks
Daeva Pass Shop Coin	Pass shop	The pass
Arena Token and Legion Coin	Arena and legion shops	Arena and legion

What you can buy with Quna is in the cash shop note.

Materials: each one feeds a system

Material	System	Main source
Enhance Stone	Raising the gear’s “+”; it’s the bottleneck	Quests, sealed dungeons, pass
Amplify Stone	Extra levels after the max +	Crafted from fragments and Enhance Stones
Wisdom Stone	Extra skill points	Monolith, Nightmare and Shugo shops
Stigma Shard	Leveling stigmas	Abyss shop
Daevanion Crystal	Activating Daevanion nodes	Regional quests, sealed dungeons
Arcana cards	Raise skills above 10	Transcendence
Manastone	Extra stats on weapons and armor	Conquest expeditions
Soul Codex	Soul Binding: raises the value of gear lines	Conquest, Nightmare shop
Transfer Stone	Moving a piece’s progress to a better one	Fragments; save the orange ones
Soul Crystal	Pet boards	Achievements, pass, Wind Breeze shop

Wings and appearances give permanent stats just for owning them.

Amplification: past the max +

A gold (Unique) piece goes up with Enhance Stones to +15. According to metabot, it always succeeds up to +10 and can fail from there on. At +15 it takes no more Enhance Stones: the next step is to amplify it with Amplify Stone (Unique). Blue pieces stop at +10 and cannot be amplified: that one I saw in my own game.

How many extra levels. They depend on the piece’s item level. According to metabot’s calculator:

Item level of the piece	Extra levels	Chance of each step	Added per failure
54	1	66%	+5%
70	3	66%, 50%, 33%	+5, +4 and +3%
86	5	66%, 50%, 33%, 25%, 20%	+5, +4, +3, +2 and +1%

What it costs. The first step takes 600,000 Kina and 6 Amplify Stone (Unique). Metabot does not give the cost of the later steps.

Where the stones come from. Each Amplify Stone (Unique) is made in Substance Morph from 4 Amplify Stone Fragment (Unique) and 2,500 Enhance Stones, according to wikily’s recipe table. The unbound stone can also be bought on the Market.

The maths with Ascension Trial. My Normal run on 14 October gave 8 fragments and 1,500 Enhance Stones. Those 8 fragments make 2 stones, and converting them costs 5,000 Enhance Stones: more than the run gives. The first step on a single piece takes 24 fragments, 15,000 Enhance Stones and 600,000 Kina. The three weekly attempts give 24 to 27 fragments: just enough for that.

What I don’t know yet: what the piece gains with each amplified level, what the later steps cost, and whether a failure costs anything beyond what was spent. I will check with the first piece that reaches +15.

Content

Content	What it is	What it gives
Main story	The climb to 45	Experience
Regional quests	Side quests in each zone	Daevanion crystals, titles
Sealed dungeons	Solo instances, once each	Enhance stones, Daevanion crystals
Fortresses	Clear and boss	Belt scrolls, Manastones
Exploration expeditions	Group dungeon for learning	Little; not worth spending Odyle Energy
Conquest expeditions	The serious version, normal and hard	Unique and Heroic gear, Manastones, Soul Codex
Transcendence	Time attack	Arcana cards
Sanctuary	10-player raid, from level 45	Bracelet
Abyss	PvP and PvE zone	Abyss Points
Nightmare	Layered solo bosses	Phantasmal Fragment
Ascension Trials	Solo, 3 per week; requires 1,000 item level (seen on my screen)	Enhance Stones, Amplify Stone fragments and chests

Each one’s resets and caps are in the season 1 note.

Supply Requests

They open at level 25. They’re delivery requests: you hand in items you already have (gear, materials, consumables) and get paid in Abyss Points and, often, enhance stones. It’s the first way to collect Abyss Points without PvP, well before the Abyss opens at level 45.

You get there from the main menu, with Esc. There are four types:

Type	What they ask for
Emergency Request	Common gear, materials and consumables
Weekly Request	Larger amounts, for a bigger reward
Regular: Crafting Request	Crafted items
Regular: Boss Request	Gear dropped by specific bosses

• What you hand in is consumed. Before giving up a piece, check you don’t need it for something else.
• Emergency and weekly requests can be filled with duplicate gear; crafting requests need some math, because the materials can be worth more than the reward.
• According to a tip from the Korean forums, items that some request asks for show a question mark in the inventory. Worth checking before extracting old gear.

Daeva Bio-Research Base

It’s in the Daily Dungeon menu, under Unknown Fissure, and requires level 30. It’s a solo time attack: according to the guides, a minute and a half to kill as many test subjects as you can. The final score decides how many enhance stones you take home.

What I saw on the entry screen:

Item	Value
Entries	14 per week, recharge on their own
Max reward	10,000 enhance stones, with 10,000 points or more
With 8,000 points	8,100 stones
With 6,500 points	7,200 stones
Starting boost	You pick 1 effect out of 3 random ones

And what I got myself: the run really lasts 1 minute 30 seconds; with 4,530 points, 6,100 stones. With better gear it went up to about 6,400 per run. During the run it warns that “the danger level is rising” and stronger test subjects show up, which are the ones that score the most.

• The special effects score the most: Slayer, +30% attack; Adrenaline, +30% combat speed; and Worm Carnage and Elite Hunter, which lower the toughness of normal or elite enemies. The common ones give defense, crit, movement speed or mana.
• Entries don’t carry over from one week to the next: the counter shows 14 of 14 and the weekly recharge is 14.
• There’s an Instant Clear Ticket that, once you’ve completed it once, lets you claim the reward without going back in. Each use also spends an entry.
• The guides talk about 7 free entries per week and tickets to reach 30. In my client it’s 14 base; the extra recharge counter does show a max of 30.

It’s one of the most profitable things in the game per minute: enhance stones are the gear bottleneck.

Shugo Festival

Five-minute minigames that don’t depend on your gear. Just finishing gives Centuryroot Tokens and enhance stones; keys let you pick reward cards; and tokens buy Daevanion crystals and stigma shards. It’s all covered in the Shugo Festival note.

What resets every week

• The 14 rewarded Transcendence runs.
• The Abyss Points cap.
• Each pass’s weekly experience.
• Purchases in the Wind Breeze shop, which comes with membership.
• Odyle Energy: don’t let it sit at the cap, because whatever doesn’t fit is lost.

Mistakes guides repeat

1. Investing in leveling gear. Manastones are lost when you switch pieces; Soul Binding, according to one guide, is kept with Transfer. That said, the first Manastone engraving raises item level, so one is worth it on every new piece.
2. Spending the orange Transfer Stones early.
3. Spreading skill points evenly across many skills.
4. Farming monsters instead of following the story.
5. Skipping regional content and fortresses.
6. Locking pet lines before getting every board to level 10.
7. Spending Odyle Energy on exploration expeditions.
8. Forgetting to equip the specialization after leveling a skill.

What I’ve seen and what I haven’t

Seen on my screen: Kina and Quna, which appear at the top of the shop. The rest of this page is from reading, and everything about level 45 even more so: I haven’t got there. I’ll move things to the notebook as I see them.