After level 45

Story, regional quests and your map

• Finish the main story first. It gives a gold weapon for your class, Ascension Bracelet and Ultimate Daeva Wings (equipped: HP 500, MP 250, Penetration 500, Critical Hit 35; owned: Penetration 100, Accuracy +20, Attack +10). ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 1:27
• Regional quests (Journal → Regional): two rings, two earrings and a necklace (blue), plus two PvE runes. They also give titles and Theostone chests.
• Enhance a little, set up your PvE macro and clear every ? on your own map: each sealed dungeon gives Daevanion Crystal ×2 and 2 skill points, each stronghold Noble Belt Enhance Scroll ×2.
• Then the remaining regional quests and the feathers: at least 95 Empyrean Trace: Altgard take the Monolith to level 11, which upgrades the amulet from green to blue.

• Abyss feathers: collect all 200 Empyrean Trace: Altgard in the Abyss (about an hour and a half) and hand them in at the Monolith — level 16 brings Daevanion points, 36 of them for the PvP board. ▶ 2:24
• The end of the story opens new regional quests: go back for the better armor and accessories, and finish every sealed dungeon — each gives Daevanion crystals and skill points.
• Not sure where the Daevanion points go? The corners first, then the blue skill nodes.

• Clash runes (Clash Rune Chest): 60 item level each, so the pair is +120. They come from green quests around the map, or buy them in the Nightmare shop (Growth tab) with the currency from first clears. Don't enhance them past +1 unless you have a spare. ▶ SywoGG 2:32
• The story bracelet (Ascension Bracelet) stays with you for months: take it to +10–11 — it adds attack and defense too — and put your one Superior Manastone in it: two gold rolls give the most item level. The second bracelet comes from a quest of your own faction (item level 43).

To 1,400: Shugo, Nightmare, Draupnir

1,400 opens the tier 2 dungeons. Aragon gets there with the Abyss feathers, every regional quest and sealed dungeon, Nightmare and the Shugo Festival — the steps below.

Shugo Festival and boss rifts

Mini-games with a reward card at the end. Your place decides how many cards you open. If you placed badly you can skip the reward — the Shugo Festival Reward Key is only spent when you take it. Keys: 7 by default, +1 a day, up to 30 more stored — don't let them cap. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 5:06

The festival runs every hour. Any mini-game counts — pick the one you are best at and always play that one, aiming for 1st or 2nd place. Every half hour an incursion boss appears: deal damage for contribution and open every card when you claim — they can hold more Shugo currency. ▶ 3:50

Boss rifts (e.g. Beritra Air Raid): hold off the waves, then kill the mini-boss. 100 contribution points = 3 cards, the same rewards as Shugo. Invite Chanters, Clerics and Templars right at the portal — their party buffs make 100 points easy. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 5:54

Nightmare

• Solo boss dungeon. 14 base attempts that refill on their own (+2 a day), plus a second pool of up to 30 that you fill with tickets; charges start piling up at level 45 — reach it before the first reset. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 7:06
• Every boss has 10 challenge levels; kill each on all of them. An attempt is spent only on a kill, so leave and come back stronger. Greys first, then greens, then the Last Boss.
• First clear gives Phantasmal Fragment ×500, repeats 100. Shop, Growth tab: Daevanion Crystal for 300 (×50 per character), Stigma Shard for 1,500 (×35), Clash Rune Chest for 500. Keep 14,000 for the statue.

Expedition: Conquest — Draupnir

• Run it up to the guarantee: 14 chest openings (7 with premium), 40 Odyle energy each. The goal is two gold pieces from drops and a third from the guarantee — you pick which Bakarma piece (Bakarma Breastplate, helm, pauldrons, gloves, greaves, boots). ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 7:45
• Collect every Empyrean Trace: Altgard in Chaotic Lower Reshanta: the Monolith resonance levels give Daevanion crystals such as Daevanion Crystal: Azphel.
• Still short? Three runs of Exploration: Draupnir guarantee another gold piece — take any you don't have and put an Intermediate Manastone in it.

Enhancement at 1,400

Slot	Level	Manastone
Gold weapon and bracelets	+10	Superior Manastone ×1
Gold armor from Draupnir	+10	Intermediate Manastone ×1
Blue armor, earrings, necklace, rings	+5	Lesser Manastone
Belt, amulet	+3	—

▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 8:09

Plus a green Theostone in the weapon (for example Theostone: Jumentis's Dexterity) — the regional quests hand one out. Done right, that is exactly 1,400. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 8:27

• Short of 1,400? Enhance: blue gear to +10 is cheap, to +5 far cheaper still, and most of the stones come back when you dissolve the piece later. ▶ 4:46
• The story bracelets (Ascension Bracelet) can go to the maximum — it is not wasted.
• Lesser Manastone in every piece: two green rolls give the most item level. Superior Manastone from achievements can roll gold lines.

Belt, amulet and Odyle energy

• Belt and amulet: green → blue in Substance Morph, then up to gold (unequip them first) — a big jump in item level; don't go past gold, it gets expensive. Strongholds and the Monolith give the upgrade material. ▶ SywoGG 6:24
• Spend Odyle energy with care: after each new piece enhance it, add manastones, check your item level, and only then decide where to go next — another run of the same dungeon or something you haven't done yet.

To 1,900: Vakron and Urugugu

• Vakron Sky Island (tier 2, Conquest) until you have most of the armor set — the best chance of gear you will use. The pity reward comes after 21 chest openings: 11 runs with the membership, which opens the end chest twice. ▶ 7:31
• Pity tickets go to Substance Morph: a choice chest for the armor piece you still miss, or two tickets for Vakron Guard. Run Exploration once first — opening its end chest three times gives a one-time pity reward; claim it only after Conquest, when you know which piece is missing.
• Urugugu Canyon for the accessories — Aragon needed 13 runs. Don't farm it for the weapon: the chance is low and most weapons there belong to other classes. A dropped weapon plus two tickets later crafts a choice chest.
• Still short? Take legendary gear to +11 (just under 1 million kina a piece; +5 is about 130,000) and add manastones rather than burning energy on more runs.
• No luck with drops? A few runs of ★1 Transcendence (from 1,600) for grey arcana: 20 item level per card, up to +100 for the five slots — often faster than farming the last gold pieces.

To 2,100: ★2 Transcendence and a crafted card

At 1,900 go straight to ★2 Transcendence — Shattered Arkanis and Deus Research Base. It is a difficulty spike: tight rage timers and half an hour per run. The goal is a full green set, 5 × 40 = +200 item level, from 1,900 to 2,100. ▶ 11:31

• Transcendence opens at 1,600. Five arcana slots: a grey card gives 20 item level, green 40, blue 60. A full green set is +200 (1,600 → 1,800), swapping it for blue is another +100. ▶ SywoGG 8:46

A crafted legendary card

• Arcana → Transmute crafts a legendary card from five Mysterious Crystal, with the skill you choose on it. ▶ 20:20
• One crystal: extract the spare cards you collected on the way (Arcana → Extract) until the bar is full.
• One: the season shop, for 25,000 season coins from the season missions.
• Three: the Ascension Trial score rewards at 1,000, 3,000 and 4,000 — 4,000 needs Hard mode at about 2,000 item level.

To 2,500: Ferocious Horn Den

Go straight to Ferocious Horn Den (the RU community calls it “the Dog”) and stay until you have most of its armor set. Move your Vakron enhancement into the new pieces with Gear Transfer. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 10:18

Fire Temple, the other dungeon of this tier, drops the weapon and accessories. ▶ SywoGG 11:16

• In Ferocious Horn Den open the Exploration end chest three times for the pity tickets, but don't pick the armor yet — wait until only one piece is missing, then use the tickets (or trade them for the guard). ▶ 16:43
• Then Fire Temple for the weapon and the accessories; the same tickets fill what doesn't drop.
• One run of ★3 Shattered Arkanis for blue cards is what pushed Aragon over 2,500.
• For the weapon and the guard, the Black Cloud merchant regularly sells Theostones — a green one is about +3 item level.
• Transfer (keeps enhancement and soul binds) only when the soul binds are good: Combat Speed on the gloves and the necklace, Move Speed on the earrings, Damage Boost on the chest, Critical Damage Boost on the shoulders.

To 2,800: gold arcana and the raid

Farm gold arcana in ★4 Transcendence and roll the skills you need for your PvE and PvP setups (for example Mirror of Vigor +5 with the Primal Vigor set). At 2,800 the 10-player dragon raid opens — the hardest PvE of Season 1 and a source of resources for the next update. ▶ Sanya Jacuzzi 10:30

From here +10–11 is not enough: gear goes past +15 towards +20, and above +15 that needs Amplify Stone (Unique). Don't take all dungeon gear to +20 — crafted gear (item level 94 and 102 against 86 from drops) is what is worth +20 and fine-tuned manastones. ▶ SywoGG 11:32

Aim for 2,800 by the end of the first month — that opens the Ludra raid with new accessories. Energy decides how fast you get there: craft Odyle Energy in Substance Morph, and with the membership buy energy from the Wind Breeze merchant every week. ▶ 22:40