Core Damage Sources
There are so many ways to increase power that it’s easy to lose track of them all. Here’s some general ways:
- Pull new limited weapons, and get advancements up to A6 if necessary
- Pull new limited matrices, and get them up each up to A3 (very costly)
- Unlock character traits and enable them (Simulacra menu, then Awaken -> Gift. Get 4000 gift points then toggle
Simulacrum Trait
to On) - Upgrade traits to max awakening points (7000) then upgrade Awakening stats to get a permanent atk boost using the appropriate region Upgrade Drive item (farm Joint Operations daily, or buy with tanium) - do this for each available character you have that can go to max points, as some stop at 4000.
- Relics provide a direct buff during combat AND often have passives at A4 that give permanent element buffs! E.g. 2% element damage increase
- Altered weapon special skills e.g. Fiona (6 skills) and Nan Yin inhabit
- Optimising weapon rotations during combat
- Gear level-up (todo)
- Gear advancement to 5*
- Gear enhancement to level 70 (patch 4.6 max)
- Gear augument (titan gear + titan stat)
- Basic gear 8 piece activation (bonus stats when ALL non-Vera gear reaches a set enhancement level like 10, 15, 20 etc.)
- Supercomputing Evolution
- Lin Synesthesia weapon upgrade
- A2 permanent 3% elemental damage increase
- A5 permanent 4% elemental damage increase
- Suppressor upgrading
- Smart Servant
- Sequential Phantasm - clearing content gives you items that permanently boosts your HP and ATK
- Map exploration - this also gives you items that permanently boosts your HP and ATK
Temporary Damage sources
- Domain 9 boosters - Dominium currency weekly farming required, but a very strong buff for ALL players especially Free to Play! Guide [TODO]
- Enhanced Blade Shot - increase ATK by 3.5% for 7 days (does not stack with the regular Blade Shot)
- Enhancement Shot - increase base stats of the equipped weapons and matrices to as if they’re at max stars for 7 days
- Piercing Shot - increase shatter by 15% and aggro by 25% for 7 days
- Mia food buffs (stacks x3)
- Crafted Food buffs
- Mentorship Store serums
Meta team compositions
The best way to see this is to view the Rankings menu for a mode like Bygone/Sequential Phantasm and view the profile of the top ranked players. Use the magnifying glass
icon, then View info
to see this.