Day 1

Permanent power first, banked resources second, gear last. Skill levels, Daevanion boards, stigmas and accessories survive every gear reset; almost nothing you wear before level 45 does.

Save your Odyle

Do not spend odyle while leveling — not on dungeon end chests, not on weapon rolls. The main story hands you a class weapon that obsoletes anything you gamble for earlier. Bank it all.

Leveling (1 → 45)

Do	Skip
Main story straight through — story rewards alone land you at ~CP 1,000 by 45 (benchmark: 45 in ~6.5 h)	Claiming dungeon cubes — each one eats the odyle you’re banking
Feathers → Monolith as you pass through each region — skill points now, amulet materials later	The market — prices take days to settle
Sealed dungeons (? markers) and regional quests when they’re on the way — Daevanion Crystals are permanent	Manastones, soul binding, stigma leveling and genus rolls on pre-endgame gear
Struggling? Scrolls and food buffs first; then weapon enhancing — enhance levels transfer to your next weapon	Deep enhancement elsewhere — bank stones for endgame

Cube space: two quests, don't skip them

Each pays a Cube Expansion Voucher, one extra cube line, auto-applied.

	Elyos	Asmodian
Lv 12	Shugo-of-All-Trades — Dari, Coastal Camp	Shugo-of-All-Trades
Lv 45	Nine Wonders of Verteron: Final Stretch — Nevius	Nine Wonders of Altgard: Final Stretch

At 45: sweep before you queue

One-time solo map content pays permanent power and costs no odyle. Full list: what to farm.

1. Sealed dungeons + strongholds — Daevanion Crystals, enhance stones, belt progression.
2. Regional quests — regional missions + map exploration pay ~200 Daevanion Crystals per character.
3. Reshanta feathers — the ~200–220 lying around take about two hours and level the PvP Monolith.
4. Mainland rift windows (~every 3 h, ~1 h on the enemy continent) — their sealed dungeons pay ~500 AP each plus Daevanion points and belt scrolls.

First spends

Resource	Into	Not into
Kinah + stones	Primary weapon first, then spread to +11 everywhere	Belt, amulet or rune enhancement
Skill points	All core actives to 8 (first spec + slot), then your class’s 1-2 carry skills to 10 — some classes take 60%+ of their damage from one skill. Points cap at 10; the Daevanion board takes you to 14. 15+ comes only from arcana lines and gear soulbinds	Spreading evenly across twelve actives
Abyss Points	Accessories — ~5% PvP damage boost each, cheapest first (Ring > Earrings > Necklace)	Mid-tier armor
Stigma Shards	Your class burst enabler	Stigmas you won’t slot

Anything that works in both PvE and PvP — Daevanion nodes, stigma shards, skill levels, accessories — is a safe sink from hour one. It never gets replaced.

Breaking 1,000 CP

The cheapest CP comes right after the main story:

1. Fill every slot — Pilgrim (Elyos) / Liberator (Asmodian) accessories from Lv48–50 regional quests, plus the quest Rune Box (a +0 rune is still 40 iLvl).
2. Growth gear to +4 — kinah cost inflects after +4. Spares to +7, quest Uniques and the guaranteed piece to +10.
3. Lesser manastones only, never reroll — and skip theostones: their damage is irrelevant at low tiers.
4. Exploration stages: quick grabs first — boss/chest-grab stages take seconds and push CP across the 1,000 / 1,200 / 1,600 gates; leave the timed-puzzle and RNG stages for when you’re overgeared.
5. At 1,200: Transcendence 1-1 — the arcana card alone is ~+20 iLvl.

The CP ladder

CP	Get there by
1,000–1,100	MSQ to 45. Stuck? Side quests and seals for gear and skill upgrades
1,300–1,400	Every seal and stronghold dungeon, and the side quests Feathers into the monolith Belt and amulet Duty quests, daily and weekly supply quests Statues into the Pantheon — free passive stats people forget
1,700	Abyss — corridors, scroll quests, and rank accessories Rifts and rift quests Or fill slots with item level 67 Legend gear and roll manastones — the stats themselves add item level
2,200	Transcendence — open the chest at stage 3 to fill arcana, then farm stage 4 Farm Vakron Sky Island
2,400	Transcendence 4 and 5 at S rank, farm 6 Extract arcana. 5 Mysterious Crystals transmute a Unique — build the Chalice first Ferocious Horn opens at 2,200
2,400+	T3 conquest farming Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Transcendence 7+

Where the odyle goes

Save it for Vakron at CP 1,600. Spend on Draupnir conquest only if progression stalls before you get there.

Abyss gear is a PvP buy

It raises CP like anything else, but from the second piece onward it costs you −5% PvE damage per set tier. One piece is free. See PVP for the buy order and the full penalty ladder.

At cap, the game becomes a cadence — see the loop and its PvP half.