Warrior life

A warrior in Duskar has one life. It grows from its first level to level 100, gets stronger with training, synergy and a master, changes its form as it evolves, and ages through three phases until it dies of old age. Everything you invest in a warrior stays with it for the whole of that life, so it pays to know how each part works.

Levels and XP

Warriors gain XP from expedition fights, training, the gym, gravity rooms, the Chronal Chamber, XP Capsules and saga rewards. Each level needs more XP than the last:

Level	XP for the next level	Total XP from level 1
1	20	-
10	200	830
25	1,200	8,080
50	7,100	99,955
75	18,500	404,205
99	48,000	1,078,705
100	-	1,126,705

Level 100 is the cap for warriors and for your account. Your account level is the highest level any of your warriors has reached, and it rises by at most one level at a time. Every new account level gives 2 Golden Potions, 4 from level 50 on and 20 at level 100. Every warrior that reaches level 100 earns its own trophy.

Turn on the level lock on a warrior’s card and it stops gaining levels: XP that would raise it is lost. It is a way to keep a warrior under a tournament’s level limit.

Growth per level

Each species has its own growth: the points every stat gains per level. Condition grows twice as fast, because every point of condition is a point of HP. Better growth means more power at the same level, but growth only pays off when it matches the attacks: a warrior with physical attacks needs melee attack, not special attack. Each species’ growth is on its page in the warriors encyclopedia.

Paid training

On a warrior’s card you can buy stat points with yen. Every purchase adds one point (two to condition), gives the warrior 2 XP and adds 40% of the price to its value. Each stat has its own price: it starts at 500 yen and rises after every purchase, slowly at first and steeply later.

Every warrior starts with a clean account of 400 purchases. From the 401st purchase on, every purchase also adds 100 yen to the prices of the six other stats, so spreading training across all seven stats gets expensive.

• Coach. This achievement counts your paid trainings and lowers every price, by 5% at the first level and by 40% at the highest.
• Synergy. High synergy makes training cheaper.
• Time Machine. Once per warrior it takes back every trained point, sets the prices back to 500 yen and divides the value by three. Capsule points stay.

You can train a warrior in the team, the reserve or storage, up to 100 purchases at once.

Stat capsules

Stat capsules raise one stat of one warrior without touching the training prices. Each boost of a stat costs more capsules than the last, and each gives +3 to the stat (+6 to condition). Capsules come from expeditions and the market; see expeditions.

The gym, gravity rooms and the Chronal Chamber

• The gym. While your account trains at the gym, every warrior of the team gets XP for each full hour. The XP per hour grows with your account level, is higher with the Titan of Training achievement and Ilyari Metal, and is three times as much in Sunset weather. A session gives at most 3,000 XP per warrior. You cannot go on expeditions or work while training.
• Gravity rooms. One reserve warrior trains in your personal room. It gets the gym’s hourly XP times the room’s gravity: ×2 in the 100G room (23,000,000 ¥), ×3 in the 150G room (40,000,000 ¥) and ×4 in the 200G room (1,500 gold yen), bought in that order. At most 48 hours count, and a training of a full day or more counts for the Gravity Master achievement, which raises the XP. Developed planetoids add more rooms; see planetoids.
• The Chronal Chamber. A Chronal Chamber Pass takes two reserve warriors inside for a day. When the day is over, each gets the XP it needs for its next level, up to 15,000 XP.

Synergy

Synergy shows how well a warrior fights with your company, from 0% to 100%. It grows with won expedition fights and shrinks with lost ones: in big steps while it is low and in ever smaller ones as it nears the top.

• Synergy events on expeditions give every team warrior a small boost.
• Synergy Capsules add a little each. A warrior can take only a limited number a day, and the limit grows with your account level and the Teamwork achievement.
• Outside the team synergy fades every game day, faster while it is high.
• A sale keeps only a small part of the warrior’s synergy.

High synergy makes a warrior noticeably stronger in six combat stats, and it also makes training cheaper.

Healing

Damage from expedition fights stays until you heal. Healing restores one warrior or the whole team to full health at once:

When	Price per missing HP
Below account level 20	Free
Normal	100 ¥
With a Healing Chamber	80 ¥
With a Regeneration Chamber	50 ¥
With Healing Techniques	20 ¥
Fighter / Elite premium	×0.7 / ×0.5

Only your best healing equipment counts. A warrior you cannot pay for is left unhealed. HP Capsules heal 10 HP each (up to 18 with the Medicine achievement), and a Life Fruit Sack lifts the team to 40%, 80% or 100% of its health after every expedition fight. HP never come back on their own.

Attacks

A warrior fights with five attacks and can learn others: from its species’ pool, from its species’ techniques (each needs a technique disc, which is used up), from its master’s attacks and from up to three attacks it remembers. An attack can be learned once the warrior’s level reaches the attack’s level, and every lesson costs yen: a hundredth of the warrior’s value, at most 1,000,000 yen. The order of the five attacks is free to change. The attacks encyclopedia shows which warriors can learn each attack.

Evolution

Many species change into a stronger form during their life. A higher form usually has better growth and new attacks, but not always. There are four ways to evolve:

Way	What it needs
Natural	The warrior reaches the level of its evolution and evolves by itself
Item	An evolution item, the warrior in the reserve and at the required level
Fusion	Two warriors in the reserve whose forms lead to the same new form, and Bond Bracelets or Fusion Techniques
A place of evolution	The right species in the team, on an expedition to a special location

• The evolution switch. Every warrior card has it. Switched off, the warrior keeps its form: no natural and no item evolution. Use it to let a warrior learn the high-level attacks of its current form before it evolves.
• Fusion. Bond Bracelets use up two bracelets and need each warrior at its own evolution level. Fusion Techniques use up one item but need both warriors at the same level, with values no more than 100,000 yen apart. The first warrior evolves and keeps everything it had; the second is gone for good. A warrior in a league line-up cannot be the second one.
• What stays. An evolution keeps the level, XP, stats, training, value, aura, master, synergy, attacks and the life dates. It changes the species, resistances, future growth, the attacks it can learn and the art.
• Into the reserve. A team warrior that evolves into a species already in your team moves to the reserve.
• Ring of Regression. It returns a warrior to its previous form for good: afterwards it can never evolve again.
• Staff of Recall. It brings back an attack of one of the warrior’s earlier forms into a slot you choose.

The Time Machine, the Ring of Regression and the Staff of Recall each work once per warrior. Every species’ evolutions, with levels and items, are on its page in the warriors encyclopedia.

Masters

From account level 50, masters can guide your warriors. To unlock a master you pass six trials: duels against the master’s students and tasks the master gives you. Only a knockout passes a duel, the duels cost no AP and leave your warriors unhurt. You can follow one master’s trials at a time; giving up loses every trial passed. Unlocking a master gives a Golden Potion.

An unlocked master takes any of your warriors that has reached the master’s minimum level, 50 or higher, for a price in yen; the Star Pupil achievement lowers it. The choice is for life: the master stays through evolution and sale, its growth is added to every level the warrior gains from then on, and the warrior can learn the master’s attacks. The growth counts only for an owner who has unlocked that master: a warrior you buy with a master you have not unlocked has none of its growth until you pass that master’s trials, and gets all of it once you do. Many masters take something away as well as give, so pick one that fits: a fighter with physical attacks gains nothing from a master of special attack. Every master is in the masters encyclopedia.

Aging and the end of life

Every warrior is born on the day it is awakened and dies of old age, never in a fight. Its life has three phases:

Phase	What it means
Dawn	Still growing into full strength: its stats are a little lower
Prime	At the height of its strength
Dusk	Strength slowly fades with age

Races differ in how long they live and how soon they reach their Prime, but every warrior’s life ends. The card shows the birth date, the age and the final month, never the exact day. Nothing extends a life, and a sale, an evolution or a fusion does not change it.

When a warrior reaches its final month, the game invites you to leave a note that becomes its epitaph. After its death the warrior leaves your team, the market and any garrison, you say farewell to it in a short scene, and its public page becomes a memorial. Dusk Watch in the top bar counts your warriors in their last phase, and the Archivist achievement counts those who lived their whole life with you.

Warrior value

A warrior’s value matters when you sell it and when it learns attacks.

• At the meeting: it depends on how rare the species is, its level and luck. Rare species are worth far more than common ones.
• Bonuses: ×1.6 in Drizzle weather; newer accounts get a higher value.
• Later: +40% of every training price paid. The Time Machine divides it by three. Stats, evolution and levels do not change it.
• Uses: the planet army pays the value, a market price in yen must be above it, an attack lesson costs a hundredth of it, and fusion with Fusion Techniques compares it.

The starter warrior is worth 100,000 yen and an awakened Inborn 2,000,000; see the Inborn.