Battle Preparation

Stats
Equipment
Core Crystal Modification

In Battle Preparation, you can change the characters' equipment and manage Core Crystals.

Stats

Here you can view the characters' stats.

Lv.

This is the character's level. The higher it is, the higher your abilities will become. When you gain enough experience points, you will level up.

This shows how many more experience points you need to reach the next level.

HP

This will go down as you take damage. If it reaches zero, you will be knocked out.
HP will fully recover when you return to your base.

ATK

Affects damage dealt to enemies.

DEF

Affects damage taken from enemies.

SPD

Affects the turn order and critical rate.

Equipment Quality

This is affected by the total quality value of your equipped items (weapons, armor, and accessories).
The higher the value, the higher the bonus to your ATK, DEF, and SPD.

Dexterity

Affects your Core Items.
If an item's level is higher than this value, its effectiveness will be reduced.

Elemental Resistance

This shows your elemental resistances.

Core Charge

This is the maximum value of CC (Core Charge) which will be consumed when using Core Items.

Core Crystal Modification

Roles

Roles indicate the character's fighting style, such as "Attacker" or "Defender." Equipping items with a specific type of effects will give your character the corresponding role.
Stats will be affected depending on the role, and roles can be changed depending on the equipment.

Examples of roles:

Attacker		Increases ATK and critical rate.
Defender		Increases DEF and damage reduction rate when guarding.
Supporter		Increases SPD and grants additional AP when using normal attacks.

Skills

You can view Active Skills, Passive Skills, and Order Skills.

Active Skills

These skills are unleashed in battle by consuming AP. Regular attacks will not consume AP.
When you level up, you will gain more usable active skills.

Passive Skills

These skills will automatically be used in battle. You can learn new passive skills by completing Party Quests.

Order Skills

During battles, your allies may make suggestions (Action Orders) to the character you are controlling. If you complete them, the character who made the suggestion will unleash a powerful Order Skill.
Some skills will gain additional effects as your Tactics Level increases.
You can customize which skills to unleash by pressing the assigned button while viewing the list of Order Skills.

Customize Order Skills
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/		E / Left-click on the Icon

Equipment

You can view and change the characters' equipment.

Equipment / Keys

You can equip a weapon, an armor, up to 2 accessories, and a key.

Note: You can only equip keys with symbol effects.

Core Items

You can set up to 4 items to use in battle or during exploration as Core Items.

Core Items & Core Charge

Core Crystal Modification

You can change the Core Element and improve the Core Crystal.

Changing the Core Element

You can set the Core Element for each character. Using skills and attack items with the same element as the set Core Element will increase their power and grant more CC than usual.
You can also gain CC when you receive attacks with the same element as the Core Element.
Be sure to change the Core Element to the same element as the skills you use often.

Change Core Element
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/		C

Upgrading Core Crystal

You can gain benefits such as increasing the maximum CC by upgrading your Core Crystal with Core Shards. Core Shards can be obtained during battles depending on the amount of CC consumed.