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⚔️ SP Upgrading

Specialist Cards

Upgrading raises a Specialist Card from +0 to +20 — raw power. Costs and materials depend on which card you own, so instead of a wall of tables, pick your class and card below and the planner works out exactly what you need. Looking to stack bonus stats instead? That's the separate SP Perfection track.

+20max upgrade level
🛡️scrolls stop a break from destroying your SP
🎯pity = a guaranteed success after enough misses
📏job level 21 / 41 / 51 gates the brackets

🧮 The Upgrade Planner

SP1Warrior Specialist Card
Swordsman
Current
+0
Target
+15
No breakLowMediumHighExtreme
Best case
every attempt first-try
15
attempts
8.5kk gold
Typical
median of 3,000 sims
172
attempts
157.4kk gold
Unlucky
90th percentile
334
attempts
319.9kk gold
MaterialBest caseTypicalUnlucky
Gold8.5kk157.4kk319.9kk
skill-icon Angel's Feather471×skill-icon 9739×skill-icon 20941×skill-icon
skill-icon Full Moon Crystal236×skill-icon 4435×skill-icon 9249×skill-icon
skill-icon Lower SP Protection Scroll10×skill-icon 24×skill-icon 34×skill-icon
skill-icon Higher SP Protection Scroll5×skill-icon 147×skill-icon 309×skill-icon
skill-icon Shining Green Soul30×skill-icon 30×skill-icon 30×skill-icon
skill-icon Shining Red Soul15×skill-icon 15×skill-icon 15×skill-icon
skill-icon Shining Blue Soul15×skill-icon 15×skill-icon 15×skill-icon

“Typical / Unlucky” run the real upgrade odds with the pity counter over 3,000 simulations. Gold,skill-icon feathers, skill-icon moons and the protection scroll are spent on every attempt; special stones are refunded on a protected fail unless flagged otherwise.

Per-level breakdown (+0 → +15)
StepSuccessBreakPityCost / attempt
+0 → +180%33×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 2×skill-icon 200k
+1 → +275%35×skill-icon 3×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 4×skill-icon 200k
+2 → +370%5.0%38×skill-icon 5×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 6×skill-icon 200k
+3 → +460%10.0%410×skill-icon 7×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 8×skill-icon 200k
+4 → +550%15.0%515×skill-icon 10×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 10×skill-icon 200k
+5 → +640%20.0%620×skill-icon 12×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 500k
+6 → +735%25.0%725×skill-icon 14×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 2×skill-icon 500k
+7 → +830%30.0%930×skill-icon 16×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 3×skill-icon 500k
+8 → +925%35.0%1235×skill-icon 18×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 4×skill-icon 500k
+9 → +1020%40.0%1540×skill-icon 20×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 5×skill-icon 500k
+10 → +1110%🔒45.0%3045×skill-icon 22×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 1kk
+11 → +127%🔒50.0%4550×skill-icon 24×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 2×skill-icon 1kk
+12 → +135%🔒55.0%6055×skill-icon 26×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 3×skill-icon 1kk
+13 → +143%🔒60.0%10060×skill-icon 28×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 4×skill-icon 1kk
+14 → +151%🔒70.0%30070×skill-icon 30×skill-icon 1×skill-icon 5×skill-icon 1kk
Read the three columns

Best case assumes every attempt succeeds first try. Typical and Unlucky run the real odds — including the pity counter — over 3,000 simulations, so they show what upgrading actually costs when attempts fail.


⚙️ How upgrading works

Upgrading is done at Malcolm Mix (the Alchemy Association in NosVille). Each attempt spends gold, skill-icon Angel's Feather Angel's Feathers, skill-icon Full Moon Crystal Full Moon Crystals, a protection scroll, and the special stones that match your card — every attempt, win or lose. You can queue 1–20 tries at once.

Every attempt rolls one of three results:

  • ✅ Success — your SP gains one level.
  • ➖ Fail — nothing changes; you just lose that attempt's materials.
  • 💥 Break — this is what the protection scroll exists for. Upgrading with a scroll (the upgrade window always does) saves your SP — the break is neutralised and the level stays put. Upgrading without protection, a break sets the card's rarity to -2: it is permanently destroyed — kept in your inventory but useless and un-upgradeable forever.
Always keep protection scrolls stocked

A protected break costs materials but never your card. The break chance is only dangerous if you run out of scrolls. Scroll tiers: skill-icon Lower SP Protection Scroll up to +10, skill-icon Higher SP Protection Scroll for +10→+15, and skill-icon Divine SP Upgrade Scroll for +15→+20.

  • 🎯 Pity — after enough consecutive misses on the same card, the next attempt is a guaranteed success. The counter is stored on the card and bound to your account — it resets when you succeed, and wipes if a different account upgrades the card (so a half-pitied SP can't be handed off to finish).
  • 🔒 Hidden odds — from +11 onward the game hides the success/break numbers in the window. The planner reveals the datamined values (marked 🔒).
  • 📏 Job level — the card must reach SP job level 21 / 41 / 51 to enter the +5 / +10 / +15 brackets.

📦 Where to get the materials

🪶 Feathers & Full Moons

skill-icon Angel's Feather and skill-icon Full Moon Crystal are the bulk upgrade fuel — stock up from NPC shops and general drops before a big push.

🛡️ Protection scrolls

skill-icon Lower SP Protection Scroll, skill-icon Higher SP Protection Scroll and skill-icon Divine SP Upgrade Scroll keep your card safe on a break. Never upgrade without the matching scroll.

💎 +16→+20 stones

The "…of Completion" gems are high-level upgrade catalysts (and double as perfection stones). Best farmed from Act 4 raids — every boss drops 2 on death.

Act 4 raid stonesskill-icon Small Ruby of Completion, skill-icon Small Sapphire of Completion, skill-icon Small Obsidian of Completion and skill-icon Small Topaz of Completion (plus their Big variants) come from Lord Morcos, Lady Calvinas, Lord Hatus and Lord Berios — as ground drops, in their raid boxes, and from boxes like Caligor's Treasures and the Mystery Box of Completion. You can also farm the monster drops in Unknown Land (Act 4).


🗺️ Where to do it

Malcolm Mix

Alchemy Association · NosVille

Opens the SP Upgrade window. Bring gold, feathers, full moons, scrolls and your card's special stones.

Hermes

Perfection Trader · NosVille

For bonus stats instead of levels, head to Hermes and follow the SP Perfection guide.

Pro tips
  1. Perfect early, upgrade with scrollsperfection can't hurt your card, and a protected upgrade can't destroy it. Risk only comes from running out of scrolls.
  2. Batch your tries — queuing 10–20 attempts is far faster than clicking one at a time, and auto-stops at each level milestone.
  3. Farm Act 4 raids — the fastest source of the gems used for both perfection and +16→+20.
  4. Mind the pity counter — finish a card yourself; letting another account touch it wipes your progress toward the guaranteed success.

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