Co-abilities Guide

Co-abilities are special abilities that apply over all adventurers in a team.

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Co-abilities

Co-ability Basics

Each adventurer has access to a Co-ability (often abbreviated to "coab", or primary co-ability) as well as a Chain Co-ability (often abbreviated to "CCA", or secondary co-ability). We will cover Chain Co-abilities later.

Co-abilities will often depend on the adventurer's weapon type, as follows:

Co-ability	Weapon Type
Dragon Haste	Sword
Strength	Blade
Critical Rate	Dagger
Defense	Axe
HP	Lance
Skill Haste	Bow
Skill Damage	Wand
Recovery Potency	Staff

Rare Co-abilities

Some adventurers will have a different co-ability than what would be normal for their weapon type. We will call these "Rare Co-abilities":

Co-ability	Adventurers
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Overdrive Punisher & Gauge Accelerator	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Paralyzed Punisher	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Reduced Strength & Defense Punisher	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Shapeshifting Boost	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Standard Attack Damage	Error: Table Adventurers not found. Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Force Strike	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Critical Damage	Error: Table Adventurers not found. Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Light Damage	Error: Table Adventurers not found.
Buff Time	Error: Table Adventurers not found.

Co-ability Mechanics

When using Co-abilities, their mechanics must be kept in mind:

Effect Intensity - The initial intensity of a Co-ability will start at different amounts depending on the adventurer's base rarity.
- For instance, a 3
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  will start with a 1% strength co-ability, while a 5
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  will start with a 5% strength co-ability.
- Co-abilities can be upgraded in the 5th floor of the Mana Circle, and once fully upgraded, all co-abilities will have the same intensity. For example, a fully-upgraded
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  will both have a 10% strength co-ability.
Backline - Co-abilities will affect your own team in solo play, but will only affect yourself in co-op play. This means that the 3 units in the "back" who don't enter combat, called your "backline", can still support your main adventurer with their co-abilities. However, the other human players will not be affected by your co-abilities at all.
- In raids, the same principle applies. Co-abilities will only affect your own team, and there is no interaction of Co-abilities between human players.
Stacking Restrictions - You cannot stack two of the same Co-ability on a team - the highest value wins. For example, if you have 2 blades with Strength +8% and Strength + 10%, only the 10% will be applied.
Slightly-Confusing Wording - Literally every co-ability says "benefits your whole team" at the end, so you can ignore that text for the most part. Where this gets confusing is for effects such as "Poison = User Strength" that only affect the user. It won't buff the entire team when one person lands poison, but anyone on the team is able to activate it on themselves.

General Co-ability setups

Chain Co-abilities

Chain Co-ability Basics

Chain Co-ability Archetypes

Utility

Buff Time
Dragon Haste
Combo Time

Healing

low HP = healing
combo = healing
shapeshift = healing

Force Strike

damage taken = FS

Energy

combo = Energy

HP or Defense

HP
Defense

Strength

Combo = strength
Affliction = user strength
Dragon's Claws - significant for units with ample access to dragon form, such as Forte
High HP = strength - 6% at the high end, falling below the 10% of Blades. This CCA is usually not relevant.
Low HP = strength - 15% at the high end, beating the 10% of Blades. Ideal on enmity units.
Energy = strength - 10% at the high end, and lasts for 15 seconds every time energy is recieved. This matches the 10% of blades, but such uptime may not be realistic.
strength doublebuff = 10% at the high end, and lasts for 15 seconds every time a defense buff is recieved. This matches the 10% of blades, and such uptime is probably realistic.

Critical Rate

Combo = crit rate
Affliction = user crit rate
High HP = crit rate
crit rate doublebuff

Inspiration

Energy = inspiration

Shield

low HP = shield

Affliction Chance

Affliction Edge

Elemental Resistance

combo = elemental res
affliction = user elemental res
High HP = elemental res
Low HP = elemental res
Energy = elemental res
elemental res doublebuff

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