Raising Combat Power

## I need to get stronger! How can I get my combat power up quickly?

Combat power is the most important measure of strength in Traha! Combat power is a number that shows how powerful your character is overall based on all of their stats. It determines what levels of content you can access and when you can progress in story quests. Here are some useful tips to help you keep your combat power growing higher and higher!

Some combat power gains are permanent, but some are connected to equipment or pets that can change based on what is equipped.

### **Leveling Up and Weapon Traits**

By completing quests, dungeons, or other content, your character will gain experience points and eventually level up! Each time you level up, your combat power permanently increases by a certain amount. The amount is higher as you reach higher levels.

Weapon trait points are automatically acquired each time your character levels up beginning at level 10 and as rewards for unlocking new classes by completing story quests. You can view them in the Traits menu within the main menu. When you invest your trait points into a trait, your combat power will go up. However, if your points aren’t placed into traits, the combat power bonus won’t apply, so make sure to always keep your trait points fully assigned! The combat power bonus from assigning a trait point is the same for all traits, so choose whichever traits will be most useful for your playstyle.

### Equipment

Getting better equipment to arm your character with can provide very large bonuses to combat power. There are four categories of equipment that can make your character stronger.

#### Weapons

Weapons are the most important type of equipment. They make a very big difference in your character’s combat abilities for each class. However, a different weapon is needed for each class, so if you want to play multiple classes successfully, you’ll have to collect a lot of strong weapons.

At the beginning of the game, weapons can be acquired as story mission rewards. Later on, they can be acquired as rewards from elite dungeons and raids or crafted through professions.

#### Trinkets

Trinkets are very useful pieces of equipment because they are used by all classes, so there is no need to get extra ones for each class unless you’d like different stats.

Trinkets can be acquired through story mission rewards earlier in the game. Later on, they can be acquired as rewards from elite dungeons and raids or crafted through professions.

#### Armor

Armor is similar to trinkets in that it can be used by all classes, but it is more difficult to obtain. Armor can only be acquired through crafting with special materials that can only be acquired from Tower of Trials quests.

#### Costumes

Costumes are items that enhance your character’s appearance, but they also provide some combat power boosts! Costumes give a permanent combat power boost for just owning them, and a separate boost is applied when you equip one. Different costumes have bonuses when used by a certain class, so it’s important to use the right costume for your class. Face and head costume items do not provide any combat power bonuses.

Some costumes can be acquired as story mission rewards, but most need to be crafted or purchased from barter merchants in exchange for bloodstones. Costumes that are purchased from the game shop or acquired as special pass rewards do not give any combat power bonuses.

### **Leveling up your Core and Core Traits**

Your core is a very important way to keep your combat power going up! Your core is accessed through the Upgrade menu in the Quick Menu at the top right corner of the main UI. By using various items to empower your core and give it experience, your core’s level can go up. Your combat power receives a permanent boost when your core levels up. The most effective material for enhancing your core is primal energy, which comes in various levels of quality. Equipment can also be used, but the amount of experience it gives is much smaller, so it’s best to wait until you’re sure you have no other use for an item before using it on your core.

Once your core reaches level 10, you will start gaining core trait points that you can invest as you like. Investing your points into core traits also gives combat power boosts, regardless of which traits you choose, so make sure to always invest those points!

### **Profession Trait Points**

Professions are vital for getting various helpful items and equipment, but just leveling them up boosts your power too! You gain 1 profession trait point for every 2 levels you gain in a profession, which you can use to invest in profession traits! You can view them in the Traits menu within the main menu. If you haven’t spent much time leveling up your professions, make sure you do, because just completing a few profession quests each day in your spare time can make a huge difference from getting those extra trait points.

### **Collecting and Leveling Companions**

Collecting cute and helpful companions isn’t just fun; it makes you stronger too! Leveling up your buddies can make a big difference in power. They can all be found in the Companions tab in the main menu.

#### Familiars and Pets

Collecting a new familiar or pet will permanently boost your combat power. When you collect a certain amount of copies of a familiar or pet, you can level them up and get an even bigger permanent boost. Changing your equipped familiar does not affect your combat power, but changing your equipped pet does, so make sure your best pets are registered to keep your combat power maxed. Familiars and pets can be acquired by using Platinum Coins in the Summon Shop or by using various types of currency to purchase Random Familiar/Pet Boxes from the Coin Store. A limited amount can also be purchased each day from a regular merchant using gold, so don’t forget to grab those boxes each day!

#### Mounts

Collecting and leveling up mounts boosts your combat power as well! Collecting a mount for the first time gives a permanent boost, and you get more power each time it levels up as well. To level up mounts, you must give them feed to gain experience until they have enough to gain a level. Mount feed must be crafted through the cooking profession or bought from the Coin Store. Changing your equipped mount does not change your combat power, so you can ride any mount that you like.

### Spirit Cards

Collecting and leveling Spirit Cards is a major part of increasing combat power. Your combat power goes up when you first collect a new card. Once you get a certain amount of copies of that card, you can level it up, giving yourself another boost. Random Spirit Boxes can be purchased from the Coin Store in exchange for various currencies or from general merchants in exchange for gold (with a daily limit). Cards can also be summoned from the summon shop in exchange for diamonds. Equipping cards to your deck does not affect combat power.

### Enhancing Equipment and Equipment Slots

There are various ways to boost the power of the equipment that you have to get even more combat power. Most of these methods can be found by going to the Upgrade menu from the Quick Menu at the top right corner of the main UI.

#### Enchanting

Weapons and trinkets can be enchanted to add stats and increase their effectiveness. Each time you enchant an item, stats are randomly added, so if you don’t like the stats you got, you can just enchant it again and hope for a better result! However, you might also end up getting a worse result, so be careful! Enchanting requires gold and chaos energyballs.

#### Upgrading Weapon Slots

Upgrading weapon slots provides a permanent boost that makes any equipped weapon stronger! As long as you have a weapon equipped, your combat power will go up each time you upgrade the slot by a level. The materials required (Weapon Enhance Stone, Sillion’s Protection, and Sillion’s Blessing) can be acquired as rewards from elite dungeons and raids, PvP content daily victory rewards, and by exchanging various kinds of currency for them in the Coin Store. Using more materials increases the chance of a successful upgrade.

#### Upgrading Trinket Slots

Just like weapon slots, upgrading trinket slots permanently boosts the strength of any item equipped in that slot, so it increases your combat power as long as you have trinkets equipped. There are various kinds of Shaping Stones used for upgrading trinket slots, which can be acquired as rewards from random dungeons. Using more materials increases the chance of a successful upgrade.

#### Upgrading Armor Slots

Upgrading armor slots is just like upgrading trinket and weapon slots, except that the materials required are different. Various kinds of Reforge Stones are using in armor slot upgrades, which can only be acquired by purchasing them using Marks of Trial from the Tower of Trials in the Coin Store. Using more materials increases the chance of a successful upgrade.

#### Engraving

Engravings can be added to costumes and trinkets to boost their power. However, acquiring all the materials required for engravings can be a bit complicated. First, you must collect the materials needed to craft the desired engraving scroll through archaeology. Each engraving has different bonuses, so make sure you craft the one that you want. Then, you must craft the scroll to learn the engraving. Once you’ve learned the engraving, you can apply the engraving using other various materials collected through archaeology. Some items can hold more than one engraving.

#### Identifying Potential

Some items can become more powerful by identifying their potential, increasing the combat power they give when equipped. To see if an item has potential, you must click on the item to view its info and look for the potential icon at the bottom left corner of the information window. If an item has potential, you can click on the icon to identify one potential stat. Identifying potential requires bloodstones and Blue Photon’s Stones. Bloodstones can be acquired by killing enemy players in the open world while holding moonstones, which can be bought from merchants. Blue Photon’s Stones can be bought from the Coin Store using Marks of Trial from the Tower of Trials.

Depending on the quality of the item, you can identify more than one potential stat. If you don’t like the stats you got, you can reset all of an item’s potential using diamonds.

### **Achievements and the Codex**

Completing sets of achievements and codex pages gives small permanent boosts to combat power, but these activities typically take a long time to complete, even for experienced players. The Achievements page and Codex can be accessed from their tabs in the main menu.