Enlightened Gear Skills

Gear enlightenment can be performed for certain weapons upon reaching level 30 and provides the weapon with a special skill.

Acquiring Skills
There are several factors and conditions to be met when determining the added special skill. You may need to hit an enemy with a unit holding the gear, you may need to use a specific unit and/or job, a specific enemy or type of enemy that needs to be attacked, or the unit's level and/or enemy's level and/or the stage where these conditions need to be met. All these conditions can be checked in Alchemist Code DB with the chance to get the skill.

There are 3 levels of the enlightenment skills: •  Tier 1: There are always three tier 1 skills for each weapon type. Each can be evolved into multiple tier 2 skills and some tier 2 skills can evolved from multiple tier 1 skills;

•  Tier 2: These are more specialized versions of the tier 1 skill with improvements to that skill. A tier 2 skill can generally only be evolved into a single tier 3 skill;

•  Tier 3: A more powerful version of the tier 2 skill. There are some weapons with unique tier 3 skills restricted to that specific weapon.

Typically you will look to see which Tier 3 skill you wish to get, then determine which skills lead to that skill. You can't have more than one enlightened skill on the weapon at a time.

Resetting Skills
Because the skill is acquired randomly you may get a skill other than your intended- if so make sure to reset the skill in the Gear > Enlightened Skill interface so that you can continue working to get the skill you desire. You can reset the skill 1 level at a time (i.e. if it's a level 2 skill you wish to reset, you don't have to reset to the beginning, you can go back to the level 1 skill).

Setting Skills
When you acquire a skill, you must first go to Gear > Enlightened Skill to select the gear and go under the enlightened skill tab on the gear details screen to set the skill. Until you set the skill it will not show up as an option to use in combat. Setting the skill will not prevent you from learning new skills or resetting the skill if you need to.

Leveling Skills
Once you have acquired the tier 3 skill you desire, you will want to level the skill to maximize the power of it. There are 3 levels of the skill, so you must level up twice to get to the maximum power. There are 3 ways to level the skill:


 * Fuse a level 30 copy of the same weapon
 * Fuse a level 30 weapon with the same skill
 * Use the skill in a quest (very low chance)

Note: If you fuse a level 30 copy of the same weapon that also has the same skill it will fully level the skill since it counts as 2 level ups.

Weapon Type Skill Trees
Note: This is a mechanic is released gradually for different weapon types.

Feature History

 * Sword skills released January 30, 2020
 * Staff/Rod skills released April 9, 2020
 * Spear skills released July 2, 2020
 * Katana skills released August 20, 2020
 * Greatsword skills released October 15, 2020
 * Cestus skills released February 18, 2021