Card System Guide

Cards are not just there to be collected and forgot about, they offer ways to boost your character's defensive and offensive powers. Individual bonuses are small, but they add up to sizable amounts against specific enemy types in the endgame.

Cards can be obtained from various weekly and daily activities, such as:

• Achievements
• Adventure Islands
• Chaos Dungeons / Guardian Raids
• Abyssal Dungeons / Legion Raids / Kazeros Raids
• Mari's Shop (F4)
• Rapport Rewards
• Traveling Merchants
• Story Quests
• Event Rewards

Additionally, card packs can be purchased from Islands: Peyto, Fermata and stronghold [Merchant Johanna] weekly.

These contain merchants that sell 7 Peyto and Fermata Card Packs for 2,000 Pirate Coins weekly. Card packs sold here are per character. Pursuing Cooperative Sea Missions daily nets you enough Pirate Coins to purchase these on multiple characters and accrue a healthy Card Collection over someone who does not.
Note that each islands ship sells their own version of the card pack separately.

1. Category Selection

Upon opening your Card Deck (Alt+C) you can see your acquired Card Sets as well as the Setup Area. Additionally you may swap between Books or Enhance in the top left corner.

2. Card Sets

All available Major Card Sets are listed on the left side, including the name and amount of cards present within each set. Card sets can consist of either 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 cards.

3. Detailed Information

Hovering over the magnifying glass shows you the bonuses available for equipping the required amount of cards into your Deck.

4. Setup Area

This is where the magic happens! You can place up to 6 Cards in the open slots. Activate as many useful effects as possible using the cards available to you. Depending on the set, their effects are activated at either 2, 3, 4 or 6 cards. Note that multiple Card Sets can be activated at the same time as long as you equip the right amount of cards!

5. Set Highlight

These buttons highlight cards that belong to the same set, letting you easily distinguish between them if you're using bonuses from multiple Card Sets.

6. Activated Effects

This window shows all currently activated bonuses and effects applied to your character from your equipped deck.

7. Presets

Not all activities require the same Card Sets. You're given 2 preset slots to quickly change between your favorite Deck Setups. Additional slots can be bought using Gold (Slot 3 and 4) and Blue Crystals. All slot unlocks are roster wide.

1. Book Card Sets

These Card Sets are similar to the ones found under the Main Deck Tab. Unlike them, their effect is only activated upon obtaining the full set. Represented within these sets are all the cards in the game. Note that most of these cards cannot be equipped for your Main Deck, but instead provide minor benefits when completed.

2. Book Collection Bonus

Bonuses you can obtain by completing these sets include:

• Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence
• Crit/Specialization/Swiftness/Domination/Endurance/Expertise
• Vitality
• Physical & Magical Defense

By Awakening enough cards within the set and reaching a certain set level (amount of Awakened cards). You gain additional effects that boost your damage versus certain boss types like Demons, Beasts, Plants and so on. While these effects look extremely minor at a glance, all bonuses combined provide a meaningful benefit in the late game.

3. Active Effects

These are the unlocked effects between all completed Book Card Sets you own. Focus on completing sets which grant Crit, Specialization or Swiftness as they greatly benefit you in PvE.

Cards found ingame have to be consumed for them to count towards your collection. To do so, simply right click them from your inventory, and they are sent to your Enhance tab automatically. This is where all your activated cards get stored.

Every unique card is taking up a singular slot within the Enhance tab, while each duplicate gets added on top of it without taking up extra space. You can have up to 15 duplicates of any card. At which point any consecutive copy gets turned into Card XP Enchantment Points when consumed.

Additional card space can be bought by using Blue Crystals. The Enhance tab is also where Card Awakening takes place.

Auto Save

Once activated, cards you obtain will be automatically consumed and added to your collection.

• First two options are related to the auto-save function.
• The other two let you customize which cards to keep unconsumed.

Card Awakening

Whenever you wish to awaken any of your cards, simply right click them from your Card Catalog. You'll need three things to proceed:

• Duplicates of the same card.
• Card XP.
• Silver.

1. If you're in a guild, you're eligible for a Silver discount of up to -10%, as long as the guild master has researched this option.
2. Your end result will be displayed here.
3. This section lists the amount of duplicates you own and how many you still need for your goal.
   • Card XP required
   • Silver required.
4. Here you may add or remove awakening levels.
   • If you have enough duplicate cards, you can upgrade multiple levels at the same time!

Card Awakening Cost

The cost of upgrading a single card for each rarity tier:

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Total
Normal	2,000 3,500	5,000 9,000	9,500 17,250	16,300 29,450	26,300 46,950	59,100 106,150
Uncommon	4,000 7,000	10,000 18,000	19,000 34,500	32,500 58,750	52,500 93,750	118,000 212,000
Rare	10,000 16,500	24,000 40,000	46,000 77,000	78,000 130,000	127,000 210,000	285,000 473,500
Epic	19,000 31,500	48,000 81,000	91,000 154,500	156,000 264,000	253,000 424,500	567,000 955,500
Legendary	29,000 48,500	72,000 123,000	137,000 235,500	234,000 401,000	428,000 717,000	900,000 1,525,000

Card XP

Various activities reward you with Soul Leafs, Eternity Essences, Creation Fragments and Manelik's Tomes. All of these grant Card XP for Awakening your cards. Notable sources for these include:

• Cube (The best source in the game currently)
• Adventure Islands
• Field Bosses
• Traveling Merchant Ships (Harbor)
• And many more

Obtaining additional duplicates of a card after reaching its maximum gets automatically converted into Card XP, this is an especially great source of card xp from Chaos Dungeons.

Depending on if you're going into a Guardian Raid, participating in Guild vs Guild or simply enjoying some Trade Skilling. The correct Card Sets can play a big role in performing better in these activities.

We outline some of the best Card Sets in the “Best In Slot Card Sets For Endgame” article. Check it out for more information!

• Collecting Cards is a long-term goal and doesn't come by easily.
• Cards can be unlocked and added to your Enchance Tab by right-clicking them in your inventory.
• Create a Deck from the list of Major Sets to benefit your character in various ways.
• Major Card sets provide meaningful offensive and defensive bonuses if Awakened to their respective stage.
• Book Card sets provide passive bonuses upon completing a full Book Set.
• Awakening a card requires three things: Silver, extra duplicates of the card you're upgrading, and Card XP.
• You can have up to 15 duplicates of any card.

Good luck collecting!

Credits

Written by Choilicious

Reviewed by Facefoot