Sword x Staff Season 2 Preparation Guide · Sword x Staff

Phase 1

Before the New Season

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Start the moment you have cleared your current-season goal. This whole phase is a stockpile.

Start saving your Material Realm Tools. Stop spending them this season. They carry across and pay out more against Season 2 content.
Sell your shards. Shards lose their sell value once the season rolls over. Convert them to currency while they still list.
Gather everything you need to rank up to Champion I. Ranking up raises the rewards you pull from Stamina and Material Realms, so it pays back everything spent after it.
Hoard Stamina. Spend only enough to finish your daily missions. Hold the rest until after you reach Champion I so every point converts at the higher rank rate.

Phase 2

The Final 36 Hours

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Time-boxed and easy to miss. Use the planner above to catch each window.

36 hours before launch, stop claiming EXP from your Bed. Banked Bed EXP is worth more applied after the season flips and the new statues are unlocked.
Turn off Quick Claim on your Bed. Quick Claim auto-collects your banked EXP and quietly undoes the hold. Disable it before the 36-hour mark.
One day before launch, stop claiming your dungeon rewards. Hold them so they land inside Season 2.
Bank your 2 extra dungeon attempts. Unused runs stack up to six. Entering Season 2 with a full bank lets you burst six runs of the new dungeon on day one. See the Daily Dungeons guide for the six-run bank cap.

Phase 3

Launch Morning

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Order of operations for the first login. Work the list in sequence.

Claim your Seasonal Rewards.
Spend all of your Primo Stars in the Astral Pact.
Push your progression as far as it goes before spending any Speed-Ups or Temporal Crystals. Raw progression is free EXP. Save the accelerants for when you actually stall.
Do your Relic Pulls. Do not let launch day end without them.

Phase 4

When To Spend Speed-Ups

Once you stall, only burn Speed-Ups and Temporal Crystals to cross a milestone that unlocks something.

Lv.106 Tier 4 (T4) Your next power tier.
Lv.108 Adult Fantomon Your Fantomon matures.
Lv.116 Tower Opens Gem drops.
Lv.130 Second Dungeon First seasonal gear drops.

Alternative. The alternative is to hold every Speed-Up until the end of the season. If you are pushing for extra Primo Stars, banking them and cashing out after all the new statues are unlocked squeezes the most EXP out of each one.

Phase 5

Area Unlock Stockpile

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Everything you need on hand to unlock every area in Season 2. Tick each one as you bank it.

Gateway Key Opens the gates between Season 2 areas. ×5
Water Mine Clears a water-blocked node so a new zone opens. ×2
Magic Drill Bores through the rock nodes sealing an area. ×1
Withering Potion Withers the vines blocking a path forward. ×1
New Season Item The Season 2 signature token, needed to open the final areas. ×7

Reference

Season 2 Resource Key

What each term above means, and why it earns a spot on the list.

Material Realm Tools Consumables you spend in the Material Realms to farm materials. Held tools yield more against Season 2 content, so bank them now.

Shards Leftover gear and skill shards. They stop selling once the season rolls over, so cash them out first.

Bed EXP Idle EXP that banks in your Bed. It is worth more once new statues raise your EXP multiplier, so hold it near reset.

Champion I The rank tier that boosts what you earn from Stamina and Material Realms. Reach it early to compound every reward after.

Primo Stars The seasonal currency. Pour all of it into the Astral Pact on launch morning.

Astral Pact The season spend track for Primo Stars. Empty it before anything expires at the rollover.

Speed-Ups and Temporal Crystals Time accelerants that skip idle waits. Spend them only to cross a milestone, or bank them for the end of the season.

Fantomon Your pet companion. It matures into an Adult at Lv.108 for a power spike.

Statues Shrines you raise through the season. Each one lifts your EXP and rewards, which is why held EXP pays out more later.

Relic Pulls Your relic gacha. Do not let launch day end without your pulls.