Arcana

A card gives you three things at once:

• a Pantheon stat, determined by card type and set,
• one to four skill lines that raise certain abilities of your class by levels,
• its own item level, which is added to your character’s item level.

The Global client contains five more card types (Scale, Key, Hourglass, Dice, Lantern). They aren’t available at launch.

The card type decides which kind of ability its lines can improve. Every type comes in two versions, “of Vitality” and “of Magic”. The version determines the Pantheon stat and the set.

Parchment and Compass split your class’s active skills between them, Bell and Mirror the passive ones. So which skill sits on which card is fixed. Only the Chalice can hit any ability, but in exchange its chance of a specific skill is the lowest.

Every card comes in four rarities. With rarity, the number of skill lines, the Pantheon stat, the item level and the maximum enhancement level all go up.

Every enhancement level adds one Pantheon point and one item level on top. So a Unique card at +5 gives 25 Pantheon points and 85 item level, and five such cards together 425 item level.

All cards are bound to your character. They can’t be traded or sold, but they can be extracted.

All cards “of Vitality” belong to the Primal Vigor set, all cards “of Magic” to the Magic Armor set. Bonuses apply from two and from four cards of the same set.

With five slots you have two options: four cards of one set for its big bonus, or a 3/2 split for both small bonuses. Because the version also sets the Pantheon stat, choosing a set is always a choice of stats as well. A Bell of Magic, for example, gives Destruction instead of Justice.

Which abilities a card improves is fixed as soon as you get it. The lines are drawn at random from the pool of its card type; set and rarity don’t change that, only the number of lines.

The lines matter because skill points only take an ability to level 10. Everything above that comes from three sources: the skill nodes of the Daevanion boards, the skill lines on gear and Arcana. Which skills are worth it on which card for your class is in the respective class guide:

Arcana enhancement works through experience rather than success chances: you feed material to an equipped card and an XP bar fills up. When it’s full, the card goes up one level.

The main source is the two Transcendence dungeons, open from item level 1,600. Each one only gives three of the five card types; the Chalice drops in both.

The higher the Transcendence tier, the better the rarity of the cards:

You extract cards you don’t need. This produces Mysterious Crystal, the main material for cards you build yourself. The crystal is bound.

In the Arcana overview you build yourself a Unique card via Transmute. You choose card type and set yourself there, and you can fix up to two of the four skill lines. The game rolls the remaining lines.

Before level 45 you don’t need to worry about Arcana. Even at 45 the first cards only come with Transcendence, so from item level 1,600. Until then gear is what counts, see From 45 to Ludra.

4 October 2026, Global version at the start of Season 1. Values from the Global client and NC’s information. Changes are listed under News.