What does leveling up an Artes stars do?

[Setveen]

On the artes screen it will show something like "Thunder Blade 70/200" and 2 out of 5 stars, but it usually seems like it doesnt do anything at all. I've sometimes randomly unlocked skills by using other skills, but often ill be checking for when i pass the milestone but nothing will seem to happen

[shinmegamikazuya]

It will make the arte deal more dmg.

[Blaise]

Increasing skill proficiency allows you to deal more damage, sometimes it increases more projectiles (air thrust / freeze lancer for example), also increases the odds of learning higher level artes in that tree. For the highest level, i noticed i learned them around 400 uses between the lower level skills in that tree.

While Air thrust and freeze lancer is lower level, when they are 5*, they deal a LOT of damage, and you can cast them pretty fast to get that hit chain up. Think i had about 2500 uses of Air thrust near the end of the game.

[Manbat]

I wanna say it unlocks cooler artes as there's also proficiency stats like Leg strikes for Law. Really loving the combat in this one a whole lot. in the past hour or so I've unlocked 3 new artes on Alphen and his sword skill proficiency was at 700 no idea how all this works not like the game tells you or maybe it did? Lol

[Killermajaro]

3k uses of demon fang.. i wish it changed how it looked :l but no it felt very meh.. literally no change. Mastered skills should change.. come on devs :(

[Kurosu]

Main advantage is more damage afaik.

[onizukaftw]

You can 5* all the ones you have in ch2 before you finish the chapter.

Once you enter the overlimit tutorial, let the AI go nuts...just make sure to disable the mystic, or the AI will use it and end the tutorial.

Did this on ps5.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Ironically, the best way to test this would be to backup your save, and use a trainer to 5* the skills, and compare before and after damage, or hits, see if the animation changed, etc. It's difficult to say for sure if that 5 starred skill actually does more damage, when in between 0 starts and 5 starts, you've gained a ton of stats, and increases in damage from gear, etc. The only way to do an objective comparison is 0 star vs 5 star with the same stats and equipment, and the only way you can really test this is with a trainer.

Out of all the pay-to-win artifacts included in the DLC, I'm surprised there wasn't one for x10 arts usage.

[DelEndVT]

I've 5 stared demon fang and it deals more damage then 1 star double demon fang. I remember in some games hidden artes are well.... Hidden behind using artes a certain amount of times. Or something to that effect. I've also noticed in some past games if you max out say, sonic thrust, then mega sonic thrust will do more damage because of it. I've beaten every game EXCEPT Xilla (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ps3 exclusives), including all the handheld ones. For Arise I still cant tell how worth it, it is to 5star low tier artes but im only 15-20ish hours in. Hard to tell cause I have left it running while afk a bit.

(EDIT): SO I lied, 5 starring demon fang adds one more demon fang onto double demon fang, for a total of 3. So 5 starring both would be close to around 60% damage increase. Sounds worth it to me.

[Beer Wolf]

Wish the spam requirement was lower... :|

[Manbat]

Originally posted by Den Bover:

I've 5 stared demon fang and it deals more damage then 1 star double demon fang. I remember in some games hidden artes are well.... Hidden behind using artes a certain amount of times. Or something to that effect. I've also noticed in some past games if you max out say, sonic thrust, then mega sonic thrust will do more damage because of it. I've beaten every game EXCEPT Xilla (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ps3 exclusives), including all the handheld ones. For Arise I still cant tell how worth it, it is to 5star low tier artes but im only 15-20ish hours in. Hard to tell cause I have left it running while afk a bit.

(EDIT): SO I lied, 5 starring demon fang adds one more demon fang onto double demon fang, for a total of 3. So 5 starring both would be close to around 60% damage increase. Sounds worth it to me.

I've been using double demon fang alot and it shoots out one demon fang before shooting out 2 so after that initial first one are you saying it then shoots 3?

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by Blaise:

also increases the odds of learning higher level artes in that tree.

Art proficienty and arte usage are 2 different things. Stars dictate damage while proficienncy unlocks new artes naturally.

[dirty plate]

Originally posted by Beer Wolf:

Wish the spam requirement was lower... :|

Just be glad it's not like Destiny DC where you have to use an arte 50,000 times to master it.

[Xengre]

Mind you, while it boosts dmg/effect this is largely less meaningful than the benefit of it helping you learn new artes of that specific arte type (example, mid-air / leg / fist / etc.).

Also, if you are trying to learn which ones to optimize for Alphen to be completely honest there isn't really a choice. Aside from range benefits of demon/double demon fang, the only one worth focusing on is Reining slash due to its hilariously broken scaling. Even the second best arte on Alphen would be far behind it. I will say it is a less fun skill, though, which is enough to justify pretending it doesn't exist and using others.

[darkdrow12]

good evening,

ive noticed spells also get bigger in form with star increased usage, i tend to use Dohalim alot and his earth(stalagmite and grounddasher) and darkness spells( forgot the suction one but execution) both got bigger in size