SoulWorker: Starting from zero

SoulWorker has started its international server on Steam
There are lots of tiny system that can be confusing to new players
This guide focus on all the basics and will guide you through your early and middle stage

**This guide is mainly based on the Chinese version i made earlier, all the external link provided are in Chinese, you may want to translate / find the English version yourself

Character selection

Conclusion: choose your favourite

Simple introduction:
(from left to right)

哈露HARU：Kawaii sword girl
CV：茅野愛衣

歐文ERWIN：Pistol guy
CV：下野纮

莉莉LILY：Tsundere scythe
CV：木戸衣吹

金JIN：Handsome boxing guy
CV：前野智昭

史黛菈STELLA：Guitar loli
CV：種田梨沙

伊莉絲IRIS：Hammer sister
CV：加隈亜衣

琪CHII：Neko? with katana
CV：竹達彩奈

艾芙妮爾EPHNEL：Spear thigh
CV：佐倉綾音

李娜飛NABI：Firearms sister
CV：上田麗奈

Early Stage (Lv1-60)

Depends on the character the starting level and town varies
Chii and Ephnel starts from Lv15 at Candus city (Town 2)
Nabi starts from Lv45 at around Grasscover camp (Town 5)
Others start from Lv1 at Rocco town (Town 1)
*New players need to be aware that choosing Nabi can be confusing as you skipped quite some level

Leveling

Until Lv50, simply following the main quest, and clear some side quest from time to time, leveling shouldn't be a problem

Newbie Initial Week

Starting from the day you create your character, you will receive a newbie mission list for following week
34 quest in total for the week, it offers quite some reward, so please complete them
To view the newbie mission progress, press the event icon next to the mini map on the top right corner

There are some confusing quest in the newbie mission, namely brooch fusion

To perform a brooch fusion, you need a brooch fusion item and 5 brooch
In day 1 of newbie quest, after finishing the crafting quest, you will be rewarded 2 Low class brooch fusion item
In day 3 of newbie quest, after finishing another crafting quest, you will be rewarded 5 brooch transmitter (brooch lottery kind of stuff)
(simply right click in your inventory to use)^Low class brooch fusion & brooch fusion item
^Brooch

Brooch have 5 tier in total (green < blue < yellow < red < purple)
Low class / novice brooch transmitter only give you green / blue brooch
Brooch transmitter give you yellow or above

For more brooch information, please read costume & brooch section

Equips for Lv1-50

SoulWorker give out free equips until Lv60 to the newbie to speed up their early stage growth
With these equips, soloing dungeons shouldn't be a problem
If your want even easier time, upgrade your weapon to +3
^Equips pack

It is recommended that you dismantle the gear drop from dungeon
(Shop window(NPC Zyte / Yomi), bottom right, Dismantle, manual or auto select the item)
If you are really short on zenny, then sell the weapons and dismantle the armor
^Shop window

FP

Almost every dungeon requires FP as entrance fee
You can check your FP on the bottom right corner
Every day you will receive 200 + 50% of previous leftover FP, seems capped at 600
Besides daily reset, you can also gain FP by consuming Vitamin or sitting on mat

Mat can be obtained from event
You can place mat anywhere in the safe zone (right click item to use)
A single mat can be used by the owner + 4 extra people
There are few types of mat, but all of them are just simply for you to sit and wait

Vitamin can be obtained from event or gruton shop
Also right click the item to use

^Vitamin

District 6

("Open area",PVP area)
Before having Lv60 equips, simply take the helicopter

League

League is just a small group / guild / whatever you name it
You can chat with others there

However, if you aren't interested in joining other's league, consider making your own
After Lv20, you can spend 100k zenny to create a league
When the league reaches Lv2, you can access league store
(guild inventory)(free inventory)

There are more info about league in the league section

Equips for Lv55-60

Lv55/Lv60 equip pack comes with exchange ticket (Devourer's equip)
Save that for now, you will only need it when you do The Primal raid

Lv60 equip pack also comes with exchange ticket (Disorder's equip)
For armor, type I gives more stamina and Boss damage
Type II gives more defense and normal monster damage
(please choose type I)

For weapon, the only different is the bonus damage on specific active skill
(You should understand your character pretty well by now)choose it yourself !!

Character advancement (Lv57)

Conclusion: please complete it

After character advancement, you will be rewarded few character skills and costume

Requirement:
Character other than Nabi reaching Lv57 & finishing [Dreadful echo] main quest
There will be a red exclamation mark above NPC Martin (Grasscover camp)

Take that quest and you will need to talk to some NPC, finish some raid across different town, and some times require you to use an item (some grey color fragment) in your inventory and enter a special dungeon
This should be pretty straight forward

The raid dungeon in town 2 and town 4 requires you to defend objective, Lv55 weapon (~2-4k attack) may not be enough if you planned to solo

You may:
Ask for help Ofc...
Or wait until Lv60, weapon from Lv60 equip pack have around 10-13k attack

This is a character advancement walkthrough i found on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7vgQIWs8IY
*Character advancement costume only comes with 1 unlocked brooch slot
**Other than weapon costume, other part of the costume are permanent
***Nabi's character advancement is even simpler, following your main quest will do
****Seems like Nabi doesn't have her advancement costume

Character advancement II (Desire worker Lv65)

Conclusion: please complete it

After completing character advancement II, you will be awarded more character skills and a costume

Requirement:
After reaching Lv60
In Grasscover camp, NPC Tenebris offers a new quest
Quest name: Corrupted Records (or similar names)

Warning:
Character advancement II (Desire worker) require lot of time to complete
It also involves some high end dungeon which requires player to have certain amount of game knowledge:
Corrupted Records dungeon feels like playing PvP with person 10 times your hp and with super armor;
Hidden hideout boss have some attack that can instant kill you

Therefore, to those who like to solo, you may want to consider asking for help

Approximate flow:
After taking the quest, you will need to use the book item (named corrupted records) in your inventory to enter a dungeon
Those book is given by NPC, if you accidentally lost it, you can buy them from NPC corrupted bookshelf

Those books look like this:
You will need to do around 6 of those dungeon, be aware that the books named differently

After those 6 dungeon, you are required to complete Alter of void (Normal) once
*There are some info about how to unlock Alter of void dungeon under the high end dungeon sector

After that, you will need to do 2 more corrupted record dungeon
*After finishing Alter of void once, NPC Yorhakha appears cute little guy

After those 2 dungeon, you will need to clear Hidden hideout once (at Dipluce horizon)
*You need to do another set of prerequisite mission to unlock Hidden hideout, check out high end dungeon sector

After finishing Hidden hideout once, NPC Yorhakha will ask you to collect 200 black orb item thingy
Those black orb can be obtained from high end dungeons such as:
Altar of void (Grasscover camp)
The primal (Golden citadel)
Hidden hideout (Dipluce horizon)

After gathering 200 of those thingy, NPC Yorhakha will give you a purple fragment thingy, use it to enter a fun dungeon (fighting with Yorhakha as ally)

After that you will need to complete Alter or void (Maniac) once
You will get a red orb after that

Red orb is used to make desire worker costume
You will need 3 of those red orb in total

To gather all 3 red orb, you can either:
Finish daily quest offered by NPC Yorhakha, completing that fun dungeon and Alter or void (Maniac) or
Complete the repeat quest offered by NPC Yorhakha, you will need to farm Betrayers' army Ep4 + Unholy sanitarium Ep4 30 times
Just take the easy way and wait for daily quest

After finishing the costume, you will received an energy orb sort of item
You will need to upgrade it to +9 (please find NPC Trisha)
You need an atom like item as the upgrade ingredient
*Upgrade is 100% success

Upgrade ingredient can be obtained from 3 ways:
Craft with ingredient dropped in Golden citadel, Alter of void, Hidden hideout, The primal
Use 100 gruton coin to buy a black stone item from NPC Yorhakha (consume it gives you ingredient)
Take the quest offered by NPC Yorhakha

After upgrading your energy orb thingy to +9, then your advancement II (desire worker) is done

finally ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

**If you want to take a look at those item icon, you can read:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=5303

Late stage (Lv65-68)

By following the main quest, leveling shouldn't have major issues, until Lv66
Insufficient level restricted you from entering dungeon
*In Dipluce horizon if you find your main quest missing, pleas complete the red exclamation mark quest

Here are some of the repeatable quest that gives relatively high exp:

[Maniac] Missing in action

Offered NPC:
Grasscover Camp (Town 5) NPC Martin

Exp:
~84M

Quest:
Perforated road Ep4(Maniac) Complete once
Dreadful echo Ep4(Maniac) Complete once
Man eater garden Ep4(Maniac) Complete once
Dead meat factory Ep4(Maniac) Complete once

*Can repeat 8 times

[Maniac] Giant type soul junk

Offered NPC:
In Dipluce horizon, next to Sky worker dungeon
NPC Worker support device: Merchant union

Exp:
~125M

Quest:
Sky worker Ep4(Maniac) Complete twice
Transport fleet Ep4(Maniac) Complete twice

*Can repeat 10 times

[Maniac] Operation: Subjugation

Offered NPC:
In Dipluce horizon, next to Betrayers' army dungeon
NPC Worker support device: Merchant union

Exp:
~156M

Quest:
Betrayers' army Ep4(Maniac) Complete twice
Unholy sanitarium Ep4(Maniac) Complete twice

*Can repeat 10 times
**While doing these quest, try take the quest that reward you gruton coin simultaneously

NPC

SoulWorker have lots of NPC, but only few of them really matters
Zyte, Yomi, Janice, Trisha, Ajin, Oden, Eo, Bucker TV, Seres, Gruton and Maxime

Only first five of them has likability level
Depends on the NPC, when you reach certain likability level, you will be rewarded various item and permanent discount for their services
To check the likability level, talk to the NPC, there is a progress bar below their name

If there is a stop icon on the progress bar meaning the likability level can no longer increase that day (wait for tomorrow)

The increase limit of likability level is different for every NPC
^likability level
^Stop icon

NPC introduction

NPC	Main purpose	Preferred ways to increase likability
Zyte	Repair equips, Buy upgraded nano kit	Repair equips, Buy upgraded nano kit
Yomi	Buy mediBox, mediKit, soul drink	Buy magic hammer
Janice	Soulstone management,craft equips	Material crafting
Trisha	Upgrade gear, Refine gear	Swap item
Ajin	Helicopter	fly
Oden	Bank
Eo	AR upgrade
Bucker TV	Buy energy converter	(Appears in District 6 and Golden citadel)
Seres	League
Gruton	Gruton shop, Events related shop
Maxime	Craft energy converter, gear familiar	(Appears in Grace city, Grasscover camp, Dipluce horizon)

Weapon,Armor,Accessories

There are lots of ways to upgrade your gear in Soulworker:
upgrade (+value), option refine, grade refine, tag refine, weapon familiar/ soulstone, armor familiar / soulstone

Introduction

Let's first learn how to read the info of your gear
When your cursor is hovering above your gear, if you hold down shift, more details will show up

In between attack / defense and min. level, there shows the grade% of your gear, grade% will affect the attack / defense value (can be change with grade refinement)
Under the durability, there are dark green and light green stats
Dark green stats are fixed and they are always the same
Light green stats can be change with option refinement
Under the green stats there are 4 boxes, we can equip familiar / soulstone to add stats
(Right click your gear, Socket management to add)
In the bottom, there is the blue word, it tells you what you can do to upgrade the gear
(Usually the only difference is with or without tag refinement)
If you added tag to your equip, some red stats will show up above the dark green stats
^Gear information

NPC

You mainly need 2 NPC for upgrading your gear: Trisha, Janice
Other than soulstone, most of the time you only need Trisha

Upgrade (+value to your gear)
One of the easiest method to make your gear stronger
Spending zenny, ether to +value to your gear
+value will affect the attack / defense of the gear
Starting from +3 the success rate is no longer 100%, you may break your gear by chance
(Using Anti-destruction device can prevent breaking)
^Upgrade window(Talk to NPC Trisha, upgrade)

*Anti-destruction device can be obtained from event, daily login, etc

Option refinement
This is the place to change the option of the gear
By pressing the options button, you can see what option is possible on your gear
By pressing refine, any unlocked option will randomly changed
You can lock the option by clicking on the option the you would like to keep
The more you lock, the more energy converter you will spend during refinement
(nothing locked cost 1 converter, 1 option locked cost 2, 2 option locked cost 4)

Every converter you spent grants you 5 points of refinement selection points
Refinement selection let you selectively increase the stat value (it can be unchanged if you are unlucky)
^Option refinement window(Talk to NPC Trisha > refine)

Recommended weapon option:
Critical % / Armor break > Attack speed / Boss damage > others
Recommended armor option:
Cooldown / Critical % > Attack / Critical damage > Accuracy > others
Recommended accessories options:
Cooldown / Critical % / Attack speed / Stamina > Attack / Critical damage / Agility > Accuracy > others

*You can buy energy converter with NPC Bucker TV using BP

Grade refinement
Another upgrade method which is relatively straight forward
Higher gear grade % grants you more stats
You need refined stone as ingredients and there are 4 types of it
Different types of refined stones various in the outcome grade %
Lowest level of refined stone gives 0-100% while the highest level gives 81-100%

Every grade refinement you perform earns you some precise refinement point
Seems like precise refinement guaranteed 100% on your gear Haven't try it myself
Performing grade refinement can result in lower grade %, using Anti-downgrade device can prevent such issue
^Grade refinement window(Talk to NPC Trisha > Refine > Grade refinement)

*Refined stone can be obtained from dungeon drops or dismantling gear
**Anti-downgrade device can be obtained from event, gruton shop, etc

Tag refinement
One of the most expensive upgrade method
Tag divided into weapon / armor tag, and 6 tiers (grey < green < blue < yellow < red < purple)
Place your desire tag in the middle, then choose 10 more tags as ingredients
The tier of ingredient affects the success rate which is display under the name of the gear
^Tag refinement window(Talk to NPC Trisha > Refine > Tag refinement)

Dismantling re-tag chip grants you bluelight dust, which can be used to craft new tag chip by Janice
It is recommended to have 100% success rate before performing tag refine
(You will lose all tags no matter you succeed / failed)

Recommended weapon tag:
Shrieking, Dawn
Recommended armor tag:
Vitality, Talented

*Re-Tag chips can be obtained from event, daily login, etc

Soulstone
Soulstone is an item that you can equip on your gear
It increases attack / defense
Soulstone divided into 6 types and 9 levels
It doesn't matter which type you choose (pick the one you think is the coolest)
Some research done by someone:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=2486

To equip a soulstone, right click your gear, socket management
To level up your soulstone, please find NPC Janice (Talk to NPC Janice, soulstone, growth)

NPC Janice provides 3 soulstone services: growth, extract fragment, swap fragment
In the growth tab, double click on the soulstone and you can upgrade it
Extract fragment is to turn soulstone into soulstone fragment
Swap fragment allows you to exchange different types of fragment
^Soulstone growth window(Talk to NPC Janice, soulstone)

*Please equip same type of soulstone
**Even if the soulstone is equipped, you can still upgrade it

Weapon familiar
This is similar to soulstone, but simpler
Same as soulstone, equip by right click on weapon, socket management
Weapon familiar can be obtained from dungeon drops or buy from market(press = key)
Weapon familiar look like this: (various in color)
^Market(press = key)(Category: socket, familiar)

Even with the same name, the stat values can be different
The stat value is random which you can tell by their price on market

Recommended weapon familiar:
Early stage: It doesn't really matters
Late stage: Unknown's Desire (red in color)(Dropped from Hidden hideout)
*Weapon usually equipped with 2 familiar + 2 soulstone for maximum damage
**Be aware that only weapon familiar can be put on weapon

Armor (gear) familiar
I call it armor familiar here to be less confusing
Armor familiar is almost same as weapon familiar, but with one extra thing
Armor familiar can be divided into 4 types: Type A, B, C, D
You can only equip one of each type per armor piece
Type A is blue in color, Type B as red, Type C as yellow, Type D as green

They look like this:
^Armor familiar

Armor familiar can be obtained from NPC Maxime (Town 5, Town 6)
The familiar from town 5 and town 6 provides different stat value (usually aim for those from town 6)
NPC Maxime requires ingredients from Hidden hideout and Altar of void to create familiar

Or buy from the market (press = key)

Recommended armor familiar:
Type A:
Stamina > others
Type B:
Boss damage > Armor break / normal enemy damage > Attack > others
Type C:
Critical damage > Critical % > others
Type D:
Attack speed > others

*Some familiar stat value:
https://home.gamer.com.tw/artwork.php?sn=4968407
**Some familiar socket maybe locked, you need socket implement device to unlock it
^Socket implement device

AR (Akashic Record)

Conclusion: useful, but you can do nothing about your luck
Akashic record (we call it AR card), is another ways to boost your character stat
A character can at most equip 5 AR card simultaneously

AR card can be divided into two types, active & passive type
Active AR card is similar to character active skill, mainly summons ally to help you during battle
Passive AR card is pretty self explanatory, passive skill, mainly giving you more stats

AR card can be obtained by consuming A.R Transmitter, AR card you get various from the type of transmitter you are using

Dungeons can drop Novice A.R Transmitter
Other A.R Transmitter can be obtained from events, daily login, gruton shop, cash shop
^Some A.R Transmitter

After obtaining the AR card, right click use to register it
In the AR equipping window, you need to drag them to any of the slot below to equip it
(only 5 AR card can be equip simultaneously)

If you want to move you AR card back to your inventory, in the AR equipping window, right click the AR card, remove

AR card equipping window can be open by pressing ; key (semicolon key)
^AR card equipping window

AR card combination

Soulworker have more than 150 AR cards which lead to numerous combination
Depends on the dungeon, different combination may gives better benefits

But majority aims at these aspect
Attack stat + Stamina regenerate + SV regenerate

Here are some of the outstanding one

Passive AR card

AR card	Rarity	Effect
Tenebris	5	Increase attack & boss damage
Arua	5	Increase armor break & boss damage	Can't equip with Catherine simultaneously
Junk Queen	5	By chance on hit: Increase critical damage & boss damage
Beneris	5	Increase attack speed
Rosca	5	Auto regenerate SV and SG	Can't equip with I.O simultaneously
Relfenne	5	Auto regenerate stamina, increase attack	Can't equip with Megiddo Maker MK.II simultaneously
I.O	4	Auto regenerate SV	Can't equip with Rosca simultaneously
Vessi Arua	4	Increase armor break & boss damage
Orca Forces Beneris	4	Increase attack speed
Haru	4	Increase attack speed and agility
Erwin	4	By chance on critical hit: Increase armor break
Black Gauntlet	2	By chance on hit: Increase attack speed
Megiddo Maker MK.II	2	Auto regenerate stamina	Can't equip with Relfenne simultaneously
Leona	3	By chance on hit: Increase critical %	Can't equip with Brooke simultaneously
Brooke	2	By chance on hit: Increase critical %	Can't equip with Leona simultaneously
Cell	2	By chance on hit: Gain stamina
Chii	4	Gain HP by chaining combos
Medic fortune	3	Increase maximum HP
SangHoon	3	More zenny from drops
Robert	3	Increase exp gain from combat
Numberless Rings	1	By chance on hit: Increase attack speed & agility
Megiddo Maker MK.II	1	Auto regenerate stamina

Active AR card
Active AR card mainly summons ally to help you during battle
Heres are few of the outstanding one:

AR card	Rarity	Effect	Cooldown
Gruton Legion	5	Summon grutons to fight for you	90 seconds
Big Puppet	5	Summon buff orbs, destroying orbs grants you special buff	90 seconds
Colossus Asphalt Golem	3	Summon asphalt golem to take all the aggro	90 seconds
Piece of Temptation Stone	1	Summon a barrier grants you 5 seconds of invincibility	60 seconds
Deus Ex Machina	1	Summon big robot arms to deal aoe damage	60 seconds

*If you want to browse all AR card's stat, open your AR card equipping window ( ; key), bottom right, encyclopedia

AR Upgrade

We can upgrade / strengthen our AR card once we obtain it
We have 2 ways to make our AR card stronger
First is +value, almost all AR card can be upgrade to +2 (capped at +2)
Second is making a μ version of it, μ version is putting two same AR card together producing a stronger version

To perform any AR card upgrade related action, please find NPC Eo
(Talk to NPC Eo, press 1 (Fuse/Engrave))

The AR card upgrade window have 4 parts:
EXP Fuse, Merge, Engrave, Hidden Fusion
Super confusing with the name
^AR card upgrade window

EXP Fuse

Before upgrading your AR card to +1, you need to fill its exp to 100%
EXP fuse will consume AR card on the right and add exp to the AR card on the left
You may get extra AR card exp bouns by luck (not too often)

To upgrade your AR card to +1, please press the Engrave tab

Merge

Consume all 6 of the card you placed and give you a random card with rarity based on the left AR card (you will lost all the AR card you put there!)
The output is mostly Shiny gruton (used for engrave)

Don't put your beloved AR card here!!!
I have learn this the hard way and lost my Megiddo Maker MK.II +2 ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Engrave

This is the place you upgrade your AR card with +value
From +0 to +1 you will need 2 AR card of the same rarity as the ingredient
From +1 to +2 you will need 3 AR card

*Only rarity matters

Hidden Fusion

This is the place where you make the μ version of the AR card
Combine two AR card with exact same name and rarity together to create μ version of the AR card
+value will be inherited from the left AR card
* μ version AR card have purple stars instead of yellow
** 1 star AR card does not have μ version

Extra

You can exchange A.R transmitter using 10 Novice A.R transmitter with NPC Eo
But this is not recommended as 10 AR card as ingredients is much better than another change for AR lottery (unless you have insane luck)

Costume & Brooch

Costume

A single character can put on 26 costume
12 Visual + 12 Actual + 1 Special styling + 1 Weapon styling
Costume shows in order of Visual > Actual > Underwear

Within those 26 pieces, only 5 of them will provide stats to your character
5 parts of Actual: Hair, Tops, Bottom, Hands, Shoes

These 5 part of costume all comes with brooch slots

You can check your equipped costume by, pressing P key
Press P key, Costume item
^Costume window

Not all costume comes with 3 unlocked brooch slots, you may need to unlock them by yourself
(default costume only unlocked 1, memorial costume unlocked 2)

To unlock brooch slot, in the costume window, right click on the costume, Brooch management(Unified)
You need Brooch socket implement to unlock the slot
In the brooch management window, by left clicking on the lock icon, you can perform the unlock
^Brooch management(Unified) window & Brooch socket implement

Brooch

Conclusion: Very useful

Brooch can be divided into 4 groups: SD / BSK / FOT / SIN ;
3 part: Attack / Defense / Effect
and 5 tier : green < blue < yellow < red < purple (purple is the highest)

Every costume can only equip with 1 attack + 1 defense + 1 effect
Having these 3 brooch in the same group and tier will provides you extra set bonus
(make sure they are in the same group and same tier)

Consider the set bonus, majority of the people this this combination:

Costume piece	Group
Hair	FOT(Attack, Critical damage, Critical%)
Tops	FOT(Attack, HP, Damage reduction)
Bottom	SIN(Critical damage, Move speed)
Hands	SD (Stamina, Move speed, Attack speed) / BSK(Move speed, Attack speed) / FOT(Stamina, Critical damage, Accuracy) / SIN(Critical%, Attack speed)
Shoes	SD(Accuracy, Critical damage, Critical%) / BSK (Critical damage)

For each brooch detail and set bonus, you can read:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wgl9H9baCv2-5ATaozMmA3wByqBXGjK6/view
or peek at others
*Actually yellow brooch already provides quite good stat
***Again, make sure they are in the same group and same tier)

These are some of the best brooch of each group
SD:
Attack: Smelter Penetration
Defense: Lifeforce
Effect: Adamant Illumination Swift

BSK:
Attack: Smelter, Bringer of Death, Rancour, Wild Boar, Falcon's Dive
Defense: Hellcat Bluff
Effect: Ecstasy Adamant Swift

FOT:
Attack: Bunker Siege, Ballista
Defense: Barricade Erosion Titan Bastion
Effect: Reconnaissance Strategy Sharpshotter Retreat

SIN:
Attack: Brute Force, Tetanus (Almost every attack SIN is outstanding)
Defense: Assasinate Pulse
Effect: Tactics, Cat's Eye, Delusion

Brooch fusion

To perform a brooch fusion, you need a brooch fusion item and 5 brooch
It is recommended that those 5 brooch are in the same level (color)
5 blue brooch can fused to 1 blue / yellow brooch
5 yellow brooch can fused to 1 yellow / red brooch... and so on

Low class brooch fusion item can only take green and blue brooch;
Brooch fusion item can only take yellow, red and purple brooch
*equipped brooch can be un-equipped by using or zenny

Title

Conclusion: kinda useful

Title is that few words above your character name (usually blue in color)
Different title offers different stats to your character
Title is separated into front and back part

To change your title, press P key, under your level and name there is the title
^Title window

Early stage you can use any title that increase Critical %, Armour Break, Attack, Attack Speed, Shorter Cooldown or Reduced SF Consumption

Middle stage you can use title 182(main story), 113(BP 50k accumulated)
105(11m zenny drops accumulated) for more zenny drops
18(300k zenny spent on repairing gear) for more zenny and exp drops

Late stage you can use title 92(complete dungeon within 3mins for 1000 times)
97(SS clear for 1000 times)
206(clear certain dungeon for 100 times)
249(front title, clear certain dungeon for 150 times)
247(back title, clear certain dungeon for 150 times again)

For the detail of title, you can read:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=5180

Rank

Conclusion: ignore
When any of your character reach Lv55, a rank badge will show up next to your character name
Rank badge provides exp bonus to all you character with level below Lv55

Rank badge comes with 5 colors and 4 tier, in total 20 ranks
(grey < green < orange < purple < cyan)(D < C < B <A)
Higher ranks provides more exp bonus
Rank is shared among all your character
Any exp earn by character above Lv55 will contribute to your rank

Rank is pretty easy, having a single Lv65 character already put you to purple A / cyan D
^Exp bonus

High end dungeon

Until the high end dungeon, SoulWorker is kinda easy, especially having all the free equipment
Using the hack and slash play style we all used to and love to enter those high end dungeon will result in easy and instant death

To graduate from newbies, you will need to know how to complete these high end dungeons

Here i will only provide the info about quest chain that will unlock those high end dungeons

Altar of void

Lv60 raid, located at Grasscover camp
To unlock Altar of void you will need to complete:
Way to the void I-III (NPC Tenebris)(Grasscover camp)

The quest is quite straight forward, buying item from NPC, making item, etc
After unlocking Altar of void, NPC Martin offers daily quest (ingredients for Lv60 equips)

There are lot of detailed guide about the raid everywhere, you can search around or read:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=4704

Hidden hideout

Lv65 raid, located at Dipluce horizon
To unlock Altar of void you will need to complete:

奇怪的傳聞(NPC Aaron)
追蹤器製作(NPC Victor)
傳聞的靈魂暗影(NPC Brooke)
*I will update the name of the quest once i know them

Similar to the prerequisite quest of Altar of void, the quest here is also pretty straight forward
Hidden hideout can only be done 5 times per day
After unlocking Hidden hideout, NPC Aaron offers daily quest (ingredients for Lv65 equips)

There are lot of detailed guide about the raid, you can search around or read:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=5173
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/G2.php?bsn=21911&sn=330

*Both raid requires certain among of accuracy, Altar of void:1500, Hidden hideout:1810
(Insufficient accuracy will lead to huge drop in damage)
**Guton shop provides practice ticket of these two high end dungeon
Altar of void: Yorhaka Challenge Ticket
Hidden hideout: Rapacumba Challenge Ticket
^Challenge tickets(Guton shop -> Ticket)(Only present in some of the guton shop)
***For more quest and their prerequisite, please read:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=5425

Zenny (money)

A character from Lv1 to 65, will get around 10-40M zenny
With all the trading and gear leveling issues, you will never find zenny sufficient

There are few dungeon you can earn zenny relatively quickly
Keep in mind that these dungeon requires certain amount of stats to be effective:
Recommanded having Lv60 weapon+9 before farming

Dungeon

Iron castle
During character advancement, there are few casual raid unlocked

Estimate zenny drop:
Iron castle
~500k(SS clear)
Iron castle(Attribute)
~700K(SS clear)

Sub-drops:
BSK brooch, Low class brooch fushion, Refined stone, Weapon familiar, Attribute fragments

Daydream
Both daydream dungeon is located at Golden Citidal, unlocked by few quests in Rocco town & Grasscover camp

Daydream can only be done twice per day
Second daydream is much difficult than Innocent daydream
It is recommended that having full set of Lv60 equip+9 for Innocent
Lv65 equip+9 for Second

Estimate zenny drop:

Innocent daydream:
~1.25M(SS clear)
Second daydream:
~1.25M(SS clear)

Sub-drops:
Weapon / Gear extension, Energy converter component

Dawn of fate Ep4
Dawn of fate is part of the main story, it requires character to be at least Lv67
Average level of the monster is Lv73, it is recommend having at least Lv65 weapon+9 before farming

Dawn of fate Ep4
Estimate zenny drop:
~525K(70 liquid drop)(4 people party)

Sub-drops:
Ether,lot of weapon/gear

*Above stage is all about raw zenny drop, for more ways to earn zenny, you can read:
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6872952721
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=4736

League (guild)

Creating your own league requires 100k zenny
Only character above Lv20 can create league
Joining league have no restriction

Upgrading the league to Lv2 require at least 20 days(assuming only 1 character contributing 200FP everyday)

For more league info, you can read:
https://guild.gamer.com.tw/wiki.php?sn=11174&n=%E5%85%AC%E6%9C%83%E7%9B%B8%E9%97%9C

Memorial item

Memorial system offers you some free costume
Depends on the costume, it requires you to collect 3-4 memorial item
To check the memorial progress, press B key

The game screen will turn greyscale if you bump into the memorial item
You only need to collect the memorial progress once

For the precise location of the item, you can follow:
https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=21911&snA=121
Another reference:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2496191096

Memorial item isn't guaranteed to appear
I've missed 6 times consecutively before!
**One tiny trick: If you are only aiming for memorial items, after checking its location, take off your armor and suicide, this can save you half of the FP
^Memorial window

Costume from the memorial system only have 2 brooch slot by default
^Town 1 memorial item

Progress & Achievement

Under the progress window, there are progress & achievement
By completing the dungeon of the area, you can raise the progress percentage
Progress offers various of rewards including costume, but it takes time.

To view progress, press L key

^progress window

Technical issue

Language

For any reason you want to change the display language:
Go to steam library, right click on Soulworker, properties, language

Screen Resolution

In case of Soulworker not having your desire screen resolution:

Go to steam library, right click on Soulworker, properties, browse local files,
(you can also find the directory)(Steam\steamapps\common\Soulworker_TWN)

right click on SoulWorker.exe, properties, compatibility, change high DPI settings,
tick both checkbox under Program DPI and High DPI scaling override

Lag

All i can think of is to lower the graphics settings
^Graphic Settings(Esc key)

Postscript

Thanks for reading the guide
If you like this guide, drop a thumbs up to let more people see this <(_ _)>
If i have miss or make a mistakes, feel free to leave a comment ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

Thank you~

For whatever reason you want to read the Chinese version of the guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2319126395

[Comaraderie... <3]

there's no soulmate guide?

[Phonk1ngBeast]

Bruh, by "Cute little guy", i didn't know you meant Viilor

[♥L⊙l¡k⊙n♥]

i coming to Hidden Hideout and bon bon bon =>you loser , waiting for some player help me ??? => 10000000000000 year later , NO ONE

[Takumi_Ishihara]

how about a new character for advancement?

[IA]

what do you mean by chat?

[EddysonUwU]

This is nice and all but how do u chat...?

[Alpha-methyl]

There's one more tragedy with this game for new players, and that's that they don't allow you to select Manic difficulty the first time through a stage - it would be fantastic to be able to do this, because then you could play through the story for the first time, and actually have a challenge. Normal difficulty can be done with your eyes closed, literally, and it's a shame to have such an easy experience during all of the actual plot.

What I ended up doing for my first play through is once I unlock a stage I run through on normal WITHOUT starting any main mission, and slaughter everything as fast as possible, THEN I go back and play the story missions on Manic difficulty - it's been a heck of a lot more enjoyable imo... normal is just way, way too easy, especially if you use the weapons and armor the game give you for existing.

...that said, you still can't play on Manic difficulty if it's a mission where you're accompanied by an AI teammate.

[Alpha-methyl]

When I started, I selected Chii as my first character initially and I was hella confused. I didn't understand why I went from level 1 to 15 and there was literally no intro to what was going on... the game does a terrible job explaining any of this, haha...

I had to look it up online to find out wtf was going on - it might not be the most interesting plot at the beginning, but overall this game has a pretty good story and great characters, so it sucks that I'm 100% sure so many new players don't have a clue what's going on.

[Rex9999]

One thing you can change now is that recently they changed it so it's a 100% chance guarantee for memorial items to appear.

[Nine]

Looks like hidden hideout may not be necessary anymore for desire questine, you can just run shelter in dipluce