Duet Night Abyss Beginner Guide – Progression Explained

Duet Night Abyss has an encyclopedic number of mechanics that can be confusing for new players, especially those unfamiliar with the genre.

In this comprehensive beginner’s guide, you’ll learn all the basic steps to progressing in Duet Night Abyss, such as getting stronger, unlocking characters, and what to farm early.

Duet Night Abyss Character Starter Progression Guide

To be as brief and concise as possible, we’ll go through each mechanic that makes your character stronger in Duet Night Abyss.

Leveling a Character

First, the most obvious one would be leveling and ascending your character. You can level a character all the way to level 80, but you’ll need to ascend them for every 10 levels using specific forging materials. When you ascend a character, you’ll use the Combat Melodies to level them up and uncap again until you reach the max level. Leveling a character gives you more base stats, but more importantly, increases the Demon Wedge Tolerance cap.

Character Demon Wedges

Demon Wedges are one of the main equipment systems in the game. Each Demon Wedge provides certain stats and bonuses that strengthen your character. Each character has eight Demon Wedge slots for equipping.

You don’t necessarily need to equip eight Demon Wedges because each of them has a point or tolerance value. You cannot exceed the Demon Wedge Tolerance cap of your character, so you’ll have to work around the specific Demon Wedges that would excel most for each character build.

A Demon Wedge can be upgraded, and its tolerance will increase even further. In most situations, you are only using four or five main Demon Wedges that are fully upgraded anyway. It takes a lot of time to farm the right Demon Wedges and also farm the materials needed to max them out.

Some characters also have separate Demon Wedges set for their skills, such as Psyche and her Icarus, Berenica and her Ymir, or Lynn and her Hansel and Gretel.

Character Skills

This is pretty straightforward. Each character has skills and can farm and use specific forging materials to level up their skills from level 1 to 10. Each skill also has passives you can upgrade when you reach a threshold. These skill-up materials are usually found in commissions, rewards, or through forging. The only thing worth noting here is that some skills mostly provide increases in stats, but some skill upgrades have actual effects that are useful for the character, especially when looking at their passives.

Intron or Prestiging through Dupes

Each character has Intron levels up to six. Each Intron provides a crucial effect for the character rather than just improving their raw stats, making it important to increase their Intron level to the maximum level.

To level up the Intron, you are essentially unlocking the character again by farming Secret Letters and farming enough Character Shards. Unlocking a character is quite difficult already, so this part might take a while.

Farming Melee and Ranged Weapons

You’ll also farm for melee and ranged weapons for your characters to use, which is almost similar to how characters are obtained in the game.

You’ll look for Secret Letters, but for weapons. These Secret Letters drop from Nocturnal Echoes, and once you have them, you’ll forge them using the help of Lunosmith in the Sanctuary. You can also buy the weapons outright from the shop using the premium currency.

Weapon Demon Wedges

Also similar to the characters, these weapons also have their own Demon Wedge sets, basically saying your gear has gear! These Demon Wedges for your weapons are just as important as your character’s Demon Wedges, as they are part of the foundation of your build. You’ll farm Demon Wedges, forging materials, and upgrade your Demon Wedges to get more stats.

You’ll also have Demon Wedges Tolerance, so you are also limited to a few good pieces for your build.

Weapon Smelting

Each weapon can also be upgraded or smelted to level 5. This mechanic is basically the same as Intron, where you need to get duplicates of the same weapon to complete the upgrades. This also forces you to farm more of the same weapon so you can max out the weapon.

Geniemon Supports

And last but not least, we have Geniemon supports. In short, Geniemons are equippable “pets” that provide a support ability, including a passive. Some can just give you more consumables while slightly increasing a stat, while others are very specific, such as increasing “Pyro ATK” for the main character. These are only slight stat upgrades, but they still matter when you are trying to max everything out.

These Geniemons are upgraded by feeding more Geniemons to them. When you max them out, you can get a lot more useful traits to support your character’s build and become even stronger.

Now that you know all these mechanics, your goal is to fly through the story, farm materials, upgrade your characters, and reach the endgame. You’ll go back and forth doing quests, side quests, and events, but you always want to use up your challenges on Nocturnal Echoes to get valuable shards and materials.

Covert Commissions are for farming most of your materials, which is always repeatable. Echoes of Missteps provide amazing rewards, but when you are still progressing, it can be a little challenging. You’ll have to work on strengthening at least one character as much as possible to streamline your progression. Complete the day planners and the beginner’s guide to earn daily rewards.

Repeat the grind until you want to explore new characters, but it is going to be a long grind from start to finish, which is usually always the case in looter shooters.

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