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What Upgrades Should You Do First

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Prioritize upgrading your character's rarity, runes, and gear, and give them unique weapons and gear sets in MementoMori. Read on to see what upgrades to do first and which characters to upgrade first.

What Upgrades Should You Do First

What Upgrades to Get First




Raise Your Characters Rarity Through Awakening

Awakening Menu

The first upgrade your character should get is their rarity, and this can be done by Awakening them.

Your team's DPS should be awakened to at least LR Rarity while your team's supports should only be awakened if their buffs, debuffs, shields, and ranking rely on their stats. Otherwise, they're perfectly usable even at just one copy.

Awakening Guide

Equip PM. DEF and SPD Runes

Rune Shop

Next, you should start buying runes for your character's gear to further raise their stats.

Of all the runes, we recommend prioritizing the PM. DEF Break and SPD runes of your team's main damage dealer to allow them to bypass enemy defeses and improve their probability of moving first.

Supports, on the other hand, could also use SPD runes so long as the team will benefit from them moving first to buff, debuff, or tank hits. You could also give your debuffers the Debuff ACC runes.

Rune Guide

Only Use Your Rune Tickets For PM. DEF Break and SPD Runes

PM. DEF Break and SPD runes can only be bought from the Runes Shop using Rune Tickets, making them harder to obtain. Make sure that you make the most out of your Rune Tickets by only buying PM. DEF Break and SPD runes.

How to Collect and Use Rune Tickets

Give Unique Weapons to Characters

Unique Weapons

Next, you'll want to equip your team with their Unique Weapons.

When equipped, these weapons boost your characters' stats and enhance their skill set by giving them additional perks.

That said, not all witches need their unique weapons. Before you make a decision to invest on a character's Unique Weapon, make sure to read its skill effects first and then decide whether they'll useful for the role you are using the witch for.

Unique Weapons Guide

Combine the Satan Gear Set With the Metatron Gear Set

Satan Gear Set Bonuses Michael Gear Set Bonuses Metatron Gear Set Bonuses
2 pcs
HP 25%
2 pcs
ATK 16%
2 pcs
DEF Break 7,000
4 pcs
ATK 16%
4 pcs
STA 20%
4 pcs
STA 30%
6 pcs
4,000 DEF Break
6 pcs
5,000 DEF Break
6 pcs
ATK 20%

- Recommended low-cost gear set combination.

The next thing you want to equip your team with is a gear set. These pieces of gear, when equipped in 2s, 4s, and 6s give certain bonuses that make your witches stronger.

The strongest of these gear sets is the Metatron Set. However, it's a lot harder to get compared to the lower-tier ones.

Because of this, we recommend starting out with a lower-tier set first while working towards the Metatron Set. Try to mix and match the gear in each set as you see fit, and remember to aim towards the bonuses they give.

Which Gacha Gear Set Should You Build?

Augment Your Damage Dealers' Chest Armor, Gloves, and Weapon

Augment

Next, you can start augmenting your character's gear.

Focus on augmenting the dark level of your main damage dealers' chest armor, gloves, and weapon first, as they boost key offensive stats.

On the other hand, it's a good idea to give your supports HP and HP Drain augments.

How to Augment Gear

Upgrade Your Witch's Boots, Gloves, and Weapon

Upgrade 1 and 10

Next, prioritize upgrading your team's Boots and Gloves for increased DEF, and Weapons for a higher ATK if the unit is an attacker.

You can also upgrade your witch’s Helm and Chest Armor for a better P. DEF and M. DEF, but do it for your most important witches first.

How to Upgrade Gear

Reforge Your Completed Gear Set Pieces

Bulk Reforge

Finally, you should reforge your completed gear sets.

Reforging gear raises the gear piece's buffs for the character's potentials. However, make sure to only do it after the gear set is final because reforged stats disappear when you upgrade your character's gear.

Since reforging gear can cost Diamonds, leave it for last and only when your character has a set of gear you know they will be using for a long time.

Reforging Gear Guide

Which Characters to Upgrade First

Upgrade Your Main Carries First, Then Your Best Supports

Prioritize upgrading your main DPS carry before your other witches, especially in the early game when resources are extra scarce. Not only does your DPS affect your progression the most, but it also decides whether you will win in PvP or not.

The only exceptions are when you need to upgrade certain aspects of units that are supporting your DPS.

Later on, when you start dabbling in PvP and have more resources, maybe then you can start funneling resources toward upgrading your support units. But always make sure your main DPSs are upgraded first.

Beginner's Guide: Tips and Tricks for New Players

MementoMori Related Guides

Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks

Beginner's Guides

Beginner's Guides
Beginner's Guide Beginner Mistakes to Avoid
The Best World To Play In for Beginners Reroll Guide
Combat System Explained Stats Explained
Daily Quests and Tasks Checklist What to Do After the Start Dash Missions
Team Building Guide How to Make Your Characters Stronger
Buffs and Debuffs Guide How to Unlock All Game Modes and Features
How to Get Kindling Orbs in the Early Game How to Pull for Characters
Returning Players Guide Glossary For Beginners
How to Fix Slow Progress How to Overcome the Main Quest
Awakening Guide Leveling Guide
All Redeem Codes Reset Character Guide: How to Reset Character
All Character Rarity Best Beginner Team

Gear Guides

Gear Guides
Gear Guide How to Upgrade Gear
How to do Gear Transfer Properly Rune Guide
What Runes Should I Use? How Much Should You Level Up Your Runes
Important Gear Stats and How to Raise Them How to Augment Gear
What Do You Do if You Augmented the Wrong Gear? Reforging Gear Guide
What are Relics? Which Relics Should I Prioritize
How to Get Metatron Gear Weapon Sync Guide
Reset Enhanced Gear Guide -

Farming Guides

Farming Guides
Gold Farming Guide EXP & Kindling Orb Farming Guide
Magic Crystals Farming Guide Space-Time Coins Farming Guide
How to Get Gold in the Late Game How to Collect and Use Holy Fragments
How to Collect and Use Boss Tickets Tree of Life's Dew Explained
Where to Spend Tree of Life's Dew Should I Save for Tree of Life's Dew?
How to Collect and Use Witch's Letter and Witch's Invitation How to Collect and Use Upgrade Panacea
How to Collect and Use Fruit of Healing How to Collect and Use Rune Tickets
How to Collect and Use Shards Chest Keys Guide
How to Collect and Use Character Coins How to Collect and Use Battle Coins
What is Adamantite? How to Efficiently Collect Diamonds
How to Collect and Use Dark Perfume How to Collect and Use Guild Coins
How to Get Scarlet Jewel -

Game Mechanics

Game Mechanics
Friends Guide How To Set Home Screen Characters
How to Test Your Characters and Teams How to Raise Player Rank Fast
How to Use the Wish List Feature? Level Link System Guide
What is Soul Affinity? Party Level Link System Guide
Random Target Selection Guide List of Ultra Sale Packs
What is the VIP Feature and its Recommended Level? Comeback Missions Guide
Recommended Premium Packs Weekly Topics Feature
How to View a Witch's Qlipha's Form Into the Cave Resonant with Lament Event Guide
Account Link Guide Soul Bonuses and When to Use Them
How to Use the Music Player -

Intermediate Guides

Intermediate Guides
Intermediate Guide Should You Automatically Release N Characters?
Who Should I Awaken to LR First? Fast Progression Guide
Alchemy Workshop Guide Overcoming Character Level Cap
Arcana Explained Unique Weapons Guide
How to Go Beyond Level 240 Speed Tuning Guide
How To Awaken Characters Without Enough Copies How to Unlock LR Rarity
How to Awaken Your Character Beyond LR+5 Mid Game Progression Guide
What Upgrades Should You Do First Florence vs Cordie: Who Should You Pick?

Gacha Guides

Gacha Guides
Who to Pull Using Witch's Invitation Character Gacha Pull Rates and Bonus Rewards
Should You Pull for Festive Natasha Gacha Gear Banner Guide
Which Gacha Gear Set Should You Build? What Is the Invocation of Chance?

Trial Guides

Trial Guides
List of All Trials and Their Rewards Cave of Space-Time Guide
Tower of Infinity Guide Fountain of Prayers Guide
Tower of Souls Guide Temple of Illusions Guide

Guild Guides

Guild Guides
Guild Guide How to Accept Guild Invites
Guild Raid Guide Guild Stock Guide
Guild Battle Guide Grand Battle Guide
Guild Tree Guide Guild Raid of the Fox Spirit Guide
Guild Benefits and Perks -

PvP Guides

PVP Guides
When Should You Start Playing PvP Battle League PvP Guide
Legend League PvP Guide PvP Team Building Guide

FAQs

FAQs
What Should You Buy at the Shop? When Should You Start Spending on the Game
How to Enjoy the Game to the Fullest How to Reset Game Data and Delete Your Account
How to Change Your World and Server How to Install PC Version
How Many Diamonds Can You Get In a Day? Why Can't I Use New Characters in the Battle League?
What to Do if You Don't Have Cordie or Florence at the Start What to Buy During Events
What Does Streamer Mode Do? System Requirements and Specs
How to Fix Common Game Errors Should I Buy From the Special Shop?
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