Sword x Staff: How to Reach the 800M Combat Power Milestone

To surpass 800M combat power (CP) in Sword x Staff, stop spending materials on small off-season upgrades and shift your strategy toward long-term seasonal planning. Breaking through this late-game milestone requires hoarding key currencies for event multipliers, prioritizing offensive gear substats over base rarity color grades, and concentrating pet resources into a single primary Phantom Beast.

Time Currency Spending for Seasonal Events

The fastest way to push past 800M CP is to reserve your core currencies for seasonal event windows. During these periods, event multipliers boost the yield of upgrade materials, and drop rates for high-tier gear increase significantly. Spending items outside these windows slows down overall account velocity.

Primal Stars: Hold your balance throughout the off-season. Spend them only when seasonal events offer bonus rewards or spending milestones.
Event Tokens: Save event-specific currencies until material multipliers become active.
Upgrade Stocks: Maintain a baseline reserve of enhancement materials. This allows you to boost newly introduced seasonal power systems immediately upon launch.

Optimize Gear Substats Over Rarity Colors

At higher power levels, equipment rarity color grades become secondary to substat utility. Gear with lower base color rarity often provides more practical combat power if its substats align with your main damage skills.

Focus on securing equipment that rolls with Critical Damage, Piercing, and skill-specific damage multipliers. Once you acquire gear with strong base substats, use sharpening stones and catalysts to refine those specific attributes to their upper limits.

Evaluation Criterion	Upgrade Rule
Substat Alignment	Keep pieces that boost primary class damage skills over generic base stats.
Set Bonuses	Maintain full gear set bonuses rather than breaking them for single higher-rarity drops.
Refinement Limit	Use sharpening stones and catalysts only on gear with optimal baseline rolls.

Maximize Primary Phantom Beasts and Track Growth

Phantom Beasts provide massive stat gains and passive skill boosts, but splitting resources across multiple pets creates progression bottlenecks.

Focus Investment: Level up and star-rate your main active Phantom Beast completely before spending materials on secondary pets.
Adjust Passive Skills: Swap beast passive skills to fit your content. Equip defensive passives for difficult boss encounters, and switch to offensive buffs for time-attack modes.
Track System Returns: Monitor your daily CP gains across Phantom Beast resonance and relic upgrades. If your daily CP gains flatten out, pivot your stamina spending toward farming gear refinement materials for the next stat breakthrough.