Mx. r2x5kz8 made "SAO:Fatal Bullet Beginner's FAQ[docs.google.com]" for beginners. If you get stuck on something in this game, their guide may help you.
In this article, the next section "Arrangements before starting to play endgame content" indicates the shortest path toward endgame content, and "1. Q & A" may answer your questions.

Mx. r2x5kz8 also made "Detailed Rank 11 Weapons Guide[docs.google.com]" and Google Spreadsheet about Detailed Status of Rank 11 Weapons[docs.google.com].
They thankfully described each of Rank 11 Weapons in their detailed guide. Hence, if you prefer to know about all of Rank 11 Weapons right now, their guide helps you very much, and you may not have to read the parts about Recommended Chips*1 in this article. However, as people have their own opinion respectively, there are Mx. r2x5kz8's opinion, my opinion, and others' opinions.

*1: Those parts are sections of 16. to 23. on the numbering
Side Note: Mx. r2x5kz8 posted their guides' links in "reddit" and the link of "reddit" isn't disturbed by Steam. Link of their guide article in "reddit"

This article gathers and tells you a lot of reliable detailed information such as How it works or Tips which are related to high-difficulty or replayable contents. The detailed information covers so many different topics that this article is really long. Therefore, you should read only where you want to know.

1. Q & A such as Requirements for True Ending (Section: 1.)
2. How to farm something (main Section: 2. and Sections about some weapons: 9. & 16. to 23.)
3. How it works about Weapons' Memory Chips, Accessories, Status, and Skills (main Sections: 3. to 8.)
4. Knowledge & Walk-Through about Hardcore Co-op (Sections: 9. & 10.)
5. Tips & How it works for endgame content (main Sections: 11. to 13.)
6. Damage-Calculation Formula (Sections: 14. & 15.) (you can skip it)
7. Recommended Chips on each of representative weapons, and Comparisons about some weapons (Sections: 16. to 23.)
8. DPS Ranking of representative weapons (Section: 24.)

1. This article refers mainly to Steam Edition and sometimes to Nintendo Switch Edition but doesn't consider PS4/PS5 or Xbox Edition
2. It seems that more people start to play with Complete Edition, so I'll talk assuming that you have all DLCs
3. Unless I mention the difficulty, I'll talk assuming that you play on Extreme
4. "Debuff" aside from "Debuff Stacking" means only the effects of "Attack Down" & "Defence Down" and mainly means "Defence Down" against enemies
5. This article is updated as needed
6. あきもーり。氏による "2022年版 エンドコンテンツ関連の知識&各種データベース" を元に作成されていますが，原型を留めないレベルの編集を加えてある上に各種データの数値が異なるなどの差異も生じています。そのため，ほぼ別物になっています。

If you haven't finished these things, please finish them first to play endgame content smoothly.
In short, please enjoy offline contents first.

As the shortest process, finish the main story on Normal, and get back to the beginning (= start NG+*1), and finish main story & Kirito Mode on Extreme. Then, Weapon Modification Level reaches 12 and you get Metamaterial Camouflage and Gun & Sword Art.

*1: NG+ resets Affinity and Weapon Arts including Gun & Sword Art.
Side Note: you can get True Ending more smoothly after starting NG+ than before it.
Side Note: it seems that this game is designed as you play in the order of main story (Normal) → main story (Extreme) → DLC1 (Extreme) → ... → DLC4 (Extreme), considering enemies' Level.

You should acquire the Skills "Viral Shot" and "Skill Freeze Shot" in DLC4 story, "Dissonance of the Nexus".

Note: How to get Skill Freeze Shot
You can get it by finishing the last DLC4 story mission, "Yuna's Request". In order to proceed to the Request, you have to select the below response, "We'll search every last inch of this place", after defeating Snowstorm Queen, and finish the DLC4 story mission "ManHunt: Hard".

Some leveling can help you beat DLC stories on Extreme, although excessive Power Leveling isn't recommended. About Lv.225 players are probably able to beat DLC4 story on Extreme.
(reference: "―2.1 Leveling")

This facility is essential since accessories have a huge influence in this game. You can get it with finishing these sub quests, "Home Reform"*2 & "Lisbeth's Handiwork".

*2: How to get Flight Reactor
"Home Reform" requires three Flight Reactors. You can get them by defeating Honeycomb Maker & Beleaguering Apostle in Demon Cave or S-Type Sniper Butterfly in White Frontier, or completing "S-Type Sniper Butterfly Hunt" or "Yuuki's Request 2" ("Yuuki's Request 2" requires you to be along with Shirley, to get Flight Reactor). Since Honeycomb Maker has an almost inevitable laser, it is probably easier to defeat S-Type Sniper Butterflies. They are near SBC Abend & Icicle Prison in White Frontier.

It allows you to swap whole accessory chips between yours and NPCs' ones and give whole weapon chips on their weapons. Put "Experience Points +x%" and "Item Drop Rate +x%"/"Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" on NPCs' equipment and farm something more efficiently.

They are essential when you farm weapons and accessories, and they also work in Co-op and BoB, but they are inactive in Abyssal Dungeon.
Side Note: each Cologne can stack 27 hours at max.

Handgun Art temporarily dramatically shortens Recharge Time of Skills & Gadgets. It's very useful.
Side Note: if you don't buy AR Art, NPC friends such as Asuna and Eugeo don't use the Art except in Abyssal Dungeon. It's good for visibility of enemies & your PC performance.

You should raise Skills' Proficiency to use Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4, Conceal 4, Viral Shot 4, Skill Freeze Shot 4 (or 3) & Electrodynamic Stunner 3. They are important Skills in hardcore Co-op. I'll talk about them later.

Side Note: Handgun Art and "Recharge Time -x%" Accessories largely help you to spam Skills and raise their Proficiency.
Side Note: you don't have to shoot Skill Shot and all you have to do is to load Skill Shot when you raise proficiency in Skill Shots

Caution: in this game, buffs and debuffs are overwritten by later ones. Therefore, you mustn't overwrite them with lower-level ones. That only benefits enemies.

You can skip these sections if you trust yourself, and some of Answers are not only here but also in later sections. "SAO:Fatal Bullet Beginner's FAQ[docs.google.com]" may also provide answers for your questions. If you have other questions such as technical issues, you can rely on the Support. There are Links to them in the last section of "1. Q & A".

A. There are two major methods. You can do these grinding more smoothly or do them on solo if you enhance your gear enough.
Solo ⇒ Solo Stinger in White Frontier (from any level)
Multi ⇒ Behemoth in Co-op (Power Leveling, need a decent friend)
(reference: "2.1 Leveling")

A. You can reset your build by loading neutral Customization Data in the Terminal, whenever and how many times you like. To do so, you should leave one neutral customization data at least. Respec Kit makes one Customization Data back to be neutral if you have unintentionally filled up all slots.

A. That's because your inventory is nearly full. You can carry 500 (kinds of) items at max, but 470 is the critical point for Overweight. Please sell needless weapons & accessories and put materials into Item Box.

A. One of the most significant in-game differences between 30 FPS & 60 FPS is the precision of enemies' aiming. Enemies' aiming is tied to FPS and their Bullet Lines chase you more closely on 60 FPS. That's why you are not able to avoid some of enemies' attacks such as Honeycomb Maker's laser unless you have enough fast Movement Speed or other counters.

A. In Extreme, Enemies get stronger, but you can get higher rank weapons and run much more efficient farming. Also, Shady Material Shop sells more various materials.
Normal → Extreme
・Enemies' level: +70
・Enemies' counts: increase mainly in dungeons
・Enemies' aiming: more precise
・Allies' Attack Power: lower
・Ammo Gain: fewer (about x1/4)
・Drop weapons' Rank: +3
・Rare Item Drop Rate: higher
・Counts of drop materials: increase on each enemy
・Bounty gain: increase on each enemy
・Shady Material Shop: more various lineup

A. Many elements can be its factors such as PC spec, incomplete downloading of game data, cache issue, network settings and status. One of cases is that this dialog shown in the below screenshot appears instead of game startup. I got this trouble when I updated the OS to Windows 11. If you get the same dialog, please click "next" and follow the next dialog's instructions.


Screenshot: error dialog

This dialog says "check your Internet Connection ...", but you have definitely already checked it before starting the game in order to login to Steam. Also, Firewalls basically allows the game to connect to your PC, in default. Damn.

Anyway, please click "next" and you'll get the next dialog like the below screenshot and your default internet browser automatically launches and connects to the support page for the trouble. Then, please follow their instructions. Specifically speaking, copy Response Code of the support page and paste it in the below textbox of the next dialog. Then, click "finish".


Screenshot: the next dialog

1) turn on "Increased Affinity Gain" in Options
2) play normally up to beating Forest Edge along with ArFA-sys, Kureha, Zeliska, Itsuki, & Bazalt Joe
3) grind Affinity of those 5 characters up to Rank 4 & 50%
4) see their sub events up to the third date events
5) complete three tutorial submissions "Make an outfit", "Appraising Items", & "Enhancing & Transforming", if you haven't finished them
6) see sub events of Kirito, Asuna, Yui, Leafa, Sinon, Lisbeth, Silica, Yuuki, Argo, Klein, Agil, Strea, Philia, Rain, & Premiere
7) grind Level up to Lv.100 if you want to get True Ending in the first playthrough
8) go Home and receive ArFA-sys Charm
9) play normally up to before the last battle (you can choose either of heroines)
10)defeat the GM, with intercepting their Black-Sphere Attack

They are respectively ArFA-sys, Kureha, Zeliska, Itsuki, & Bazalt Joe.
They are respectively Kirito, Asuna*3, Yui*4, Leafa, Sinon, Lisbeth*3, Silica, Yuuki, Argo, Klein, Agil*3, Strea, Philia, Rain, & Premiere.

Note: "Increased Affinity Gain" of Options boosts your farming Affinity. Please don't forget to switch the setting ON since it is OFF on default.
*1: The third dates require Rank 4 & 75% Affinity.
Side Note: you get 50% (at Rank 2 or 3) or 25% (at Rank 4) Affinity when you finish seeing their Events apart from dates or special cutscenes such as hot springs.
*2: The first events require Rank 2 Affinity.
Side Note: you are going to naturally get enough of their Affinity by just proceeding the main story up to "A New Squad". Hence, there is no need to consciously farm Affinity of SAO characters & SAO games characters for getting True Ending.
*3: You have to respectively complete their tutorial missions "Make an outfit", "Appraising Items", & "Enhancing & Transforming", in order to see their Events.
*4: You have to complete Asuna's tutorial mission "Make an outfit", in order to see Yui's Events. (she is often forgotten to be mentioned, but she is also a member of the family, isn't she?)
Side Note: These things are not necessary or not related to True Ending.
・Difficulty Setting
・Completing Kirito Mode & Character's Events in Kirito Mode (*5)
・ArFA-sys's Allowance & "Memories of ArFA-sys"
・all of DLC missions such as "Home Reform"

After getting ArFA-sys Charm, the last main mission "The Clincher" changes to "Fatal Bullet".
You need to intercept the attack with one of these methods.
・intensive attacks against their mouth
・inflicting Stun on them
・defeating them earlier than their discharging the sphere
Side Note: this requirement is marked as a sub task of the Quest in Menu, although most people (including me) probably don't check it.

*5: You can proceed to True Ending without any Bad Endings as I showed in the below picture. The left side of "Credits (True)" is "Credits" (= Bad Endings' Credits) and its next is "Confrontation with Red-Eyed XaXa" (= an Event Movie in Kirito Mode).

Side Note: the information source of those requirements that I talked above is the Official Guide Book, and I also tested and confirmed them by myself.

Picture: True Ending without any Bad Endings

A. If your weapon has "++" at the end of its name, you can't enhance it anymore and it isn't displayed in the list. Also, If the weapon is equipped or locked, you can transform it but can't enhance. It is also If your weapons have a gray mark of "E". Please remove the weapon from you and your customization data and unlock it.

A. They tend to have these differences.


A. That's too hasty.
Weapons have various kinds of Status such as RPM and Critical Rate, and weapon's power isn't dominant among them. The most simple and believable method to compare weapons is trying them actually.

A. That totally depends on your preference. Some examples are listed like these.
・for big Damage: AMR Breakthrough 4, AMR Tiamat Type-Z, AMR Grim Reaper+ or Gigas Cedar
・for stably high DPS: Sound Deadener 2 or AR Ninja 3++
・for crazy DPS: Royal Guard Gold, or Long Stroke Type-Z with abusing Quick Shot
・for spamming Critical Hits: Blue Rose, AR Blue Rose MK3+ or LMG Moonlight 3++
Most other weapons also respectively have their own advantages.

A. You can get those chips only as bounty rewards at nearly 180 millions. Please enhance your weapons normally first, and then farm bounty.

(in Depths of Forgotten Temple, Demon Cave or Lost Gate)
A. You need to complete each of DLC stories up to the last. Then, each of those teleporters will be unlocked.

(in Demon Cave Depths)
A. They are located like this.

Figure: Locations of Teleporter Codes

(in DLC3 story)
A. Each of them is located like these.

Figure: Location of Delta Part

Figure: Location of Epsilon Part

Figure: Location of Zeta Part

A. You need to collect certain Key Items in Old South after completing "Rat's Request". Those items are located like this figure. By the way, there are purple facsimiles near each of those items.

Figure: Locations of Star Charts

A. They are located like this. By the way, they appear after your starting DLC4 story.

Figure: Locations of Observation Records

A. You should use different builds depending on your weapon and role.
If I give some rough comments about Status,
STR: minimizing STR is better if you use guns
DEX: maximizing DEX is better if you use guns
INT: 231 INT is essential for almost all builds
LUC: please adjust LUC considering your weapon's Critical Rate
AGI & VIT: please raise as you like with residual CP
(reference: "―5.3 Builds for hardcore Co-op")

A. People can move much faster by equipping accessories which have "Movement Speed +14.50%" or "Movement Speed +30.00%" on their both accessory slots and using Speed Form 4. Check the color of your Gear Weight Meter and equip those accessories.
(reference: "―12.4 Movement Speed")

A. Don't sprint, Let's jog or walk. If you sprint or evade and so on, it becomes easier for enemies to detect you.
(reference: "―9.2 Controlling Enemies’ Attention")

A. Many factors are related to the amount of damage dealt, but roughly speaking, you should do or use these things.
・good build ≒ high DEX
・decent assortment of Memory Chips enhanced enough
・using high-level Buffs & Debuffs, and maintaining max Medal Gauge
・for Gunners: shooting at enemies' primary weak spots
(reference: "14. Damage-Calculation Formula")

The Publisher stated that Ver.1.9.0 is the last version of this game, but the Japanese Support neatly responds by e-mails. The English Support may also do it neatly. It is doubtful whether the text of their responses are decent though.
Note: regarding the following Japanese page, originally, there are some terms of agreement such as privacy policies on the previous page of these links.

・Link of the Support for asking questions about Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet[service-en.bandainamcoent.eu] (replied by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.)
・Link of the Support for inquiries about Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet (for Steam) (in Japanese)[bnfaq-support.channel.or.jp] (replied by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.)
・Link of the Support for inquiries about Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet COMPLETE EDITION (for Nintendo Switch) (in Japanese)[bnfaq-support.channel.or.jp] (replied by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.)

This section describes how to farm something as efficiently as possible. Farming is an inevitable pain in this game though, you will be able to do it with less effort if you know those efficient methods.

List of bounty rewards[docs.google.com]
This Google Spreadsheet made by Mx. r2x5kz8.
Please switch its tabs to "New Bounty Rewards" to see the list.

1. for Farming
・Promise Ring at 2,000,000: good for Farming weapons and accessories
・Thick-Rimmed Glasses at 101,250,000: good for Farming weapons, accessories and EXP
・Circlet at 143,750,000: good for Farming weapons or EXP
・Protective Sunglasses from 167,500,000 to 171,250,000: good for Farming accessories or Speedrunning
They have "Movement Speed +30.00%" and incredibly increase your Movement Speed.

2. for Completing hardcore Co-op
・Beret at 151,250,000
・Circlet at 154,750,000

"Experience Points +x%" can largely boost your leveling. You can buy weapons & accessories which have "Experience Points +x%", from Predatory General Shop. Let's make as many of your party members as possible equip those equipment. You can gain 352% additional EXP at max by using "Experience Points +22.00%", which means you can level up at over quadruple speed.

Side Note: in Co-op, EXP+ Weapons & Accessories on NPC companions selected by the host player don't affect your EXP gain. Additional EXP is accumulated on each player, depending on weapons & accessories of your party members selected in Friend List.

Hunting the named wasp "Solo Stinger" and Glacial Queen Wasps near Icicle Prison in White Frontier with Sound Deadener 2 (*1)
Movement Speed accessories largely helps you to get more efficiency. The detailed route is shown on the below figure, "the Route of hunting wasps in White Frontier".

*1: You can buy Sound Deadener 2 from the weapon shop next to Shady Material Shop, on Extreme, and the sniper rifle is available from Arctic Triple Artillery in White Frontier.

1. Hunting those wasps with dual AR Ninja 3++ or Sound Deadener 2
These two guns have especially high weak spot DPM among Full-Auto guns.
2. Hunting Behemoth in Co-op with sniper rifles & Explosive Shot
Base EXP: 7,000,000 / round
Suitable weapons to hunt the Behemoth are AMR Breakthrough 4, AMR Tiamat Type-Z and AMR Grim Reaper+. You can start to this leveling from lower level if you use enhanced one of those SRs. Also, this method can be the fastest way to level up If you have super rare friends who are willing to carry you for leveling.

Figure: Route of hunting wasps in White Frontier


Pictures: AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Grim Reaper+ specialized in hunting Behemoth

The last three quests among them give you 50 SP and 300 Medals of each kind. You don't have to neither level up nor enhance equipment at all, to run this method. The last quest (18. Team AKEA) with Alice or Eugeo is the easiest and fastest. It's good to consciously get enough Attack Medals with Party Hero Quests, since other Medals can be obtained naturally in normal playing.

1st. Set the rate of interest to +2% in your ArFA-sys's bank
2nd. Farm cash items*1 such as Beautiful Diamond & High-Quality Emerald
3rd. Sell them out and deposit to your ArFA-sys's bank
4th. Do 2nd and 3rd process several times
5th. Finish 3 or more missions in total*2 and go back Home
6th. Talk to your ArFA-sys*3
7th. Do 5th and 6th process again and again
You are going to finally get a Cash Cow that supplies nearly 200 millions to you with you only finishing 3 missions. (200 millions = 2.5 times rewards of Behemoth in Coop)

*1: you can farm cash items in these ways and so on.
・Hunting Nephilim Replica in Forgotten Temple (High-Quality Emerald)
・Hunting DLC4 bosses "Snowstorm Queen" & "Snowstorm Ereshkigal", or Behemoth in Co-op (Beautiful Diamond)
*2: Any types of missions are counted. You probably usually finish three sub missions or unique enemy missions in total such as "One-Hit Kill" and the missions of hunting minions.
*3: Your Balance in ArFA-sys bank gets the interest at this timing.

Hunting only the named wasp "Solo Stinger"*1, or the named wasp & Glacial Queen Wasps*2 again and again near Icicle Prison in White Frontier
Please take the same route showed in the below figure.
*1: Solo Stinger only ⇒ mainly for Bounty
*2: Solo Stinger & Glacial Queen Wasps ⇒ Bounty & Accessories

Figure: Route of hunting wasps in White Frontier

0th. use Speed Form 4, Conceal 4 and other basic buffs
1st. kill Solo Stinger (ignore her minions)
2nd. switch to sub weapon (= Procyon SL) before starting sprinting
3rd. move to the other point
4th. switch to main weapon near the point (*3)
5th. kill Glacial Queen Wasp (ignore minions) (*3)
6th. switch to sub weapon before starting sprinting (*3)
7th. move back to the point near Solo Stinger
8th. switch to main weapon near the point
→ 1st.

*3: If you ignore Glacial Queen Wasp, 4th to 6th processes are omitted.

Side Note: switching weapons each time is optional and kinda tedious. You can omit them although you will end up moving relatively slowly in that case.

Figure: Processes of hunting wasps in White Frontier

Dual AR Ninja 3++ & Sound Deadener 2 are suitable as a main weapon in this method. Rolls specialized in hunting wasps are shown in the below pictures. On the other hand, Procyon SL (at any Rank) is an optimal sub weapon in this method. You should hold Procyon SL in your hands while you move between the two points, in order to move faster.

Side Note: You don't have to use Armor Break Shot 4 against the Solo Stinger if you use fully enhanced AR Ninja 3++ or Sound Deadener 2, since there is almost no time gap between "inflict debuff and kill" vs. "just kill", although AR Ninja users can still get slightly faster by constantly succeeding Skill Cancel*4 on loading Armor Break Shot 4.
*4: Reference: "11. Tips & How it works -about Motion Cancel-"


Pictures: AR Ninja 3++ & Sound Deadener 2 specialized in hunting wasps

Although I'll describe Movement Speed in "―12.4 Movement Speed", Speed Form 4 is essential. Also, you need to equip these bounty reward Accessories*5 on the both slots, in order to get the fastest Movement Speed.

*5: If you are in the first playthrough, following normal Movement Speed accessories can be substituted.

Side Note: Originally, you need to adjust the color of Gear Weight Meter to light blue. However, max Medal Gauge & Nanotech Boost Shot 4 add 120 AGI on characters' Status in total. Therefore, the color of Gear Weight Meter is going to internally become light blue in most cases as long as you have 206 AGI to use Speed Form 4 and don't use too heavy weapons.

These things help you to get more accessories.
・go farming with a foursome (please select 255 LUC members from Friend List)
・as many "Item Drop Rate +x%" as possible & somewhat high Protagonist's LUC

Note: the limit of drop items on fields is 50. After that, items disappear in the order of lower rarity and items of the same rarity disappear from the oldest.

Mr. Gomikan shows how to farm bounty most efficiently in his video.
Link of the video (in Japanese)
Key Points in the video:
・prevent to get Slow Acceleration*6 by switching weapon
・equip a light weapon such as Procyon SL on another slot, and hold it or no weapon in your hand while you move
*6: its description is in "―12.4 Movement Speed".


・Requirements
BoC3 requires very powerful weapons and 3 good players (or 2 excellent players), to finish one round within 2 minutes. On the other hand, Hunting wasps requires bounty reward accessories & a weapon specialized in hunting wasps, for more efficiency.
・Maximum Efficiency
BoC3: around 23 millions per hour (≒ 769,000 x 30 / hour)
Hunting wasps: about 24 millions to 30 millions per hour
・additional points
BoC3: You can have fun playing Co-op with your friends.
Hunting wasps: You can farm a lot of accessories simultaneously.

1st. farm Accessory Tickets
2nd. exchange accessories with the tickets
3rd. check whether there is your favorite chip set of accessories
4th. log out (not to let auto save) and retry to exchange

You can retry forever until you find your favorite one. However, I cannot recommend this method. That's because Chip Cologne and Accessory Cologne are invalid when you exchange accessories with the tickets. Therefore, those accessories include Epic ones (Epic and Legendary are almost fifty-fifty) and have bias which kinds of chips frequently appear. For instance, you will get a lot of useless chips such as "Physical Defence +x%" or "Poison Damage -x%", but get only a bit of useful chips such as "DEX +x" or "Recharge Time -x%".

You can farm Overclock Chips mainly from DLC bosses. DLC bosses drop one Overclock Chip in Easy or Normal but drop two chips in Extreme. The Special Challenge boss always drops two chips. I usually hunt DLC2 bosses to farm Overclock Chips, concurrently with farming materials for enhancing accessories.

・DLC1 bosses: low
・DLC2 bosses: medium (*1)
・DLC3 bosses: high
・DLC4 bosses: very high (*2)
・The Special Challenge boss: 100%

*1: Each type of Ninja can drop the chips.
*2: Among DLC4 bosses, "Snowstorm Queen", "Snowstorm Ereshkigal", "Freezing Menace", & "Cocytus Nifta" drop the chips.
Side Note: additional items in hunting DLC bosses
・DLC2 bosses: AR Ninja 3 and materials for enhancing accessories
・DLC1, 3 or 4 bosses: Beautiful Diamond
・Snowstorm Ereshkigal: Ordinal Ray MK3+

Drop Rates of Overclock Chips are largely affected by LUC & "Item Drop Rate +x%".

Table: Drop Rates from Makai or Hakai Twins depending on LUC & "Item Drop Rate +x%"

Table: Drop Rates from each DLC boss (in the third condition)

Note: this section is only for hardcore players.
If you want to get multiple bounty rewards, you need to start up a secondary protagonist (≠ NG+) in another save slot and farm bounty again from zero.

You can share your equipment among your save slots via Item Box and the new protagonist can use enhanced weapons from the beginning. Therefore, if you prepare enhanced weapons of low Status Requirement*1 & STR・DEX accessories*1 for the new protagonist and EXP+ weapons & accessories*2 for the new ArFA-sys and two Allies, you are going to be able to smoothly proceed the main story with the new protagonist even on Extreme.

*1: Procyon SL4+ (STR: 24, DEX: 73, the last bounty reward) & two bounty reward accessories for equipping Procyon SL4+ even at Lv.2, and so on
*2: Procyon SL (STR & DEX: 1) with "Experience Points +22.00%", and so on

There are several options about it.
1. Reaching Forgotten Woods
unlocked elements: DLC contents (including White Frontier)
2. the last match with Bazalt Joe, "One Last Round"
unlocked elements: Dual Wielding and Gun & Sword, in addition
3. "Mother Claudia"
unlocked elements: Hyper Awareness, in addition
4. Kirito Mode
unlocked elements: Metamaterial Camouflage and Gun & Sword Art and Phantom Bullet, in addition
5. the Ending
unlocked elements: high-level Normal Co-op (including the Behemoth) & the 5th slot of Customization Data, in addition
6. NG+*3 on the other Difficulty
unlocked elements: Weapon Modification Level 12

*3: To be exact, when you reach until just before being taught Gun & Sword by Kirito on NG+, Weapon Modification Level rises by 1 and should reach Lv.12.

You can enter Forgotten Temple and Demon Cave without playing each DLC mode, and access to DLC1 & DLC2 sub missions such as "Home Reform" & "Lisbeth's Handiwork". However, these elements or contents are locked on the new character, until you finish each DLC mode.
DLC1: vs. Grimdoom
DLC2: vs. Makai Twins
DLC3: Lost Gate, Divine Blossom & Azure Tempest*4
DLC4: Meteorological Institute Ruins, Icicle Prison, Bridge of Hope & SBC Abend and Viral Shot, Skill Freeze Shot, Cyclone, Sinister Mine & Resuscitation Kit

*4: In order to acquire Azure Tempest, all you need to do in the DLC mode is defeat enemy clones in Solitary Sand. (if you lose, Alice & Eugeo don't appear in the lobby of SBC Glocken)

You should decide roles of each save slot.
Example: Objectives of save slots
1st slot: for Abyssal Dungeon & transforming weapons (the first protagonist)
2nd slot: for Co-op
3rd slot: for farming bounty rewards
In this case, the 2nd protagonist should finish the main story and finish DLC4 Story Mode at least to play Co-op, but the 3rd protagonist only needs to finish up to Reaching Forgotten woods or "One Last Round" for Dual Wielding. Also, the 1st protagonist doesn't need any equipment from Item Box and the 3rd protagonist needs only equipment for farming bounty & starter equipment.

Memory Chips can largely multiply damage outputs of your weapon, so they are one of factors to make significant differences between damage outputs of beginners and endgame players. This section mainly describes the basics of memory chips and how to enhance them efficiently. Concrete examples about good rolls of weapons are listed in "16. Recommended Chips" or later sections.

Memory Chips are mounted on locked slots or unlocked slots. You can unlock up to a half of Memory Chips (rounding up like 3.5 → 4) and unlocked Memory Chips are exchangeable to other kinds of Memory Chips.

Table: counts of Memory Chips & unlocked slots

0th. Farm weapons and find a weapon which has your favorite Memory Chips on locked slots
1st. Select & unlock slots to max count
2nd. Enhance Memory Chips on locked slots
3rd. Enhance your favorite Memory Chips in low Rank weapons (*1)
4th. Mount your favorite Memory Chips on unlocked slots
5th. Overclock your weapon (*2)
6th. Enhance your weapon's Rank (*2)

*1: You can directly enhance Memory Chips on unlocked slots, if you don't mind going out to talk to Shady Material Shop several times in order to replenish Transformation Chips.
*2: You can largely save Overclock Chips, by overclocking your weapon before enhancing its Rank.

You can buy materials required in Formula 1 from Shady Material Shop. Also, "Enhance Material R9" or "Enhance Material R10" can be substituted. Those enhancing materials are available by hunting Golden Drone in Lost Gate (for R9) or Meteorological Institute Ruins (for R10), ArFA-sys Shopping and so on.

Weapon Modification Level raises caps of Memory Chips' values like this table and reduces costs of Transformation Chips.

Table: Caps on each Weapon Modification Level

Side Note: Requirements of max Weapon Modification Level

*1: To be exact, in completing "Solitary Sands" or "The Old South", all you need to do is defeat the area boss on the difficulty.
*2: To be exact, in completing "A New Squad", all you need to do is beat Kureha and the others on the difficulty.

You can improve values (or percentages) of base weapon's Memory Chips, by feeding the same kinds of Memory Chips as materials when you transform your weapons in Lisbeth's workshop. You can easily improve percentages up to some extent but percentages are hardly improved after that. The boundary is "soft cap", and you should feed higher-percentage chips for your base weapon, after soft cap.

・Up to soft cap
There are certain guaranteed increments regardless of chip values of materials.
・After soft cap
Those guaranteed increments decrease to 1/100.

Table: Guaranteed Increments and soft caps & hard caps

*1: "Debuff Stacking +x%" or "Effective Range +x%" ⇒ 1.20% / chip
"Medal Gauge Increase +x%" ⇒ 1.00% / chip
*2: "Bullet Circle Stabilization Speed +x%" ⇒ 4.00% / chip
"Trade Value +x%" ⇒ 1.00% / chip

1. Up to soft cap
You only need to feed low-percentage chips due to guaranteed increments.
2. From soft cap to hard cap
You should feed higher-percentage chips.
Example: "Physical Attack +x%" (soft cap = +20.00%, hard cap at Lv.12 = +29.50%)
・+20.00% ⇒ 31 chips
・+19.00% ⇒ 36 chips
・+18.00% ⇒ 43 chips
・+17.00% ⇒ 52 chips
・+16.00% ⇒ 62 chips

Side Note: 0%, 20%, ... and 100% of "apparent progress" respectively equal hard caps on Weapon Modification Lv.7, Lv.8, ... and Lv.12
(Reference: table "Caps on each Weapon Modification Level" in "―3.2 Weapon Modification Level")

In order to feed plenty of chips for your base weapons, you can buy many weapons from Predatory General Shop. You only need to buy about 10-20 low-percentage chips and necessary numbers of high-percentage chips from the shop and feed them for your weapon.

The following steps are the basic process to buy weapons from Predatory General Shop
(1) talk to him
(2) adapt a filter of a desired chip
(3) search higher-percentage chips
(4) buy or back to (1)

Side Note: Since Gatling Guns & Launchers are expensive and "Experience Points +x%" chips are also expensive, you can save costs by searching and buying the other categories of weapons that don't include "Experience Points +x%" chips.

Table: Major Memory Chips (these normal chips' caps require Weapon Modification Level 12)

*1: "Damage Near Death +x%" also works depending on your current HP% squared, and it starts to work when you receive even a tiny damage.
The efficiency of "Damage at Max HP +x%" is sharply decreased as you receive damage. On the other hand, the efficiency of "Damage Near Death +x%" is sharply increased.
Case: when your HP is half,
・the efficiency of "Damage at Max HP +x%" is only a quarter
・the efficiency of "Damage Near Death +x%" is three quarters
*2: in game, it's expressed as just only "Damage From Behind" in English version. What a confusing translation.
*3: "from Behind" or not (illustrated in the below figure)
It depends only on an angle between directions of the sword wielder's body and their target's body, regardless of their relative position against the target or which spots of the target they hit. Also, the active range of the angle is only 90 degrees among 360 degrees. Thus, when you play on party, you can much easily activate the chip than on solo.
*4: Auto Reloading instantly supplies ammo into magazines without any motions and it can work in these moments.
・Magazines get empty
・You shoot Skill Shots with leaving magazines empty
*5: Basically, DPM doesn't consider or include Ammo Capacity & Reloading Time, but you need to reload to some extent in actual battles. Therefore, Auto Reloading helps you to deal damage close to estimated DPM.

Side Note: other Memory Chips
・"Experience Points +x%" accumulates throughout your party.
・"Medal Gauge Increase +x%"
Only weapons on your hand can activate the Memory Chip. Also, the chip multiplies increments of Medal Gauge with its value, not rounding down decimals of the multiplied increments. By the way, the chip doesn't raise increments of Weapon Art Gauge.
・"Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%" & "Bullet Circle Stabilization Speed +x%" on Full-Auto guns
Bullet Circle Accuracy +x% is almost completely pointless except for Royal Guard MK3+ or Gold, and Bullet Circle Stabilization Speed +x% affects your shooting accuracy only while you ADS.
By the way, for Royal Guard, Bullet Circle Accuracy +111.00% provides 3 times accuracy (on single wield) or 1.5 times accuracy (on dual wield) during rapid firing with ADS and 1.5 times accuracy during without ADS, while Bullet Circle Stabilization Speed +147.50% provides 1.5 times accuracy during with ADS and no benefit during without ADS. It seems that Accuracy +x% is very effective to shotguns (= worst accuracy and low RPM) and Stabilization +x% is suitable to machine guns (= large recoil and high RPM)


Figure: "from Behind" or not

You should use these 4 bounty chips in most cases.
You should use either set of these 4 bounty chips.
or

You can improve damage outputs as much as following tables, by replacing normal chips with bounty chips.
(Reference: "―14.3 Memory Chips" in "14. Damage-Calculation Formula")

Table: approximate Comparison for weak-spot DPS
(Bounty Chips vs. Normal Chips)

Table: approximate Comparison for average damages of Sword Skills
(Bounty Chips vs. Normal Chips)

This has only a tiny influence on your attack damage. You'll probably incidentally mount this bounty chip along with other bounty chips only when your weapon is going to have "Weapon Attack +x%" on unlocked slots.
These have a medium influence on your attack damage depending on each condition for those chips. They are usually mounted with the second priority in many cases. "Optical Attack +80.00%" and "Explosive Attack +70.00%" can provide more damage output.
This has a big influence on weak spot damage, and most guns should have this bounty chip. This transformation simply increases the rate of increments of weak spot damage by 20.50%.
These have a relatively big influence on critical rate or critical damage. However, unlike Weak Spot Damage, DPM increments by these transformations largely depend on your weapon's base Critical Rate.

This section describes the basics of accessory chips and how to get materials that you need in order to enhance accessory chips.

Unlike transforming weapons, you are not able to modify chip sets of accessories. Therefore, If you want to use accessories of your favorite chip set, you need to farm enormous amounts of accessories and find accessories which have a chip set perfectly matching to your favorites. By the way, combinations of 4 chips among 36 kinds = 36! / (4! x 32!) = 58905 patterns ... No kidding!

However, farming & enhancing accessories is definitely worth trying because enhanced accessories can support you in various aspects such as Attack & Defence, Movement Speed, Recharge Time and EXP & Drop bonus.

Table: Major Accessory Chips

*1: Reference: "―12.4 Movement Speed"
*2: Reference: "―12.5 Recharge Time"

Side Note: "HP Recovery +x%" doesn't increase the amount of "x% of Max HP Recovered Over 1 Minute".
Side Note: "Experience Points +x%", "Item Drop Rate +x%" & "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" accumulate among your party members.
Side Note: "Weight -x%" is an incorrect translation and misleading. Its literal translation is like "Limit of Gear Weight +x%".

That's because you can buy most materials from Shady Material Shop but it costs huge amounts of money. It often costs one or two billions to fully enhance one accessory.

They are materials of Makai Twins (DLC2 bosses), Giant Chip, Flight Reactor, FL-Type Robot Cable, FL-Type EM Material, New-Type Sensor, and so on. You need to consciously collect materials of Makai Twins, Giant Chip, and Flight Reactor among them, if you want to enhance these kinds of chips.

1. Materials of Makai Twins
Nodachi Fragment → "STR +x"
Plated Mantle → "AGI +x"
Plated Armor → "DEX +x"
Dual-Link Core → "Avoid Instant Death x% or more"

2. Giant Chip → "Max HP +x%"
Giant robots generally drop Giant Chip and you can farm it simultaneously with farming AMR Breakthrough 4 in Forgotten Temple.

3. Flight Reactor → "INT +x"
You can farm Flight Reactor from S-Type Sniper Butterfly near SBC Abend or Icicle Prison.
Side Note: Electrodynamic Stunner is very useful to defeat S-Type Sniper Butterfly. (beware of its landing point)
Side Note: if you use fully enhanced AMR Tiamat Type-Z or AMR Breakthrough 4 (they include bounty chips), you can be able to one shot S-Type Sniper Butterfly with using Viral Shot 4. After defeating S-Type Sniper Butterfly, you need to wait a little for their disappearance, otherwise they don't drop their materials next time. By the way, other enemies don't respawn when you take the route of the below figure.

Figure: the location of farming AMR Breakthrough 4 & Giant Chip in Forgotten Temple

Figure: the Route of farming Flight Reactor in White Frontier


Picture: fully enhanced AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Breakthrough 4

This section quantitatively describes the effect of Status, and also talks about Builds for hardcore Co-op & examples of Equipment Assortments.

Max HP +20 & some CP*1 / Level +1
*1: available CP is 27320 at max

1 to 15: 10 CP / +1
16 to 30: 12 CP / +1
31 to 45: 14 CP / +1
…
240 to 255: 42 CP / +1
Side Note: 1 to 255 costs 6630 CP

Side Note: Graphs about some of Status Effects are listed in "25. Fluff Data".

You need some STR to equip weapons.
Cap of Gear Weight Meter +10 / STR +1 (Additional STR by Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge don't have this effect.)
Melee Damage x [1 + 0.0025 x (STR - 1)] (*1)

*1: Exceptions: GG Art or Dash Attack x {1 + 0.025 x (STR - 1)}

Max HP +20 / VIT +1 (Additional VIT by Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge don't have this effect.)
Defence +8 / VIT+1
Increase of Resistance against Status Ailments

Skills & Gadgets Recharge Time -0.125% / INT +1
Buffs & Debuffs Duration +1% / INT +1 (including Handgun Art)
Healing Amount of instant Healing Skills +1% / INT +1 (*2)
Debuff Stacking x [1 + 0.01 x (INT - 1)]
Increase of Resistance against Suppression

*2: INT Scaling doesn't work on HP Regeneration Speed.

Defence +12 / AGI+1
Raise your base Movement Speed (roughly speaking) (*3)
Reload Speed +0.1% / AGI +1

*3: In detail, Base Movement Speed depends on the color of Gear Weight Meter. AGI adds new-color zones*4 which means faster Movement Speed, on the left side of the meter, and gradually shifts boundaries between the zones to the right side of the meter.
*4: timings of new color addition
Yellow: at 26 AGI
Green: at 76 AGI
Blue: at 126 AGI
Light Blue: at 176 AGI

You need some DEX to equip weapons.
Weak Spot Damage x [1 + 0.0050 x (DEX - 1)]
Critical Damage x [1 + 0.0025 x (DEX - 1)]
Increase of damage by UFG or Gadgets
Slight Increase of Accuracy

Defence +4 / LUC +1
Critical Rate x [1 + 0.004 x (LUC - 1)]
Increasing Item Drop Rate
Increasing Overclock Chip Drop Rate
Blaze & Poison Damage Reduction -0.2% / LUC +1 (Reduction Cap is -50% at 251 LUC)

You need some INT to use Buffs & Debuffs, and they are very important in this game. Thus, INT has top priority. After that, think about other Status.

Guns ⇒ DEX >> or > LUC (*1)
Swords ⇒ STR = DEX > LUC (*2)

*1: High Critical Rate weapons also need somewhat high LUC to get more DPM.
*2: Swords' damage source largely depends on their critical damages due to their high Critical Damage %. Therefore, LUC needs to be somewhat high whenever you use swords.

AGI >> VIT > LUC (*3)

*3: Also considering Attack, that is actually "VIT ≒ LUC" or "VIT < LUC"
Side Note: Cap of total Defence is 9600. You can reach it with 5180 Defence when you have Level 4 Defence Buff & maintain max Medal Gauge. For instance, 4680 Defence players take twice damage compared to 5180 Defence players, in the same conditions.
Side Note: Movement Speed is also another important factor for survivability. "Movement Speed +x%" accessories or Speed Form make you faster and you will be able to more easily dodge enemies' attacks.

There are many kinds of builds, but most of them are made on similar methods to these processes. Let's graduate from only copying builds made by someone else!

1st. Let's raise INT up to 231 (*1)
2nd. Raise only enough STR to equip your weapons on single or on dual wield
3rd. Let's maximize DEX to 315 (= Character Status 255 + Accessory "DEX +30" x2)
4th. Raise or ignore LUC
If you use a low Critical Rate weapon, you can ignore LUC. Otherwise, you should raise LUC to some extent. If you use a high Critical Rate weapon, you need somewhat high LUC such as around 200.
5th. Adjust the color of Gear Weight Meter by raising AGI (*2)
6th. Put enough CP into Status to use your favorite Skills
7th. Put residual CP into AGI & VIT & LUC considering your Defence

*1: That's because Guard Field Shot 4 requires 231 INT. 221 INT is only for speedrunners.
*2: One of indications is 206 AGI because Speed Form 4 requires it.
Side Note: if you want to get more offensive, reduce VIT and raise LUC more.

1st. Let's raise INT up to 231 (*1)
2nd. Raise STR*3 & DEX*3 & LUC as much as possible considering to leave some CP
3rd. Adjust the color of Gear Weight Meter by mainly raising AGI (*2)
4th. Put enough CP into Status to use your favorite Skills
5th. Put residual CP into AGI & VIT & LUC considering your Defence

*3: STR & DEX increase your melee critical damage by the same percentage. Therefore, there is no reason to maximize DEX and minimize STR in sword builds unlike gun builds. You will get the best CP efficiency on melee damage bonuses by taking a balance between STR & DEX.

Side Note: In sword builds, how much CP on STR & DEX largely depends on your preference. Please adjust Status besides INT as you like, considering how much you want to be defensive or offensive.

Of course, you can select your weapons as you like except for Launchers. Also, needless to say, you had better enhance Memory Chips of your main weapon enough. As examples of weapon sets for hardcore Co-op, I listed some patterns that I have ever met several times in hardcore Co-op.
Note: these don't mean recommendations but just examples.

AR: AR Ninja 3++, AR Blue Rose MK3+ or SPB Rapier Type-Z
There are many variations and this type has very high versatility, from vs. groups of weak mobs to vs. strong bosses. When you choose a sub weapon among other categories, you should choose a weapon which has different features from your main weapon, such as HGs*1, SMGs*2 or Swords.

*1: HGs provide light weight, low Status Requirement & Handgun Art. Most people select them as sub weapons.
*2: SMGs are good for Run&Gun style, but they can be options only when you don't choose ARs as main weapons.

heavy SR: AMR Breakthrough 4 or AMR Tiamat Type-Z
light HG: Procyon SL4+ or Ordinal Ray MK3+
This type focuses on defeating somewhat tough enemies one after another with each shot of the heavy SR. Conceal 4 is very helpful to do infallible sniping.

This is the so-called Quick Shot build. Kill them all with Quick Shot.
LMG Moonlight 3++ can be swapped with other SMGs.

Slash down everything.
Light HG is only used for buffs & debuffs, in most cases of this type.

Shoot down everything.
Light HG is only used for buffs & inflicting Stun, in this type.

Note: Gigas Cedar (or Blue Rose) build & Royal Guard Gold build are only for hardcore players, since acquiring decent Abyssal Weapons takes very long time such as hundreds hours at worst.

These examples are one of components of your accessory chips.

Concrete examples are like these.
・put x% of Max HP Recovered Over 1 Minute on the both accessories
・put HP Recovery +x% and use First Aid Kit 2

Stacked HP Regeneration and Human Fortress 1 permanently heal you at rapid rates, and you can be kind of immortal against many mobs.

Side Note: Super HP Regeneration is helpful when you play Co-op as a guest, since guest players may have difficulty in dodging enemies' attack due to lags. It is also helpful for gatling gun users, since gatling guns force you to have very low mobility during shooting.

Its purpose is enduring enemies' powerful attack with "Avoid Instant Death 10.00% or more", and then heal yourself, and then you become able to endure enemies' attack one more time. Endgame bosses, especially in Special Invitation or Challenge can instantly kill you, so this combination is good for vs. bosses but not good for vs. mobs, while Super HP Regeneration is good for vs. mobs.

Combinations among these accessories
・"Recharge Time -22.00%" and other
・"VIT +32", "Recharge Time -25.00%", "Max HP +32.00%" & "150.00% of Max HP Recovered Over 1 Minute"
・"DEX +32", "LUC +32", "Recharge Time -25.00%" & "Max HP +32.00%"
Let's use Skills & Gadgets as many as you like, even without HG Art.

Many people make them use support build, and set Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4, Nanotech Boost Shot 4, and Healing Skills. 240 INT is essential to set those Skills. Also, ArFA-sys's LUC should be maximized up to 255 since you can farm almost all weapons except for Type-Z weapons only in offline playing. You can customize their other Status, considering to make their defence reach 5180 at least.

Maybe needless to say about AI settings, "Prioritize Healing", "Attack on Battle Start", "Heal Regularly", & "Prioritize Reviving" are basically good.

ArFA-sys's weapons don’t matter, but HGs let them use Handgun Art and Swords are not good for support build. Twin "Recharge Time -x%" are very helpful for ArFA-sys. Those accessories let them use Healing Skills frequently, and it leads to charge Medal Gauge*1 so quickly*2. Also, "Avoid Instant Death x% or more" can largely boost their survivability.

*1: main effects of max Medal Gauge are providing "your giving damage x1.2" & "all Status +80" on you and your allies.
*2: HP Recovery by Accessories, HP Recovery Shot, or First Aid Kit can intercept their getting the medal "Ally healed" that charges Medal Gauge by 10%.

As I said above, ArFA-sys mainly works as Supporter, and you should set Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4, Nanotech Boost Shot 4, & Healing Skills on them at least.

Regarding Healing Skills, AED Shot is essential and you can choose two or three Skills among Healing Bullet 3 or 4 & Healing Field Shot 3 or 4. If you haven't prepared "Recharge Time -x%" accessories for them, Healing Bullet is better since its cool-down time is 1/3 of Healing Field Shot.

Regarding Gadgets, you can choose as you like, but Resuscitation Kit*1 shouldn't be set. In my case, I don't set any Gadgets on them because I want them to use Buffs ASAP after Fast Travel*2.

*1: When Resuscitation Kit is available for them, they won't use AED Shot but will jog toward you, not sprinting in many cases, and revive you with the kit.
*2: Priority of Skills & Gadgets for ArFA-sys, just after Fast Travel
1st. Hyper Awareness
2nd. self buffs such as Speed Form and First Aid Kit 2, except for Phantom Bullet (*3)
3rd. Guard Field Shot, then Power Field Shot
4th. Phantom Bullet
5th. Nanotech Boost Shot
*3: It seems ArFA-sys uses self buffs on the order of Skill List.
Side Note: other allies respectively have priority of Skills & Gadgets for them.

Effect: Damage x1.25 / Defence +2500

Effect: Attack x0.75 & Defence -2500 or Defence -2500
These Skills much boost your attack damage against enemies.

Effect: enemies' Detecting Area -95% and you get 30% less enemies' attention
This Skill is especially important in hardcore Co-op.

Effect of Hyper Awareness: automatically avoiding enemies' attack, and getting invincible for 4 seconds
Effect of Human Fortress 1: making you Super Armor
Please select either depending on your play style or build. Concretely speaking, If your build has high Defence & HP Regeneration, Human Fortress 1 is more suitable. On the other hand, Hyper Awareness is more suitable if your build has low Defence & high mobility.

Side Note: Hyper Awareness has the longest cool-down time, but you can use it at short intervals, utilizing Handgun Art.
Side Note: Hit stun pauses HP Regeneration but Super Armor prevents hit stuns and lets HP Regeneration continue even when you get damage. Also, Super Armor prevents Medal Gauge from being decreased by you getting a damage reaction.
Caution: Human Fortress 2, 3, & 4 additionally have Defence Buff but its amount of effect is less than Guard Field Shot at same Skill Level and have much shorter duration.

Effect: giving 150% Stun Stacking with its explosion
This Gadget works well along with Conceal 4, like getting close to enemies with Conceal 4 and stunning them at once with Stun Trap.
Note: although the Memory Chip "Debuff Stacking +x%" works on this Gadget, you need to be holding a weapon on your hand which has the Memory Chip, at a timing when this Gadget explodes.

This Skill decreases enemies' attention and can make enemies inactive.
Note: in Steam Edition, it has no effect against many kinds of enemies.

Effect: temporarily getting invincible and additional HP Regeneration
Shield Matrix 2 has the most usability for your safety among them. Explosions of Shield Matrix 3 or 4 has melee attack type, so it works as an AoE by using it with swords.
Side Note: Tactical Roll 3 & 4 also have melee attack type, so it works as a compact single-target attack by using it with swords.

This Skill is a good counter mainly against enemy players & Engineer Facsimiles in Co-op or BoB, and it makes some enemies flinch.

Effect: giving 80% or 90% Stun Stacking with its bullet & explosion

Many people mainly use Lv.2 & Lv.3. This Skill can provide extremely high DPM on the combination with Skill Motion Cancel, Handgun Art, high INT and Recharge Time -x% in both accessory slots. (Reference: "11. Tips & How it works -about Motion Cancel-")

for healing yourself
Effect: almost completely protect from Stun and other status ailments
Effect: Melee Damage x 1.3 (only for sword wielders)

Effect: Movement Speed x1.25
Faster Movement Speed is comfortable and provides more survivability.

Spotting enemies in advance can inspire you to victory.

Its holographic screen can block most of enemies' bullets including single-target debuffs but you can shoot enemies from behind the veil. (Reference: "―13.4 other things" of "13. Tips & How it works -about Battles-")

・Healing Field Shot (for healing yourself or allies)
You can also charge Medal Gauge by 10% with healing yourself or your friends.
・AED Shot (as a insurance)
・Nanotech Boost Shot 4 (all Status +40)

Sharp Neil 3 or 4 (= compact attack)
Tactical Roll 3 or 4 (= compact single-targeting attack)

Horizontal Square 3 (= very wide AoE)
Azure Tempest (= AoE + stopping enemies)

Vorpal Strike 4 or 3 only along with Blue Rose

This section quantitatively describes how skills or Weapon Arts work. Learning detailed information about each Skill helps you to optimize your Skill Set.

If you are too lazy to learn them, you should set Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4 & Viral Shot 4 (or Armor Break Shot 4) and don't use Human Fortress 2 or more for now.
Note: you need to have enough Status without accessories, to fulfill Status requirements of Skills.

Side Note: Lv.2 or more Skills are unlocked depending on Skill Proficiency of the previous-level Skill.
Lv.2: Lv.1 = 50% or more
Lv.3: Lv.2 = 100%
Lv.4: Lv.3 = 100%

Base duration of Power Field Shot is 180 seconds, for instance, but actual duration of it is much longer in most cases because INT extends duration of buffs & debuffs. Each +1 INT adds 1% of base duration of the buff or debuff, like this table.

Table: examples of Actual Duration of Power Field Shot
(Base Duration: 180 seconds = 3 minutes)

Basic Duration: 180 seconds
Bullet Speed of Power Field Shot: Slow
Bullet Speed of Power Form Shot: Fast

Note: Power Form (≠ Power Form Shot) has the same effect on each level, but its duration is 60 seconds.

Basic Duration: 180 seconds
Bullet Speed of Guard Field Shot: Slow
Bullet Speed of Armor Form Shot: Fast

Note: Armor Form (≠ Armor Form Shot) has the same effect on each level, but its duration is 60 seconds.
Note: Roughly speaking, "Defence +100" equals "Damage Reduction Rate +1%". More details are in "15. Damage-Calculation Formula -about Defence-".

Basic Duration: 30 seconds
Bullet Speed of Viral Shot: Slow
Bullet Speed of Power Break Shot or Armor Break Shot: Fast

Side Note: Viral Shot doesn't prevent you from being concealed.
Side Note: Requirement to unlock Viral Shot is completing "Can't scare me!" in DLC4 Story Mode.

Basic Duration: 180 seconds
Bullet Speed: Fast
Critical Form Shot has no effect on Critical Rate. (one of Bugs)
(Reference: "―25.6 Critical Form Shot")

Basic Duration: 120 seconds
Bullet Speed: Fast

Basic Duration: 60 seconds

Basic Duration: 60 seconds
Side Note: These values may be inaccurate since I haven't checked the detailed effects of Conceal.

Basic Duration: 30 seconds

Super Armor prevents you from getting damage reactions. Due to that, Human Fortress lets HP Regeneration continue and prevents Medal Gauge to be decreased by your getting a damage reaction.
That's because Human Fortress 2, 3, & 4 overwrite Defence Buffs of Guard Field Shot & Armor Form Shot. It spoils their very long duration and lowers your total Defence in most cases. Human Fortress has only 1/6 duration of Guard Field Shot & Armor Form Shot, and has lower effects on Defence like this table.

Requirement to unlock: completing "Yuna's Request" in DLC4 Story Mode.
Bullet Speed: Slow

This Skill prevents targets to use Skills & Gadgets and Weapon Arts, freezes Skills & Gadgets' Recharging, and stops Sword Barrier elapsing its duration. Also, this Skill flinches some enemies a little.
Table: something freezed by Skill Freeze Shot

Bullet Speed of Healing Bullet: extremely Fast
Bullet Speed of Healing Field Shot: Fast
INT scaling for Healing Amount: +1% per +1 INT (*1)
Table: Healing Amount of Healing Bullet & Healing Field Shot (*1)

*1: These values are based on "Regarding healing skills and INT scaling" posted in "reddit" by Mx. eismis.

Basic Duration: 120 seconds
Bullet Speed: Fast

Note: HP Recovery Shot coexists with First-Aid Kit but cannot coexist with additional HP Recovery of Shield Matrix. In other words, Shield Matrix can erase the effect of HP Recovery Shot. Therefore, it's not reasonable to use the both Skills.

Bullet Speed: Fast
Curing Status Ailments of Stun, Poison, Blaze, and Suppression

Note: this Skill recover your status ailment immediately but only recover until just before the critical point of debuff stacking. In other words, after being recovered from one of Status Ailments by Curing Field Shot, you end up being immediately inflicted the same Status Ailment when you take even a tiny debuff stacking of it.

Bullet Speed: Fast

Lv.4 of these Skills aside from Graviton Shot have twice cool-down time.
Attack Type indicates what memory chips are valid for the skill. For instance, Explosive Shot is an explosive attack intensified by Explosive Attack +x% or Physical Attack +x%.

Bullet Speed: extremely Fast
Attack Type: Explosive + Physical

Bullet Speed: very Slow
Attack Type: Explosive + Optical

Bullet Speed: Slow
Attack Type: Explosive / Optical

Side Note: other Poison or Blaze Stacking
・HG Kuroneko: 4% Poison Stacking per bullet
・GL6 Laevateinn: 50% Blaze Stacking per bullet
・Crimson Roar: 20% Blaze Stacking per bullet

Bullet Speed: Fast
Attack Type: Explosive + Optical

Side Note: other Stun Stacking
・Electromag Stun Trap: 150%
・Ordinal Ray: 1% per bullet

Bullet Speed: Fast
Attack Type: Optical

Bullet Speed: Slow
Attack Type: Explosive

Bullet Speed: Slow
Attack Type: Explosive

Caution: dual wielding never provides any benefits on Quick Shot. It never multiplies the bullet count of the Skill, and also it makes reloading motion of the Skill slow down in most cases.


Caution: after starting to prepare the explosion, additional HP Recovery no longer works and you cannot cancel the explosion. Also, just after the explosion, you are not invincible anymore.
Note: Shield Matrix shares the same buff slot with HP Recovery Shot, and Shield Matrix can end up erasing the effect of HP Recovery Shot.
Side Note: The amount of HP Recovery in this Skill is affected by the accessory chip "HP Recovery Amount +x%".
Side Note: the explosion damage isn't increased by the Memory Chip "Physical Attack +x%".

Effect: reserving Automatic Avoidance & getting invincible for 4 seconds when the avoidance is activated
The invulnerability duration "4 seconds" is not extended by INT.
This Skill doesn't react in these cases.
1. while you are in the air
2. while you take motions of evading or rolling
3. during motions of Sword Skills and some of Skills & Gadgets
4. during about one second just after starting to sprint from jogging or walking

Note: INT doesn't extend the duration of Sword Barrier.

This barrier blocks most bullets which come from front of the user*1, even during most of Sword Skills*2.
*2: Sword Barrier becomes inactive in these timings, according to the List of Skills[docs.google.com] made by Mx. r2x5kz8
・during charging (before the rush) of Vorpal Strike or Divine Blossom, with Sword (not Gun & Sword)
・finishing attack of Star Splash or Divine Blossom
*1: Sword Barrier works in the opposite area of "Melee Damage from Behind +x%", and its active area is illustrated in the below figure.


Figure: Active Area of Sword Barrier

Effect: instantly recharging all of Skills & Gadgets at first and adding a special buff "Recharge Time -90%"
Basic Duration: 30 seconds
Attack Type: Physical (even on Al-Nassr)
Damage: 200% x n Hits
It seems that the special bullet can hit up to twice at the same spot. Therefore, you can simply consider that SR Art Shot equals a bullet that deals 4 times damage of normal bullets, since damage amount of SRs' normal spot shots are negligible compared to damage amount of SRs' weak spot shots.

Following Arts aren't worth using, to be honest.
・Shotgun Art
Attack Type: Explosive + Optical
Damage: 500% x 6 Hits + 1100% x 2 Hits
・SMG Art
Attack Type: Explosive
Damage: 1000% x 14 Hits (= 4 + 3 + 3 + 4 Hits)
・Assault Rifle Art
Effect: Adding a effect of Blaze Stacking on normal bullets
AR Art never improves damage dealt of normal bullets even when you use AR Art with optical AR (= Lupus), but it increases graphic loads on your PC.
・Gatling Gun Art
Attack Type: Melee + Physical + Explosive
Damage: 90,000% x 6 Hits + 150,000% x 2 Hits (*1)
・Launcher Art
Attack Type: Explosive
Damage: 100% x 2 Hits

*1: It looks that GG Art has huge damage multipliers but its actual damage isn't so large because its damages are calculated based on melee power despite the fact guns don't have melee power.

Side Note: I defined as "100%" the multiplier of the first slash in normal combo on the ground.




("✓" = valid, "-" = invalid)

Side Note: you can cancel Lv.1, 2, & 3 of this Skill by evading or shooting with Gun & Sword, and immediately goes to the finishing attack by pressing keys of Sword Attack. On the other hand, the multi-strike motion of Lv.4 is very short and automatically goes to the finishing attack.


on the ground

in the air

Requirement to unlock: completing "ManHunt: Easy" or "ManHunt: Hard" in DLC4 Story Mode
Side Note: this Skill can surely flinch or brush away most enemies.

Requirement to unlock: completing "Alice's Request" after encountering her in DLC3 Story Mode

Requirement to unlock: completing "Eugeo's Request" after encountering him in DLC3 Story Mode
*1: its Shock Wave has wide AoE and can surely flinch or brush away most enemies.
When you use Azure Tempest in the air, the multipliers of Shock Wave attenuate to half but you can make the shock wave on early timing and stop enemies.

Side Note: differences between Sword Art and Gun & Sword Art
Sword Art
・the first motion of rushing to enemies like Vorpal Strike tracks your target strongly at high speed.
・getting invincible overall
Gun & Sword Art
・the first motion of rushing to enemies like Dual Orbital tracks your target a little at relatively slow speed. (you are not invincible during this motion*1)
・getting invincible during some motions*1
*1: If you get flinching, the Art is canceled.

Side Note: Regarding the below screenshot, the basic damage "100%" is "46475" against Cocytus Nifta's legs.

Screenshot: the last moment of Gun & Sword Art

156.25% → 125.00% → 93.75%
200% x 5 Hits
Lv.3: 54000% → 32400% → 10800%
Lv.4: 108000% → 64800%
Note: the actual damages of Dash Attack aren't so large compared to its multipliers because normally you cannot use it along with swords.
Side Note: damage of Dash Attack is unrelated to which gun you hold at that moment.
Side Note: Lv.4 Dash Attack quickly starts to rush.

In hardcore Co-op, it is important "how to kill enemies without making them active" and basically you should think "how to quickly kill enemies than them".
In order to do that, Buffs & Debuffs, controlling enemies' attention*1, and maintaining Medal Gauge are essential, in addition to enhancing Memory Chips.

*1: other methods of that are playing on multiplayers, using fully-enhanced weapons & accessories, or equipping super HP Regeneration & high Defence

To be honest, Level & which weapon you use don't matter so much, as some people completed Special Invitation or Challenge on low Level and people use various weapons there. Also, although you don't need to understand up to minute mechanisms of this game as much as this guide mentions, I believe Trials and Errors will give you much better experiences than being carried.

(essential buffs)
・Power Field Shot 4: Damage x1.25
・Guard Field Shot 4: Defence +2500
Guard Field Shot 4 dramatically reduces your receiving damage to be about 1/2 to 1/4.
(optional buffs)
・Nanotech Boost Shot 4: all Status +40
All Status +40 makes your giving damage about 1.1 times, and somewhat largely reduces your receiving damage.
・Melee Booster Kit 2: Melee Damage x1.30 (only for sword wielders)
・Viral Shot 4: Attack x0.75 & Defence -2500
・Armor Break Shot 4: Defence -2500
Make sure to set either one. They can boost your damage dealt to twice or three times and so on. This is also applied to us, so be careful if you have been inflicted Defence Down.
Side Note: Debuff by Boss
・Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX ⇒ Attack x0.68 & Defence -4000, for 1 min
・Cocytus Nifta EX ⇒ Attack x0.75 & Defence -2500, for 1 min

1. Getting in the enemy's Detecting Area
Conceal 4 almost completely solves this factor although enemies detect you if you nearly touch them. As exceptions, enemy players instantly detect you regardless of Conceal 4. Also, Facsimiles tend to randomly detect you if you are in their Detecting Area, even when you use Conceal 4.

2. Moving
Detectability: walk or jog < sprint (, evade, roll, jump, or avoidance by Hyper Awareness)
Note: in Steam Edition, "Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX" & "Cocytus Nifta EX" detect you if you take those quick behavior unless you are far away from them, even when you use Conceal 4 or Metamaterial Camouflage.

3. Attack
Other enemies near your target can also sense your attack.
Sounds of shooting, especially with Gatling Guns, can make nearby enemies active even when you don't hit any enemies, but Conceal 4 prevents you from being detected due to those sounds except for Gatling Guns' sounds.

Note: in Steam Edition, "Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX" & "Cocytus Nifta EX" detect you when you use Sword Skills or Weapon Art of Sword or Gun & Sword, even when you don't hit them.

4. Using Skills or Gadgets
You get much more enemies' attention using healing Skills such as Healing Field Shot than other Skills.

Note: in Steam Edition, "Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX" & "Cocytus Nifta EX" detect you when you use Sword Skills or Melee Booster Kit, even when you don't hit them.
Note: some Skills such as Viral Shot don't prevent you from being concealed. This point is a big difference between Viral Shot and Armor Break Shot.
Side Note: enemy players sense your Bullet Line, so if you aim Kirito especially with sniper rifles, he tends to use Sword Barrier immediately.

1. Enemy's finishing one cycle of their attack motion
Due to this, some types of enemies can get back inactive after finishing attacks, but you need to reduce the enemy's attention to zero and get out from their Detecting Area by taking a distance or using Conceal 4.

2. Using Metamaterial Camouflage or Tranquilizer Shot
In Nintendo Switch Edition, "Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX" or "Cocytus Nifta EX" get inactive, if you use Metamaterial Camouflage while they are stunned or downed.
In Steam Edition, it doesn't work like that.

Side Note: Effectiveness of Metamaterial Camouflage after your being detected, in Steam Edition.
・No Effect: Elite Automaton, Light or Heavy or Speedy Facsimile, Genocider, Cursed Rune, Boreal Storm, Earthshaker, Wary Hierophant, Scorpion, Dirty Scissor, Magia Blitz, Magia Flamme, Enemy Player*1, Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX & Cocytus Nifta EX
・partially and sometimes Effective: Artillery, Omni-Eraser (*2)
・Effective: Automaton, Engineer or Destroyer or Breaker Facsimile, Wintry White Spider, Shock Levistone, Delinquent, Hooligan, Pyromaniac, Angry Berserker

*1: Lievre in Special Challenge tends not to load Graviton Shot on the beginning if you have used the camouflage right before getting in the boss area.
*2: They can become not to attack you but slowly chase you with their barrels even then.

1. attack damage x1.2
2. All Status (STR, VIT, INT, AGI, DEX, and LUC) +80
This effect is equivalent to twice Nanotech Boost Shot 4 and gives a large influence especially to your receiving damage.
3. Gradually recharging Weapon Art Gauge (This effect is activated with 50% or more)

Medal Gauge maximally works at 100%, but it internally stacks 200% at max with these actions.
1. Getting "Ally revived" (+20%)
2. Getting "Ally healed" or "Ailment healed" (+10%)
3. Getting "Enemies defeated: 5" with handguns (+20%)
4. Getting "Enemies defeated: 5" with other weapons (+10%)
5. Getting "Double kill" or "Triple kill" with handguns (+10%)
6. Getting "Double kill" or "Triple kill" with other weapons (+5%)
7. Getting "Player Kill" (+10%)
8. Getting "inflicted Stun/Poison/Blaze/Suppression" (+2%)
9. Getting other medals (+1%)
10. "Encouragement" (+2%)

Weapon Art Gauge slightly charges on each "Encouragement" or gain of medal. Therefore, it is important not to stop doing "Encouragement" to use Weapon Arts frequently, even when Medal Gauge has reached 100%.

1. Haven't get medals or Encouragement for 30 seconds*1 (-1% per 2 seconds)
2. Taking a damage reaction (-1% per reaction)
Super Armor can prevent this pattern.
3. Getting dead (-50% per Dead.)
4. Getting back to SBC Glocken (reset to 0%.)

*1: during loading, Medal Gauge continues to count seconds and starts to decline on the first pattern.

・Lievre: Long Stroke Type-Z, Pandemonium Type-Z, Deneb Kaitos Type-Z, & Kagemitsu G9 Type-Z (Drop Rate: 100% but including Epic)
・α Route: Long Stroke Type-Z (Drop Rate: low)
・β Route: Pandemonium Type-Z & Deneb Kaitos Type-Z (Drop Rate: low)
・γ Route: Kagemitsu G9 Type-Z & other three kinds (Drop Rate: low)
・Lievre: Valkyrie Type-Z, SPB Potassium Type-Z, SPB Rapier Type-Z, & AMR Tiamat Type-Z (Drop Rate: 100% but including Epic)
・α Route: Valkyrie Type-Z, SPB Potassium Type-Z, & SPB Rapier Type-Z (Drop Rate: medium)
・β Route: AMR Tiamat Type-Z (Drop Rate: medium)
・γ Route: Valkyrie Type-Z, SPB Potassium Type-Z, SPB Rapier Type-Z, & AMR Tiamat Type-Z (Drop Rate: medium)
You can also get Type-Z weapons in Grand Master Class of BoB Simulation, from ArFA-sys Shopping, or in Abyssal Dungeon 47 to 50F, but those methods are not suitable to farm Legendary Type-Z weapons.

Mr. Gomikan showed it in his video.
Link of the video (in Japanese) (the video got unavailable)
Key Points in the video:
1. Adjust the color of Gear Weight Meter to blue or light blue.
2. Equip accessories which have Movement Speed +x% in the both slots.
3. Use Speed Form 4 if you don't have bounty-reward accessories which have Movement Speed +30.00%.
4. Set your Camera Speed faster.
5. Confirm the route from the UFG Contraption to the door.
6. Start moving to the door before putting on the UFG Contraption.
7. Move straight to the door as much as possible but be careful not to collide with walls or obstacles.

You can instantly charge Medal Gauge & Weapon Art Gauge by spamming "Encouragement" with each other. (one of glitches)

When you stay at the initial position of the boss area, Nifta's Movement is largely limited and you can aim its weak spot stably, withstanding its attacks by spamming Hyper Awareness or Shield Matrix and using Anti-AR Veil.

1. From a location shown in the next screenshot, you don't take Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX's laser or spear but can shoot at her weak spot with guns except for gatling guns.
2. In the second last stage of Special Challenge β, a location behind the last teleporter is safe against Arctic Pyromaniac & Arctic Hooligan. Also, you can make one of those enemies an obstacle against others by getting them stunned or downed like the below screenshot.

Screenshot: Safe Location on vs. Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX

Screenshot: Stunned Obstacle

There are many speedrun videos on YouTube, but they are not helpful at all if you have just graduated a beginner finishing DLC4 on Extreme. Also in other videos, players use very useful accessories and fully enhanced weapons in many cases. Then, how do post-beginners beat Special Invitation & Challenge? I assumed these conditions and made an example of walk-throughs for those hardcore Co-op.

・on Solo
・Level 270
・high Defence Build
・no Type-Z Weapon
・no Abyssal Weapon
・only 1 Chip per Accessory
・no Bounty Rewards
・no Quick Shot (= no Skill Cancel glitch)

Side Note: if you are on lower Level, it is still possible to similarly beat those Co-op, although you end up losing some Defence or DPM.
Side Note: In my case, It took around 20 minutes*1 to slowly complete each of the Invitation & Challenge on solo with this introduced build (& my poor aiming).

*1: "around 20 minutes" is something like the worst record. That's because to be honest, I can't help judging that the conditions lack preparation. For instance, my Sound Deadener 2 has only soft-cap Chips except for "Auto-Reload Rate +x%". Another reason is that I didn't use HG Art and Hyper Awareness at that time. Thus, If you do decent preparations as best as you can or you use Quick Shot builds, you probably become able to finish those hardcore Co-op in a shorter time.

Sound Deadener 2
Ordinal Ray MK3+ on dual wield
AGI +30 & Avoid Instant Death 10.00% or more
Side Note: other options are "x% of Max HP Recovered Over 1 Minute", "HP Recovery +x%" and so on.
STR: 92
VIT: 165
INT: 231
AGI: 255 +30
DEX: 255
LUC: 60
Defence: 5056
Ordinal Ray MK3+: Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4, Speed Form 4, Skill Freeze Shot 3
Sound Deadener 2: Conceal 4, Hyper Awareness, Shield Matrix 2, Armor Break Shot 4
Side Note: Electrodynamic Stunner 3 is also very useful to speed up completing the Challenge.
First-Aid Kit 2, Anti-Ailment Kit 2, Electromag Stun Trap, Anti-AR Veil

Keep Conceal 4 and just repeat one-on-one situations as much as possible.

Many types of mechs rarely detect you until you attack them, if you keep Conceal 4. Hooligan and its peers detect you when you attack other enemies, but then just kill them first and kill mech enemies after that. Enemy players instantly detect you but Skill Freeze Shot and Anti-AR Veil much help you deal with them.

Thus, utilize Conceal 4 and other Skills & Gadgets, calmly make one-on-one situations, and kill enemies step by step.

Maybe needless to say, you should use Armor Break Shot against most enemies aside from low-level enemies and normal Automatons.

Also, this walk-through considers that Hyper Awareness is just an insurance due to disuse of HG Art and the restriction of accessories, but spamming Hyper Awareness with HG Art is a very powerful counter against enemy players or formidable enemies.

vs. Asuna or Yamikaze ⇒ Anti-AR Veil
vs. Kirito, Itsuki, Kureha, or Lievre ⇒ Skill Freeze Shot
vs. Light or Breaker Facsimile, or Elite Automaton ⇒ Anti-AR Veil
vs. Engineer Facsimile ⇒ Skill Freeze Shot or Stun or Anti-Ailment Kit 2
vs. Heavy Facsimile or Genocider ⇒ Keeping a distance
vs. Boreal Storm, Earthshaker, or Omni-Eraser ⇒ Conceal & Stun
vs. Magia Blitz, Magia Flamme or Ghospet ⇒ Stun

Leaving Guard Field 4 running out can lead to fatal damage on you, and you need Conceal 4 to make and remain one-on-one situations. Thus, you should pay attention to those buffs' duration. Also, you have to wait for a buff running out if you want to completely renew the buff's duration.

Table: Duration of Buffs & Skill Freeze Shot at 231 INT

I'm sure that many people get annoyed by Light Facsimiles or other Facsimiles, but you can easily inflict Stun on Facsimiles and neutralize them*1. Also, you can inflict Stun on bosses at the best timing if you remember required counts for them.

*1: "Debuff Stacking +x%" is essential to stun Facsimiles with one Stunner 3 on 231 INT.

For instances of the timing, including the moment when you are ready to attack intensively,
・"Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX"
the less her HP, the more she gets aggressive. Therefore, it is effective to use Stun to finish off her HP in the latter half.
・"Cocytus Nifta EX"
They tend to get the most aggressive or dangerous between about 75% to 40% of their HP, and you can use Stun to skip this dangerous zone.

As a reference, some enemies' Stun resistance are listed like the below table in these conditions.
・231 INT
・at max Medal Gauge
・inflicting Stun with "Debuff Stacking +37.00%" weapon
Side Note: base Stun Stacking of Electrodynamic Stunner 3 and Electromag Stan Trap are like these.
・Stunner 3 = 80%
・Stun Trap = 150%

Extra Table: base Stun Resistance of enemies, in one of situations

1. Asuna's room
Use Anti-AR Veil at a corner of the room. Also, as another method, you can go back to Light Facsimiles' and do Run&Gun, with being careful not to be surrounded.
2. Kirito's area
Load Skill Freeze Shot in advance, and kill Kirito one by one with keeping a distance and using Skill Freeze Shot*1. Be careful of Kirito's Weapon Art, and keep moving right or left to avoid Kirito's HG bullets. Also, Boreal Storm doesn't get active unless you attack it, get close to it with sprinting, or Conceal runs out its duration.
As another process, set Electromag Stun Trap in the appearance location of Boreal Storm (the center of the square) and switch your weapon to Ordinal Ray MK3+. After Boreal Storm getting stunned, switch to Sound Deadener 2 and defeat the robot*2. After that, kill Kirito one by one with keeping a distance and using Skill Freeze Shot*1.
*1: If you have already finished charging Weapon Art Gauge, you can use HG Art and freeze multiple Kirito without waiting for the cool-down time of Skill Freeze Shot.
*2: If you take a moderate distance, Kirito prioritizes using Gadgets without rushing toward you, at the beginning.
1. vs. Itsuki, Asuna x4 & Destroyer Facsimile x3
Use Skill Freeze Shot against Itsuki at the beginning. After that, kill him first and kill other enemies using Anti-AR Veil or obstacles.
Note: Be careful not to be inflicted with Viral Shot by Itsuki. It's a fatal Debuff for your Defence.
2. vs. Kirito x5
Kill them in the same way of Invitation α.
1. the first area
After defeating the first wave of Facsimiles, load Skill Freeze Shot and use it against Engineers one by one, and kill them first. During that, be trying to keep a distance from Dirty Scissor. The second targets are Speedy Facsimiles and the last is Dirty Scissor.
2. vs. Kureha, Asuna x5 & Arctic Triple Artilery x2
Load Skill Freeze Shot in advance and use it against Kureha and kill her first. After that, kill Asuna, using Anti-AR Veil in narrow passages.
Note: Be careful not to be inflicted Armor Break Shot by Kureha.
3. vs. Asuna x4 & Kirito x2
Load Armor Break Shot in advance and use it against Asuna and kill her immediately. After that, use Skill Freeze Shot against the nearest Kirito in front of you, and use Armor Break Shot against the other Asuna, and kill them. Lastly, kill residual Kirito same as Invitation α.

1st. Kill Lievre
Check Conceal's duration, load Skill Freeze Shot, and don't get ready for Hyper Awareness in advance. Use Skill Freeze Shot against Lievre ASAP and kill her, but don't sprint, evade or roll while she is alive, otherwise the boss gets active.
2nd. vs. Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX
You can utilize the safe location mentioned in "9. Knowledge about Hardcore Co-op".

named enemies' room
Check Conceal's duration in advance. Defeat Elite Automatons first using Anti-AR Veil. After that, defeat Genociders keeping a distance or using Skill Freeze Shot.
1. the first area
Remember the appearance location of Engineer Facsimile and set Stun Trap in advance. Use Skill Freeze Shot against the other Engineer and defeat those Engineers. Anti-AR Veil and obstacles help you fight with Breaker Facsimiles.
2. the second area
After beating the first wave, go up the top stair (Teleporter on it) and defeat Breaker Facsimile. All Engineers are unable to attack you on the top stairs and tend to stop moving, so you can easily defeat them.
3. vs. Arctic Pyromaniac, Arctic Hooligan x2 & Boreal Storm x2
You can use the safe location mentioned in "9. Knowledge about Hardcore Co-op". Defeat Pyromaniac first using Stun. After that, defeat Hooligans, dragging them and using Stun. As long as you go through the center of the crossroad, both of Boreal Storms don't detect you even when Conceal runs out.
1. the first area
After defeating Speedy Facsimiles, go up stairs and go to a corner of the room in advance. Set Stun Trap & Anti-AR Veil in front of you and draw Angry Berserker's attention. You can defeat them probably while they get stunned.
2. vs. Magia Flamme & Earthshaker x2
Defeat Magia Flame first with getting them stunned or using pillars as obstacles. If Conceal runs out, you can make Earthshaker inactive again by using Conceal again and keeping a distance for a while.
3. vs. Arctic Hooligan x2, Engineer Facsimile x4, Ghospet & Boreal Storm x2
Draw Hooligan's attention and take a far distance. If some Engineers chase you, defeat them first using Skill Freeze Shot. Defeat enemies drawing their attention one by one. The order is Hooligans, Engineers, Ghospet, & Boreal Storms.

1st. Kill Lievre in the similar way of Invitation
Care about Skill Freeze Shot's duration since Lievre in the Challenge has much more HP. Also, if you receive a Graviton Shot from her, don't try to get away in a hurry. Prioritize not to make Cocytus Nifta EX active.
2nd. vs. Cocytus Nifta EX
It is roughly similar to vs. Nifta in SBC Abend, but you have some cautionary points since you are on solo.
・Spinning Attack: passing through the right or left side of the boss (*3)
・Shotgun*4: Anti-AR Veil or Shield Matrix (or "sprinting & jumping")*5
・Icicle Blasts*6: Shield Matrix or Anti-AR Veil (or running away)
・Jumping Attack: Shield Matrix or running away
・Laser: staying behind ices or Shield Matrix
Side Note: Cocytus Nifta EX never cancels the motion of looking around, even when you attack.
*3: you can also use UFG to pass through.
*4: the less the boss's HP, the more time they shoot shotgun such as 3 shells at once on full HP but 5 shells at once on near Death. Also, they usually do a spinning attack after shooting their shotgun.
*5: If you have enough Movement Speed, you can avoid most of Nifta's shotgun bullets by "sprinting & jumping" at good timing.
*6: waves of icicles come twice while the boss has about 75% to 40% HP, and they occasionally do icicle blasts twice in a row. At less than about 40% HP, icicles decrease to one wave.

These Tips are entirely optional techniques and might sound like glitch, but few people care about them now and the Developer won't fix them anymore.

There are three types.
How to use it: Press keys of ADS and Skills at the same moment and immediately release them after that.
Accidental Method: using Skills just in a moment that you get a enemy in the Circle Frame and Protagonist tries to hold their gun toward the enemy

This type can almost completely delete motions of Skills. Also, you can deal the highest DPM with Quick Shot by using Handgun Art and canceling the motion of Quick Shot.
However, Skill Cancel of this type is not available in these cases.
・While you hold guns toward targets by Bullet Circle's Assist
・During recovery frames after Skill Shot (It is also that you hold guns forward)
・During a motion of switching weapons
・While you are in a position that you cannot hold guns forward due to walls or obstacles in front of you
・While you are crouching (on canceling Quick Shot)
Simply put, turn off Bullet Circle Assist or look at the ground, before canceling, in order not to fail.

Side Note: regarding canceling Quick Shot, you can easily cancel it compared to other Skills, and you can wait to release the keys a little bit during shooting with Quick Shot.
Side Note: this type can also cancel self buffs and some Gadgets. However, you cannot get their effects*1 but get their proficiency. Thus, this type is also good for farming Skill Proficiency.

*1: As an exception, you can get the effect of Metamaterial Camouflage even when you cancel it.
Side Note: some people said that a member of the Developer & the Publisher has informally guaranteed this type isn't a glitch.

Side Note: As for Skill Cancel, Mr. Shao demonstrated how to easily use it in his channel. The description about it in this article is mainly based on his video (in Japanese).

When you stand up from crouching, or land after jumping, the motion of loading Skill Shot is internally canceled. It also internally cancels reloading motion and you can shoot just after a magazine being replenished. (please note that you end up failing to reload if you shoot before finishing replenishing magazine)
It's easier than the first type, and suitable to quickly use buffs in safe situations.
Note: this type of Skill Cancel is not available with additional handguns of Gun & Sword.

Not only the first type, but also evading can cancel the reloading motion of Quick Shot. Canceling by evading isn't so useful to deal large damage though.

When you use Bolt-Action sniper rifles or pump-action shotguns, there is a cocking motion or a pumping motion after each shot, but you can cancel those motions by rolling just after shooting.
It's good only for AMR Tiamat Type-Z or AMR Grim Reaper+ since they have very low RPM.

Tip: How to keep your crosshair on enemies' weak spot
1. let's equip an accessory which has "Decreased Detectability While Crouching"
2. rolling just only forward or back
3. adjust your crosshair slightly above enemies' weak spot considering a decline of Protagonist's viewpoint due to the motion of rolling

Note: If you press a key of "rolling" twice in a row, Protagonist will always roll twice in a row, without shooting between the first and second rolling.
Side Note: Unless you shoot just after rolling or press a key of "shooting" in a row during rolling, you end up losing the fastest RPM because Protagonists cannot shoot for a tiny while when they start to stand up from crouching after finishing rolling. In short, you should finish aiming during rollings.
Side Note: Cocking Motion after Skill Shots with Bolt-Action SR also canceled by rolling, but recovery frames after Skill Shots are not canceled. Thus, Cocking Cancel doesn't contribute to rapid firing of Skill Shots in a row.

Just like Crouching Cancel or Jumping Cancel described in the previous section, you can cancel reloading motion internally. You can restart to shoot from just after a magazine being replenished, without time lags.

Side Note: you can also restart before actual replenishment of magazines, and may end up failing to reload when you want to manually replace half-used magazines.

As you might know, Sword Barrier almost completely cancels the motion of switching weapons to sword or gun & sword. Also, you can quickly switch weapons while Protagonist tries stopping from sprinting or standing up from crouching. On the other hand, when you stop sprinting during the motion of switching weapons, you sometimes stiffen during the motion of stopping sprinting.

This function works up to Maximum Range (= 2.40 times of base Effective Range) of your weapon.

When you shoot Skill Shots with the assist ON, the bullets track your target, but turning off the assist doubles your shooting accuracy (= Bullet Circle Diameter x 1/2). Thus, you should turn off the assist aside from when you shoot Skill Shots or wipe weak mobs, because you need to stably shoot at weak spots to deal decent damage in endgame.

Target Assist strongly helps you to aim at weak spots, and it works like Automatic Aiming when you continuously use it without interval.

Each type of enemies respectively has several absorbing spots. When you set your crosshair near an enemy and ADS, your crosshair is absorbed to the nearest spots of the enemy. For instance, absorbing spots of Drones are its weak spot, its right/left parts, and its gun.

Side Note: Anti-AR Veil prevents this function. However, it works not depending on Protagonist's viewpoint but player's viewpoint, so it also works if you can directly see your target on your display, even when Protagonist is behind the veil.

Its active range is 1.95 times of your weapon's base Effective Range, except for Rocket Launchers. This range is not increased by "Effective Range +x%".

Its active area from your crosshair is in roughly inverse proportion to scope magnifications of sniper rifles. The diameter rate of the active area is roughly like this, and scope magnifications of each sniper rifle is shown in the below table.
other categories : x2 scope SR : x3 scope SR : x4 scope SR ≒ 1 : 2/3 : 1/2 : 1/3
For instance, the active area in x4 scope (AMR Tiamat Type-Z) is sketchily illustrated in the below figure. The sizes of these circles don't depend on your target's size or the distance between you and your target, but only depend on scope magnifications.

Table: Aiming & Scope Magnifications

Figure: Active Area of Target Assist

Effects of Buffs & Debuffs are overwritten by the same kind of later ones.

Note: normal defence buff and Human Fortress 2, 3 or 4 share the same slot for defence buff, and HP Recovery Shot & Shield Matrix share the same slot for HP Regeneration. Also, Sentry Style shares various buff slots with other Skills, and overwrites them.

Duration of same Skill's buff are replaced*1 based on the Skill user's total INT*2 at that time.

*1: duration can be not only extended but also shortened.
*2: total INT = Character's INT + additional INT by Accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge
Caution: Human Fortress 2, 3 or 4 & Sentry Style also overwrite duration of other buffs with their inferior duration.

Case: Power Field Shot on 231 INT

You should use dual wielding only for Full-Auto guns because other dual-wielded guns can have less DPM than the single due to the less RPM and chipless-copied gun.

Dual-wielded guns except for Full-Auto guns have less than twice the RPM of the single for some reason, and most of Memory Chips and Overclocking are invalid on copied guns except for these Memory Chips.

("✓" = valid, "✗" = invalid)

*1: "Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%" is valid also on copied guns, but dual wielding doubles total RPM and Bullet Circle is more frequently enlarged. As a result, Accuracy in rapid firing with dual wielding is lowered than with single wield, the reduced Accuracy is still better than vanilla Accuracy though.

The only benefit of dual wielding is that it shortens recovery frames after shooting Skill Shot. It seems that dual HGs don't shorten recovery frames so much, but dual SMGs or ARs shorten the frames as much as you can feel their difference.

You can move faster due to these factors.
・blue or light blue Gear Weight Meter
・Speed Form
・Movement Speed Accessories
・holding a lighter weapon or putting off a heavy weapon

Technically speaking, Movement Speed Formula is estimated like this.

The color of Gear Weight Meter determines base Movement Speed. Assuming Orange is the standard (= 100%), relations between colors & base Movement Speed are listed approximately as follows. As for colors, Medal Gauge & Nanotech Boost Shot can internally improve it since they increase AGI by their effects. Also, sprinting (without acceleration) is about 1.5 to 1.6 times faster than jogging.


Speed Form simply multiplies Movement Speed depending on its Skill Level.
・Lv.1 ⇒ x 1.10
・Lv.2 ⇒ x 1.15
・Lv.3 ⇒ x 1.20
・Lv.4 ⇒ x 1.25

Movement Speed Accessories accumulate like this as an example.
Movement Speed +14.50% x2
⇒ x (1 + 14.50% + 14.50%) = x 1.29

Each weapon has its own multiplier for Movement Speed and your Movement Speed increases or decreases by those multipliers while you hold a weapon. Approximate Movement Speed Multipliers of some weapons are listed in this table. Over 100% multipliers mean you can speed up by holding the weapon than without any weapons for some reason.

Table: approximate Movement Speed Multipliers of some weapons

Side Note: each multiplier in the table includes some errors since I measured movement speed manually with using a stopwatch.

Actual Movement Speed in the following situation is estimated like this.
・color: Light Blue = 129%
・Speed Form: Lv.4 = x 1.25
・Movement Speed Accessories: +30% x2 = x 1.60
・weapon on your hands: Procyon SL4+ ≒ x 1.11
∴ 129% x 1.25 x 1.60 x 1.11 = 286.38%

Comparison Targets: orange vs. light blue, Speed Form 4 vs. no Speed Form
Conditions: holding no weapons, with variable Movement Speed accessories

Table: approximate Movement Speed depending on situations

You get a random acceleration when you continue to sprint to some extent, and it basically makes you faster. However, the acceleration sometimes makes you slow down. The faster your Movement Speed, the more frequently you get slowed down by the acceleration.

Your Movement Speed is reset to your own basis when you switch your weapon or land on the ground, so you can prevent Slow Acceleration by doing those things regularly.

As a conclusion, Just equip Recharge Time accessories on the both slots if you want to reduce cool-down time.

Technically speaking, Recharge Time Formula is estimated like this.
Side Note: total INT = Character's INT + additional INT by Accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge
*1: x 0.75 at max proficiency
*2: x 0.1 by Handgun Art
Note: this formula might include some errors, so it is an indication of Recharge Time.

Recharge Time multipliers depending on INT & Recharge Time Accessories are listed like this graph.




Case: Viral Shot 4, max Skill Proficiency, 231 INT, "Recharge Time -22.00%" x 0 or 2 on accessories, without Nanotech Boost Shot 4, at max Medal Gauge, no Handgun Art
・"Recharge Time -22.00%" x 0
・"Recharge Time -22.00%" x 2

Side Note: on this formula, you can get "Recharge Time: -100%" by twin "Recharge Time -25.00%" & 315 INT, but fair players like you wouldn't make it come true, would you?

HP Regeneration works depending on your Max HP, so the higher Max HP, the more HP are recovered even by the same % of HP Regeneration.

Hit Stuns pause HP Regeneration for a moment. However, Super Armor by Human Fortress and so on prevents Hit Stuns and lets HP Regeneration continue even when you receive damage.

There are several methods to regenerate HP, and most of them additively stack each other.
・First Aid Kit 2: 120% per minute
・HP Recovery Shot 4: 112.5% per minute
・Shield Matrix 2 or more: Lv.2 = 14% per 1.5 seconds, Lv.3 or 4 = 20% per 1.5 seconds
・x% of Max HP Recovered Over 1 Minute

Also, these accessory chips can multiply the effects of those methods.
・HP Recovery +x% (multiplies the speed of HP Regeneration)
・Max HP +x% (indirectly multiplies the amount of HP Regeneration)

Side Note: INT doesn't affect healing speed of HP Regeneration.

Some of those stuffs stack with each other but the others don't, so I summarized the compatibility of each stuff in these tables. In short, only the two pairs of "HP Recovery Shot + Shield Matrix" & "HP Recovery + HP Recovered Over 1 Minute" don't stack.

Tables: How to stack each other - about HP Regeneration -

*1: Healing Speed of HP Recovery Shot is affected by "HP Recovery +x%" that is equipped by the user of the Skill but not the healed person.

Drop Rates of weapons, accessories and Overclock Chips depend on LUC & "Item Drop Rate +x%" of your party. Approximate efficiencies of Characters' LUC, LUC accessories and "Item Drop Rate +x%" are supposed to be like this.

Table: Efficiency or Priority of solutions for better Drop Rates (◎>○>△)

Side Note: it seems that material drop rates also improved by LUC & "Item Drop Rate +x%" but most materials have nearly 100% drop rate in most cases without those solutions.

As a conclusion, these attempts provide better Drop Rates, according to results of Item Drop Rate Test, which are listed in "25. Fluff Data".
・go farming with a foursome (please select 255 LUC members from Friend List)
・as many "Item Drop Rate +x%" as possible & somewhat high Protagonist's LUC

"Item Drop Rate +x%" much more improves Drop Rates than "LUC +x", so you should prioritize to set "Item Drop Rate +x%" on allies and then additionally set "LUC +x" on them if you can. Also, you should pay attention to Protagonist's LUC since it can lower increments of Drop Rates if it is pretty low.

3 x "Item Drop Rate +37.00%" can be one of the answers if you consider how many "Item Drop Rate +37.00%" are efficient and effective enough. They can improve Accessory Drop Rates to be about 1.3 times. Also, they seemingly somewhat improve weapons' Drop Rates but I haven't done sufficient counts of trials to derive a reliable conclusion about how much they actually improve.

Side Note: Probably, the surmise in this section can be also applied to Drop Rates of abyssal weapons such as Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose. However, increments of those Drop Rates is negligible due to the unbelievable smallness of base Drop Rates of those weapons.

There are 4 types of weapon drops aside from some exceptions.
1. mobs = No Drop or Common to Legendary
2. named enemies = Uncommon to Legendary
3. bosses = Rare to Legendary
4. Golden Drone = Epic or Legendary
Side Note: in Special Invitation & Challenge
・Lievre: 7 chip-slot Epic or Legendary
・Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX & Cocytus Nifta EX: Legendary only

Also, Rarities of weapons are seemingly determined on these processes.
0th. Which Drop Type
1st. Drop or not (← "Item Drop Rate +x%" works here)
2nd. Which Rarity (← "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" works here)

Approximate efficiencies of Characters' LUC, LUC accessories and "Item Drop Rate +x%" are supposed to be like this. Needless to say, Accessory Cologne guarantees for all dropped accessories to be Legendary.

Table: Efficiency or Priority of solutions for better Legendary Ratios (◎>>△>✖)

As a conclusion, these attempts provide better Drop Ratios of Legendary weapons, according to the results of Rare Item Drop Rate Test, which are listed in "25. Fluff Data".
・go farming with a foursome (any members are okay, but 255 LUC members are preferred)
・stack 3 or 4 "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%"
In short, just put "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" on your allies if you want more Legendary weapons.

Unlike Item Drop Rate, LUC doesn't make significant differences on Drop Ratios. On the other hand, "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" massively improves Drop Ratios of Legendary weapons. Also, Rarity Ratios of weapons available from Treasure Boxes are similarly affected by "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%". However, between results of Rare Item Drop Rate +60.00% and +29.80%, there is no significant difference on Rarity Ratios. Thus, 3 or 4 of "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%" is an indication, and they will provide around twice drop chances for Legendary weapons.

Side Note: it is almost impossible to decently test Rarity Ratios of Golden Drones' weapons, but considering the results of "drop type: bosses", I suppose that Rarity Ratios of Golden Drone's weapons are also affected by "Rare Item Drop Rate +x%". Similarly, it is completely impossible to decently test the Rarity Ratio of Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose, but the ratio isn't seemingly so different from Rarity Ratios of "drop type of mobs", from my experiences. Therefore, those attempts for better Rarity Ratios are also probably worth in Abyssal Dungeon.

When you use this Skill to enemy players, they sometimes stand straight because they tend to stop to use Skills or Gadgets even when their Skills and Gadgets are freezed due to their poor AI. They tend to keep stopping while they are shot by you with Full-Auto weapons. However, when you get too close to them, they tend to restart to move.

Side Note: degrees of neutralizing
1. Asuna in Special Invitation: almost No Effect
She almost never stops moving, and she gets Versak more aggressive.
2. Kirito in Special Invitation: Medium or High
Freezing him is valuable to prevent him from using Sword Barrier & Sword Art.
3. Kureha in Special Invitation γ & Itsuki in Special Invitation β: medium or low
Although Itsuki often restarts to move, freezing them is valuable since they use Debuffs against you.
4. Lievre in Special Invitation: Very High
She rarely reacts to your getting close and your attacks no matter how much you attack her.
5. Lievre in Special Challenge: Low
She rarely reacts to your getting close but frequently reacts to your attacks and dodges Viral Shot & Skill Freeze Shot, and then sometimes moves for a while.
6. Kureha? in Abyssal Dungeon: Medium
She doesn't often react to your attack, but neatly reacts to your or your allies' getting close. Also, freezing her is valuable since she uses Debuffs against you.
7. Kirito? in Abyssal Dungeon: relatively High
He rarely reacts to your attack, but often reacts to your or your allies' getting close and then restarts to attack.
8. Itsuki? in Abyssal Dungeon: High
He rarely reacts to your attack, and often continues stopping while you attack him with Full-Auto weapons even when your allies get close to him.

In situations that you go on solo, when you get invincible with Hyper Awareness or Shield Matrix, enemy players and some types of Facsimiles get inactive temporarily. Meanwhile you can more easily aim at their heads and attack them one-sidedly. Utilizing those behavior due to their poor Al, you can easily defeat them by spamming Hyper Awareness with HG Art. Also, you tend to get out of being attacked intensively just after Shield Matrix's explosion due to those behavior, although Shield Matrix 3 or 4 doesn't make you invincible after its explosion.

When you get dead, they load AED Shot but occasionally stop moving without shooting AED Shot due to their poor AI. It seems that they tend to stop if they cannot aim at your head due to walls or stairs or something.
Side Note: ArFA-sys's Priority of reviving methods
Resuscitation Kit > AED Shot > direct reviving
Side Note: if Emote Setting of your ArFA-sys in the end of battles are "Happy" (default) or other, they neatly do that motion every time an enemy is defeated, prioritizing it over reviving you. Let's set Emote Setting at the end of battles to "Stand By".

Stun Resistance is different on each enemy type and level band. Enemies which have the same shape such as Automaton & Elite Automaton have a simple relation of Stun Resistance like this.
mob : named enemy : boss = 1 : 2 : 3

Secondary or tertiary Stun have much shorter Duration than the first Stun like this table. There are still 2.5 seconds in the third or later Stun, but you can hardly attack the stunned enemy's weak spot stably in most cases because most enemies just only stand up just after getting down by the third or later Stun.

Table: Comparison about the first Stun and later Stun

It is important when you inflict Stun on an enemy for their first time, and you should think that the third or later Stun are useless anymore. Also, before inflicting Stun on the enemy, you should debuff them and make a situation that you can maximally attack their weak spot safely.

I investigated and supposed as follows.

Table: Base Stun Stacking of each method

In addition to them, INT Scaling and "Debuff Stacking +x%" are individually multiplied like this.

*1: total INT = Character's INT + additional INT by Accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge

Case: in vs. Snowstorm Ereshkigal EX, on 231 INT, at max Medal gauge, without Nanotech Boost Shot, with "Debuff Stacking +50.00%" weapon
In this case, the product of each multiplier due to INT & "Debuff Stacking +x%" becomes x6.15. Also, She has the first critical point of being inflicted Stun at about 1460% Stun Stacking. Just for simplification, the apparent critical point becomes 237%. (= 1460% / 6.15)
Thus, these patterns get the first critical point.
・Stunner 3 x 3 (80% x 3 = 240% > 237%)
・Stun Trap + Stunner 4 (150% + 90% = 240% > 237%)

・Rolling deletes your hurt box for a moment.
・Evading or Shooting which cancel recovery frames after sword attack also work like Rolling.
・Avoiding with Hyper Awareness. (for 4 seconds after starting the avoidance motion)
・Some Skills such as Sharp Nail 3 & 4, Tactical Roll 3 & 4, and Scatter Wheel 3 & 4 temporarily make you invincible in their initial timing.
・During Shield Matrix
Shield Matrix 1 & 2 make you invincible until you finish standing up.
Shield Matrix 3 & 4 work like Shield Matrix 2 if you don't explode, otherwise they make you invincible until you explode. You are not invincible after the explosion.
・During Weapon Art, basically

・While you move with UFG
That is useful to get away from enemies' yells.
・Charged attack motion with Sword and some motions of Sword Skills
Example: motions of Horizontal Square
During Holding your sword over your shoulder: super armor
During Rushing to enemies: non super armor
During Slashing: super armor

You are forced to flinch by Shock Waves resulting from stamping attacks by Boreal Storm and its similar types. However while you are in the air, you can avoid those shock waves and get out of flinching, although you cannot avoid Cocytus Nifta EX's one.

When you disarm your weapons or switch to Sword*1, flying bullet of Skill Shot disappears. Thus, you should confirm the landing of the Skill Shot before switching to sword, especially when you use Skill Shots of low bullet speed such as Viral Shot and Skill Freeze Shot.

*1: switching to Gun & Sword doesn't erase Skill Shots.

The best counter is to hit Skill Freeze Shot before the enemy using Sword Barrier. If they have used Sword Barrier, you can stun them with Electrodynamic Stunner or Electromag Stun Trap, but if they also have used Anti-Ailment Kit 2, you cannot stun them. A residual counter is shooting at their right foot. It deals only a few damage but using Skill Freeze Shot, you can neutralize them temporarily. Another one with SRs is shooting at their head while they use Gadgets such as Ignition Knife.

This is useful in several situations.
It is very difficult to dodge enemy players' Skill Shot without obstacles, although they sometimes dodge our Viral Shot or Skill Freeze Shot by rolling... Anyway, Anti-AR Veil can shut out normal bullets but also tracking bullets. The Veil also helps you to revive another member.
Side Note: the Veil also shuts out Cocytus Nifta or Freezing Menace's shotgun bullets, and becomes an obstacle against their icicle blast attack. (the veil cannot intercept the blast wave of the attack)
The absorbing spot of the head of Cocytus Nifta and Freezing Menace is slightly shifted from the weak spot of them. As a counter against this gap, using the veil and aiming from its back, it turns off Target Assist temporarily, and you can shoot at their weak point with Quick Shot and Skill Cancel.
Side Note: you can also turn off Target Assist in game Options, but you cannot use the function against other enemies, in that case. Thus, that is good only for excellent gunners.

Of course, you can customize your avatar as you like. If your avatar is tall, some obstacles cannot cover an avatar's head and don't work effectively. An indication is 156 cm, in my opinion.
Side Note: Facsimiles & enemy players won't shoot unless their Bullet Lines can reach your avatar.

Figure: 155 cm vs. medium obstacle

・Critical Form Shot
This Skill has no effect on Critical Rate.
・Damage of Sharp Nail 3 & 4
Sharp Nail 4 with Gun & Sword deals the same damage of Sharp Nail 3.
・Damage of Azure Tempest
the Memory Chip, "Physical Attack +x%" is invalid only on Azure Tempest among Sword Skills.
・Accidental Cancel of Sword Skill or Art
when it happens unfortunately, Protagonist just stays as if they had been doing nothing.
・Switch Glitch

Damage-Calculation Formula helps you optimize your rolls as you like, but it involves many factors so they may confuse you. Also, not only your rolls but also external factors such as enemies' defence affect your damage dealt. Therefore, to simplify the formula, it calculates only your actual attack power inside Effective Range, in this section. External factors are going to be mentioned in the next section.

You can very precisely estimate these things, by utilizing this calculator.
・Damage Dealt, in any weapons & various situations
・Actual Weak-Spot Damage against each enemy in Special Invitation & Challenge, in any guns & various situations

Side Note: this Formula is mainly based on these videos posted by Mr. Gomikan.
Link of the video about whole process (in Japanese)
Link of the video about Weapon Status & Memory Chips (in Japanese)
Link of the video about Swords (in Japanese)
Link of the video about Critical Rate & Critical Form Shot (in Japanese)
Side Note: Mr. Gomikan said that he investigated the Formula by himself and then confirmed it is exact with the Official Guide Book. (Critical Form Shot? That's an exception)

Roughly speaking, you can get large damage outputs with these things, and basically, all you need to remember is only them. (Damage-Calculation Formula is optional)
≒ high DEX
(references: "5. Character's Status")
(references: "16. Recommended Chips" and latter sections)
(references: "9. Knowledge about Hardcore Co-op")
Sword wielders can ignore this element.
(references: "15. Damage-Calculation Formula -about Defence-")

If your Level isn't 300, you deal very slightly less damage on critical hits, weak spot hits and melee attacks against most of endgame enemies than Lv.300 players. Detailed charts are posted in one of my posts in "reddit". However, this article ignores this factor in considering Damage-Calculation Formula since all players should reach Lv.300 in endgame.

Melee Damage x [1 + 0.0025 x (STR - 1)]
Weak Spot Damage x [1 + 0.0050 x (DEX - 1)]
Critical Damage x [1 + 0.0025 x (DEX - 1)]
Critical Rate x [1 + 0.004 x (LUC - 1)]
Note: Multiplying of Weak Spot Damage by DEX is invalid for swords.

Damage x1.2 at max proficiency

Damage x [1 + 0.002 x "Medal Gauge %"]
Status: + RoundDown( "Medal Gauge %" / 2 )
bonus Status: Medal Gauge 50% to 99% ⇒ +10 , Medal Gauge 100% or more ⇒ +30
Side Note: max Medal Gauge ⇒ Damage x1.2 and all Status +80 in total

Lv.1: Damage x1.10
Lv.2: Damage x1.15
Lv.3: Damage x1.20
Lv.4: Damage x1.25
Lv.1: all Status +10
Lv.2: all Status +20
Lv.3: all Status +30
Lv.4: all Status +40
Lv.1: Melee Damage x1.25
Lv.2: Melee Damage x1.30

・Base Power*1 (This mustn't include the effects of Overclocking*1, "Weapon Attack +x%" and "Physical Attack +x%", "Optical Attack +x%", or "Explosive Attack +x%")
・Critical Rate (This is displayed including the effect of "Critical Rate +x%")
・Critical Damage (This is displayed including the effect of "Critical Damage +x%")
・Weak Spot Damage (This isn't displayed in game)
・RPM
・pellets per shell (on SGs only)
・Effective Range (This is displayed including the effect of "Effective Range +x%")

Detailed Status of Rank 11 Weapons[docs.google.com]
This Google Spreadsheet made by Mx. r2x5kz8.

Note: RPM of AMR Breakthrough 4 is actually 62. "RPM: 14" includes reloading time.
*1: In the Google Spreadsheet,
・"Base Damage" = 100% Base Power
Copied guns always have this value, and please apply it to the formula of this article.
・"Max Damage" = 105% Base Power
Barrel Cologne fixes initial Base Power of dropped weapons to this value.
・"Max Overclocking" = 110% Base Power
Fully overclocked weapons have this value.

Weapons' Damage attenuate on individual rate, in the outside of their Effective Range. It looks that each Rate is mainly different on Ammo Types, although there are some exceptions.
Target Assist works up to 1.95 times base Effective Range*2*3, and Bullet Circle's Assist works up to Maximum Range*2*4.

*2: These ranges are not extended by Memory Chip "Effective Range +x%".
*3: "Effective Range +95.00%" lets you deal full damage at any distance within the active range of Target Assist.
*4: Maximum Range = 2.40 times base Effective Range

Regarding Physical or Optical Power of RLs (& GLs), the damage increases to some extent after passing a certain distance or time.

Their effects are very simple. Each of them multiplies to the weapon's multiplier of Weak Spot Damage, Critical Damage, or Critical Rate. For instance, "Weak Spot Damage +50.00%" simply multiplies x1.5 on weak spot damage.

Example: Calculation of "Weak Spot Damage +50.00%" for AR Ninja (its weak spot multiplier is 200%)
Note: "Weak Spot Damage +x%" is invalid for swords.
Note: when you use guns on dual wield, those Memory Chips are invalid on copied gun.

Valid ones of them in your situation accumulate like this.
Case: your current HP is half and you hit Mechs with physical-damage attacks,

Note: "Physical Attack +x%" is valid only for Sword Skills among sword attacks.
Note: "Optical Attack +x%" is also valid on GL Ninja but on Crimson Roar, "Physical Attack +x%" is valid instead.
Note: when you use guns on dual wield, those Memory Chips are invalid on copied gun.
Side Note: some of Skills such as Explosive Shot include sub attack types. In the case of Explosive Shot, it has Explosive as a primary and Physical as a sub, so the both of "Explosive Attack +x%" & "Physical Attack +x%" are valid on Explosive Shot.

*1: Someone investigated "How damage at max HP/when near death really work." and its results was posted in "reddit". According to the results, the relation between current HP% and "Damage at Max HP +x%" or "Damage Near Death +x%" is shown like this graph. No one probably use only "Damage Near Death +x%", but the combination of "Damage at Max HP +x%" & "Damage Near Death +x%" guarantees your attack damage even when you take damage.

*1: its range is this: 95% ≦ Overclocking ratio ≦ 110%
Barrel Cologne fixes initial Base Power to 105%, and max Overclocking increases Base Power up to 110%.
*2: total DEX and total STR
total DEX = Character's DEX + additional DEX by accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge
total STR = Character's STR + additional STR by accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge
*3: "weapon's base multiplier of Critical Damage" x (1 + "Critical Damage +x%") = "weapon's displayed multiplier of Critical Damage"
*4: I listed them in "8. Damage Multipliers of Sword Attack & other Melee Skills".

Note: this DPM formula doesn't directly lead the DPM in battles either due to the simplification.

or

Note: Please correct "over 100%" to "100%" if the rate gets over 100%.
Side Note: total LUC = Character's LUC + additional LUC by accessories, Nanotech Boost Shot & Medal Gauge
Side Note: this formula ignores Critical Form Shot, on the basis of the results of my test. (Reference: "―25.6 Critical Form Shot")



Considering dual-wielded guns except for Full-Auto guns have less RPM than twice the RPM of the single,

Note: The range of the multiplier is about 0.95 to 0.65, and the higher RPM the gun has, the less RPM it tends to have with dual wielding. For instance, Miasma Edge+ has 200 RPM but dual Miasma has only 300 RPM, so the mutiplier for Miasma Edge+ is 0.75.

You should raise your defence basically if you want to be tanky, but in endgame, you can reach the cap of defence somewhat easily and you might waste some CP on excessive defence. Therefore, you should understand how defence works to some extent or learn an indication of defence value, in order to optimize your tanky or balanced rolls.

Also, the previous section ignored external factors in Damage-Calculation Formula but this section mentions them. They largely depend on situations, but simply put, all you should do is debuffing enemies and shooting at their weak spots.

Someone did a detailed investigation and its result was posted in "reddit" as "How the defense stats work".
According to their article, Defence works based on this formula, and simply put, +100 Defence equals 1% damage reduction and its cap is 95%.

*1: the Cap of total Defence is 9600.
total Defence = Character's Defence + additional Defence by Accessories, Medal Gauge*3, Nanotech Boost Shot*4 and Defence Buff*5 & Debuff*5
*2: valid "Something Defence +x%" & "Defence vs. something +x%" simply accumulate. Twin "Defence vs. Humanoids +50.00%" make you immortal in BoB, by the way.
*3: 0 to 49% ⇒ Defence +0
50% to 99% ⇒ all Status +35 = Defence +840
100% ⇒ all Status +80 = Defence +1920
*4: Nanotech Boost Shot 4 ⇒ all Status +40 = Defence +960
*5: Guard Field Shot 4 ⇒ Defence +2500, Armor Break Shot 4 (or Viral Shot 4) ⇒ Defence -2500
Hence, Guard Field Shot 4 and Armor Break Shot 4 (or Viral Shot 4) cancel each other.
Side Note: the Official Guide Book said that the effects of Guard Field Shot 1, 2, and 3 are respectively +10%, +15%, and +20% Defence, but these expressions are misleading.

Thus, your receiving Damage Rates are listed like these graphs, when you don't equip "Something Defence +x%" or "Defence vs. something +x%" Accessories. According to the graphs, more than 5180 Defence are basically pointless when you maintain Guard Field Shot 4 & max Medal Gauge, and it works only while you haven't finished charging Medal Gauge or you have taken Defence Debuffs.

I tested and recorded weak spot damage against all of the enemies in the Special Invitation & Challenge with Sound Deadener 2 & Al-Nassr 4+, on two patterns of Lv.4 Defence Debuff & no Debuff.

Although I'll omit its detailed results, I estimate that Enemies' Defence similarly works on the Defence Formula.

*1: The cap of total Defence is 9600.
total Defence = the enemy's Defence + additional Defence by Defence Buff & Debuff
*2: Each type of enemies respectively has different multipliers and they also depend on your weapon's Attack Type such as physical, optical, explosive or melee.

Basically, Defence Debuff can largely boost your giving damage, but Debuff cannot work maximally against some of enemies because those enemies have Defence excessively. Especially, Lv.300 S-Type Speedy Facsimile, Lv.325 Arctic Hooligan / Pyromaniac & Lv.325 Ghospet seem to have more than 12100 Defence, and they are completely immune to Defence Debuff.

Table: Damage Increase Rate with Lv.4 Debuff for some enemies in the Special Invitation & Challenge or enemy clones in Abyssal Dungeon (when you attack with projectile guns)

In damage calculation in this game, which spot is the weak spot of the enemy is designed beforehand regardless of Attack Type of your attacks, unlike Monster Hunter or something like that.

Weak spot multipliers of each type of enemies are listed like the below table. According to the table, weak spot multipliers seemingly tend to be like these.
・Mechs: Physical < Optical
・Lifeforms: Physical = Optical = Explosive ≦ Melee
・Humanoids: Physical : Optical = 1.00 : 0.75

There is no crucial difference between weak spot multipliers depending on which Attack Type, in enemies except for Behemoth. Thus, in most cases, all you have to do is shooting at weak spots whatever guns you use, and slashing enemies, without considering weak spots if you use swords.

Table: Weak Spot Multipliers of some types of enemies against each Attack Type
("?" means it's too difficult to measure)

I investigated spot multipliers of several enemies and I supposed the relation between spot multipliers and the color of damage displays is like these. Also, damage at weak spots are always displayed with red numbers on larger font sizes.

Table: Damage Display depending on Spot Multiplier and weak spot

*1: Due to that, it can look that some of enemies have multiple weak spots, but all enemies except for Behemoth & Magicians*2 individually have only one true weak spot. Thus, Normal-size red numbers are actually something like fakes of weak spot damage, and weak spot multipliers don't work on them and they are much lesser than true weak spot damage in most cases.
*2: Behemoth has two different weak spots and Magicians symmetrically have two same weak spots.

Case: Sniping Snowstorm Ereshkigal (not EX version) with AMR Tiamat Type-Z
Conditions: 255 DEX, max Medal Gauge, no Nanotech Boost, Memory Chips: "Weak Spot Damage +50.00%" and other

Enemies in Abyssal Dungeon have different spot multipliers. In other words, they have additional multipliers on their spot multipliers like these.
・1F to 46F
all enemies: x 1.747
This means that enemies in those floors of Abyssal Dungeon are much fragiler than normal enemies.
・47F to 50F
Mobs: x 0.8723
Kureha?: x 1.7084
Kirito? & Itsuki? and Bosses: x 1.7447
Thus, mobs in the last stage of Abyssal Dungeon are twice tougher than mobs in under 47F, whereas enemy clones and bosses are still fragile.

Case: Facsimiles' weak spot multipliers
・normal ones: Physical ⇒ 1.20, Optical ⇒ 1.30
・in under 47F: Physical ⇒ 1.20 x 1.747 ≒ 2.096, Optical ⇒ 1.30 x 1,747 ≒ 2.271
・in 47 to 50F: Physical ⇒ 1.20 x 0.8723 ≒ 1.047, Optical ⇒ 1.30 x 0.8723 ≒ 1.134

Attacks respectively have one primary Attack Type and some attacks have sub Attack Types. Primary Attack Types determine which Damage-Calculation Formula (for guns or for melee attacks) and which spot multiplier are applied. On the other hand, sub Attack Types only affect whether Memory Chips such as "Physical Damage +x%" additionally work on the attack or not.

Table: Damage-Calculation Formula applied against primary Attack Type & hit spot

Example: Spot Multipliers of Arctic Triple Artillery

Note: these assortments are just examples, but based on theories that I described in "14. Damage-Calculation Formula".

Good assortments of Memory Chips mainly depend on Critical Rate of each weapon.
I classify base Critical Rates of weapons like these. (*1)
・High: around 10.0% or more
・Medium: about 3.0% to 5.0%
・Low: 1.5% or less

Each example of chip assortments in this article contains bounty chips, but you can substitute normal chips for bounty chips if you don't have them or want to save them for more favorite weapons.

You can also acquire more bounty chips but it's pretty tedious. That's because available bounty chips are limited on each Protagonist, and you need to recreate Protagonist in another save slot and farm bounty once more.

*1: If you want to precisely consider which type is better on your weapon, you need to consider not only its Critical Rate but also its Critical Damage and other factors. Therefore, there is no definite consistent boundary depending only on Critical Rate.

Side Note: Comparisons and related graphs in later sections follow these conditions.
・plenty of bounty chips and bounty weapons themselves
・315 DEX for guns, and 254 STR & DEX for swords
・max HP, Weapon Proficiency, and Medal Gauge
・with Power Field Shot 4 & Melee Booster Kit 2, but without Nanotech Boost Shot
・attack against mech enemies


*2: "Critical Rate +44.50% & Damage at Max HP +50.00%" or "Critical Rate +60.00% & Damage at Max HP +29.50%"
The former set has slightly higher DPM on all high Critical Rate guns, but on LMG Moonlight 3++ and AR Blue Rose MK3+, the latter set is hardly different from the former set.
Note: regarding Gatling Guns, please replace "Auto-Reload Rate +x%" to "Overheat Buildup & Duration x%" in those typical Chip Assortments.


*3: several choices on locked slot, for instance
・Damage vs. Lifeforms +x%
・Melee Damage from Behind +x%
・Damage When Near Death +x%
*4: Critical Rate +44.50% & Damage vs. Mechs +50.00% are another option.

Procyon SL4+ & Ordinal Ray MK3+: for sub weapons
Semi-Auto HGs: for Quick Shot builds

The both of Procyon SL4+ & Ordinal Ray MK3+ are major sub weapons, and these points are major differences between the two.
・the strongest Procyon SL4+ requires you to farm the whole bounty but it is available at 100%
・Procyon SL4+ is lighter and faster than Ordinal Ray MK3+ (*1)
・Ordinal Ray MK3+ has better Accuracy and very long Effective Range
・Ordinal Ray MK3+ has 1% Stun Stacking*2 on its each normal bullet
It is difficult to decide which is better, so please choose your favorite one.

Side Note: it seems that more people use Procyon SL4+.
*1: You can move slightly faster by holding one of them.
*2: Copied Ordinal Ray MK3+ also has the Stun Stacking, and "Debuff Stacking +x%" also works on it.

Side Note: DPS Comparison of Procyon SL4+ & Ordinal Ray MK3+
Weak Spot DPS: Procyon SL4+ > Ordinal Ray MK3+
Normal Spot DPS: Procyon SL4+ ≒ Ordinal Ray MK3+

Chips of each gun

Using Quick Shot, Skill Cancel, & Handgun Art, this handgun can deal the highest Weak Spot DPM (roughly similar DPM to dual Royal Guard Gold).
Note: some people equip Long Stroke Type-Z as a sub weapon to use buffs, but it's nonsense. Long Stroke & Quick Shot, they shouldn't be divided.


*1: Please select one locked chip among them.
・"Effective Range +60.00%" provides more stability of large damage from far distance
・"Debuff Stacking +40.00%" is convenient if you use Electrodynamic Stunner or Electromag Stun Trap with Long Stroke Type-Z, but you can also use those Skills & Gadgets with the secondary weapon
・"Damage vs. Humanoids +32.00%" focuses mainly on vs. Lievre in the Special Challenge, although you can kill her without the chip during the first Stun

Other Semi-Auto HGs such as Miasma Edge++ & Betelgeuse 4 are also suitable for Quick Shot builds.
Miasma Edge++ has the highest Critical Rate in its peers but it also has the shortest Effective Range in them. On the other hand, Betelgeuse 4 has a little lower Critical Rate compared to other common Semi-Auto HGs but it has the longest Effective Range in them.


*1: These 3 patterns of Betelgeuse 4 have almost the same damage output against Mechs.

Most SGs have terrible Accuracy and short Effective Range and there is large damage attenuation in the outside of their Effective Range, but "Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%" & "Effective Range +x%" lighten those disadvantages.
"Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%" largely improves Accuracy of SGs, even of Full-Auto SGs. Also, "Effective Range +x%" provides stability of damage even in a little farther distance.

This shotgun has a somewhat high weak spot multiplier, better Accuracy and very long Effective Range compared to other shotguns. Due to that, it hardly needs "Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%", while the Memory Chip is helpful on most shotguns. Also, it hardly needs "Auto-Reload Rate +x%" or "Ammo Capacity +x%" either, since it originally has plenty of Ammo Capacity compared to its RPM.


Place: Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area
Drop Rate: 100% & Epic or Legendary only
Appearance probability of Golden Drones: Fixed

Processes of one cycle
1st. Fast Travel to Midpoint 3 in Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area
2nd. Go straight to the room of the additional teleporter
3rd. Look up and Check whether Golden Drone has appeared above your head
4th. Get in the teleporter
5th. Check whether Golden Drone has appeared in front of you

Side Note: on the way of the 2nd process, you can also farm Sound Deadener 2 from Arctic Triple Artillery.
Side Note: this method has double chances to find Golden Drone, but I have never seen Golden Drones simultaneously appear at the both points.

Figure: the Location of Golden Drone in Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area

Place: Meteorological Institute Ruins

Processes of one cycle
1st. Fast Travel to Midpoint in Meteorological Institute Ruins
2nd. Use Hawk Eye 4 yourself or let someone of your allies*1 use it
3rd. Go straight to the room in front of you
4th. Get in the room and Check your radar whether Golden Drone has appeared (*2)

*1: ArFA-sys who set only Hawk Eye 4 or Musketeer X use Hawk Eye immediately after Fast Travel.
*2: You need to carefully check your radar. The below figures are each example of appearance or not. The slightly bigger red light in the center marks that Golden Drone has appeared.


Figures: Checking Golden Drone with radar in Meteorological Institute Ruins

"Bullet Circle Accuracy +x%" & "Effective Range +x%" much improve usability of typical SGs like Valkyrie Type-Z that have the worst Critical Rate, very short Effective Range & very low Accuracy.

Royal Guard Gold is a Full-Auto shotgun and has too crazy the highest DPM among Full-Auto weapons. However, it also has a very heavy weight, and it is very hard to find one which has your favorite chips.


*1: several choices on locked slot
・Weapon Attack +x%
・Effective Range +x%
・Bullet Circle Accuracy +x% and so on
The Priority about locked slots in my shoes is...
Critical Rate +x%*2 > Auto-Reload Rate +x% > Bullet Circle Accuracy +x% ≒ Effective Range +x% > Weapon Attack +x% ≧ Damage vs. Mechs +x%
*2: "Critical Rate +x%" on locked slot can be swapped with "Physical Attack +x%" or "Damage at Max HP +x%" since Royal Guard Gold originally has high Critical Rate.

Note: since Colognes don't work in the Abyssal Dungeon, the appearance ratio of Memory Chips have bias such as that "Damage vs. Something +x%" & "Ammo Acquired +x%" are frequent but "Weapon Attack +x%" & "Critical Rate +x%" are rare. You can feel the bias in Predatory General Shop.
Side Note: typical Memory Chips for Royal Guard MK3+ can be similarly considered.

This SMG has extremely high Critical Rate and requires only 132 STR to use it on dual wield.
That's why this SMG is suitable only for Critical-Base Type or similar assortments and this SMG is the most popular partner of Long Stroke Type-Z.

Side Note: Sturm KZ4+, Sirius 4+, & LMG Helical MK4 also require a little STR, but they have much less DPM than LMG Moonlight 3++, sub weapons' DPM doesn't matter though. Their DPM are like these, when the DPM of LMG Moonlight 3++ (Chips: Critical-Base) at 200 LUC is defined as "100%".
・Sturm KZ4+ (Chips: Mid-Critical) ⇒ about 60%
・Sirius 4+ (Chips: Mid-Critical) ⇒ about 70% (at normal spots) or 80% (at weak spots)
・LMG Helical MK4 (Chips: Mid-Critical) ⇒ about 55%

Having said that, DPM of sub weapons don't matter so much. Among these chip sets, the non-bounty-chip version is more reasonable and much easier to get than the bounty-chip versions.


Place: Demon Cave
Drop Rate: 100% & Epic or Legendary only
Appearance probability of Golden Drones: Fixed

Processes of one cycle
1st. Fast Travel to Midpoint in Demon Cave
2nd. Use Hawk Eye 4 and Open the door in front of you
3rd. Look up west side and move up to the passage by using UFG twice, UFG & Vorpal Strike, or UFG & Dual Orbital (*1)
4th. Get close the the door and check your radar whether there are 3 enemies in the center of the room
5th. Fall out from the passage (*1) (*2)
6th. Move to the passage on the east side by using Dual Orbital (*1) (*2)
7th. Check your radar of dungeon Map whether there are one enemy on the east side

*1: Regarding the 3rd to 5th process, if you only check the appearance of Golden Drone on the west side, all you have to do is jumping up, using Dual Orbital, and getting close to the door.
*2: instead of falling out from the west-side passage, you can move to the east-side passage by using Dual Orbital twice in a row.
Side Note: this method has double chances to find Golden Drone, but I have never seen Golden Drones simultaneously appear at the both points.
Side Note: some people made and posted videos about "How to farm LMG Moonlight".

Figure: Golden Drone on the west side in Demon Cave

Figure: Golden Drone on the east side in Demon Cave

Figure: Checking Golden Drone with radar in Demon Cave

Mid-Critical Type is good for this SMG.
This SMG has a higher DPM like SPB Potassium Type-Z than LMG Moonlight 3++. However, This SMG isn't a good partner for Long Stroke Type-Z, and it has a pretty short Effective Range. You can also make up its short Effective Range with "Effective Range +x%" to some extent, like this roll.

This SMG is a high-standard SMG, which has high DPS and not high STR Requirement. It can work as not only a sub weapon but also a main weapon.

SMG Technical V3+ ≒ SPB Potassium Type-Z > LMG Moonlight 3++

Chips of each gun



SMG Technical V3+ has only 15.0 of Effective Range. This value is not so different from Effective Range of Royal Guard MK3+ (or Gold), and you may care about its Effective Range frequently. On the other hand, since Accuracy of Potassium Type-Z is C+, this SMG is not suitable to shoot at enemies from somewhat far distance without ADS. LMG Moonlight 3++ is average about Effective Range & Accuracy, but each of the other two has merits and demerits.

LMG Moonlight 3++ barely decreases your Movement Speed unlike the other two. The decrements by SMG Technical V3+ or SPB Potassium Type-Z are bigger than many ARs for some reason.

LMG Moonlight 3++ highly depends on Critical Hits for its damage source, so you need to invest on LUC instead of its low STR Requirement, but that doesn't matter if you choose a high Critical Rate weapon as another weapon. On the other hand, dual SPB Potassium Type-Z requires fewer STR by 30 than dual SMG Technical V3+, and DPM of SPB Potassium Type-Z is more independent on LUC than DPM of SMG Technical V3+. Thus, SPB Potassium Type-Z has more Flexibility on character's Status.

LMG Moonlight MK3++ works almost only as a sub weapon along with high Critical Rate weapons.
SMG Technical V3+ only works as a main weapon, or sub weapon along with heavy SRs or GGs. To be honest, its role basically overlaps ARs' role and its DPM isn't so different from SPB Rapier Type-Z's DPM. "SMG Technical V3+ or AR" is trade-off between required STR & Weight, and Effective Range (& Target Assist Range). SPB Potassium Type-Z works as not only a main weapon, but also a sub weapon along with various weapons.
In short, the roles of these three SMGs are different.

Side Note: as for SPB Rapier Type-Z, options for non-designated slots are like these, for instance.
・Damage vs. Lifeforms/Humanoids +x%
・Effective Range +x%
・Debuff Stacking +x%


Place: Lost Gate
Drop Rate: 100% & Epic or Legendary only
Appearance probability of Golden Drone: Fixed

All you have to do is this process: Fast travel to the Midpoint 2 in Lost Gate and Check whether Golden Drone has appeared on your left side.

Side Note: you can also use Hawk Eye & your radar to check the appearance. ArFA-sys who set only Hawk Eye or Musketeer X use Hawk Eye immediately after Fast Travel.

Figure: Checking Golden Drone with radar in Lost Gate

Weak Spot DPS: AR Ninja 3++ >> AR Blue Rose MK3+ ≒ SPB Rapier Type-Z
Normal Spot DPS: AR Blue Rose MK3+ ≧ AR Ninja 3++ ≒ SPB Rapier Type-Z

Chips of each gun

・Single Wield


・Dual Wield


AR Ninja 3++ relatively slows you down than the others.

AR Blue Rose MK3+ needs high LUC to get high DPM, and AR Ninja 3++ requires almost max STR for you to use it on dual wield. Thus, SPB Rapier Type-Z is the most flexible on Character's Status among them.

AR Ninja 3++ can deal massive Weak Spot DPM, but requires almost max STR for dual wield and causes slow Movement Speed. AR Blue Rose MK3+ and SPB Rapier Type-Z have similar roles. SPB Rapier Type-Z is kinder for low-level characters but farming it is absolutely hard for them, ironically.

AMR Grim Reaper+, AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Breakthrough 4 are used to hunt Behemoth with Explosive Shot. The damage difference between general-purpose one and specialized one is like these.
・normal chips ⇒ general-purpose : specialized = 1.00 : 1.14
・bounty chips ⇒ general-purpose : specialized = 1.00 : 1.18
It depends on your thought whether 14% or 18% improvement is worth farming specialized Chip Assortments of those SRs and enhancing them.

This sniper rifle has the second highest Weak Spot DPM among Full-Auto weapons, but its Bullet Speed is exceptionally slow, and its Ammo Capacity is only 20 and you are not able to use dual wielding with it. That's why "Ammo Capacity +x%" is suitable for it.

Mid-Critical Type is good for these sniper rifles.

Side Note: it seems that they are not popular SRs, but MEBR Special 2 & Dragon Killer 2 are normally superior on Weak Spot DPM to AMR Grim Reaper+ & AMR Tiamat Type-Z, although this comparison is almost pointless or nonsense since their damage per shot are completely different from AMRs' damage. Force 2+? Please forget it.

Mid-Critical Type & Critical-Base Type are good for these sniper rifles, since they have relatively high Critical Rate.

Side Note: Mid-Critical Type vs. Critical-Base Type
Both Types have similar DPM against Mechs. Mid-Critical Type has a little more consistency on vs. Mechs but Critical-Base Type deals larger critical damage regardless of the type of enemies.


Figure: the location of Facsimile Punishers in Old South

Figure: the Items in Demon Cave Depths

Facsimile Punishers respawn with maximum counts in the center location. The detailed route is shown in the below figure. Please turn back just at the left side of the halfway mark shown in the next figure and make sure to defeat all of 4 Facsimile Punishers. You can use your favorite weapons in running this farming, but Full-Auto weapons which don't depend on weak spot damage and have enough accuracy will help you to farm smoothly. My choice is Benetnasch 4+, by the way.

Figure: Route of farming AMR Grim Reaper

Figure: Halfway Mark in farming AMR Grim Reaper

Mid-Critical Type or Non-Critical Type are good for this sniper rifle.

Note: if you don't use Cocking Cancel, "Auto-Reload Rate +x%" is not necessary.
Side Note: it seems that some people, especially less than Lv.300 players, often equip this SR even when they are on low Level, as if they consider just only its high Base Power. However, this SR brings out its advantage in the situation that you one shot each enemy one after another. Don't be misled just by its high Base Power.

This sniper rifle has the highest Base Power and is able to brush away the target such as enemy players, Automatons, & Facsimiles by its normal shot, but Its Ammo Capacity is only 1 instead of those advantages. However, since it is a Semi-Auto gun, you can continuously shoot to some extent, by putting Ammo Capacity +200% & Auto-Reload Rate +74.50% on it.

Note: Ammo Capacity +74.50% provides no benefit to this sniper rifle.

AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Breakthrough 4 are better at killing mobs than AMR Grim Reaper+, since AMR Grim Reaper+ depends on Critical Hits. Fully enhanced AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Breakthrough 4 are able to one shot Facsimiles without debuffs, in the Special Invitation and Challenge, without Nanotech Boost Shot.

Chips of each gun



AMR Breakthrough 4 has only 1 round in its magazine and has a very long reloading time. Therefore, in order to get more DPM with it, you need to use "Auto-Reload Rate +x%" & "Ammo Capacity +200.00%" as its Memory Chips or frequently use Tactical Roll to reload. AMR Grim Reaper+ should have "Auto-Reload Rate +x%" because you should think that it basically takes several shots to kill an enemy with it.

AMR Grim Reaper+ & AMR Tiamat Type-Z have only 36 or 40 RPM. At this rate, AMR Grim Reaper+ has about 50% to 60% of (no-reloading) DPM of AMR Breakthrough 4, and AMR Tiamat Type-Z has about 70%. Therefore, it is necessary to master the technique of Cocking Cancel, in order to get more DPM than AMR Breakthrough 4 with AMR Grim Reaper+ or AMR Tiamat Type-Z. You can get about 72 RPM by mastering Cocking Cancel, and it means that AMR Grim Reaper+ & AMR Tiamat Type-Z deal nearly twice DPM than normal shooting!

AMR Grim Reaper+ & AMR Tiamat Type-Z have narrow active area of Target Assist, but their Effective Range are very long and Damage Rate in the outside of Effective Range doesn't attenuate so much. Thus, they meet your expectation at any distance if you are good at aiming.
AMR Breakthrough 4 is opposite in those aspects. Although it still has enough Effective Range, Its damage in the outside decreases by as much as 25% as the first stage while the others' damage don't attenuate or decrease by only 10%.

AMR Tiamat Type-Z & AMR Breakthrough 4 especially slow you down.

AMR Grim Reaper+ has the lowest STR requirement and Weight among them, but it needs high LUC to give more Critical Hits. On the other hand, AMR Breakthrough 4 has the highest STR requirement and Weight among them. AMR Tiamat Type-Z is milder on those aspects than AMR Break through 4.

AMR Grim Reaper+ is largely different from the others, and AMR Grim Reaper+ is suitable to defeat bosses, or too tough mobs. AMR Tiamat Type-Z and AMR Breakthrough 4 are good at defeating enemies one after another and their roles are similar, but it is much easier to aim with AMR Breakthrough 4 due to the active area of Target Assist. Also, you need to master Cocking Cancel to deal massive DPM with AMR Grim Reaper+ or AMR Tiamat Type-Z.

This gatling gun requires much fewer STR and has much lighter weight than other gatling guns, and has short charging time to fire.


*1: Electrodynamic Stunner is not available with gatling guns.
Side Note: DPM Ranking of GGs (Chips: Non-Critical)
Pandemonium Ⅲ > Pandemonium Type-Z > World End+ ≒ Benetnasch 4+ > other GGs

Mid-Critical Type or Critical-Base Type are one of good chip assortments for Deneb Kaitos Type-Z & GL6 Disaster Gold, since they have a little high Critical Rate and exceptionally have high Critical Damage among Launchers, but GL6 Disaster Gold has the heaviest weight and it is very hard to find one which has your favorite chips. Also, you can remove "Weak Spot Damage +x%" from your grenade launcher or replace it to "Physical Attack +x%" or "Optical Attack +x%" depending on Ammo Type of your Rocket Launcher, since explosive attacks rarely hit at weak spots except for Behemoth's weak spot.


Other launchers except for GL Ninja 3++ are suitable for Mid-Critical Type or Non-Critical Type due to their low Critical Damage. Similarly, please replace "Weak Spot Damage +x%" to another chip if you want.

・How to get: Opening the Treasure Box behind of Makai Twins in Demon Cave Depths
"Optical Attack +x%" is also valid on Explosive Power of GL Ninja. ("Physical Attack +x%" instead of "Optical Attack +x%" is valid on Crimson Roar for some reason, although it also use Launcher EP)

7 chip-slot Epic swords can also work nearly best since swords only need Memory Chips related to damage or Critical Hits unlike guns. Thus, you should check not only Legendary but also Epic when you farm swords.

Also, just as a reminder, "Weak Spot Damage +x%" is invalid for swords.

*1: Drop Rate: Crazily Extremely Low, & Rarity: Common to Legendary
Thus, please remember that it requires much more patience and takes much longer time to find Gigas Cedar or Blue Rose which have these chips on locked slots, than you would expect.


To be honest, those ideal chip sets are nearly pipe dreams. Then, what are realistic or practical chips sets for Gigas Cedar or Blue Rose? Considering the bias on appearance ratios of Memory Chips, following chip sets are one of compromises between too low drop rate & high damage output.

More common pattern is like this.

*2: several choices on locked slot
・Damage vs. Lifeforms +x%
・Damage vs. Humanoids +x%
・Melee Damage from Behind +x%
・Damage When Near Death +x%
・Debuff Stacking +x% (mainly for Kagemitsu Type-Z as a sub weapon)
The priority of them in my shoes is...
(Debuff Stacking +x%)*4 > Melee Damage from Behind +x%*5 ≧ Damage When Near Death +x%*6 > Damage vs. Lifeforms +x% ≧ Debuff Stacking +x% > Damage vs. Humanoids +x%
*4: This is the priority when I use the sword as a sub weapon.
*5: "Melee Damage from Behind +x%" works only within a somewhat narrow angle illustrated in the below figure. Therefore, it is activated only in limited situations if you fight on solo.
*6: Since Swords are melee weapons, sword wielders tend to more often take some damage than gunners. If you usually heal yourself immediately with Shield Matrix or Healing Field Shot, "Damage When Near Death +x%" is useless for you. but it is sometimes useful if you rely on HP Regeneration.

*3: You can get "Critical Rate: 100%" with "Blue Rose with Critical Rate +44.50%" and somewhat high LUC, so "Critical Rate +60.00%" isn't essential for Blue Rose.
Side Note: LUC value reaching "Critical Rate: 100%" with Blue Rose
・with Critical Rate +44.50% ⇒ 248 LUC & max Medal Gauge (without Nanotech Boost Shot)
・with Critical Rate +60.00% ⇒ 192 LUC & max Medal Gauge (without Nanotech Boost Shot)


Figure: active angle of "Melee Damage from Behind +x%"

・Movement Speed
Gigas Cedar << Blue Rose ≒ Kagemitsu Type-Z
・base Critical Rate
Gigas Cedar : Blue Rose : Kagemitsu Type-Z = 9 : 30 : 10
・Actual Damage of Critical Hits
Gigas Cedar : Blue Rose : Kagemitsu Type-Z ≒ 10 : 2 : 3
・Weight & DPS*1
Gigas Cedar : Blue Rose : Kagemitsu Type-Z ≒ 3 : 2 : 1

As a conclusion,
・Gigas Cedar is good for defeating bosses (other enemies might be over killed)
・Blue Rose is good for defeating mobs with a few slashes
・Kagemitsu Type-Z is a good sword as a sub weapon

*1: I calculated Sword DPS as their average damage dealt per 10 slashes on the assumption that "Physical Attack +x%" is valid.

You can level up very fast with Challenge Quest such as "Defeat 15 enemies with Handguns"*1 at 11F or deeper of Abyssal Dungeon, and the deeper floors, the much more EXP you can obtain from the quest.

Thus, although you can also go forward defeating all enemies, it's faster to go through floors, with defeating only necessary enemies to open the doors. (Since all maps of Abyssal Dungeon are made by reusing other maps, you probably remember Routes & Contraptions*2 of those maps as long as you have played the main story & DLCs.)

Go through floors up to the next checkpoint
→ Level up with Challenge Quest (if you get stuck)
→ Go through floors up to the next checkpoint
→ ...

*1: Required weapon category is changed on each entering floor, so you can choose your favorite category.
*2: In some maps, some contraptions have already been unlocked in Abyssal Dungeon.

dropped weapons → Rank 11 weapons in Weapon Shop → (after reaching 50F) Type-Z weapons or Abyssal weapons

Which category or what weapons you should use depends on your preference, but generally speaking, Peacock, SMG or ARs (not LMGs) are suitable to go through floors with defeating mobs. By the way, I suggest that Sirius 4+ or Peacock 4+ are good as the first choice among Rank 11 weapons and the next is Sylph Type-D for vs. enemy clones. (if you already have enough Status to equip dual Sylph Type-D when you get enough money to buy a Rank 11 weapon for the first time, you can buy Sylph Type-D first and you don't need to buy Sirius 4+ or Peacock 4+)

Note: since weapons' overclocked rates are changed on each interaction with Weapon Shop, you can buy somewhat overclocked weapons by interacting several times.
Side Note: the Locations of Type-Z weapons and Abyssal weapons
・Clones' Room: Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose, and SPB Potassium Type-Z & AMR Tiamat Type-Z
・Lost Gate: Valkyrie Type-Z (from Treasure Box after vs. Bloody Butcher), Deneb Kaitos Type-Z (from Ruthless Angel) & Kagemitsu Type-Z (from Bloody Butcher)
・Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area: Long Stroke Type-Z (from Zodiac Crown)
・the Last Floor: Royal Guard Gold & GL6 Disaster Gold (from Last Judgement), and SPB Rapier Type-Z or Pandemonium Type-Z (from Treasure Box)

You can ignore INT in the first half of Abyssal Dungeon, by relying allies on getting Buffs.
Also, focus on STR & DEX to equip higher rank weapons, AGI & VIT are the second, and ignore LUC.

Note: There is no need to use Debuffs in the first half of Abyssal Dungeon, and in the latter half, you are going to have enough CP to raise INT and use Debuffs.

You should choose them considering their Defence, Buffs (& Debuffs) and Healing Skills.
Also, you can command them to stand by, in order to save money*3 for buying Rank 11 weapons early.

*3: It costs some money to lift each lock of your allies. If you get dead, you can also immediately retire, in order to prevent secondary deaths of your allies.

Needless to say, make sure to make your allies use Power Field Shot 4, Guard Field Shot 4 & Nanotech Boost Shot 4, and use Armor Break Shot 4 (or Viral Shot 4) against clones. Charging Medal Gauge by spamming field buffs before starting the battle and setting multiple Skill Freeze Shot on your skill palette and spamming Skill Freeze Shot against clones much help you to beat the clones.

Side Note: Clones' fighting actions
Clones basically attack against the nearest opposite.
・Kureha uses Armor Form 4 after Trigger Happy at the beginning and Armor Form 4 makes her very tough. Also, she uses Debuffs, so If you fail to freeze her at the beginning, take a distance and use your allies as a decoy temporarily. After that, try to freeze her again.
・Kirito uses dangerous Sword Skills and Handguns, so use your allies as a decoy if you don't have enough toughness. If his attacks become critical hits (this is not a rare thing), they can deal nearly fatal damage on you. He also uses Human Fortress 4, but you don't need to consider it seriously since its effect is less than Armor Form 4.
・Itsuki just only spams Status Ailment attacks or Gadgets, so you can almost ignore him by using Anti-Ailment Kit 2. Only beware not to stay inside poison or blaze fields in order not to decrease Medal Gauge, if you don't use Human Fortress 1.

To be honest, I wonder how many people plan to farm Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose legitimately for now, especially on PC Edition. I think that even if you created perfect Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose with unusual methods, few people would care about it unless you boasted those swords. (If you use black magic, do it at your own risk)
Anyway, I'll talk about an example of normal methods to farm Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose.

Main Weapons: Royal Guard Gold, SPB Rapier Type-Z or Long Stroke Type-Z
Accessories: farming them on the way of going through 47 to 49F
Side Note: Priority of ArFA-sys's accessories
Rare Item Drop Rate +x% >> LUC +x > Item Drop Rate +x%

ArFA-sys (Buffs & Healing), Asuna and another one such as Silica
Note: You should choose allies considering their Defence & LUC.
Caution: Make sure to go with a foursome to get better Drop Rates of Gigas Cedar & Blue Rose.

Lost Gate: shortcut (fall in the hole) toward the teleporter to the next floor
Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area: get back, or go through, defeating enemies minimally
If 47F is Meteorological Institute Ruins Midpoint Area, you should get back once.

1. Status
STR: 254
DEX: 240
INT: 196
AGI: 206 or more
After that, adjust Status considering Defence, moderate LUC & Movement Speed.
2. Accessories
Any accessories are okay, but some accessories are helpful like these.
・Movement Speed +x% (for quicker farming)
・STR +x & DEX +x (for making up for Status to wield dual Royal Guard Gold)
・AGI +x (for more Defence & Movement Speed)
3. Skills & Gadgets
Royal Guard Gold: Skill Freeze Shot 3 & 4, Armor Break Shot 4, & another (such as Tactical Roll)
sub weapon: Speed Form 4, Electrodynamic Stunner 3, & others
Gadgets: First Aid Kit 2, Anti-Ailment Kit 2, Electromag Stun Trap, & another
Side Note: Human Fortress 1 helps you maintain Medal Gauge to be high, and Healing Shot or Healing Field Shot can help you instantly charge the gauge.

Compared to Royal Guard Gold, this build is more stable and defensive but it takes more time to defeat enemies.
1. Status
STR: 202
DEX: as high as possible (considering Defence)
INT: 196
AGI: 206 or more
After that, adjust Status considering Defence.
2. & 3. Accessories and Skills & Gadgets
They are similar to Royal Guard Gold build's one.

This build can be another choice if you have acquired two of good Recharge Accessories fortunately.
1. Status
STR: 127
DEX: as high as possible
INT: 196
AGI: 206 or more
After that, adjust Status considering Defence and moderate LUC.
2. Accessories
This build requires high values of Recharge Time -x% on both slots in order not to rely on Handgun Art.
3. Skills & Gadgets
Long Stroke Type-Z: Quick Shot 2 & 3 & 4 or 1, and Armor Break Shot 4 or Viral Shot 4
sub weapon: Speed Form 4, Skill Freeze Shot 3 & 4, and Electrodynamic Stunner 3 or another
Gadgets: First Aid Kit 2, Anti-Ailment Kit 2, Electromag Stun Trap, and another

1st. get all of buffs with spamming "Encouragement", and load Skill Freeze Shot 4 in advance
2nd. freeze "Kureha?"*1 first and freeze each "Kirito?"*2 with Lv.3 & 4 (*3)
3rd. kill "Kureha?" with being careful to keep a moderate distance and considering Effective Range
4th. kill each "Kirito?" with refreezing them
5th. kill "Itsuki?"*4
6th. pray good RNG

*1: She uses Armor Form 4, so you should prevent her from using it in order to kill her smoothly.
*2: He uses Human Fortress 4 and dangerous Sword Skills.
*3: Skill Motion Cancel by crouching or jumping helps you freeze them quickly.
*4: He mainly uses Ailment Attack, so you can ignore him by using Anti-Ailment Kit 2.
Side Note: You can also command your allies to stand by. It prevents them to lead enemies to restart to move by getting close. In that case, you cannot charge Medal Gauge and cannot be given any support by them in battle, so you have to kill enemies quickly with dual Royal Guard Gold and so on.

In one common situation, raw DPS or Damage*1 of some weapons*2 are listed like these tables. If "best" equals "most powerful" in your opinion, just use highly ranked weapons.

Note: these rankings never insist on "better or worse" but just indicate "higher DPS or lower DPS, in one of situations.

*1: actual damage = raw damage x enemy's damage reduction x enemy's spot multiplier (x skill shot, melee attack or Weapon Art multiplier)
*2: Each weapon respectively has one of good rolls including bounty chips, and some weapons such as Long Stroke Type-Z and Procyon SL4+ are customized bounty versions of them.

Situation: shooting against Mechs, 315 DEX & 200 LUC, with Power Field Shot 4, without Nanotech Boost Shot, at max Medal gauge (+ within each Effective Range, all bullets hit only at weak spot, no reloading)

Table: weak spot DPS Ranking of some of guns