Nier Reincarnation: How To Rank Up Characters
The best and most brilliant thing that can be said about Nier Reincarnation is that it feels like a proper Nier game. Free-to-play, strictly mobile, and absolutely gacha-infused, this spinoff set off immediate alarm bells across the fandom from the moment it was first introduced. How could any game be designed around such cornerstones and yet maintain the powerful emotional currents and one-of-a-kind quirks of Yoko Taro's more traditional series fare?
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Yet here we are, and Taro's terrifically talented team has once again delivered something crisp with narrative flourishes and intricate gameplay elements. Many of these elements, by virtue of genre and platform, will nevertheless feel familiar to mobile gacha fans searching for their next big scene. Daily farming runs, individual skill enhancements, starred rankings to increase level caps — the works.
Lost in the shuffle of so many crunchy RPG mechanics, the Character Rank system can be particularly perplexing. What separates Rank from all those other parameters? How can it be boosted? What does it even mean? Read on, and you'll soon be impressing even Mama with your Rank-based know-how.
Nier Reincarnation's tutorials describe Character Rank as a guideline for the proportion of bonus stats that can be acquired. That's helpful, but only to a point. What bonus stats, exactly? Well, think of it this way. Increasing a character's level enhances their stats all-around. Increasing their skills ups their damage threshold and other offensive measures. Ascension controls the current level cap and that character's access to passive buffs.
This leaves us with Rank, which essentially serves as a nice linear path that
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