How Progression Really Works in Legend of YMIR

Progression in Legend of YMIR is a loop of unlock → upgrade → qualify → farm better → upgrade again. The fastest players don’t do more content—they do the right content at the right time and only invest hard into upgrades that stay relevant.

Think of upgrades in three categories:

• Permanent account power: systems that keep helping you even when your gear changes (Collection, Story Deck effects, some long-term growth systems).
• Semi-permanent character power: upgrades you keep for a long time but may respec or replace later (Potential Skills, Disir/Valkyrie choices, some artifact growth).
• Temporary power spikes: upgrades that help you right now but may be replaced soon (early gear, early enhancements, rushed crafting).

Your job is to stack permanent and semi-permanent power early, then use temporary upgrades only to pass gates.

The Priority Ladder: What to Upgrade First (In Order)

If you want one answer that works for almost every class and playstyle, follow this ladder. You can treat it like a “shopping list” for your resources.

1) Main Quest progression (because it unlocks everything)

Upgrading the wrong thing won’t help if the system you need is locked behind a quest milestone. Your first “upgrade” is always moving the Main Quest forward until you hit a requirement wall.

2) Safe Forge enhancements to a stable baseline (especially weapon)

Early Combat Power gates are often solved by safe enhancement levels rather than risky gambling. Build a reliable base before chasing high rolls.

3) Core combat skills you actually press

If you upgrade every skill evenly, you waste tomes. Upgrade the few skills that carry your clear speed and survivability.

4) Daily engines that print resources (Daily Mission + Offline Mode + Valhalla time)

These aren’t “optional chores.” These systems are designed to multiply your growth over time and keep you from falling behind.

5) Permanent boosters (Collection + Story Deck routines)

These upgrades are slow-burn but extremely efficient. They turn random drops into permanent stat growth.

6) Artifacts (once unlocked) for steady stat scaling

Artifacts are one of the best “resource-to-power” upgrades once you can access them, especially if you grow them consistently rather than in panic bursts.

7) Valkyries and Disir setup refinement (don’t overinvest too early, but don’t ignore)

They add meaningful stats and effects, but beginners often waste materials by upgrading the wrong things at the wrong time.

8) Smart market decisions (Trade Station) to remove bottlenecks

Trading is not about getting rich on day one. It’s about turning duplicates into Diamonds and using Diamonds to smooth your progression (carefully).

9) Long-term milestones (Awakening → Rune System)

You plan for these early, but you fully invest when you reach the requirements.

If you follow this ladder, your Combat Power climbs smoothly and you avoid the classic beginner trap: “I upgraded a lot but still can’t enter the next content.”

Your First Day Upgrade Plan (Fastest Smooth Start)

This is a practical “what to do today” plan that works even if you only have 60–120 minutes.

Step 1: Push Main Quest until you hit a wall

A wall usually looks like: required level, required Combat Power, required completion of a specific activity. Don’t panic—walls are normal.

Step 2: Use safe upgrades to break the wall (not expensive upgrades)

• Equip obvious gear upgrades (free power).
• Use safe Forge enhancements on the pieces you will keep for a while (especially weapon).
• Upgrade the 2–3 skills you use most to speed up clearing.

Step 3: Unlock and start your daily engines as soon as they appear

The moment you unlock Daily Mission or Offline Mode, treat them like permanent habits.

Step 4: Start registering Collection items before you sell or dismantle

This is one of the easiest ways to build permanent power early—most players ignore it until late, then regret it.

Step 5: Save your big resources

If you’re not sure what a rare item does yet, don’t burn it. Early on, the most expensive mistake is using premium materials before you understand their best use.

Your First Week Upgrade Plan (The “Snowball” Phase)

The first week is where strong accounts separate from casual accounts.

Your weekly goals should be:

• Keep daily engines consistent (Daily Mission, Offline Mode, Valhalla time).
• Build a stable enhancement baseline on your main gear.
• Grow permanent systems (Collection, Story Deck) with a simple routine.
• Start doing party content when unlocked (Expeditions, Labyrinth) for better rewards.
• Join an active clan to benefit from support systems and shared rewards.

The biggest early-game secret is boring: consistency beats intensity. A player who does their daily engines every day will beat a player who grinds hard once then skips resets.

Gear Upgrades: What to Equip and What to Ignore

Gear is your most visible power, but it’s also where most beginners waste resources.

What to equip immediately

• Any gear that clearly increases your stats for your class.
• Any gear that improves survivability enough to stop deaths (deaths are the biggest time loss).
• Any gear that boosts clear speed for farming and quests.

What to ignore (or treat as temporary)

• Gear you will replace in the next story chapter.
• Gear that requires expensive enhancement materials when you don’t yet know your long-term set direction.
• Gear that is “cool” but doesn’t help you pass your current gates.

The best beginner mindset for gear

• Early gear is mostly a vehicle to reach better content.
• Your goal is not to perfect early gear. Your goal is to qualify for stronger content and systems that out-scale early drops.

Forge Upgrades: The Best Early Enhancement Strategy

Forge is where you can accelerate your progress fast—if you stay disciplined.

What makes Forge so important early

Enhancement directly increases Combat Power and can push you over entry requirements for dungeons and quests faster than most other systems.

Safe enhancement is your early-game best friend

There is a safe enhancement stage up to +6 for weapon/armor/accessory/utility equipment. From +7 and above, fail chance is applied. This matters because safe enhancement gives you predictable growth without destroying your momentum.

Your early enhancement order (simple and effective)

• Weapon first (biggest impact on clear speed).
• Core armor pieces next (survivability = fewer deaths).
• Accessories and utility after (good, but usually less impactful than weapon/armor early).

What to avoid early

• Chasing +7+ on gear you’ll replace soon.
• Rage-enhancing after a failure streak.
• Enhancing every new item “just because it’s new.”

When risky enhancement becomes reasonable

Once you’re using gear you expect to keep for a longer period and you have a stable resource income, you can consider higher enhancement stages. From +10, you can use an Enhancement Supplement to improve success chance and reduce destruction chance on failure—this is a sign the game expects higher enhancement to be a more serious commitment.

Practical Forge rule that speeds you up

If an enhancement does not help you enter better content or clear noticeably faster, delay it. Your upgrades should always serve a purpose: unlock, qualify, or farm better.

Skill Upgrades: The Highest Value “Fast Power” Investment

Skills are one of the best early upgrades because they improve both combat performance and farming speed.

How to choose skill priorities without overthinking

Pick:

• One main damage skill you press constantly.
• One secondary damage or AoE skill that clears packs.
• One survival/utility skill that prevents deaths (shield, sustain, reposition help, etc.).

Upgrade those first. Then expand.

Why this works

Most early fights are decided by:

• how quickly you clear packs, and
• whether you survive boss patterns.

Upgrading skills you rarely press is wasted power.

Common beginner mistake

Upgrading everything evenly. This feels organized, but it makes your strongest tools weaker than they could be.

Potential Skills: Upgrade Early, Because You Can Reset Safely

Potential Skills are one of the most beginner-friendly “serious power” systems because you can experiment without permanently ruining your build.

Key facts that make Potential Skills high priority

• Potential Skills can be enhanced from level 35 onward.
• They consume Growth Energy (earned while leveling) and silver.
• You can reset Potential Skills by consuming silver, and the materials used are fully refunded upon reset.

What this means for your upgrade plan

Once Potential Skills are available, you should invest into them earlier than most players do—because:

• you get meaningful stats/power, and
• you can reallocate later without losing the materials.

The best beginner approach to Potential Skills

• First, invest in broad power that helps everywhere (damage, survivability, efficiency).
• Later, respec into specialized setups for PvP, raids, or farming once you understand your class and content.

Potential Skills are one of the rare systems where “upgrading early” is safer than usual, because resets are forgiving.

Preset Slots: Your Hidden “Efficiency Upgrade”

Preset lets you save and apply your character setup, including equipment, Valkyrie, Disir, companions, Potential Skills, and other info. This is an efficiency upgrade, not just a convenience feature.

Why Presets accelerate progression

• You stop wasting time reconfiguring for different content.
• You avoid forgetting important swaps before a boss.
• You can keep a clean farming setup and a clean boss setup.

The best beginner preset layout

• Preset I (Farm): faster clearing, more mobility, skill order/auto behavior tuned for mobs.
• Preset II (Boss): survivability and consistent damage, manual control, defensive tools ready.
• Preset III (Experiment): testing new gear/skills without breaking your main setup.

This saves minutes every day, reduces mistakes, and makes your upgrades feel “locked in” instead of chaotic.

Daily Engines: Upgrade Your Routine Before You Upgrade Your Gear

If you care about fast progression, your routine is an upgrade. These systems are basically the game handing you growth—if you show up.

Daily Mission

• Resets daily at 4:00 AM (Server’s Region Time).
• You can clear missions daily to earn rewards.
• Treat it as your daily minimum.

Offline Mode

• Base time is 8 hours and resets daily at 00:00 (Server’s Region Time).
• Usage time is shared across the account.
• Offline Mode is one of the best upgrades you can “turn on,” because it keeps growth moving even when you’re offline.

Valhalla

• A time-based dungeon system with default time resets.
• Hall of the Valkyries default time resets daily at 04:00 (default 1 hour).
• Temple of Chaos and Fólkvangr default time reset every Monday at 04:00 (default 7 hours).
• Valhalla is one of the biggest sources of steady growth once you qualify.

Upgrade priority rule for daily engines

If you only have limited time/resources, prioritize upgrades that let you:

• meet higher difficulty requirements for Offline Mode, or
• clear Valhalla more efficiently within your time, or
• finish Daily Missions faster.

That’s how routine becomes power.

Artifacts: The Best “Steady Scaling” Upgrade After Level 30

Artifacts are a major growth system and unlock at level 30.

Why artifacts should be upgraded early (once unlocked)

• They provide additional effects through growth.
• They are designed to be a long-term investment rather than a temporary spike.
• Consistent artifact growth smooths out Combat Power gates.

How to upgrade artifacts without wasting resources

• Upgrade artifacts consistently rather than in huge bursts.
• Prioritize artifacts that support your class identity (damage uptime, survivability, efficiency).
• Don’t spend speed-up resources mindlessly—save them for moments where an artifact upgrade helps you cross an entry requirement or complete a planned milestone.

One artifact rule that keeps you efficient

If you can’t explain what an artifact upgrade will help you do (qualify, clear faster, survive more), delay it until you can.

Collection: Turn Random Drops Into Permanent Power

Collection is one of the easiest permanent-growth systems. By registering items obtained while adventuring, you gain additional effects that support character growth.

Why Collection is a top upgrade priority

• It’s permanent and keeps value even when gear changes.
• It uses items you’re already collecting, so it’s resource-efficient.
• It rewards organization more than luck.

The best beginner Collection habit

Before you sell or dismantle items, check whether they can be registered. Make it a once-a-day routine:

• open Collection,
• register what you can,
• then handle the leftovers (sell, dismantle, store).

This single habit prevents huge long-term regret.

Story Deck: Small Actions That Build Big Stats

Story Deck looks like a side system until you realize it’s a long-term stat engine.

What matters most about Story Deck

• Duplicate cards give Story Deck Points, and the amount depends on the duplicated card grade.
• Area Buff Effects activate when you complete all cards in a Card Set.
• You can re-register effects by consuming Story Deck Points, and there are auto re-registration tools.

How to upgrade Story Deck efficiently

• Early: aim to complete simple sets when possible (area buffs add up).
• Mid: use Story Deck Points to refine effects on the cards that matter most.
• Always: treat duplicates as progress, not “bad luck,” because they convert into points.

Story Deck is the kind of upgrade that makes your character feel stronger “for free” after a few weeks of consistent play.

Valkyries and Disir: Upgrade What You Use, Not What Looks Cool

Valkyries and Disir add meaningful power, but beginners often upgrade the wrong things too early.

Valkyries

• Summoned through cards.
• Applying a Valkyrie changes appearance and grants additional stats and skill enhancement effects.

Disir

• Summoned through cards.
• Grant extra stats, have unique skills, and can be equipped with Treasures.

Best beginner rule

Upgrade the Valkyrie/Disir you actually use in your main preset, and don’t spread resources across multiple options unless you have a clear plan.

Why this matters

Most resources invested into secondary choices provide less real power than investing deeper into your main setup.

Norn’s Treasure: Speed-Ups Are Valuable—Use Them Like a Pro

Norn’s Treasure includes a time-based unlocking process, and it gives you multiple ways to accelerate it.

Key speed-up mechanics

• Speed-up Points reduce unlock time, and 1 Speed-up Point reduces 1 minute.
• You can also use a “Complete Now” option that consumes Diamonds depending on remaining time.

The best way to use speed-ups

Use speed-ups when they achieve a concrete milestone, such as:

• completing an unlock before your play session ends,
• lining up an item that lets you cross a Combat Power gate,
• finishing something that completes Collection or a planned build step.

What not to do

Don’t burn speed-ups just because you have them. Speed-ups are most valuable when time is the limiting factor, not when you’re casually playing.

Clan Support: A “Free Upgrade” Most Beginners Miss

Joining a clan is not only social—it’s progression.

One of the most practical reasons to join early

Clan support can reduce the remaining time on a member’s Norn’s Treasure or Artifact (within support limits). This is effectively “free time,” which is one of the strongest currencies in an MMORPG.

How to use clan benefits for faster upgrades

• Join an active clan that actually uses support systems.
• Coordinate with clanmates: support swaps are easy win-wins.
• Participate in clan activities for additional rewards that fuel your upgrade systems.

A good clan turns progression from “solo grind” into “shared acceleration.”

Tasks and Requests: Upgrade Your Progress Speed With Smart Side Content

These aren’t “secondary” if you’re stuck behind a gate.

Repeatable Tasks

• Can be completed up to 10 times per character per day.
• The number resets daily at 4:00 AM (Server’s Region Time).
• Repeatable Tasks are excellent for filling gaps when you hit a Main Quest wall.

Requests

• Accepted via Request Boards in towns.
• Let you help NPCs across the continent and earn rewards.
• You can use a Warp Scroll: Request Board item to move instantly to the board.

How to use these to upgrade faster

• When you hit a progression wall, don’t grind randomly.
• Use Repeatable Tasks, Requests, and Daily Missions to get structured rewards that actually move your upgrades forward.

Trade Station: Upgrade Your Economy So You Can Upgrade Faster

Trade Station helps you convert value you don’t need into Diamonds you can use to remove bottlenecks.

Important trade rules that affect progression

• Listing an item costs a fee; if you cancel, the listing fee is non-refundable.
• When registering items for sale, you can see pricing info such as recent average unit price, current minimum price, and unit price.
• Selling turns items into Diamonds (after settlement).

What to sell as a beginner

• Duplicates you don’t need for Collection or Story Deck goals.
• Tradable items that don’t fit your class or planned upgrades.
• Extra materials that you have in surplus (only after you’re sure they’re not needed soon).

What NOT to sell

• Items required to complete a Collection registration you haven’t done yet.
• Items you need for your next planned upgrade step.
• Anything you don’t understand yet (pause and learn first).

Trading is an accelerator when you use it to reduce friction—not when you chase risky flips.

Milestone Roadmap: What to Upgrade at Each Level Range

Use this as a “where am I now?” map. It helps you avoid upgrading the wrong thing too early.

Early game before level 25

• Upgrade focus: Main Quest progression, safe Forge baseline, core skills, inventory organization, start Collection habit.

Around level 25

• Valhalla unlocks, which changes your daily value.
• Upgrade focus: enough Combat Power and survivability to use your Valhalla time effectively.

Around level 28

• Expeditions and Labyrinth become available (more meaningful content options).
• Upgrade focus: stable gear baseline, boss survivability, and a clean preset for party content.

Level 30

• Artifacts unlock.
• Upgrade focus: start consistent artifact growth and integrate it into your weekly plan.

Level 35

• Potential Skills become upgradeable.
• Upgrade focus: invest early because resets are forgiving and powerful.

Level 60

• Awakening becomes available through the required saga progression.
• Upgrade focus: prepare for Awakening by keeping your core systems healthy and your account routine consistent.

After Awakening Stage 1

• Rune System becomes available, with two rune slots unlocked automatically after completing Awakening.
• Upgrade focus: runes become a major long-term power layer.

The biggest mistake is upgrading as if all systems matter equally at all times. They don’t. Your upgrade plan should evolve with milestones.

Practical Rules That Prevent 90% of Upgrade Mistakes

Use these rules as your “progression guardrails.”

Rule 1: Upgrade to pass gates, not to chase perfection

If an upgrade doesn’t help you unlock content, clear faster, or survive better, delay it.

Rule 2: Build a safe Forge baseline first

Stable power beats risky power early. Safe enhancement stages are designed for consistent growth.

Rule 3: Upgrade what you use, not what you own

Skills, Valkyries, Disir, artifacts—focus on the tools you actually use daily.

Rule 4: Permanent systems get daily attention

Collection and Story Deck are slow, but they win long-term. Small daily progress beats “big bursts once a month.”

Rule 5: Your routine is an upgrade

Daily Mission + Offline Mode + Valhalla time (when available) are the engines that feed every other upgrade.

Rule 6: Don’t sell before you register

Always check Collection and your long-term goals before selling or dismantling.

Rule 7: Use speed-ups only when time is the bottleneck

Speed-up points and Diamonds should be used to hit meaningful milestones, not to satisfy impatience.

BoostRoom: Get a Personal Upgrade Plan That Fits Your Account

If you want faster progress without wasting resources, BoostRoom can help you build a clean “upgrade-first” roadmap tailored to your class, playtime, and goals.

With BoostRoom, you can get:

• A clear priority plan for what to enhance first (and what to stop enhancing).
• Skill and Potential Skill priority guidance to match your playstyle.
• A daily/weekly routine that maximizes Offline Mode, Daily Mission, and Valhalla value.
• Market guidance so you convert duplicates into Diamonds without fee mistakes.
• A milestone plan for level 25/28/30/35/60 so you’re always upgrading the right system at the right time.

BoostRoom’s goal is simple: less waste, more progress, and a smoother path to the content you actually want to play.

FAQ

What should I upgrade first in Legend of YMIR as a beginner?

Prioritize Main Quest progression, then safe Forge enhancements (weapon first), then your most-used skills. After that, build your daily engines (Daily Mission, Offline Mode, Valhalla) and start permanent growth systems (Collection and Story Deck).

Is it worth enhancing gear early?

Yes, but do it safely and strategically. Build a stable enhancement baseline first instead of gambling on high enhancement levels on temporary gear.

When do Potential Skills become important?

Potential Skills can be enhanced from level 35. They’re especially valuable because you can reset them using silver and get the materials refunded, so experimenting is safer than most systems.

When do Artifacts unlock, and should I upgrade them right away?

Artifacts unlock at level 30. You should start upgrading them consistently once available, because they provide steady long-term growth.

What daily content matters most for progression?

Daily Mission (resets at 4:00 AM), Offline Mode (8 hours base time resets at 00:00), and Valhalla time (daily/weekly resets). These systems feed your upgrades continuously.

How do I use the Trade Station without losing Diamonds to fees?

Price carefully and avoid canceling listings because listing fees are non-refundable. Use market price signals (recent average, minimum price) and sell duplicates you don’t need for Collection or Story Deck goals.

When does Awakening and the Rune System unlock?

Awakening requires reaching level 60 and clearing the Awakening saga requirements. The Rune System becomes available after completing Awakening Stage 1, and two rune slots unlock automatically at that point.