Battle Style

Introduction

Battle Style was introduced in the 2.0 patch of Cross Worlds that came with the 1st anniversary. It provides a secondary weapon and battle style for each class, providing new options on how to play each class without discarding your previous progression made towards that class. Currently, every class has 2 battle styles, its primary style that you get when you first create the class, and a secondary style accessible once you unlock Battle Styles.

Unlocking Battle Styles

To unlock Battle Styles, you must be at least level 80 and cleared main story in Atrasia Ruins. This will unlock the Guardian in Danger side story, where you must gain the help of the various world keepers in order to progress. Once you complete this side story, Battle Style will be unlocked.

This side story only needs to be cleared once per account, so once you have unlocked Battle Styles you can apply it to any class you have gotten to level 80 or above. However, the side story provides skill book rewards at multiple points, and are based on the class you are currently using in the side story. Because of this, you should clear the side story with your primary class, as these books will give you a quick boost to using the secondary style.

Secondary Battle Styles

The secondary battle style for each class is:

• Swordsman: Dual Sword

• Witch: Swordwhip

• Destroyer: Gauntlet

• Engineer: Gatling Gun

• Rogue: Crossbow

The secondary styles are all offensive-focused classes, allowing all classes to focus on damage/dps if they want to, usually at the cost of their support abilities.

Weapon Differences

Although each battle style has a different weapon and stance, you do not need to acquire new weapons to use secondary battle styles. Your current weapons can be used in both battle style builds with the same stats and skills applied. The only difference between battle style weapons is the stance and look.

Skill Differences

Each class has a series of skills, both active and passive, that can be applied to either or both battle styles. Skills that can be used by both battle styles may still have subtle differences between battle styles; for example, Engineer's passive skill "Barrier Master" increases resistance to CC effects while a barrier is active in Rifle builds, but creates a barrier if hit by CC effects when in Gatling Gun builds.

All-class active and passive skills can be used in any battle style, and their effects do not differ by battle style.

You can equip all-style and all-class skills into your secondary battle style builds, allowing you to keep your current progression on them. However, you will definitely want to acquire and level up skills specific to that battle style, as these skills have the most synergy with it.

Holy Relics

Holy Relics are a secondary passive boost system that is tied to Battle System. By collecting and leveling up holy relics, you can increase a variety of stats. There are several pages for Holy Relics, with some unlocking as your level increases.

• Power of the World Keepers: Level 80

  • World Keeper's Chalice: Increase HP and max HP

  • Abyss Bracelet: Reduce damage from enemies lower level than you

  • Wand of Life: Increase wood damage dealt, reduce wood familiar cooldown

  • Eternal Ice Spear: Increase water damage dealt, when attacking fire monsters with special skills, ignores part of their defense

  • Explosive Fire Sword: Increase fire damage dealt, reduce damage from wood-element bosses

  • Splitting Light Blade: When normal attacking, chance to reset normal skill cooldowns

  • Dragon Knight Armor: Increase dark defense, reduce damage taken from dark (special rank) monsters

  • Naytrum monument: Increase HP, increase wood familiar attack

  • Ancient Dragon Censer: Increase HP, when HP is below 50%, increase effectiveness of HP potions

  • Dragon Slayer: Increase attack, increase critical damage dealt by normal attacks

  • Ice World Keeper's Crystal: Increase water defense, increase duration of barriers, increase effectiveness of healing skills when in Rifle battle style

  • Witch's Heart: Increase defense, reduce damage taken from normal attacks

  • Melted Armor: Increase critical resistance, reduce damage taken from normal rank monsters

  • Luxerion's Seal: Increase attack, increase exp gain

  • Dragon Scale: Increase defense, increase critical resistance

• Legendary Dawn: Level 80

  • Mysterious Flute: Increase HP, increase damage dealt to enemies that are higher level than you

  • Singing Goddess Statue: Increase defense, reduce damage taken by familiars

  • Evil Dragon Horn: Increase dark attack, Increase dark damage done towards light-element boss monsters

  • Moon Mandolin: Increase HP, when receiving attacks, chance to reset cooldown for HP potions

  • Angel Trumpet: Increase light attack, when attacking with light element, increase attack speed

  • Ancient Music Box: Increase attack, when normal attacking, change to reset the cooldown of the most recently used familiar

  • Gong-ringing Higgledie: Increase light defense, reduce damage taken from light monsters

  • Magical Flute: Increase dodge rate, increase damage dealt by special skills for all attack-type battle styles

  • Spirit Bell: Increase fire defense, increase defense, reduce special skill cooldown if using spear or bow

  • Giant Melody Statue: Increase wood defense, increase critical resistance, reduce damage taken if using sword or hammer

  • Ocean Witch's Harp: Increase HP, reduce cooldowns for water familiars

  • Cursed Violin: Increase attack, increase accuracy of normal attacks

  • Bard's Lute: Increase critical damage, increase amount in gold drops

  • Wybro Warrior's Drum: Increase accuracy, increase burst meter gain

  • Leaf Flute: Increase HP recovery, increase HP

• Unending Starry Sky: Level 150

  • Relics TBD

Resonance

Each page of relics also has a resonance meter. Spend relic fragments in order to level it up, 400 fragments (and some gold) per level. Each time you spend fragments you will increase the resonance level, although the amount is random and you will usually earn fewer levels the higher the resonance level is already at. The resonance level can be increased up to 10 times.