Potential and Resonance — Stat Allocation Without Waste

Two progression systems quietly decide how strong your creatures actually are: potential (permanent stat points) and resonance (a rank-up layer). Both are generous early and brutal late — the cost curve hits gold materials at a specific point, and almost all the advice on this page reduces to one discipline: know where that wall is, and stop there. This page gives role-by-role allocations and the reasoning.

The gold-wall stop rule

Potential lines and resonance ranks both pass through a cost step-up where cheap materials turn into gold materials. The community rule that governs everything:

When a stat line starts consuming gold materials, stop it — unless that creature is your permanent main-carry.

Gold materials are the currency of your next creature's growth as much as this one's. Finishing a line "because it's 80% done" is how accounts end up with three half-built creatures instead of one finished carry. The exceptions (mains, dedicated raid teams) are conscious choices, not accidents.

Potential allocation by role

Attacker (main DPS)

1. Attack — first, always.
2. Energy — second; skills that never starve out-damage raw attack alone.
3. Break — third, modestly; it helps your windows come sooner.
4. Health — remainder, stopping at the gold wall, then round out physical and magic defense.

Breaker

1. Break — the whole point.
2. Energy — second, so gauge pressure never pauses.
3. Attack — third; breakers do contribute damage inside windows.
4. Health — remainder at the gold wall.

Battery

1. Energy — the entire job. Push it to the gold wall, and if the creature is a career Battery (the Dreamwing-class), late-game surplus can push further — the community benchmark for a maxed Battery's energy line is around 20.
2. Nothing else matters much. Skip attack lines entirely.

Healer

1. Health — first and deep; dead healers heal nobody.
2. Defense lines — physical then magic, as the gold wall allows.
3. Healing scales from gear (the Healing Scarf family) more than from potential — do not chase healing lines here.

Support / flex

Health and the stat their buffs scale from, in that order. Supports are the last creatures on any account to deserve gold materials.

Resonance ranks

Resonance is the rank-up layer (its upgrade currency includes Cosmos Crystals, among the scarcest materials in the game). The launch-meta guidance is unusually unified:

Rank 5 is enough for nearly everything. Rank 6 is a luxury.

The math: the jump from rank 5 to rank 6 costs Cosmos Crystals that would otherwise fund your next creature's entire early curve, while the stat return is marginal for most roles. The community's standard is:

• Rank 5: DPS, Breaker, Battery — all standard.
• Rank 6: reserved for a true main-carry in a dedicated endgame team, after the rest of the account is funded.

Battery rank is not a damage stat. A rank-5 Dreamwing-class Battery already fills the energy role completely — rank does not change what Batteries are for.

Potential fruits and inheritance

Potential fruits (and star upgrades, and unlock materials) inherit between related creatures. The famous case: investment into the electric Spark Mantis carries to the dark Verdant Blade Mantis. Two planning consequences:

1. Duplicates can be an investment plan. Leveling the "wrong" element of a pair is sometimes the cheap half of a two-form strategy.
2. Carried gear does not inherit. Gear decisions stay per-creature — see carried gear & pacts.

Check each creature's dex page for its inheritance notes before writing off a duplicate capture.

A worked example — the dark team

The dark team guide applies every rule above in one place:

Creature	Lines	Resonance
Verdant Blade Mantis (DPS)	Attack → Energy → Break → Health (gold-wall stop), then defenses	5
Infernowolf (Breaker)	Break → Energy → Attack → Health (gold-wall stop)	5 — "555-tier is enough, do not buy rank 6"
Dreamwing (Battery)	Energy only, to the gold wall; late-game to 20	5
Iridescent Glaciva (sustain flex)	Health-first	5
Iridescent Cloudwool (damage flex)	Attack to the gold wall	5

That is what a disciplined account looks like: every creature at the same logical stopping point, gold materials always in reserve for the next capture worth building.

Red flags you are doing it wrong

• Gold materials at zero while three creatures sit mid-line — you finished lines you did not need.
• A rank-6 creature in a team where anything else is still rank 3–4.
• A Battery with attack points. Not a disaster — just points that were never damage.
• A support holding your best gear "temporarily" for a week. Gear is portable; stats-on-paper are not.

Set the allocations once per role, respect the gold wall, and your roster gets strong in the order that matters: carry first, breakers and batteries second, everyone else when the surplus finally allows.