Adventure Rank (AR)

Account-wide meta-progression that gates features, dungeons, NPC services, and rewards. AR matters more long-term than your character level.

Key idea

Adventure Rank is earned by completing Adventure Handbook entries — taking photos of monsters, NPCs, items, gear, and locations. AR is account-wide (or character-wide depending on category — [VERIFY]) and unlocks new features at threshold ranks: skills, gear tiers, class advances, dungeon access, NPC discounts, and more.

How to gain AR

• Photos: monster photos, NPC photos, scenery photos
• Item discoveries: registering items in the handbook
• Gear discoveries: registering equipment
• Headgear discoveries: registering crafted/owned headwear
• Card discoveries: registering monster cards
• Quest milestones: certain quests award AR points
• Achievement milestones: account-level achievements [VERIFY]

Each entry awards AR XP and often a one-time stat / zeny / item reward.

Why it matters

• Unlocks: new skill slots, new dungeons, NPC services
• Stat bonuses: AR rewards include permanent stat points
• Gating: many late-game features check AR ≥ X
• Compounding: high AR enables more efficient farming → easier future AR

Strategy

• Photo monsters as you encounter them, always. Free AR.
• Cheap headgear blueprints: craft → register → AR (then sell or recycle if low value)
• Cards: registering cards gives big AR; it’s worth registering one of each card you can buy cheap
• Don’t grind AR in isolation — pursue it as a side effect of normal play; the most efficient AR/time comes from playing the game, not from AR-only farming sessions [VERIFY against current meta]

Reward tiers

A full per-rank reward table belongs in ar-rewards.md. Key milestones worth tracking [VERIFY all of these]:

• AR 20, 30, 40, … step rewards
• Notable thresholds where dungeons / class features unlock

Edge cases / gotchas

• Some categories are per-character, not account-wide → check before swapping mains [VERIFY current scope rules]
• “Hidden” entries exist (rare monsters, rare items) — completionists may want a tracker
• Photo quality / completion rate may matter [VERIFY]

See also

• Progression MOC
• Mechanics MOC
• adventure-handbook.md [to write] — the photo system itself
• ar-rewards.md [to write] — per-tier reward table
• ar-task-priority.md [to write] — best AR/time activities

Backlinks

• mechanics.md
• progression.md
• GLOSSARY.md

Sources / verification log

• 2026-05-02 — initial scaffold; conceptual facts high confidence, specific numbers and current scope rules marked [VERIFY]