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Introduction
This guide will go through the things you need to do to be able to upgrade your Alt characters faster. Firstly, you can’t do the Islands once again on a second character; this will result in you having significantly fewer materials to work with. There is one important piece of research you can do in your Estate that will make leveling alts significantly easier, and this is how it works.
Estate Research
First, you have to go the Estate. Teleport there by using your Song Of Hearth And Home. Once your character reaches 802 gear score or 1302 gear score, new research will be available in your Estate. Scroll down the Roster Help section of your research in the lab; there will be a section at the bottom that says either “Increase Honing Success Rate” or “Reduce Required XP For Tier One Honing.”
Both of these should be researched before you upgrade your gear on your alts because the first one increases the success rate of your honing by 20%, which is a very significant amount.
On top of that, the reduced required experience makes it so that you need less Harmony Shards to make the gear upgrade available. With both in mind, you can upgrade way faster, and way more efficiently. But first, you need a character already at the next stage of content. So essentially, you first need to get a character into tier 2, which is 802 gear score.
You can then upgrade these things or research these things in your Estate. The same goes for Tier 2 and Tier 3 later on as well. That means that once your character is then at 1302 gear score. You can then do the increased tier 2 honing success rate and the reduced experience requirement. You can keep doing this at further stages. If you want to swap main characters, make sure to have a character at least 802 items score so you can unlock these items for your potential new main character.,
Fantasm Island For T1 Materials
This place is a 600 required item level map, making it a tier 2 island, but the materials you can get there are tier one materials. These items are tradeable despite having the untradeable description written on them.
You then go to your pet and open storage; once you’ve done Fantasm Island on your tier 2 character and you want to transfer those materials to your old character, make sure that you don’t open the boxes. You just put them into the Roster Storage, which will boost one of your character’s materials a little bit because although these boxes say that you can’t trade them, you can trade them.
Alts in this game are very complicated because of the lack of access to Islands, but if you have these research upgrades, upgrading alts will become a breeze.