DOAXVV: How to Upgrade Swimsuits

A detailed guide on upgrading your swimsuits in DOAXVV.

How to Upgrade Swimsuits in DOAXVV

Upgrading Swimsuits – Level, Limit and Awakening.

• Leveling a swimsuit increases its level and stats.
• Limit Breaking a swimsuit increases the level cap of a swimsuit.
• Awakening a swimsuit improves its innate skills, and can be done up to 4 times.

Levelling

Leveling up a swimsuit increases its stats. This is done by either using upgrade stones of the corresponding type, or by sacrificing swimsuits.

The stones used to level up swimsuits come in 4 varieties: S, M, L and XL.

These stones give 120xp each. Each stone also costs 100 Zack Dollars to use.

These stones give 420xp each. Each stone also costs 350 Zack Dollars to use.

These stones give 1,800xp each. Each stone also costs 1,500 Zack Dollars to use.

These stones give 42,400 xp each. Each stone also costs 25,000 Zack Dollars to use.

I strongly recommend against using swimsuits instead of stones as

• You can only use up to 10 swimsuits at a time, making them very time consuming
• Swimsuits are not as plentiful as stones
• Swimsuits are more useful when traded for VIP points, which can then be used to buy FP refill bottles that can let you keep farming stones via the daily mission

Limit Break

First off, there is absolutely no point in Limit Breaking R rarity swimsuits. Just don’t. While we’re on that topic, you can’t even Limit Break N rarity swimsuits.

Second, Limit Breaking a swimsuit increases its level cap by 10 each time you limit break them

• SRs start off capped at 40, which can be increased to a max of 70.
• SSRs start off capped at 50, which can be increased to a max of 90.

Limit Breaking a Swimsuit requires a different set of upgrade materials.

There is no ‘S’ sized Unlock Stone for some reason. Also, unlike leveling a swimsuit, limit breaking always costs the same from lvl 50 > 60, etc.

SR

SSR

Awakening

Skill Awakening requires you to sacrifice either a duplicate or a corresponding upgrade stone of a swimsuit in order to strengthen it. Each level of awakening improves the inbuilt skill of a swimsuit. This process can be done up to 4 times in order to fully awaken it.

By default, all SRs and SSRs are auto locked in your inventory in order to prevent new players from accidentally losing them to a misclick. As such, you have to manually unlock them in order to use them for awakening.

An awakened swimsuit will have a number added to the top right corner of its box in the Festival Outfits menu, with the number 4 meaning that it has been fully awakened.

Fully awakened swimsuits grant the girl some of the most powerful potentials in the game. However, only SRs and SSRs can grant a potential, meaning that there is literally no point in trying to awaken a N or R rarity swimsuit. Seriously, they’re useless.

Unlike Leveling and Limit Breaking, the only materials required for Awakening are Zack Dollars and the swimsuits/stones in question.

The cost of awakening a swimsuit is

• 4K Zack Dollars for the first
• 8K Zack Dollars for the second
• 40K Zack Dollars for the third
• 80K Zack Dollars for the final awakening.

You cannot get the same potential twice, so there is no point in fully awakening the same swimsuit twice. As such, any duplicate SRs for which you have already fully awakened once can be safely traded for Character coins.

Farming Materials for upgrading

Daily Festivals are the primary source of all Upgrade and Unlock stones with the exception of both XL Stones. In particular, the S rank missions for a specific archetype (POW/TEC/STM) will shower you in stones once you begin to farm them.

In addition, the training room is a slow but steady source of S and M Upgrade Stones that can help you greatly at lower levels. However, upgrading past level 30 will require the larger Upgrade stones due to the amount of XP required at that point.

The lack of XL Upgrade Stones is not too pressing of an issue since you can and probably will just spam L Upgrade Stones in its place.

On the other hand, XL Unlock stones are often in very short supply and very high demand as they are necessary to upgrade your SSRs past level 70. They are often found in the higher Event score tiers, as well as in the event shop on sale for 280 Event currency each. They can also very rarely be found when gifting the girls certain event gifts, but don’t get your hopes up.

While STM SSR Swimsuits are still far superior to any SR, oftentimes they tend to lag behind POW and TEC SSRs in high level matches. It is due to this that I personally recommend you don’t go out of your way to purchase XL STM Unlock Stones from the event shop. However, take this advice with a pinch of salt, especially if you’ve just started and a STM SSR is all you’ve got for now.