Love And Deepspace’scombat system is far more complex than at first glance, and you’ll need to put thousands of resources towards your combat teams to keep them competitive. But what happens when your combat team is filled with full-ranked memories and beefed up with max-level SSR Protocores?

That’s where Awakening comes into place. Awakening happens after you have fully leveled up your memories to level 80 — the maximum level. Awakening your memories gives them one final stat boost after you’ve reaches the level cap. Plus, Awakeninggives you extra Affinitywith the character whose memory you Awakened.

Love And Deepspace: An image of the Awakening prompt in Sylus: Captivating Lesson.

What Is Awakening?

Awakening is thefinal stat boostyou can apply to your memories. To Awaken a memory, you must havefully leveledit usingBottles of Wishes and Ascension Crystals.

Youdon’tneed to have fully ranked your memory before Awakening it, but fully ranked and Awakened memories have more powerful stats thanbase rankAwakened memories.

Love And Deepspace: An image of the player and Xavier in combat against Lemonette.

Memories are leveled by usingBottles of Wishesto increase their EXP. Forevery tenth level, you needAscension Crystalsto proceed to the next set of ten levels. You will need more Ascension Crystals and rarer Ascension Crystals reach higher levels.

Awakening afive-starmemory will give you600 Affinity pointswith that character.

Where Can You Get Bottles of Wishes?

Bottles of Wishes are one of themost commonresource types to obtain. You can earn them by purchasing them in thevarious exchange shopsin the store menu; asrewardsfor Daily Tasks, Events, Achievements, combat stage drops, through Bounty Hunts, and more.

Themost efficientway to earn Bottles of Wishes is throughBounty Hunts.Heartbreaker drops Bottles of Wishesas a combat stage reward and once you’ve worked through its Bounty Hunt levels, you cansweep them for more rewards.

Love And Deepspace: An image of Zayne’s memory Eternal Attachment at level 50.

There are four types of Bottles of Wishes: Bottle of Wishes:N, Bottle of Wishes:R, Bottle of Wishes:SR, and Bottle of Wishes:SSR. Each one offers more EXP than the level before it.

Where Can You Get Ascension Crystals?

Ascension Crystals can be earned throughAscension Crystal Boxesand asBounty Huntrewards.

Three Bounty Hunt stages offer Ascension Crystals:Pumpkin Magus, Lemonette, and Snoozer. Pumpkin Magus dropsRuby and SapphireAscension Crystals, Lemonette dropsAmber and EmeraldAscension Crystals, and Snoozer dropsPearl and VioletAscension Crystals.

Ascension Crystal Boxes are boxes that containone Ascension Crystal each. The Stellactrum type of the Ascension Crystal is only determinedupon opening the box. You get tochoose what Stellactrumtype you want andhow manyAscension Crystals you want to open of that type when you open Ascension Crystal Boxes.

Love And Deepspace: An image of Awakening Crystal: SR in the Seasonal Promise event screen.

There are three Ascension Crystal rarities:N, R, and SSR.You’ll needall three typesto reach level 80.

When Can You Awaken Memories?

Memories can be Awakened once you’vefully leveledthem using Bottles of Wishes and Ascension Crystals tolevel 80, the current memory level cap. After you’ve reached level 80, you will receiveone final Ascension Crystal requirement,only this time, you will also need touse an Awakening Heart.

You will needevery type of Ascension Crystaland anAwakening Heartof the appropriate rarity for your memory’s rarity. Five-star (or SSR) memories will need oneAwakening Heart: SSR, while four-star memories will need oneAwakening Heart: SR.

Youonly need oneAwakening Heart to Awaken a memory.

How To Get Awakening Hearts

Awakening Hearts are one of therarest materialsin-game and if you aren’t apaying player, you’ll have an even harder time obtaining them.

The best way to earn Awakening Hearts is tobuy the Seasonal Promise’s Heartfelt Promise or Heartfelt Vow. You’ll getAwakening Heart: SSR and Awakening Heart: SRthrough the Seasonal Promise every season, but you can only earn it if youpay real-world moneyfor the Heartfelt upgrade packs.

The second way you can obtain Awakening Hearts isthrough events and event shops. Some events will provide Awakening Hearts as activity rewards, but usually, you’ll need tobuy them from the event shopusing event currency.

Typically, event shops only offerAwakening Heart: SR, meaning that the best way to obtain Awakening Hearts for the powerful five-star memories is through theSeasonal Promise.

The good news, however, is that event shopsdon’t require you to spend real-world moneyon Awakening Hearts. You simply need to completedaily event tasksto earn event currency and exchange that currency in the shop.