Spirit Merge

Basics

Example of Spirit Merge

• Spirit Merge is a way to upgrade your demons. It is unlocked by clearing Chapter 1-7 of the Story.

• To perform it, Spirits are needed, which can be gathered in several ways:
  • "Spiritize" (sacrifice) Demons
  • Obtain via Advent Quests. Advent Quests are only available for non-fusable Demons.
  • Collect Universal Spirit Shards from the Daily Quest (20) and Weekly Missions (100 in total). Note: You need 100 Shards to make 1 Spirit.
  • Item-collecting events have 500x Spirit Shards (5 Spirits in total) that can be bought in the event shop.
  • Complete Hell's Park stage 100 every month for 10x Universal Spirits.
  • Purchase a limited time Spirit pack in the shop (Usually gives 100 Spirits for a specific Demon).

• Spiritizing a Common/Clear Demon yields 60 Spirits, while a Colored Demon ( Red, Yellow, Purple, Teal) gives 100 Spirits.
• Fusions of two Clear demons will be cheaper than fusions involving a color:

Fusion materials	Cost multiplier
	4★ result	5★ result
Clear + Clear	0.5x	0.7x
Clear + Colored	1x

• Regarding 4★:
  • For paneling 4★ by fusing fodder: It's better to fuse Clear 4★ and spiritize those, due to the 0.5x multiplier on Clear 4★ fusions. For the same MAG price of one fused Colored 4★ Demon, which would yield 100 Spirits, one could get two Clear 4★ Demons, yielding 120 Spirits. Although, that of course also requires gathering twice the demon materials to perform two fusions.
  • Summoned Colored 4★: These can be spiritized if they are already the demon you want to panel. If they aren't the demon you want, though, then it's better to sell them for Karma.
  • Summoned Clear 4★: These should be saved as fusion materials.
• Regarding 5★:
  • For paneling 5★ by fusing fodder: It's better to fuse Colored 5★ and spiritize those, due to the 0.7x multiplier on Clear 5★ fusions. For example, 5★ Metatron requires a 5★ Barong and a 5★ Vishnu, which cost around 3M Mag and 6M Mag to fuse Common, respectively. For Colored, they would cost 4M Mag and 7M Mag. Fusing two Common Metatrons would cost 18 MMag and result in 120 Spirits, with mag-efficiency of 150k mag/spirit. Meanwhile, fusing one Colored Metatron would cost 10M Mag (because, for Fusion, one Demon must be of Common Archetype, so only one of them has to be Colored) and result in 100 Spirits, with mag-efficiency of 100k mag/spirit.
  • Summoned Colored 5★: These can be spiritized if they are already the demon you want to panel. If they aren't the demon you want, though, then look into demons that they can be fused into, and see if you want to panel any of those instead.
  • Summoned Clear 5★: These should be saved as fusion materials, especially if they're needed for good multi-fusions, where colored fusion is often not an option.

• Multi-fusions: Some demons are only available by multi-fusion, which requires all materials to be Clear, and always gives a Clear result. In this case, you don't even have the option of fusing Colored copies. This also makes the clear 5★ materials for these multi-fusions very valuable, for example Clear Shiva to fuse Kartikeya. Keep an eye out for multi-fusion-material 5★ when doing your Hell Bun summons.

• Multi-fusions requiring Gacha demons: This type of multi-fusion was introduced with Beelzebub☆, who requires Beelzebub (Human) as a material, and inherits Beelzebub (Human)'s Color. In this case, your limiting factor is pulling the gacha material - the cost of making the other non-gacha demon materials is negligible by comparison.

• Spirits are specific to each Demon (i.e., Trumpeter Spirits cannot be used to upgrade Amaterasu).
  • However, Universal Spirits can be used on any 5★ Demon, but they're very hard to get, and should only be used after a lot of consideration. If you can fuse the Demon, then it's generally not a good idea to be using Universal Spirits on it.
  • 4★ cannot use universal spirits, so the only way to panel gacha-exclusive 4★ is to pull more dupes of them.

• Before Spiritizing a Demon, please check whether it has a good "Gacha skill" (a Skill in one of the last two skill slots of a Demon). If it has a good Gacha skill, wait until you have a Blank Genome to extract the skill before Spiritizing the Demon. Please refer to Skill Transfer or more precisely to Gacha skills from 5★, if you need the list of good Gacha skills. Also, check if the Demon isn't better Fused into an Armament.
  • If it's a 4★ with a good Gacha skill, don't use a Blank Genome, and just consume the demon directly to transfer the skill to a target.

News Posts

• Official Update Info
• Second Wave of Spirit Merge Demons
• Third Wave of Spirit Merge Demons
• Fourth Wave of Spirit Merge Demons
• Masakado Spirit Merge info
• Baal Spirit Merge info
• Drake Update

Spirit Panels

Each Demon which has Spirit Merge implemented (see below) has 3 or 4 Panels, each taking 10 Steps to complete.

• Each step gives a small bonus to a certain Stat, while completing a Panel gives a big bonus, specific to the Demon.
• Panel costs are as follows:

Panel #	4★		5★
	Step cost	Total cost	Step cost	Total cost
Panel 1	20	200	10	100
Panel 2	40	400	20	200
Panel 3	60	600	30	300
Panel 4	80	800	40	400

• 5★ Demons will need 600 Spirits total to complete Panels 1-3, or 1,000 Spirits to complete Panels 1-4.
• 4★ Demons' panel costs are doubled, so they would need 1,200 Spirits total to complete Panels 1-3, or 2,000 Spirits to complete Panels 1-4.

Regarding prerequisites:

• Panels 1 and 2 can be completed in either order.
• Panel 3 requires completing Panels 1 and 2.
• Panel 4 requires completing Panel 3.

Advent

Advent

Further information: Advent

• For non-fusable Demons (such as the Hero Race) you can also gather Spirit through Advent Quests.
  These are unlocked after completing Chapter 5 of the Story.

• These Quests are only available for a limited time: Ten days per Demon. (Kinda like a rotation)

• There are two kinds of Advent Quests:
  1. Normal Quest: Refreshes daily and gives 5 Spirit
  2. Mayhem Quest: Gives 20 Spirit, but can only be completed once per Rotation.
  This means that per-rotation you can gain up to 70 Spirits for that Demon.

Universal Spirit

Universal Spirits (also known as "unis" by the community) can substitute for spirits on any 5★ demon (but 4★ cannot use them, unfortunately).

Universal Spirits are available from a variety of places:

• Collect Universal Spirit Shards from the Daily Quest (20) and Weekly Missions (100 in total). Note: You need 100 Shards to make 1 Spirit.
• Item-collecting events have 500x Spirit Shards (5 Spirits in total) that can be bought in the event shop.
• Complete Hell's Park stage 100 every month for 10x Universal Spirits.

However, universal spirits are in much shorter supply than you might think, since most of the time you're receiving shards, not full spirits, and 100 shards are needed for 1 spirit. It can therefore take several months to gather enough universal spirits to panel one demon.

Managing Universal Spirit

Due to the low supply, you should be very careful about how and when you spend your universal spirits.

Some guidelines:

• NEVER EVER use Universal Spirits on a fusible demon!!! - It would be much better to fuse dupes of them with Magnetite and spiritize those instead.
• Probably don't use unis on permanent-pool demons - You'll likely get dupes of perma-pool demons without even trying, so it's better to save unis for rarer demons, such as banner-exclusives or collabs. For a breakdown of who's in the permanent pool or not, see Summoning Pool.
• Don't leave a panel half-done. If you don't have enough unis, wait until you do. - Save up your Universal Spirits so you can complete a panel in one go. Usually it's the completion bonuses you want, not really the step bonuses, so there's no point in leaving a panel only partially filled.
• Due to power creep, use unis at the moment that you need them, and no sooner - Don't spend unis on demons that you're unsure you will use. If you're waiting on a critical piece you don't have yet (example: a rare skill to transfer to the demon), wait until the paneling is the last step needed for your goal. If you invest into a demon too long before you actually use it, there's a risk that they'll already be crept once you do finally use them, meaning your unis were used in vain. Invest with a purpose in mind, and in a way that helps you immediately.

Spiritizing Guide

Warning: before Spiritizing a Demon, check the following:

• Check whether its "Gacha Skill" is worth being harvested using a Blank Genome. See Skill Transfer for some skills that are recommended for harvesting.
• Check if the demon is better turned into an Armament (sword/shield). (For example: Huang Di's panels are not especially helpful, but his Sword Armament is incredibly strong.)

If your demon is gacha-exclusive and you've already considered the above, you're probably safe to spiritize it now.

For fusible demons though, there's more to discuss.

Fusable Demons

Through the flexibility of the fusion system, a fusible demon can be converted into a different one, if you're not interested in paneling the demon you originally pulled.

To explain, we'll start with an example scenario:

1. Suppose I pull a colored Quetzalcoatl, but I'm not interested in paneling him at the moment.
2. I go to the Fusion Calculator, find Quetz, and select "normal fusion" to see what he can fuse into with one step.
3. I see that fusing him with Barong would result in Zaou-Gongen, who I'm interested in paneling.
4. Barong happens to be fusible by combining two 4★ (also known as a 4+4), so setting this fusion up should be relatively cheap.
5. Zaou-Gongen is a 5+5 or 4+5 (that is, fusing him requires either fusing a 4★ with a 5★, or fusing a 5★ with a 5★), so fusing him with a color from scratch would normally be expensive. This tells me that pursuing the Quetz + Barong fusion is worthwhile, as it could save me a few million Magnetite.
6. I find Barong in the calculator and select "reverse fusion", then click the green button in the upper-left with a 1, 2 or 3 on it, to see how I can make a Clear Barong from 1★, 2★, or 3★ materials.
7. I make the Barong, and fuse it with the Quetzalcoatl, making a colored Zaou-Gongen.
8. Now I can spiritize the Zaou-Gongen to get Zaou-Gongen Spirits.

Some quick terms to make this easier:

• Starting demon - The demon you originally pulled from the gacha. In the example, that was Quetzalcoatl.
• Material demon - The Clear demon needed to perform a fusion. In the example, that was Barong.
• Target demon - The demon you want to end up with for paneling. In the example, this was Zaou-Gongen.

Notes:

• The target demon should be a 4+5 or a 5+5. The target should NEVER be a 4+4 if you're starting from a colored 5★! You stand to save far less Magnetite by creating a 4+4 from a starting 5★, than creating a 4+5 or 5+5 from that starting 5★ instead.
  • If you want to panel a 4+4 demon, you're better off starting from a colored 4★.
• The example only did one fusion step from the starting demon to the target, since involving a color in fusion increases the Magnetite cost for that step. By performing just one step, we minimize extra costs incurred by colors.
  • You could certainly do more steps if you want, but planning that out will be more complicated and more expensive than just doing one. This might be necessary if you want to make high-grade target demons, but don't have high-grade starting demons, though.
• The example had the material demon as a 4+4. This is ideal, since those are the cheapest 5★ you can make. However, some high-grade target demons might not have 4+4s available as material options.

Choosing panels

(here someone should write how people should carefully think about which panels (1 or 2nd) they should prioritize first. (-50% Fire Damage is bad bla bla bla) also look at Tier List). TBD

See also

• Tier List
• PVP Team Guide
• Resource Management Guides for other advanced guides.