Welcome to Crystal Saga: Nova Wiki. This page serves as a hub for several related posts and pages scattered around the site.
I am in the process of moving data over. The majority of guide content can be found here > CSN Guide.
Table of Contents
Progress & Milestones
Starting from the tutorial, several functions will become available at set levels.
| Level | Function | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Skills | Here you can select your Class Skill focus. There are two paths for each Class. You can mix and match, but some skills are mutually exclusive. |
| 6 | Mount | Your Starter Mount is a Warwolf. Provides a boost to your stats, but not to core Attributes. Upgrade Chart [Mounts Guide]. |
| 9 | Slayer | [See Below] |
| 10 | Pets | You may capture either a Bear or an Archer. [Pets Guide] |
| 11 | Friends | You can add other online players to your friendslist. |
| 15 | Starglade | The tutorial is mostly complete. Starglade is the main town for the early game. Most Dailies are located in town. |
| 20 | Wings | Wings work similarly to Mounts in that you get a boost to non-primary stats. Prerequisite: Complete [Main] Monikov’s Theory. |
| 20 | Daily Events | Valley of Light and Daily Ladder. Check the chat log for parties running daily dungeons. Valley provides scaled EXP and [Unbound] Soul Root Crystals—Exchange Crystals with the Pixie Elder at the Tree of Life (Southern Wetlands). |
| 25 | Dungeons | Starting with Bizarre Nightmare (25) and Revenant (30). Boss drops can be used in Synthesis to craft Gear sets. |
| 28 | Guilds | Joining a Guild is necessary to continue raising your Honor Rank. Honor Gear is available from the General (near King). Normal (non-Guild) Quests earn 20 Honor each. |
| 30 | Soul Development | Several small circles represent permanent stat boosts for your character. Each has multiple upgrades and prerequisites. Uses Purified Crystals, Ice Shards, and Soul Shards. |
| 35 | Fragarch | Unlocks Artifact crafting. Uses [Bound] and Unbound Tier 5 Gems (Synthesis). |
| 40 |
- Fragarch: There is a quest objective necessary for this function to be used.
- Prerequisite: Play Revenant’s Vault on Nightmare mode.
- Defeat the Boss to earn 1 Ice Shard and 5 Shiny Souls (quest awards the 5th soul).
- Speak with the King to complete this quest.
Daily Freebies in Crystal Saga: Nova
Sign-in Reward
R2Pass on desktop (depending on platform). This is a Green Dragon Coin for the monthly Slayer Wheel* event and a Sacred Gem 1 [Bound]. If you have the Pass active, the gem is Tier 3.
*Slayer is a recurring event; the board resets each month, and hitting milestones on spins will award additional coins. Some other events can coincide and synergize with the Slayer function.
Daily Log-In
A monthly chart includes awards for each day logged in and additional rewards for consecutive logins over the 30 days. This is found in the Perks menu.
Online Bonus
Set rewards can be claimed for staying online for 10 minutes, 30, 60, and 120 each day.
AFK Bonus
A large chunk of EXP can be claimed for any time spent offline. A free redemption is available each day at a rate of 0.5x. Additional redemptions will require items. Using an item will result in a multiplied reward of 1x, 2x, or 4x, depending on item rank.
Daily Deals
In the Privileges menu, there is a daily free item that can be claimed. A Green Dragon Coin and a 4x Offline EXP item.
Daily Limit
In the Shop menu, you will find a free Gold currency box each day.
Rank Pay
In your character attribute panel on the left side is Rank*. Each day you may claim a gold bar that can be used to receive an Event Token and some Coupons (scaled by rank).
*Rank may be upgraded using Honor, which is acquired by completing Guild quests each day. These can be found in the Guild panel menu. There are around 20 quests, some gated by character level. There must be other sources of Honor, since Rank does increase prior to unlocking Guilds at level 20.
Daily Quests
Completing daily activities will earn several set rewards. Most activities only require attempting, but not completing. You could enter and exit a Dungeon for a fast completion if short on time.
Watch Ads: (Mobile Only)
If you are playing Crystal Saga: Nova Mobile, you can tap the R2Games floating icon on the game screen to open an in-game browser. The browser displays in Portrait view (rotate your phone). At the top of the browser window is a Watch button for an Ad. The Ads are all for other games from the platform. You will earn 20 Crystals for each Ad watched. This can be done daily.
In addition to the Ads, at the bottom of the browser panel is a Log-In reward that is distributed via in-game mail. Just tap the Claim button to get the mail.
Calculating Stat Modifiers in Crystal Saga: Nova
I’ve been working on determining how player stats are calculated to find out the maximum values any stat like Dodge or Crit can have.
Both skills and gear can provide either a bonus to the percentage value or the point value of your stats. Agility also governs your Hit, Crit, and Dodge score.
Why it Matters
The purpose here is to determine whether it is better to equip gear with a flat % bonus or to equip gear with a high point value for a particular stat. It may be that higher point values overtake percentage gains, or vice versa.
Neither Mounts nor Wings provide a bonus to a player’s core stats: STR, INT, AGI, and END.
I ran tests on a level 31 Mage. I removed all gear, including Wings and Mount. My character’s base stats were as follows:
Core Stats
| STR: 33 | AGI: 87 | INT: 129 | END: 43 |
| HP: 3,216 | MP: 586 | PATK: 71 | MATK: 263 |
| PDEF: 48 (0%) | MDEF: 134 (0%) | Hit: 61 (102.3%) | Crit: 53 (4.9%) |
| Dodge: 72 (4.2%) | Healing: 0 |
Equipping the Mount and Wings improved my HP, PATK, MATK, PDEF, MDEF, and Healing scores. As expected, there were no changes to my core stats.
The Gear
Next, I requipped any gear that did not directly or indirectly impact AGI, Dodge, Crit, or Hit. I added Armor, Necklace, and Bracelet. The remaining gear included some stat modifiers for the categories I wanted to test.
Note: Phantom Robe added AP DEF +1, but I could find no explanation for this stat.
My Math
Equipping the Artifact Mold (Orb) should add +5 to Hit and +147 to MATK. But I found that only MATK is added to the Attribute panel. My Hit score did not change after requipping the Orb. This is likely a bug.
I next requipped a Cabala Ring that adds 1% to Hit. This improvement was displayed in my Attribute panel. Total Hit rose to 103.3% after equipping the Ring. The Point value remains the same; only the percentage is modified.
My Shining Gauntlets* list a +12 to Hit. (These are part of the beginner gear set, which includes gloves, weapon, and armor. The remaining 4 pieces of the set do not appear to be collectable in-game.)
The Gauntlets did add 12 points, raising my Hit to 73 (103.9%). So, the 12 Points into Hit resulted in a 0.06% boost to the value.
Lastly, my Dreamwalker Boots (+4) add Dodge +15, Dodge +8, and Dodge +1%. Recalling from the chart above, my base score was Dodge: 72 (4.2%). With the boots equipped, Dodge is now 96 (6.9%).
The Dodge should actually be 95. I am guessing there are fractions not shown in the Attribute panel that lead to this mismatch.
We now have a 2.7% increase in the percentage value to account for. Our dodge has gone up 23 points and 1%, so let’s say 23 points is equal to a 1.7% increase in the value.
Now let’s determine what equation would result in our base 72 points equaling 4.2%. To find the whole number when a percentage of it is known, we can use the formula (Whole= Part/Percentage [as decimal]).
So, 4.2% = 4.2/100 = 0.042. Next, we divide the part (72) by the decimal: 72/0.042 = 1714.2857 (There are those pesky fractions).
Now, if 1714 and some change are whole numbers, then 1.7% of that should roughly come to the 23 points we got from the Dreamwalker Boots.
1714/0.017 = 24.089 (a tiny bit more if we include the fraction above).
Conclusion
24 is darn close to the 23 we got from the Boots. So, I feel fairly confident that a Dodge point value of 1714 would be equal to 100% Dodge Rate. In which case, you would need 17.14 points in Dodge to equal 1%.
For example, an item with +5% to Dodge would be equivalent to 85.7 points in Dodge. If you are trying to decide between two gears and one has a % bonus, that would be more valuable than any stat value increase up to 86 (85.7, but the fractions would round it up).
Explore the Wiki Pages
Resources
Useful info about the game and community hubs where players congregate are available.
There is a guide site (crystalnova.gg) that appears AI-generated, listed below. It has some good info on it that could be useful for new players.
Reddit had two CSN subs, but one got banned, and the other is locked (as of 10/05/26). I’ve tried contacting the Mod in charge but have not received a response.
Discord remains the best place to interact with other players and ask for advice.
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystalsaganova
- Discord: https://discord.gg/PCyfsXtYD7
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@crystalsaganova
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrystalSagaNova/
- crystalnova.gg – a guide/wiki site (appears AI-generated)