Increasing your CP

Increasing your CP is the goal towards which all your efforts in the game is made. All improvements made to your character will increase your CP by varying degrees. These improvements can be direct and obvious, but some can be missed by new players. If you are someone who wants to maximize the CP of your character, you need to take all the chances you can get!

So here I will list down all the ways you can increase your CP, while the details will be discussed in their own posts.

Of course, you can also find most of this in the "Boost CP" button in the upper area of your game screen. I recommend you read more there as well.

1. Level Up 
• Leveling up is the first way to boost your CP. Everytime you level up, you will gain a boost to your basic stats, which will increase your CP. Note that in Loong Craft, you don't get to choose which stats you increase like in most other RPGs.
• Consider leveling up as a side effect of everything else you are doing: merely having a high level will not make your CP high.
2. Equipment Upgrades
• Every time you level up, you get to wear (at low levels) or later upgrade and promote the equipment you are using. Equipment in this sense is your HELMET, BELT, LEGGINGS, BOOTS, NECKLACE, and RING.
• Wearing your equipment gives you added stats, and upgrading these will increase the stats they give, raising your CP.
• Your equipment will level with you. Upgrading costs silver and is 100% success rate.
• Your equipment will also increase in quality: there will come a time where you need to PROMOTE your equipment, which needs the right quality of ORES and LEATHERS.
• PROMOTING your equipment adds ONE SOCKET to that piece of equipment every time.
3. Equipment Sockets
• As you promote your equipment and get sockets, you will be able to put GEMS inside the sockets. The different gems give you stats, specific to the gem.
• Equipment sockets only accept one kind of gem depending on the socket.
• You can combine THREE of each gem of the same level to make one of the next level gem.
4. Boost Relics
• Your weapon and armor, or RELICS, can be boosted using boost stones.
• There are three boost categories: STAR, MOON, and SUN.
• STAR boost level is 1-12, using Lv 1 Boost Stone
• MOON boost level is 13-24 using Lv 2 Boost Stone
• SUN boost level is 25+ using Lv3 Boost Stone
• As you go higher in your boost level, the boost chance will decrease.
• A failed boost will result in a one boost level reduction.
• Safety Charms, same level as Stone, are used to ensure the boost level will not be reduced when boost fails.
• A relic's boost level can be directly transferred to another relic of the same type.
5. Refine Relic
• Other than their base stats, Relics will also have ADDITIONAL STATS, from none to 5.
• Refine Stones are used to get a new set of additional stats.
• A relic's refines can be directly transferred to another relic of the same type and number of additional stats.
6. Skills Upgrade
• You will learn skills as you level up. The last skill is learned at around level 20.
• You pay with silver to upgrade your skills in the skills window, when you get to the correct level.
• At around level 50, you will also be required to buy SKILL BOOKS to upgrade to the next skill level. Skill books are bought in the ARENA SHOP, using Arena Credits.
7. Ultimates
• Skill ultimates are unlocked at around level 40, when you qualify for the ARENA.
• Ultimates modify your skills to enhance your character's attack.
• Each skill has THREE ULTS, which has to be bought using Arena Credits, just like the skill books.
8. Titles
• Titles are given by being acquiring title-rewarding ACHIEVEMENTS in the game.
• You can see each achievement to see the requirement, as well as what title is rewarded.
• Titles can also be exchanged from certain items through the EUNUCH in the Main City. 
• I recommend saving up the title items to buy the best titles you can first, not spending them for anything else.
• Titles have two effects: Active and Passive. 
• The ACTIVE effect will be added to your character as long as the title is the one that is being equipped at the time.
• The PASSIVE effect is given to you as long as you have acquired that title, regardless of whether it is the one equipped.
• Some titles are only temporary while most are permanent. Temporary titles will be gone when you do not have that title anymore.
9. Activated Cards
• Activated cards and card combos will give you their stated stat bonus.
• Each new card you get will require you to activate that card initially. Once you have activated that single card, all combos with all other activated cards will be shown in the card lists.
• I recommend activating the card combos that increases your ELEMENT first, as this will give you the biggest CP boost.
• Cards for ACT 1 - 6 can be obtained from the ORDEAL task, the BANK, and in the "BUY" tab of the card window. Cards are bought using card tokens.
• There is an item in the MALL that gives you a chance to obtain cards or tokens. The cards from this item is used in the ACT 7 card list.
• Card tokens are given as bonus in the ORDEAL task, and is also given as a drop in the STONE MAZE, or randomly in the MALL.
10. Mount Upgrade
• Your mount gives you bonus stats, which increases as it levels up by giving it fodder.
• Your mount can only be leveled up to your level.
• Aside from the default horse, there are other mounts in game, which give better stats than the horse.
11. Tame / Horse Tacks
• Your mount can be equipped with "Horse Tacks" starting at level 45, with one additional horse tack available every 5 levels after until level 70.
• Each horse tack has base stats and 3 additional stats.
• The tacks' additional stats can be modified through the tame function, which selects one of the three stats out of an unequipped tack and equips it into the tack that is in use.
12. Wings Upgrade
• Your wings gives additional stats too, using plumes to upgrade.
• The number of plumes per upgrade point increases as the wing's quality increases.
• I recommend using the wings upgrade for PDEF and MDEF only, as this gives the best CP.
• Wing morphs also increase your CP with their stats. Note that the stats of all your morphs are active regardless of which wing design is in use.
13. Talent
• Using wit fruits, talent gives both ATK and DEF stat bonus.
• The talent upgrades are linear, and all upgrades are guaranteed to succeed.
14. Strategy
• Strategy is taken from the Demon Tower Dungeon, giving specific stat bonus using shards.
• There are six shard types corresponding to differing "Stratagems", with differing stats given by each.
• Each successful run of the Demon Tower rewards a random amount of different shards, with more difficult runs giving more shards. The base stat of each stratagem is upgraded by reaching the number of shards required.
• Boosting the stratagems gives a percentage increase on the boosted stratagem.
• Strategy boost uses "Military Classic" item, which is fused from rewards also obtained from the Demon Tower.
15. Stone Maze
• The Stone Maze will add a permanent stat bonus when you complete each section.
• The guide is available in the UJoy Loong Craft FB page.
• The Stone Maze also has great items in its challenges, such as plumes, fodder and card tokens.

Those were the 15 main ways you can increase your CP. What topics do you want to be discussed next? Comment below!