Spirit (精神) also know as Concentration or Mental Strength is a measure of a persons spirit or willpower.
See also mental strength standard.
Ranking
In-Game Concentration | Real Life
Mental Strength | |
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Standard | Level | |
Tier 4 Basic | --- | Advanced Expert |
Tier 4 Intermediate | --- | Half-Step Special Expert |
Tier 4 Advanced | --- | Special Expert |
Tier 4 Peak | --- | Half-Step Master |
Tier 5 Basic | --- | 1-Star Master |
Tier 5 Intermediate | --- | 2-Star Master |
Tier 5 Advanced | --- | 3-Star Master |
Tier 5 Peak | --- | |
Tier 6 Basic | --- | Half-Step Grandmaster |
Tier 6 Intermediate | Lower | 1-Star Grandmaster |
Middle | Half-Step 2-Star Grandmaster | |
Upper | 2-Star Grandmaster | |
Tier 6 Advanced | Lower | Half-Step 3-Star Grandmaster (a.k.a. 2-Star Limit Grandmaster) |
Middle | 3-Star Grandmaster | |
Upper | ||
Tier 6 Peak | Lower | Pseudo-Great Grandmaster |
Middle | 1-Star Great Grandmaster | |
Upper | Half-Step 2-Star Great Grandmaster | |
Tier 6 Limit | Lower | 2-Star Great Grandmaster |
Middle | Half-Step 3-Star Great Grandmaster | |
Upper | 3-Star Great Grandmaster | |
Pseudo-Tier 7 | ||
Tier 7 Basic | ||
Tier 7 Intermediate | ||
Tier 7 Advanced |
Real Life
Mental strength masters might be only slightly superior to Henglian grandmasters in physical fitness, but their control over their bodies reached an incredible level. Not only could they control the fine movements of muscles and the physical body, but they could also exert much greater control over their brains.
While in combat, Shi Feng had managed to accelerate his thought processes by more than tenfold. In his eyes, Elder Qi and the others had looked like they were moving in slow motion. After including his enhanced perception of his surroundings, let alone dodging the eyesight and senses of several grandmasters (Neutralizing or Henglian), he could even replicate God’s Domain’s Void Steps momentarily.[1]
In-Game
Concentration is one of the two hidden Attributes that players have after the release of one of the Expansion Pack. The Concentration attribute affects a player's mental state, allowing them to focus and maintain a calm mind more easily, and also grants them better control over their physical bodies in God's Domain. It is affected when players are in areas with high Mana Density. When player's run out of Concentration, they will pass out in the game.
With stronger Concentration, not only could players afford to execute many more combat techniques, but they could also reduce the Stamina and Concentration consumption of combat techniques. Most importantly, powerful combat techniques required sufficiently high Concentration.
For most players, even developing their Concentration to the Tier 6 standard was already a monumental challenge. The reason most expert players could never advance to Tier 6 was their lacking Concentration. Meanwhile, once players developed their Concentration to the Tier 6 standard, it would become even more difficult to develop it further.
"... very few Tier 6 players could develop their Concentration to the Tier 6 Peak standard, with most hovering at the Tier 6 Intermediate and Tier 6 Advanced standards."
After reaching the Tier 6 Peak Concentration standard, not only would players have twice as much Concentration to expend as players with only Tier 6 Advanced Concentration, but they would also expend 30% less Concentration when using Skills, Spells, etc. Furthermore, their perception and control over their body would also improve significantly.
All these improvements made it so that huge gaps in strength existed even among Tier 6 players.
Unfortunately, there weren’t many known methods that players could use to reliably increase their Concentration:
- Reach a higher Tier.
- Raise one’s Life Rating.
- Improve brain activity:
- Engage in high-intensity combat for considerable amounts of time (long-term)
- Resist mental attacks (long-term) from Divine Will/Might or others fonts.
- Life Potions (long-term consume in real life)
- Meditation Potions (long-term consume in real life)
- Stardew Drops (consume in real life)
- Exceedingly rare items or special methods:
- Eternal Energy (temporary effect)
- Primal Void Stone Constructions (effect while inside the building)
- Soul Cleansing
- Soul Blood
- Soul Amplification Potion
- Rare Divine Artifacts
- Special Primordial God-ranked Legacies, such as Mental Condensation Technique.
- The Goddess of Space's Sixth Legacy, a.k.a. Concentration Enhancement.
References
- ↑ Chapter 2887