Personality Expansion

The Personality Expansion system allows you to boost your DOLLs' stats and confer an additional passive skill. A full list of frames and implants can be found on the List of Intelli-frames and Personality Implants page.

Overview
The Personality Expansion menu (人格拡張) is located in the middle-left tab on a character's information page.



From here, you can choose an Intelli-frame to equip and fill out its slots with Personality Implants. Be careful when backing out of this menu, if you back out by using the back arrow or jump to the home screen, your changes will not be saved. While annoying, this can be used to discard any changes you did not want to keep.

Intelli-frames
Intelli-frames are the box that implants are slotted into. There are several types of frames, each with a passive skill and associated slot colors. Passives will not immediately activate upon equipping the frame— the energy requirement must first be fulfilled. This is done by equipping implants that match the color of the energy requirement.

ALL Slot
Frames Tier 2 and above will contain at least one ALL slot. As per their name, these slots will accept any color of implant. Implants slotted into an ALL slot will still contribute their energy toward a skill activation if their color matches. This allows for some flexibility, as you have the choice between slotting for a higher skill activation or using a completely different color to boost other stats.

Personality Implants
Implants are the discs slotted into frames. They come in five colors that each boost two stats by a percentage, with the percent boost being additive. Each color is further divided into three energy levels. (At Tier 1, the levels are +1, +2, and +0) Higher energy levels contribute more energy toward a skill activation, but will have lower stat boosts. Even if the energy requirement for a skill is not met, all stat boosts from implants will still take effect.

Where to find


Frames and implants are primarily found in Reconnaissance missions. After each stage clear, a search can be performed on the cleared node in order to receive various rewards. A tier 1 implant box is guaranteed, but higher tier implant boxes and frame boxes can also be found at a lower rate. A full clear of a recon mission gives a guaranteed tier 1 implant box and a tier 1 frame box, regardless of recon length.

Additionally, every Symbiote(boss) drops a unique frame at a low rate. These frames can only be received as a boss drop, they cannot be obtained from frame boxes or trading up.

Trading Up and Tiers
Excess frames and implants can be traded up for a random one of the next tier, at a rate of 3:1. This can be done from the frame and implant tabs in the inventory.



There are some considerations to keep in mind while trading up. Frames will randomly choose a higher tier frame from the full pool of common frames so, while possible, it is very unlikely you will receive a frame of the same skill type that was traded in. The exception to this is boss frames, which will simply upgrade the frame to the next tier. They will not roll for a random higher-tiered common or boss frame. Implants will randomly choose from within each color type, meaning the energy level can change from the traded-in implants but not the color.

The general effects of tiering up are as follows:

Intelli-frames
 * passive skill receives additional activation level
 * replaces an existing slot with an ALL Slot

Personality Implants
 * increased stat boosts
 * +1 to energy boost (Tier 3 and up)