Legacy Piece Beginner Guide: Your First Rank Climb

Do this before you play a single fight

Open Settings and redeem the active codes. This is not the usual “codes are nice” advice — in Legacy Piece the current code list is worth thousands of Trait Rerolls, hundreds of Clan Rerolls and stacks of chests. Those are the exact resources your first ten hours would otherwise be spent farming.

Redeem them all in one sitting. Codes expire without warning, and the entire pre-1.0 batch is already dead.

Your three permanent rolls

Legacy Piece gives you three things that stick to your character and are only changed by spending reroll items:

• Race — a passive stat block. 26 exist, from Human (Common) to Ghoul and Oni (Exclusive).
• Clan — a base buff plus a stacking passive plus an active skill. Ten exist.
• Trait — a single passive, with published odds. The six Secret traits sit at 0.0067% each.

Roll race and clan early with the code rerolls; do not spend Trait Rerolls chasing a Secret trait yet. At those odds it is a long project, and nothing in the early game is gated behind it.

What you actually want from an early roll is any race with Damage Amplifier on it, because that line multiplies everything else you do. The race tier list sorts them by total stat value.

Buy the Katana, then stop spending Money

The starter weapon is a 5,000 Money Katana from an NPC, and it carries you further than it looks like it should. Every other weapon worth having is gated behind a rank you do not have yet — Rank B at minimum, often a completed questline on top. Spending your early Money anywhere else is a detour.

Keep the free Combat fighting style equipped too. Several quests specifically require kills made with Combat, and re-equipping it later to farm them is slower than just leaving it on.

Claim the dailies before you farm, not after

The kill-count quests — 100 enemies, 20 bosses, 2,000 NPCs — tick while you do anything else. Claim them first and they complete themselves. The EXP payouts on the bigger ones are enormous relative to mob kills, so this is the single largest lever on how fast your rank climbs. Full payouts are in the quest table.

Rank is the real progression bar

Levels matter because they raise your rank: F → D → C → B → A → S → SS. Rank is what actually gates content — weapons, abilities, and every tier of Haki. If an NPC refuses you with the money in hand, the answer is nearly always rank, and occasionally an unfinished quest.

A workable first-session loop:

1. Redeem codes, roll race and clan.
2. Buy the Katana. Claim every available quest.
3. Farm Bandits and Beggars near the starting area until the dailies clear.
4. Move up to the highest-level mob you can kill in one rotation — not the highest you can survive.
5. At Rank B, check the weapons table for what just opened up.

Two early mistakes worth avoiding

Don’t hoard materials for a craft you cannot make. Several crafting recipes require a specific clan or title on top of their materials. The Cursed Child craft wants the Okkotsu clan and the Cursed Sorcerer title. Check the requirement column before you commit to a farm.

Don’t chase the highest-level boss. Drop rates are per kill and do not scale with your level, so ten kills of a boss you beat comfortably beats one kill of a boss that takes five minutes. The boss drop tables have the actual percentages.

Where to go next

Once you are past Rank B, the game opens into three parallel projects: building toward a specific spec, climbing the tower, and grinding the materials that everything above needs. Pick one. Doing all three at once is how the mid-game stalls out.