Anime Expeditions Expedition Mode and Anvil Stat Reroll Guide

Expedition Mode unlocks at player level 20, with the specific gate being a clear of School Grounds Expedition on Normal Act 1. Once unlocked, it matchmakes lobbies of up to 4 players and starts every run at the Expedition Center.

From there the game generates a fresh node grid, including Elite lanes and a Boss chamber, and your team escorts a slow-moving payload from node to node. Checkpoints along the route are where you stop to buy Stat Anvils, so a run plays out as a build-as-you-go loadout rather than a fixed team comp fight decided before you queue. The grid regenerates every run, so no two Expeditions play out in the same order.

Eight Buildings ring the Expedition Center, and upgrading them is the main long-term reason to keep running the mode instead of only farming Story acts.

The Research Lab holds 18 permanent upgrade nodes split across four branches plus a single root unlock. Every purchase carries forward into every future run, making it the account's main long-term investment in the mode, and higher tiers in every branch require the previous tier as a prerequisite.

Economy branch (E1 to E6, 6 tiers): boosts income and reward stacking on every run.

Payload branch (T1 to T5, 5 tiers): extends payload durability and travel speed.

Power branch (P1 to P4, 4 tiers): raises unit output specifically on Expedition maps.

Progression branch (G1 and G2, 2 tiers): speeds up account and milestone progression from Expedition runs.

Map Unlock (root node): opens the rest of the tree once the Expedition Center itself is upgraded.

Every checkpoint sells Stat Anvils, the run's core power spike. Buying one rolls a stat from a pool of 15, Damage, Range, SPA, Crit Chance, Crit Damage, Element Damage, Archetype Damage, DoT Damage, Summon Damage, Summon Health, Payload Health, Follow-Up Damage, EXP Multiplier, Yen Generation and Bonus Match Rewards, and a rarity that determines how strong the roll is.

Rarity weights are Epic 60%, Legendary 30%, Mythic 10%, plus a rare bonus Rainbow tier. Strength scales with rarity: an Epic Damage anvil lands in a 1% to 4% range, Legendary jumps to 5% to 7%, Mythic reaches 8% to 10%, and Rainbow pushes as high as 11% to 13%, with SPA, Range and EXP Multiplier each using their own separate scaling. A handful of stats are hard capped regardless of how many Anvils you stack: SPA caps at 50% total reduction and Summon Health caps at 200%, preventing infinite stacking from breaking the mode's balance.

Anvil bonuses only last for the run they were bought in and vanish the moment it ends, unlike Ascension's permanent Mythic-unit stat boosts or Stat Potential's permanent grade rerolls. Every fresh Expedition run starts with a completely blank Anvil slate, no matter how invested your account already is.

Every run starts with a choice between three ascending difficulty tiers, affecting both how hard enemies hit and how much every node pays out.

Normal: resistance ranges 10 to 20, enemies hit for 5 damage per attack, rewards carry a 1.25x multiplier, no forced enemy modifiers.

Hard: resistance ranges 20 to 45, enemies hit for 7 damage per attack, rewards carry a 1.5x multiplier, every node adds one random enemy modifier.

Nightmare: resistance ranges 30 to 60, enemies hit for 10 damage per attack, rewards carry a 1.75x multiplier, every node adds two random enemy modifiers, the highest tier currently in the mode.

Start on Normal until your team can clear it without losing the payload, then move up. A wipe on Hard or Nightmare pays out nothing at all, so climbing too early usually loses more than the higher multiplier gains you.

Because Anvils are a per-run choice, decide early whether that run is leaning offense or defense and buy toward it at every checkpoint instead of grabbing whatever comes up first. An offense build stacks Damage, Crit Damage and Element Damage Anvils for a glass-cannon clear speed; a defense build stacks Payload Health and Summon Health Anvils to survive longer routes and tougher checkpoints. Bonus Match Rewards and EXP Multiplier Anvils sit outside both categories as a meta-progression pick, boosting the value of the run itself rather than combat performance.

Elite nodes roll 8 to 11 of one resource from Map Resource, Expedition Coin, Equipment Scrap or Expedition Fuel, plus a guaranteed 100 Payload EXP, 40 Player EXP and 2,500 to 5,000 Yen.

Boss nodes draw three separate Expedition Coin rolls, add a guaranteed 5 to 8 Map Resource, 150 Payload EXP, 40 Player EXP, 5,000 to 10,000 Yen, and one guaranteed Expedition Tome, the mode's premium currency for its highest-tier unlocks.