Tactical Plugins — Full Star-Up Data (0★ → 10★)

The first public dataset for the Tactical Plugin system (Destroyer-EX). Everything below was measured live on Sept 20, 2026 by resetting an orange plugin to 0★ and rebuilding it to 8★ on screen, with every EXP bar and material cost recorded — then cross-checked by rebuilding the other three plugins of the same slot from 0★ to 8★. Every EXP threshold, gate cost and stat tick matched across all four plugins, and the numbers reconcile to the digit. ✅

🔌

How the system works: each formation’s vehicle carries a per-faction plugin set (switching faction uninstalls all plugins) with four slots — Opening, Offensive, Defensive, Jamming. Plugins star up from 0★ to 10★: stars 1–5 show gold, 6–10 turn the stars red one by one. Star-ups consume Plugin EXP plus duplicate copies of the same plugin at the gates. The EXP can come from universal EXP items or from feeding green, blue and purple plugins, which convert to EXP — but orange plugins can never be used as star-up material for other plugins (the game says so explicitly). An orange plugin is only ever starred up itself, or consumed as the exact duplicate a gate demands.

The Wings of Dawn set (all four verified at 8★)

Plugin	Slot	Stats at 8★	Skill at 8★
Ultra EM Shield IV	Opening	WoD Heroes’ ATK +2,524 · Troop HP +12.4%	Battle-start shield (factor 440) for 2s; troop takes 8.6% less damage from normal attacks and counterattacks
Ultra Fire Amplifier IV	Offensive	WoD Heroes’ ATK +2,524 · Troop ATK +62%	Normal/counter attack damage +13%; 26% chance to recast after the vehicle skill
Ultra Capacitor Armor IV	Defensive	WoD Heroes’ DEF +2,524 · Troop DEF +62%	Troop damage reduction +13%; after the vehicle skill, WoD heroes +13% damage reduction for 3s
Ultra Electro Pulse IV	Jamming	WoD Heroes’ DEF +2,524 · Troop DMG +24.8%	Enemy heroes’ skill damage −13%; own WoD in-troop skill damage +25.9%

Each 8★ plugin contributes 1,150,000 power (174,000 at 0★). The other factions carry equivalent sets with identical numbers and star-up costs — only the faction the hero stats apply to changes, so pick the set matching the troops that formation actually runs.

---

Star-up mechanics — 8 steps per star

Every star is a track of 8 markers. Most are EXP steps (fill the bar with universal Plugin EXP); the diamond markers are material gates that consume duplicate copies of the same plugin. Every marker — EXP step or gate — gives the same stat and power tick for that star.

Stars	Track layout
1★–2★	7 EXP steps → final gate
3★–4★	4 EXP steps → gate → 2 EXP steps → final gate
5★–8★	2 EXP steps → gate → 1 EXP step → gate → 2 EXP steps → final gate
9★	Same 8-marker layout as 5★–8★ (seen live; gate costs not yet measured)

The final gate of each star is the big one — measured on the way up: 20 catalysts close 1★, then duplicate copies of the same plugin: 1 at 3★, 5 at 6★, 8 at 7★ and 10 at 8★, with the mid-track gates making up the rest of each star’s copy bill.

The full cost table, star by star ✅

Star	EXP for the star	Duplicate copies	Stat per step	Power for the star	Cumulative EXP
1★	129,500	— (20 catalysts)	+12	56,000	129,500
2★	512,000	1	+16	64,000	641,500
3★	1,266,300	2	+24	96,000	1,907,800
4★	3,195,700	3	+24	96,000	5,103,500
5★	5,292,100	6	+32	128,000	10,395,600
6★	9,680,600	8	+38	152,000	20,076,200
7★	16,149,800	16	+46	176,000	36,226,000
8★	22,260,700	21	+56	208,000	58,486,700
9★ (partly ✅)	~30,700,000 est. — first two steps measured: 5,777,000 + 5,892,500	? (3 gates)	+64 ✅	232,000 (29,000/step ✅)	~89,200,000
10★ (est.)	~42,300,000	?	?	?	~131,500,000

One plugin, 0★ → 8★ = 58,486,700 EXP + 57 duplicate copies + 20 catalysts (verified against both the reset refund and the live EXP counter). The 9★ row is now partly measured: a plugin pushed past 8★ recorded the first two EXP steps live (5,777,000 + 5,892,500 = 11,669,500 — the first step confirms the ×1.3784 per-star growth exactly), plus the per-step stats: primary +64, secondary +1.5% (Troop ATK/DEF type) / +0.6% (Troop DMG) / +0.3% (Troop HP), and power +29,000 per marker. Extrapolating the measured in-star step pattern gives ~30.7M EXP for the full star; the 10★ figure applies the same ×1.3784 factor once more. Copy costs for the 9★/10★ gates are unknown until someone crosses them — the 2★→8★ progression ran 1 / 2 / 3 / 6 / 8 / 16 / 21.

💡

The bottleneck flips at the top. Early stars are EXP-hungry and copy-cheap; by 7★–8★ each star eats 16–21 duplicate copies. Past 8★ the EXP keeps scaling ~×1.38 per star, but the real wall is duplicates of the exact same orange plugin — plan your Plugin Crafting and chest picks around copies, not EXP.

Plugin Crafting — where duplicate copies come from ✅

The Craft tab (next to Backpack) makes plugins directly, one faction tab at a time, with eight recipes per faction — the four purple Mk III plugins and the four orange Ultra IV plugins. The recipe is the same for every plugin, read live:

Craft	Cost
1 purple plugin (e.g. EM Shield III)	100 purple Plugin Crafting Materials
1 orange plugin (e.g. Ultra EM Shield IV)	100 gold Plugin Crafting Materials

This prices the whole star-up in materials: one orange plugin’s 0★→8★ copy bill (57 duplicates) = 5,700 gold materials, and a fresh plugin adds 100 more. Green, blue and purple plugins all work as EXP fodder for the bar, but the copy gates demand the exact same orange plugin — so gold crafting materials are the true endgame currency of this system.

Plugin Chests — measured drop tables ✅

Every chest rarity rolls the same Rare Item pool: one random orange plugin out of all 12 (4 slots × 3 factions, each 8.333%) — so a random chest has only a 1-in-3 chance of even landing in your faction, and 1-in-12 of being the exact plugin you need. The Orange Plugin Choice Box is the only targeted source: it lets you pick any 1 of the 12 directly. When the rare doesn’t fire, the chest pays the Common roll instead.

Chest	Orange chance (pity, read from the in-game tables)	Guaranteed orange by	~Avg opens per orange	Common roll (when no orange)
Orange Choice Box	Pick any 1 of the 12 — no RNG	every box	1	—
Random Orange (gold)	20.19% on open 1, +~20.18%/open	open 5	~2.5	20 gold materials (100%)
Purple	0.01% early, then +1.474%/open from ~open 11	open 78	~26	1× purple plugin 78.9% · 2× purple plugin 10.5% · 2 gold materials 10.5%
Blue	0.01% early, then +0.0824%/open from ~open 41	open 500	~85	1× blue plugin 71.9% · 1× purple plugin 20.2% · 1 gold material 7.9%
Green	0.01% through open 100, then +0.00098%/open	open 1,000	~500	1× green plugin 60.1% · 1× blue plugin 30.1% · 1× purple plugin 4.8% · 1 purple material 3.8% · 1 gold material 1.2%

The pity counter is visible in the game’s own Probabilities ⓘ tooltip and climbs linearly with every open that misses — the whole curve is deterministic (purple: 2.988% at open 12 → 98.8% at 77 → 100% at 78; blue: 1.585% at 59 → 37.8% at 499 → 100% at 500; green: 0.289% at 385 → 0.891% at 999 → 100% at 1,000; all measured on live tooltips). What this means: gold chests are practically a plugin every 2–3 opens plus 20 gold materials per miss; purple chests are your purple-fodder firehose with a real orange every ~26; blue and green chests are EXP-fodder printers whose orange is a long-tail bonus. Since the random orange is only 1/12 targeted, value the Choice Box far above everything else when picking event rewards.

Plugin Resonance — the account-wide payoff

Installing orange plugins activates Plugin Resonance, and the resonance level follows the lowest star level among the installed plugins — one 5★ plugin next to three 3★ plugins gives only 3★ resonance (verified live). Level the set evenly; a single plugin racing ahead buys nothing here. Bonuses are All Heroes’ ATK & DEF (flat, account-wide) — read live at resonance 8:

Resonance star	0★	1★	2★	3★	4★	5★	6★	7★	8★	9★	10★
All Heroes’ ATK & DEF	+20	+40	+60	+80	+100	+150	+200	+250	+300	+350	+400

The 9★ bonus explicitly requires every installed Tactical Plugin to be Orange quality at 9★ — resonance follows the whole set, not your best plugin.

🔄

Plugin Reset is a full refund — star-up costs come back in full (universal EXP, duplicate copies, catalysts; non-orange plugins consumed return as equivalent EXP). Only uninstalled plugins can be reset, and uninstalling is free. This is what made the measurement run possible — and it means experimenting with plugin builds costs nothing.

---

Measured on a Wings of Dawn set at Destroyer-EX and validated across all four plugins of the slot — the star-up curve is identical for every plugin. The stat-per-step column is the primary stat (faction heroes’ ATK or DEF, same curve). The secondary stat follows the same 8-tick pattern as Troop HP (0.4% → 12.4%) scaled by a fixed multiplier: ×1 Troop HP (EM Shield), ×5 Troop ATK (Fire Amplifier, 2% → 62%) and Troop DEF (Capacitor Armor), ×2 Troop DMG (Electro Pulse, 0.8% → 24.8%). Skill values scale per star (shield factor +30/star, damage reduction 3.0% → 8.6% across 8 stars).