Mirage Board

Mirage Boards are a feature in World of Final Fantasy that allow the player to grant their collected Mirages new abilities, as well as increase their stats.

Description
Accessed from the Mirages Boards menu, either from the main menu or the Prism Case, the player can see their Mirages inside transparent cubes. Selecting the Mirage accesses their Mirage Board. A Mirage Board consists of the Mirage and spaces that interconnect via lines. These spaces permanently grant a Mirage active and passive abilities, and stat boosts when unlocked. Some spaces also unlock important items and other features, such as Prisms and Mirajewels, and blank spaces even allow the use of Ability Seeds to grant a Mirage abilities. Unlocking spaces requires SP from that Mirage, and the spaces must be connected to the Mirage itself or another unlocked spaces (indicated by the spaces having color and the connected lines being white) to do so.

Mirage transfigurations
Most Mirages in World of Final Fantasy have other forms the player can transfigure into from the Prism Case. Transfigurations must be unlocked within a Mirage's Mirage Board to use them: either by having the Mirage reach a certain level, acquiring a corresponding Memento, or even imprisming a Mirage that allows for the transfiguration in the first place.

Once a transfiguration is unlocked for the first time, any duplicate Mirages can access this transfiguration without having to spend their SP to do so.

Mirage families
When a Mirage has access to its immediate transfigurations (or "family"—if any), any abilities and passive stat boosts unlocked from the Mirage Boards of all its immediate transfigurations are shared between all of them. SP, and any ability or stat boosts granted from Ability Seeds placed in blank spaces, is also shared between all transfigurations within the family. There are some spaces however that are surrounded by white brackets; these particular spaces grant abilities available only for that Mirage's particular transfiguration. Upon reaching a certain level, a Mirage's family will no longer accumulate SP once it has enough to unlock all of the spaces of its Mirage Board set.

A majority of Mirages also have transfigurations separate from their immediate family, as a new Mirage Board set. A Mirage's separate family is often unlocked by reaching a certain level or acquiring a corresponding memento. As with transfigurations, once a Mirage Board set is unlocked for the first time, any duplicate Mirages can access them without having to spend SP to do so. Abilities and stat boosts are mutually exclusive between a Mirage's transfiguration families, and the SP pools are separate. Some Mirages may have have up to three families.

When DLC-exclusive Mirages are unlocked in the player's save file, or playing the standalone Maxima version, Mirages from the core game will have new Mirage Board spaces to transfigure into them, and thus have additional families.

Sync level
As the player unlocks spaces for a Mirage, and its immediate and separate families (or "group"—if any), a percentage of the Mirage's Sync level increases. Sync levels measure the progress of the Mirage's progression of unlocked spaces for the Mirage Boards of its entire group. When reaching sync levels of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%, the Mirage's entire group gain stat boosts. Mirages with no transfigurations at all (such as Gilgamesh) earn sync bonuses just for filling their Mirage Boards to these levels.

Master Mirages
When the player fills a Mirage's Mirage Board, whether for its immediate or separate families (if any), they will have "mastered" its board. Mirages whose Mirage Boards have been mastered become "Master Mirages", and they receive both a bonus upgrade and star from Tama.

A Mirage may be given a silver or gold star depending on the completion of the Mirage Boards of its immediate and other families (if any). If any of a Mirage's families' Mirage Board sets is filled, that family is given a silver star. If the entire group's Mirage Board sets are filled, they are given a gold star (any families' silver stars will therefore turn gold when this happens). Mirages that do not have any transfigurations at all are given a gold star once their entire Mirage Board is filled.

Upon earning a star, the player is then given one choice from six permanent mastery bonuses to grant to a Mirage's immediate family. The player may chose different mastery bonuses for each of the Mirage's families.

Mastering 100 Mirage Boards (no duplicates) unlocks the Legendary Caretaker achievement.

The following is a list of Mastery bonus choices:

New Game+
When starting a New Game+ file in the Maxima version, most Mirages retain any Mirage Board parameters from the previous file (spaces unlocked, any Ability Seeds placed within blank spaces, and mastery bonuses). Certain unique Mirages do not carry over, however, and their Mirage Boards are reset when acquired (regular spaces and Ability Seeds placed, excluding transfiguration and Mirage Board ones). Their SP is also restored, however, and the player may even choose a different mastery bonus once their Mirage Board sets are filled again.

List of Mirage Boards
The following is a list of Mirage Board information by character.


 * Abilities in bold indicate those usable only for that particular transfiguration.
 * SP listed per character is the amount required to clear that particular Mirage Board (and their entire family's Mirage Board set), not taking into account any transfigurations already unlocked.
 * For Mirages without any transfigurations at all, they will clear their Mirage Board with the exact amount.
 * For some Mirages that can only be transfigured into and cannot be fought and imprismed (such as Affrite), the amount of SP required to fill their Mirage Board is less than what is actually required as they must have another transfiguration unlocked to be used in the first place.
 * The level required for a Mirage to master its Mirage Board set assumes any of its other transfigurations are not already unlocked, otherwise it will master it a level or two sooner. Mirages without any transfigurations at all will master their Mirage Board at exactly this level.