Path To Nowhere Ninety-Nine: Skill, Shackles & Farming

Learn how Ninety Nine operates, her skills, shackles and overall playstyle in detail!

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November 7, 2022

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The Ultimate Path To Nowhere Ninety Nine Guide

Path To Nowhere has one of the most aesthetically pleasing character collections for players to interact with, and one of the units is known as Ninety Nine (quite literally). Our Path To Nowhere Ninety-Nine guide will give a character overview about her that will go into great detail!

Key Takeaways

Ninety-Nine is an A-rank Fury sinner in Path to Nowhere. She is a melee-focused character with high attack and defense stats.
Her skills deal with damage and crowd control, and her main skill, “Ninety-Nine Exclusive Brand“, deals damage to all enemies in front of her.
She can be obtained through Arrests and is best used in close-quarters combat.
She is a good choice for players who want a powerful melee-focused character.

Summarized stats for Ninety-Nine:

Attribute	Phase 1	Phase 2	Phase 3
HP	2218	3257	4748
Attack	258	318	558
Defense	186	276	404
Magic Resistence	186	276	401
Level cap	40	70	90

Playstyle

Ninety-nine is an A-ranking unit, making her easy to acquire and beginner-friendly. She belongs to the fury role, primarily focusing on DPS (damage per second) and frontline combat. She excels in dealing physical or melee damage and provides a 5% lifesteal increase as a sinner.

Minimum stats for Ninety-nine are as follows:

HP: 1282
ATK: 152
Resistance: 110
Defense: 111

Promoting Ninety Nine

Moving on, let’s skip the jump to promoting ninety-nine and what resources are required for it. Alongside that, we will also be talking briefly about the way the promotion takes place. For each sinner, players will be able to max ascend them to phase 3, which makes them the strongest version.

Phase 1

To level up your sinner, you’ll need items like Mania Essences and Discoins, the local currency. You can initially level your sinner to 20 before encountering a cap. Phasing up is the next step, which raises the cap to level 40 and enhances various stats:

HP increases to 2218
Base attack improves to 258
Defense goes up to 186
Magic resistance increases to 184

Additionally, the first phase unlocks the skill “Ebullition” and grants 40 hypercubes. The phase enhancement cost includes:

15 Phase 1 Fury Elemental Particles
12 Arsenopyrite Concentrate
18 Shriveled Tentacle
30,000 Discoins

Phase 2

In Phase 2, after reaching level 40 with your unit and ascending Ninety-nine, the level cap extends to 70. Phase 2 unlocks several features, including Berserk, the Crime Brand column for sinners, Blaze, and provides 60 hypercubes.

Stats improvements in Phase 2 include:

Base HP increased to 3257
Overall attack raised to 381
Overall defense enhanced to 276
Magic resistance increased to 273

The phase enhancement cost consists of:

15 Phase 2 Fury Elemental Fluid
12 Arsenopyrite Crystals
18 Organic Tentacles
100,000 Discoins

Phase 3

Phase 3 marks the final stage of leveling up Ninety-nine, raising the level cap to 90. This phase brings significant improvements, including:

HP increased to 4748
Attack raised to 58
Defense enhanced to 404
Magic resistance improved to 401

Phase 3 also unlocks a new attire, allowing players to equip an exclusive crime brand on Ninety-nine and provides 80 hypercubes.

The enhancement costs for Phase 3 include:

25 Phase 3 Fury Elemental Substance
24 Frosted Arsenopyrite Crystals
36 Infected Tentacles
480,000 Discoins

Skills

Moving on, let’s take a look at the skills that will be offered up to fury sinners, especially for a sinner like ninety-Nine.

Furious Attack

Ninety-nine’s first skill, “Furious Attack,” is her basic normal attack. It doesn’t require energy and can be freely used in battle. When activated, Ninety-nine wields her large sword to strike the target head-on, dealing damage equal to 108% of her base attack. This damage is physical or melee and not elemental. The skill range covers opponents in front, behind, to the right, and to the left of her.

To level up this skill, you’ll need to reach at least Sinner Phase One. The upgrade materials include Skill Module I and Skill Module II for increased damage output, as well as Twilight Stone Raw Ores and Discoins. Here are the level-up upgrades:

Level 2: 115% increase
Level 3: 123% increase
Level 4: 131% increase
Level 5: 140% increase
Level 6: 149% increase
Level 7: 159% increase
Level 8: 170% increase
Level 9: 181% increase
Level 10: 194% increase

Incinerate

Ninety-nine’s ultimate ability, “Incinerate,” is her most powerful skill, requiring 25 energy to use. When activated, she enters Incinerate mode, sacrificing 50% of her base HP in exchange for a 20% increase in attack. This attack boost lasts for 13 seconds, enhancing her combat capabilities significantly.

While in Incinerate mode, any incoming enemy damage directed at Ninety-nine is delayed by 5 seconds, giving her extra time to act. To level up this skill, you’ll need to reach Sinner Phase 1 and use skill modules, twilight stone raw ores, and Discoins. Here are the level-up upgrades:

Level 2: 21.3% increase
Level 3: 22.8% increase
Level 4: 24.3% increase
Level 5: 26% increase
Level 6: 27.7% increase
Level 7: 29.6% increase
Level 8: 31.6% increase
Level 9: 32.7% increase
Level 10: 36% increase

Ebullition

Once Ninety-nine reaches level 20 and is phased up to the next level, the passive skill “Ebullition” becomes unlocked. While it’s a passive skill, it can still be leveled up to level 10 and offers significant benefits. Whenever Ninety-nine loses 10% of her maximum HP, either through her ultimate ability or enemy attacks, Ebullition activates.

Ebullition provides a 2.5% increase in attack speed for Ninety-nine, allowing her to launch attacks faster. This enhancement makes her more effective in combat. Here are the upgrades for Ebullition:

Level 2: 2.7% increase
Level 3: 2.8% increase
Level 4: 3% increase
Level 5: 3.2% increase
Level 6: 3.5% increase
Level 7: 3.7% increase
Level 8: 3.9% increase
Level 9: 4.2% increase
Level 10: 4.5% increase

Berserk

One of the next skills that we would also like to talk about is known as Berserk. It will be yet another passive skill which automatically means that it will not be cast or activated manually and would rather be used automatically in combat.

Whenever the skill is cast, players can expect to have their overall damage output increased by 4%, which will allow them to defeat enemies even faster. Whenever Ninety Nine launches an attack against the same type of opponent, she will able to gain stacks of the damage increase and will be maxed out at 5 stacks.

Level 2: 4.3% increase.
Level 3: 4.6% increase.
Level 4: 4.9% increase.
Level 5: 5.2% increase.
Level 6: 5.5% increase.
Level 7: 5.5% increase.
Level 8: 6.3% increase.
Level 9: 6.7% increase.
Level 10: 7.2% increase.

Shackles

Ninety-Nine has a set of shackles, similar to constellations in Genshin Impact, which are unlocked when you obtain duplicate copies of her characters. There are a total of 5 shackles that can be activated for Ninety-Nine:

Boiling Point: This shackle affects her ultimate skill, Incinerate, by extending its duration by 3 seconds, allowing it to remain active for a longer period.
Shackles Sync I: This shackle is a universal upgrade for all sinners and enhances Ninety-Nine’s normal attack by 5%. This boost is valuable for her role as a mainline sinner.
Carmen Lucia: When activated, this shackle grants an attack bonus of 2% for each instance where Ninety-Nine experiences a 10% reduction in her max HP.
Emotional Resonance: This shackle reduces Ninety-Nine’s energy consumption by 3 points, making it easier for her to use her skills.
S5: The fifth shackle increases her attack by an additional 5%, further enhancing her combat prowess.

These shackles provide significant improvements to Ninety-Nine’s abilities and make her even more formidable in battle.

Farming Upgrade Resources

Next up, let’s discuss a little bit how you can actually farm the resources that are needed in order to level up the skills for promoting ninety-nine.

Mania Essence

To strengthen Ninety-Nine, players will need to farm Mania Essence, which is used to increase her physical strength. Mania Essence can be found in the dungeon called “Seed of Omen,” which has four different difficulty levels:

Seed of Omen I: Requires players to be at least level one.
Seed of Omen II: Requires players to be at least level 15.
Seed of Omen III: Requires players to be at least level 35.
Seed of Omen IV: Requires players to be at a higher level.

By conquering these different difficulty levels, players can obtain Mania Essence to enhance Ninety-Nine’s abilities.

Skill Modules

As far as leveling skills are concerned, players will need to get their hands on Skill Modules. In order to acquire the skill modules, you can first and foremost get them from the secret society, which is your guild.

Apart from that, you can also get from the Restricted Area Investigations, and the first dungeon will be opened up after you clear chapters 4-8, and it will have a total of 4 dungeon difficulties to get skill modules.

Twilight Stone Raw Ore

Other than the skill modules, players will also need to get twilight stone raw ores, which can be achieved by three main methods:

Supply chests are typically gifted to you by the game itself.
By clearing stories 1-2, you can either decide to raid the story chapters once, or you can go ahead and do a 10x raid to fast-farm them.
Secret society support can also provide these raw ores.

Phase Fury Elemental Particles

Other than that, in order to phase up Ninety Nine, one of the main things that you will require will be these fury elemental particles.

One of the main ways that you can get it is through the Fury I instance, as well as by opening up the supply chest.

Arsenopyrite Concentrate

Now, arsenopyrite concentrates can actually be found by many methods. You can get your hands on them by opening the supply chests provided to you, or you can even get them from the secret society once you have formed one.

Other than that, the main story 2-12, 3-8, 4-8, 6-7, 7-8, and 8-5 will also grant the arsenopyrite concentrate.

Tentacles

Tentacles can be obtained through supply chests, clearing the main story 1-7, and by receiving support from a secret society. There are different types of tentacles, including shriveled, organic, and infected tentacles, which correspond to phases one, two, and three, respectively.

Discoins, on the other hand, can be acquired through Gold Rush domains, which come in various difficulties such as Gold Rush I, II, III, and IV. These resources are essential for upgrading and progressing in the game.

Summary

And there we have it! A complete overview discussing her skills, shackles, and resource farming! With that, we will wrap up our Path To Nowhere Ninety-Nine guide!

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