Overview
The Skill Tree is where you spend the points you earn from playing. It lives in the Enhancements tab. Every skill you buy stays bought, and most of them make XP come in faster.
It is not really a tree so much as three parallel chains. All three start from one root skill, and inside each chain you have to buy the skills in order - you cannot skip ahead.
- Stats chain - unlocks numbers, records and rankings to look at
- Sparkle chain - straight XP boosts, lucky rolls and Pink Rush
- Streak chain - streak bonuses, streak insurance and quest rerolls
27 Skills
4 main tiers, 3 secret, plus a PRO analytics branch
1 Point / Level
Plus 1 more for every 100 bubbles popped
2,550 Points
What the whole tree costs, end to end
Sparkle Points
Sparkle points are the currency. They are separate from XP: XP raises your level, and levels hand you sparkle points to spend here.
- 1 point per level up. No exceptions, no bonus points for big levels.
- 1 point per 100 bubbles popped. Popping counts toward this all the time, in or out of a session.
- Your point balance never resets, not even between seasons.
- There is no refund and no respec. Once a skill is bought, that is that.
You need to be signed in to buy
Purchases go through the server, so you have to be logged into your CC Labs account. The server also holds the real point balance - if your local count and the server disagree, the server wins.
Some skills do reset each season
Seasons roll over monthly. When one ends, the display skills stay yours forever - Pink Hours, Ditzy Data, Hive Mind, Trophy Case, Popular Girl, Eternal Doll and the whole PRO branch. Everything that touches the XP economy (the Sparkle chain, the Streak chain, the quest skills, Night Shift and Early Bird Bimbo) is stripped and has to be bought again. Re-buying the lot costs 250 points a season. Your unspent points carry over, so this is a treadmill, not a wipe.
Tier 1 - Foundation
One skill, and everything else hangs off it. Buy this first.
Shows your total conditioning time across all sessions
Tier 2 - Core Branches
The three chains start here. All three need Pink Hours, and you can buy them in any order.
Head of the stats chain. Unlocks the statistics panel with your session data
Requires: Pink Hours
Head of the sparkle chain. +10% XP from every source
Requires: Pink Hours
Head of the streak chain. Better streak display, plus 1 streak shield a week that forgives a missed day
Requires: Pink Hours
Tier 3 - Specialization
Each chain continues. These are strictly in order - the second skill in a chain needs the first.
Stats chain
Shows how many people are online right now
Requires: Ditzy Data
Shows your personal best records
Requires: Hive Mind
Sparkle chain
+15% XP, on top of Sparkle Boost. 25% total so far
Requires: Sparkle Boost
5% chance of 10x XP on any flash image
Requires: Extra Sparkly
Streak chain
A daily XP bonus that grows with your streak (50 to 300 XP, then scaled by your level)
Requires: Good Girl Streak
Buying it gives you a streak fix charge. If your login streak breaks, the charge spends itself and puts the streak back
Requires: Milestone Rewards
Tier 4 - Mastery
The end of each chain, and where the big XP skills live. Still in order.
Stats chain
Shows where you sit as a percentile on the leaderboard
Requires: Trophy Case
1 free daily quest reroll
Requires: Popular Girl
+25% XP on rerolled quests
Requires: Quest Refresh
Sparkle chain
+20% XP. With the two before it, that is +45% on everything
Requires: Lucky Bimbo
5% chance of 20x points on a bubble pop
Requires: Maximum Sparkle
Random 60-second windows where all XP is tripled
Requires: Lucky Bubbles
Streak chain
+0.5% XP per day of streak, capped at +15%
Requires: Oopsie Insurance
2 more daily quest rerolls
Requires: Streak Power
Big one-off payouts at quest streak milestones: 3,000 XP at 7 days, 6,000 at 14, 10,000 at 30. Each scales +2% per level
Requires: Reroll Addict
Rerolls come from two different chains
Quest Refresh and Better Quests sit at the end of the stats chain. Reroll Addict sits at the end of the streak chain. If you want all three rerolls a day, you have to finish both.
The PRO Analytics Branch
Five more stat skills sit past Better Quests, at the far end of the stats chain. They are wildly expensive and they only show you information - none of them affect XP. They are also all permanent, so a season rollover never takes them away.
The full lifetime dashboard, with every stat the app has ever counted
Requires: Better Quests
Compare each season against the last
Requires: Ditzy Data PRO
A timeline of your personal bests, all-time and per season
Requires: Season Rewind
A breakdown of how much you have used each feature, this season and ever
Requires: Bestie Records
The capstone. Full prestige history per season, plus a certified badge
Requires: Brain Drain Report
2,250 points for the set
This branch alone is nearly nine tenths of the cost of the whole tree. It is a long-haul goal, not something to save up for early. Buy everything that actually pays out XP first.
Secret Skills
Three skills sit outside the tree, on their own row underneath it. They have no prerequisites, so you can buy them at any point - but until you meet the unlock condition, all you see is a card marked ??? with a hint.
+50% XP between 11pm and 5am
Unlock: start a session 10 times in the 11pm-5am window
+50% XP between 5am and 8am
Unlock: start a session 10 times in the 5am-8am window
Shows your lifetime stats across every season
Unlock: reach level 50 in any season
The in-app hints are slightly off
Night Shift's hint says "after midnight" and Early Bird's says "before 7am". What the app actually counts is app launches between 11pm and 5am for Night Shift, and between 5am and 8am for Early Bird. Only the first launch of a session counts, so opening and closing the app repeatedly will not speed it up.
Eternal Doll survives seasons, the other two do not
Night Shift and Early Bird Bimbo are XP skills, so they get stripped at the season rollover along with the rest. Eternal Doll is a display skill and is yours for good.
Pink Rush
Pink Rush is the last skill in the sparkle chain and the biggest single multiplier in the game. It fires on its own, at random, and triples everything for a minute.
- Costs 25 points, at the very end of the sparkle chain
- Roughly a 50% chance to fire every 10 minutes while the app is running
- Lasts 60 seconds, then ends on its own
- Everything you earn in that window is worth 3x
- It can fire more than once in a long session
It multiplies your other bonuses too
Your XP boosts add together first, then Pink Rush triples the whole total. With all three Sparkle skills, maxed Streak Power and a time-of-day secret skill running, that adds up fast. See progression.log for the exact math.
Conditioning Control Panel