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11 Rose gets stronger in Castlevania: Belmont's Curse in two separate ways: she levels up, and she upgrades individual pieces of her kit. Both matter, and neither replaces skill. Konami has published no numbers for any of it, so this page covers mechanisms and sources of gain only.
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33 Levelling
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55 Rose gains experience from defeating enemies and from finding and destroying certain statues, and levelling raises her attack and her defence. That is the whole of the confirmed system: no experience values, no curve, no level cap and no per-level figures have been published, and none should be assumed from any other game.
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77 SourceEffectDefeating enemiesExperience toward the next levelCertain statuesExperience toward the next levelArcana booksRaise one of the two stats directly, found by exploringHealth or mana fragmentsFour fragments extend the health bar or the mana bar
88 The fragment rule is the one hard number available: bars extend on collecting four pieces rather than on a single pickup. Both the health bar and the mana bar grow this way, and mana matters as much as health because healing draws on it; see Combat and Controls.
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1010 Upgrade Tracks
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1212 Alongside levelling there are three separate things that improve on their own terms.
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14-TrackHow it improvesArcanaComplete three Works of Mercy per card to earn points, spend points on a Blessing chosen from several options, then unlock a Gift on the assigned Blessing.WeaponsEach weapon carries its own completion criteria that upgrade it.RelicsRelics have upgrade paths as well as being swappable, with up to three equipped at once.
14+TrackHow it improvesArcanaComplete the two or three Works of Mercy listed for a card to earn points, spend points on a Blessing chosen from several options, then unlock a Gift on the assigned Blessing.WeaponsEach weapon carries its own completion criteria that upgrade it.RelicsRelics have upgrade paths as well as being swappable, with up to three equipped at once.
1515 Blessings change how an ability behaves rather than only raising a number, which is what makes the Arcana track a build decision rather than a damage tax.
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1717 Consumables and Carry Capacity
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1919 Rose starts with three healing flasks. They refill at checkpoints and mirror rooms, drop from enemies, and turn up in broken candelabra. Extras stack provisionally above three, and one session reached five. No cap has been published. There is no heart currency in this game: the hearts that powered sub-weapons in earlier entries are gone, and spells run on mana.
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2121 What Has Not Been Published
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2323 No damage numbers, no scaling rules, no stat values, no experience thresholds, no level cap, no drop rates and no build recommendations exist for this game before launch. Tier lists and best-weapon rankings circulating ahead of release are not based on anything Konami has released. This page will carry the numbers when they exist.