Mugaaz Mar 1, 2008

WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOME JUSTICE WARRIOR ON EVERY FORUM









Detailed Gear Guide



Assuming you are a completely new player, follow these steps in order. We constantly get the same questions about gear in the Discord and guild chat. Please read this guide first. 99% of your questions should be covered by this. I'm aiming this guide for new players. There are some exceptions for specific units - If you are a new player, just pretend these don't exist for now. Follow this guide and you will do just fine.



1. You will be using either 4 attack + defense set on your first team of 4 characters, or 3 attack + defense sets and 1 HP + defense set. Do whichever you want, this is not an important choice.



2. Until step X, all the gear on the LEFT side of your character's equipment will be whatever you have in that set. Enhance it to +5, but do not bother awakening it.



People always ask : "What is 'left side" gear and what is 'right side' gear?" This should be obvious, but here is a picture showing you.





3. For the gear on the RIGHT side of your character's equipment, buy COMMON gear from the merchants in Chapter's 1-3. CH1 = ATK, CH2 = DEF, CH3 = HP.



Example : Buying right side common attack gear from Chapter 1:







4* = Since you need 4 pieces of gear for an ATK or HP set, and 2 pieces of gear for a DEF set, the question is what slots should belong to which set? In general, this doesn't matter. However, I would recommend your MIDDLE ROW be the 2 set piece. Middle row pieces are both farmable, and virtually every character wants the same substats on middle row gear, regardless of who they are and what gimmicks they possess.

*There are some character's much later who might want to swap top row gear with each other, because they both want the same niche substats on their gear, but we are a long time away from that and that discussion is for advanced corner cases, not a newbie guide.



People always ask , "what do you mean by TOP/MIDDLE/BOTTOM row gear?" Here is an example of a 4 piece ATK set using the top and bottom row, and a 2 piece DEF set using the middle row.





5. After you have your miscellaneous left side gear and common store bought right side gear, it is time to start building up your right side common gear first. We are building common right side gear for two reasons: Common gear is super cheap to build and re-roll, common gear provides the same substat roll ranges as SSR gear, and finally because right side gear's MAIN stat values are much lower than left side gear.



Left side gear has much higher main stat values than right side gear. Here is an example of the differences in the possible main stat comparing left side gear and right side gear in the top row:







The bottom line is using max ascended common right side gear provides you with a lot of power very quickly and for minimal cost. You eventually replace it, but you will be using it for a long time. The amount of resources you spent on it is so small that it doesn't matter that it eventually gets replaced.



6. To build your common right side gear, enhance it to +5, then awaken it. Each time you awaken it the gear goes back to +0, gains a star, and gains a random substat.



Here is me in the process of upgrading a common health set ring:







As you can see, it has random substats. We are building a non-specialized set. There is only one substat we want on each row of gear.

Top row = Attack

Middle row = Defense

Bottom row = HP.



For middle and bottom row gear, there is no reason I can think of why you would ever want anything other than DEF or HP substat rolls. Maybe, there is some corner case, but that isn't relevant to a newbie guide.

For top row gear, there will be cases where instead of attack you may want pierce, crit chance %, or crit dmg % instead. For your initial common sets, just stick with attack. We want these to be general use. Don't try to overthink this at this point, just go with attack % substat rolls.





6. After or during you max awakening your common gear, you will want to reroll the substat to the desirable stat for that row (see above).



How to reroll one of the stats:







Rerolling a substat:







Rerolling the main stat:







Common health set ring after you've finished rolling the main stat and substat:







Feel free to reroll the attack substats to something above 2.0% each. I would keep anything above 2.0%.



"Hey Mugaaz, I got a max pierce roll when I was trying to reroll attack, should I keep it?" - Probably not. It might be better on some specific characters, but it doesn't matter at this point.



7. At this point, everyone on your main team should have 5* / + 0 right side common gear. Your left side gear will be a mish-mash of random SSR/SR/R gear at 0* / +5. It is finally time to start farming good SSR gear for your left side. Each set is farmable in its respective chapter. You have to raise your village friendship level to 5 hearts. At this point you will unlock hard mode free missions, and a series of repeatable quests that reward you with 1 piece of SSR gear for clearing a hard free mission stage 8 times. Each quest and stage drops one specific piece of the set. I strongly, strongly recommend you *always* do the SSR gear repeatable quest instead of farming one specific stage for a specific piece. You may only want one specific piece, but there are several reasons it is better to just do these quests instead.



1. It guarantees 1 SSR piece every 8 runs. The normal drop rate is only 3%, this is a significant boost.

2. You are going to need truckloads and truckloads of gear to dismantle for the resources to upgrade your gear. Dismantling SSR gear is lucrative.

3. It rewards you with 8000 gold. This isn't a huge amount, but considering how much gear you will need to farm it is going to add up to several million.

4. Different free stages drop awakening materials for your characters. You're going to need these materials eventually, so you may as well be farming all the awakening materials you need passively while you get this gear instead of target farming.



8. You've now farmed a large amount of SSR gear. However, if you click on change stats, you will notice 95% of your SSR gear has a main stat roll that is really low. If you try to reroll that main stat, you will notice it costs DIAMONDS. You can't even use anvils to reroll the main stat. Bottom line, any piece of SSR gear with a main stat roll that isn't 90% of the maximum or higher is trash and should be broken down. Don't get impatient hear. If you need interim gear, use badly rolled main stat SSR gear enhanced up to +5, but don't awaken it. Do not awaken SSR gear with a bad main stat roll, Do not awaken SSR gear with a bad main stat roll, Do not awaken SSR gear with a bad main stat roll.



You will notice when you awaken your SSR gear, you will frequently get an undesirable sub stat. When you try to reroll that substat, you will notice it costs diamonds or anvils. Do not reroll these substats with diamonds unless you're whaling on this game and spending more than a couple hundred dollars a month. Instead, you will use anvils. Right now, we can only get anvils from the gear gacha and from PvP. You can't get a significant amount from either. We will eventually get a new feature called the training cave where we get much more of these. Until then, just live with it that your substat rolls on SSR gear will likely be bad.



9. Dismantling gear for enhancement stones and awakening stones So after looking at all the gear you farmed. You will notice almost all of is bad and should be dismantled. Before you dismantle your SSR and SR gear, enhance it to +1 first. This will give you a better chance at getting awakening material. Don't enhance it past +1, while it does increase the chances, it costs too much for that small bump it gives. You don't have enough gold to waste on this early or mid game. Late game, it is better to spend your excess gold on the gear gacha trying to get anvils.



If you really want to be a tryhard poopsocker, you can upgrade your R gear to +1 as well. It is barely worth doing, but takes forever. I don't think it is worth your time, but it isn't bad.



After dismantling the gear, you probably will get mostly 3* and 4* awakening stones. You will need to go to King to exchange these upward for 4* and then 5* awakening stones.



10. After a whole lotta farming your main team's gear should look something like this:













If you look at these pictures you will notice the SSR gear is at 3* / +5. I recommend you temporarily stop here. Why? Because the amount of resources need to get to 3* / +5 is minimal when compared to 5* / +5. Once you have your main team of 4 at 3* / +5, I recommend you start another batch of 4 sets. Thee sets are going to be used on the companion units your main team is using, so that you have a total of 8 sets. I would recommend you have either 4 attack/def + 4hp/def sets, or 5 attack/def + 3hp/def sets. Kinda depends on what units you have. Against, this is not a super important decision, just pick one.



11. At this point you now have 8 sets of left side SSR gear at 3* / +5, and 8 sets of right side common gear at 5* / +0. Now go ahead and continue upgrading the left side SSR gear for you main teams to 5 * / + 5. I would do top row first, then bottom row, then middle. Just my personal opinion here, feel free to deviate.



12. After your main team's left SSR gear is maxed out, you should probably next max out the left SSR gear for your companion units. I think this is debatable though, feel free to skip this step for now.



13. Now you've finally reached the point you are going to be swapping out your common right side gear for SSR gear on your main team. I would go ahead and take your main team to 5* / +5 before starting on the right side gear for your companion units. The reason I say that is because the boost is so minimal that you may as well focus it.



14. Finish fully upgrading your 8 sets of SSR gear for both left and right side.



15. Start building niche sets with niche substat rolls for specific characters.



16. Eventually we will get the ability to upgrade SSR gear that is 5* / + 5 to UR gear. You keep the sub stat rolls from the piece you upgrade. You never have your SSR gear invalidated because it is what is needed for the UR gear. Mugaaz fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Mar 20, 2020