Gear, rarity and refining
Slots
Each character equips one piece per slot — there are 8 slots: head, chest, legs, gloves, right hand, left hand, accessory and cape. Equipping a new piece in the same slot unequips the previous one, which returns to your bag.
Pieces of the same set grant an extra bonus once you wear 4 of them.
Items have requirements: a minimum level and sometimes a specific class. If you cannot use it, the equip button does not appear.
Rarity
Six tiers: Common, Advanced, Rare, Unique, Elite and Legendary. Rarity signals how strong the bonuses are (ATK, DEF, HP, MP, Speed and crit) and drives the sale price.
Refining (Forge)
At the Forge you spend gold and ores to refine a piece of gear up to +10. Each refine level increases the item's bonuses. Every attempt uses 1 Iron Ore; from +3 on, it also uses the ore of the item's band: Iron Ore for items up to level 34, Arcane Crystal from 35 to 69 and Legendary Fragment from 70 on (1 per attempt from +3 to +5, 2 at +6 and +7, 3 at +8 and +9).
Risk grows with it:
- up to +2 success is guaranteed (100%);
- from +3 to +5 the chance drops to 70%, and failing only loses the cost;
- from +6 on the chance is 40% and failing lowers the refine level by one.
The gold cost rises with the item's level and the refine level (12 × item level × (1 + current refine)^1.5).
Migrating a refine
Switched gear? At the anvil, the Migrate tab moves the refine (+3 or more) to another piece of the same slot and higher level. The old piece goes back to +0 and stays in your bag. It costs gold (40% of what refining the new piece to the same level would cost, without failures) and Migration Scrolls — 1 every 3 levels (Grocery or a level 35 recipe). So refining a mid-game piece is no longer wasted.
Polishing
The Polish tab gives each attribute of the piece a bar from 0 to 10. Each level adds 3% of that attribute's base bonus, and it always succeeds. It costs gold and the item's band ore; from level 6 up, also Nightmare Shards (Nightmare mode and Abyss Tower). Every attribute at 10 makes the piece Perfect. Polish travels with the piece if you sell it at the auction or store it in the Account Chest.
Auto-recycle
At the Blacksmith, Auto-recycle turns repeated gear that drops while hunting into salvage material before it takes bag space. You pick up to which rarity (Common, Advanced, Rare), which attributes to protect (a piece with crit, for example, is never recycled) and whether the first copy of each piece is kept. Unique, Elite and Legendary pieces are never auto-recycled.
Crafting
The Forge's Craft tab turns materials into items, following recipes with a gold cost and a success chance.