FAQ/New Gear
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Q. How can I get new gear?
A. Several ways.
- The easiest is to go to a vendor NPC. The blacksmith, tailor or craftsman. They will sell you gear. You need to go to a level-appropriate city, since each one sells gear of a different level (first the starter cities, then archosaur, then dream and finally 1k streams). the gear they sell is white-gear, the weakest for that level.
- Next up is random monster drops. This will often have a blue star indicating magical bonuses, which can raise the item up above the average.
- Crafting comes next. There's whole guides to this. Crafting is the only way to get two-star gear but can also make three star gear if you're lucky. And white vendor trash if you're not.
- Quest gear comes here - generally it's pretty good, but you're stuck with the exact same stats as everyone else who did the quest. Of special mention are the items in the Supply Stash and Rank and Reputation gear.
- Next is boss drops - three purple stars makes it the best 'normal' gear for that level, though the number of sockets and magical bonuses will vary wildly. It's not exactly unheard of for one-star gear to end up being better - but the best three star gear is very very good.
- The gear crafted from the twilight temple materials comes here. Starting at level 60 gear can be crafted which is typically very very nice. Some three-star gear is better, most is worse.
- Next up is molds. Usually dropped by bosses (though many normal mobs have a tiny tiny chance too), or acquired by trading in 'Mysterious Chip' items. these have a mixture of fixed and random stats and are typically better than anything else available at that level. But they need lots of materials to craft and are relatively rare.
- Gear also drops in lunar valley, frost city etc. which is very nice. This is high level stuff though, 85+. 90+ for the old-heavens-tear items that can be crafted.
- Palace of Nirvana offers a process to turn certain items of very high level gear into even better gear.
- Event gear. Theoretically available in game, but basically only acquired from lucky-token packs, this is the real end-game gear.
- And finally, warsoul weapons can theoretically be acquired. Talk to the sword thingy in the very middle of archosaur. Then stump up $36,000 for the required items.
