Gear Rolling Guide

Example Roll:

Be Picky with What you Roll

• 2 usable substats on purple gear and 3 on epic

  • DPS: ATK%/CC/CD/SPD

  • Bruiser: CC/CD/SPD/HP%/DEF%

  • Tanks: SPD/HP%/DEF%/ER%(if applicable on hero)

• Above average starting rolls.

  • ATK%/HP%/DEF%/EFF%/ER%: 6%

  • CC: 4%

  • CD: 6%

  • SPD: 2 or 1 (speed set only)

• 4 exceptions that I always roll (only keep rolling for quad/penta rolls):

  • CC% on speed/crit boots - high CC boots are essential for making fast DPS openers like Acidd/Ran

  • Eff% on speed/hit/imm boots - high Eff on boots allow you to get 120%+ debuffers like Flan/CLilias while still using a HP% ring for bulk

  • ER% on speed/ER/imm boots - same idea as Eff% but for high resist heroes like MLBaal or Elena.

  • 8% HP on speed/ER/imm on epic gear - penta roll HP% is always useful for SW/Knights even if the other stats aren’t great

Always Chase Speed

• Roll only for speed even if the other substats aren’t useful or if they’re low roll

• Only continue to roll if it rolls speed, allow for 1 miss roll on Epic gear. For a purple gear only roll +12/15 if +3/6/9 are all rolls into speed.

• Keep in mind at all times what the max speed potential of this gear will be, if it’s not an improvement then stop. For example, a +6 purple gear with 7 spd can still be a 19 spd post reforge piece.

+12 and +15 are For Winners Only

• Upgrading gear to +12 and +15 is extremely expensive, think carefully before you continue

• I aim for an average of these stats. Adjust based on where your gear is:

  • ATK%/HP%/DEF%/EFF%/ER%: 6%

  • CC: 4%

  • CD: 6%

  • SPD: 3

• Epics can allow for 1 low roll or 1 roll in the wrong stat.

• Keep in mind mod gems, it allows for 1 roll into a bad stat.

• I personally target 57GS for left side and 53GS for right side on +15 pre-reforged gear. Note that this is 83ES and 78ES respectively if you’re using the in-game scoring system.

How to Gear a Hero Every 3 Months

Gearing in this game contains tons of RNG, while we can’t change the system, there is a way to optimize it to get the best results. Following these simple steps to get you enough left and right side pieces every 3 months without spending. I can’t guarantee all 6 pieces will gear a specific hero but eventually you’ll have 4 well geared heroes (Emperor level) every year at a minimum. Remember to chase good gear and not gearing a specific hero. I focus on DPS heroes as they’re hardest to gear, you’ll probably naturally end up getting gear for a Knight or Soul Weaver in the process. 

Farm 10K Materials or just Rift

• Follow my routine guide and farm the hunt of your choice (probably Wyvern13) using all your natural energy after completing any sidestories and other content

• Spend all your leifs farming during the hunt buff. This happens usually every month. If you whale, the buy more leifs.

• You should end up with 10K materials or more every month

• If you’ve got a Rift team then you can skip the crafting

Craft Left Side (Weapon, Helmet, Armor)

• Every month craft those 10K mats for 1 equipment slot, you can mix it up but I find it more tolerable to do one only

• Select speed/counter/imm set for mileage gear as they’re most versatile

• Follow the gear enhancing guide and you should end up with at least 1 good gear per month (probably more). Don’t forget to chase speed!

Gear Conversion (Boots)

• Use your gear conversion gems for the month to craft boots, preferably on speed or counter or immunity set as they’re most universally useful

• Follow the gear enhancing guide and you should end up with at least 1 good DPS boots.

• If you end up with a stockpile of good boots, you can convert necklace or rings instead. You’ll end up gearing even more heroes!

Abuse Artena (Ring and Necklace)

• SG provides a free craft approximately every 6 weeks, so you can craft 2 pieces during the 3 months

• Take note of what set you need, this will likely be a 2 piece set such as crit, immunity, or penetration.

• Craft 1 necklace and 1 ring of your choice. For DPS, this should be a CD% necklace and an ATK% ring. Make sure they have high rolls on 4 desirable stats.

  • Necklace: 7 ATK%, 4 CC%, 4 SPD, 7 HP%/DEF%

  • Ring: 6 CD%, 4 CC%, 4 SPD, 7 HP%/DEF%

• Just +15 these gear regardless of how it rolls. Even if you low roll a bunch these gear will still be good as the base rolls start high.

Maximize Your Epic Gear Forge

• SG introduced the “Forge your epic gear” event which allows you to make 2 perfect pieces - 1 left side and 1 right side. Not sure how often these will come but take advantage of it at every opportunity.

• Forge left side: DPS Helmet

  • Helmets are the hardest to craft as they can roll any sub unlike armor that can't roll ATK% or flat ATK for example

  • DPS gear is also hardest to get. This piece can help you build those 250+ spd DPS like Maika, Straze, Tomo, Cidd, etc

  • Go for 9 ATK, 17SPD, 16CC, 8CD (High speed with CC combination is great as CC is usually lacking on high speed DPS)

  • I'd go speed set for newer players as it's more versatile

  Forge right side: ATK% DPS speed set ring

  • Same logic as the helmet with regards to DPS stats

  • Speed ring is nice as it pairs nicely with Nightmare raid pen necklace. All you need is then a blue box pen boot to match

  • Go for 17SPD, 16CC, 8CD, 9HP/DEF

Biggest Gearing Mistake

Gearing is already full of RNG, why increase that RNG by crafting right side gear (Necklaces, Rings, Boots). I craft 50K rings, 50K necklaces and 50K helmets, so you can avoid it.

• I left out mileage stats as those are statistically irrelevant

• The last 3 numbers are most important as it represents the number of materials you need to get good gear to enhance and ultimately keep

• Note that my gear requirements for left side (70GS) is higher than right side (60GS) so the results will favour right side slightly by default.

• Left side is at least 2.6x more efficient then right side based on final results (gears kept). I got a nice 22 speed necklace during this session but if I discount that then it would be 4x less efficient

• What's more alarm is the difference in gear enhanced that weren't for speed alone. The left side got to roll 6x (18) more than necklace (3) and a staggering 9x more than rings (2). This means the results are already extremely optimistic for right-side - shows how hard it is to get a matching main stat with the right subs. Potentially it should be 9x worse to craft right-side then left side.

• Boots are even less efficient as you realistically only want speed main stat and you can’t even roll for speed. I specifically crafted Banshee mats here so I could use non-speed gear. I got insanely lucky getting 7 pieces, 5 pieces for normal players, from the 48 pieces I rolled.

Sample gearing session