Gearing: Upgrading & Load-Outs

Players can upgrade their gear in various ways and set gear load-outs to quickly switch between their strategies and sets.

Gearing

Gear includes all wearable items, such as armor, weapons, and cosmetics.

Cosmetics consist of all non-armor, i.e., non-performance-modifying gear, and are used exclusively to change the player's character's appearance.

The three primary types of armor align with the three combat types.

• Mail armor is primarily used for melee and defense,

• Leather armor for ranged and

• Cloth armor for arcane.

Upgrading

Gear can be upgraded in several ways, including material upgrades, reinforcements, trimming, imbuing, and socketing.

Some examples of material upgrades include bronze mail armor to iron mail or upgrading a redwood wand to a berlite wand. Note that standard arcane weapons can be upgraded via gem powder infusion and are not socketed.

An example of reinforcing armor is stitching celesite lamellar plates into leather shell armor.

Socketing & Imbuement

Socketing is primarily a late-game activity that fuses prismatic jewels into the five main armor pieces across the three primary armor types. Only armor can be socketed.

Imbuing is an alchemic sub-skill used on weapons. It requires prima materia, which comes from its counter-sub-skill, dissolution. Dissolution lets players break gear down into its prima materia, which is then used in weapon imbuement.

Load-Outs

Combat load-outs and memory slots facilitate seamless switching between equipment.

Initially, each player is granted two load-out slots. As they progress through the game, they can unlock three additional slots. Load-out swaps contain all 22 gear slots.

Memory slots, on the other hand, are saved combat combinations. This includes primary skill selection, attack (i.e., styles or spells), secondaries (i.e., callings and invocations), and consumables.

Players can store any combination in a memory slot, allowing them to quickly activate it instead of manually re-selecting their entire combat load-out.

At the beginning of the game, players have access to one memory slot. As they advance, they can unlock two additional memory slots for a total of three.