Some tips on gears in general for F2P/Budget

I start to see a few players start asking for gear advice now in discord as people seems have a good understanding of faction and charactors already. So I make this post to clear some basic concept.

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1.This post is mainly advance for F2P/Budget. For whale just do the gear pull and farm dragon for hammers, you will get there.

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2.Why is gear pull bad for F2P? In my last post I said unless you plan to spend 5000$+ don't ever do it. Of course you won't go broke or spend 5000 if you do one or two 10x of it. What I mean is it is much worse value than use your ticket on Charactors pull and I will explain why later.

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3. I have this SR gear and that SSR, which is better? You can read the stats but in general lv50/40 SR is slightly better than lv30/20 SSR.

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4. So I should invest into the SSR I have since all SSR will become more powerful than SR later. No, here is the catch: it cost 960k gold to fully up grade an SR and 1.2mio for SSR, also the hammer cost is 20% more. But the main difference is you need to use the same gear to rank up a gear or a upgrade ball. The ball cost 300 ore however the white ore for SR is farmable, the red ore for SSR is a fixed income (not farmable) unless you breakdown SSR for 100 each.

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5. You get 100% of gold and hammer back when you breakdown a piece of gear that you have upgraded. Plus ore, you only get 100 ore for each rank: e.g. an SR that you have ranked up once will give you 100+100, the same applys to SSR.

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6. So as you can see white ore is farmable, it normally cost 300 red ore to rank up an SSR and you only get 100 back if you end up break it down. That's why you can upgrade SR freely and have to choose which SSR you want to level up to max later.

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7. Now you can see why gear pull has little value for F2P: even you pull a good piece, you still don't have enough ore to rank it up and lv50 SR would still be better than your lv20 BIS SSR here.

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