Equip

Importance of Dungeon Gear
Dungeon Gear is one of the primary ways to increase your pets' strength and is necessary for meaningful progression in depth 2 and beyond. Dungeon gear increases/reduces the element levels of pets (additively), and the combat stats of pets (multiplicatively). Since the combat stats are generally more important than the element levels, and because all dungeon gear uses multipliers for combat stats, it's important to remember that gear alone does relatively little. Levels are still required to make gear useful. With both good gear and high levels, you should be able to beat most dungeon related content.

Dungeons Guide
Beginners may wish to start with the Introduction to Dungeons.

There is a complete guide to dungeons by Malfat which can be extremely helpful for new players especially or anyone looking to better understand an aspect of dungeons in general.

Equipment Goals
There are several reasons why you want to create and wear better equipment for your pets:


 * To survive and prosper in the dungeons.
 * To improve Crafting outcomes (speed and/or quality).
 * To improve the results of Pet Campaigns.
 * To boost a new pet's dungeon level in preparation for joining a dungeon team.
 * To boost a pet's class level for the RTI(∞) Tab.
 * To boost your God's stats.

For the purposes of this section, we will focus primarily on the first goal: survival and success in the dungeons. This is the most complicated of the goals listed above, because of the wide variety of pets, classes, and dungeons. Here, we will only be able to provide a general overview. You'll have to make your choices based on your unique situation.

Depth 1
At depth 1, each dungeon has monsters that share a single element. For example, the Volcano has only fire monsters. This greatly simplifies gear choices.

At this point, equipment should be chosen based on the pet's class, element, and role within the team. Let's look at an example Volcano depth 1 team:

This is just one of many possible teams that an early-game player might use for the Volcano dungeon. These pets are some of the easiest to acquire and to evolve, and they're reasonably well suited to this particular dungeon. Rabbit is the least suitable choice here, but there aren't any other Mages available until Dragon, so it'll fill in where needed. An Assassin could be used instead of the Rabbit, but let's stick with just one example for now.

The monsters in the Volcano (depth 1) are all fire-aligned, which means they have a strong (relatively speaking) fire element level, and a negative water element level, because fire is weak against water. This in turn means that when the monsters attack your pets, they will do so using fire. When your pets attack them, each pet will use its own element.

How does that guide our equipment selection? Look at each pet's role in the party.

The Defender stands in the front row, and gets attacked the most. We want the Defender to have high HP and Defense scores. Also, because the Defender is always being attacked by fire, we want it to have a decent fire element level. So, we choose equipment that will help with any or all of these things. Neutral (metallic) gear boosts HP and Defense, and gives a small bonus to all element levels, at the cost of speed. This makes neutral equipment a good choice for any Defender. We could also give our Armadillo fire equipment, to boost its fire level, which will also help it take hits from the fire monsters. We could also give it earth equipment, which has decent HP and Defense scores (much like neutral). Earth gear isn't the best choice for the Volcano dungeon, but it'll do well enough, if it's what you have available.

The Rogue serves a mixture of roles. Its primary duty is simply to be in the party to boost drop rates, so we just need it to stay alive. However, since the Squirrel happens to be fire-aligned, we've put it in the front row of this team. As a front-row combatant, we want it to have decent survivability (HP and Defense and fire element level), but it also has a chance to deal some damage. Rogues are not the heaviest hitters in the game, but they can do all right, especially with high speed. Since our Rogue is multitasking, we need to consider its gear carefully. Ideally we want it to use a knife as a weapon. Knives give a speed boost, and they whittle down the enemy's defense, so that it takes more damage from future hits. However, knives are wind-aligned, which means they give a penalty to the fire element level -- not ideal! If we give the Squirrel a knife, we'll want to be sure to give it fire equipment in the other two slots. Fire gloves are particularly nice, because they also give a speed bonus. Fire armor doesn't boost speed, but we may still choose it to offset the fire penalty we took from the knife. Or, if we don't go with a knife, we might choose a fire sword to boost attack and the fire element level. You might need to experiment a bit to find the best balance. Avoid neutral gear due to its speed penalty.

The Blacksmith is in the party primarily to satisfy the depth 1 event which gives bonus XP and damage. It's not critically important, but it certainly doesn't hurt. We also want 3 fire-aligned pets to satisfy the other event, and at this stage of the game, Bug can serve double duty this way. The Bug's fire alignment and the Blacksmith's solid defensive stats mean it can serve on the front row. We don't need it to deal a lot of damage (we have the Mage and the Rogue for that). It's basically acting as a secondary Defender, just without the special abilities. As such, we can give the Bug fire equipment or neutral equipment. Either one will do just fine.

The Supporter has a unique duty: to cast healing spells on everyone else, as often as needed. Supporters can be in either the front or back row (healing works fine from either one). If we were using a fire-aligned Supporter, we might consider putting it in the front. However, we've already got 3 solid front-row pets for this team, so we'll put Frog in the back. Supporters rely primarily on speed, to cast their healing spells multiple times per round. So, we could give the Frog some wind equipment, to boost its speed. The trouble with this is that wind equipment also gives a fire element penalty. So, if we use a piece of wind gear (say, wind armor), we might need to use fire equipment in the other two slots to compensate for the penalty. Fire gloves are a great choice, because they have a speed bonus. We can use a fire sword as well, just for the elemental bonus. A Supporter will also attack, whenever it doesn't see any pets that need healing, so we could give it water equipment as well. Water is the ideal element for an attacker in the Volcano, but in this particular team, we're not optimizing for damage. We're just using what we have.

The Mage always sits in the back row, because it has poor HP and defense stats, and because its attack spells don't suffer the back-row penalty. We want the Mage to have high attack and speed if possible, because it's the primary damage source in this team. As an earth-aligned pet, we also want to give it an earth element bonus, which will increase its damage even more. Finally, we need it to stay alive, if at all possible, because dead Mages don't cast any spells. Unfortunately it's not possible to meet all of those goals simultaneously, so we need to find a compromise that we can accept. A combination of earth and fire gear is probably our best option here -- earth gear for the earth element bonus, and for HP and defense, and fire gear for the attack bonus and a bit of fire element level, to help take a hit. Play around with your equipment and see what works best. Neutral gear is also viable if you really need its protection, but isn't the best choice for a Mage at depth 1 -- you're better off defending against the single element you know the monsters will be using.

That leaves our unevolved Camel in the back row. It's there because we needed a third fire-aligned pet for the depth 1 events, and Camel is one of the early fire wildcards. We could even put it in the front row and let it soak up hits, but the Blacksmith can do that. On the other hand, if the Camel is a lot higher level than the Bug, we might switch their positions. Since Camel is just hanging out and has no particular role to play, we can just give it straight fire equipment.

Scrapyard
The Scrapyard dungeon is filled with neutral enemies (exclusively so at depth 1), which presents a different challenge compared to the other dungeons. Neutral enemies attack you using whichever element will hurt you the most. They also don't have an elemental weakness that your attacking pets can exploit. So, the normal depth 1 strategy of having each pet ignore 2 or 3 elements may no longer work.

The good news is that it doesn't really matter which element your pets are. A Scrapyard team can focus exclusively on classes and levels, and therefore tends to be composed of the "leftover" pets that weren't selected for other teams.

Equipment choices for the Scrapyard should focus more on avoiding weaknesses (especially the typical highly negative element level in the pet's weak element), rather than piling bonuses into one element. Neutral gear becomes extremely useful here, as well as neutral gems.

Neutral pets will do well here, as they have no elemental weakness. For non-attacking pets, keeping the element levels balanced works quite well. For attackers, you may wish to choose one element to boost (often fire, but any element will do), but avoid creating a weakness in the process. E.g. piling on three fire equipment pieces would create a water element weakness, unless the equipment is highly enchanted.

As always, use your best judgment and review the combat logs periodically (or if pets are dying) to see which pets may be struggling and need adjustments.

Depth 2
At depth 2, the monsters become considerably stronger, and each dungeon adds one monster of a different element -- for example, in the Mountain dungeon, one earth monster is added to the mix. This means that focusing each pet on a single element may be risky.

Let's look at an example depth 2 Mountain party. The depth 2 events call for 2 Defenders and 1 Rogue. The depth 1 events are satisfied by 2 wind pets, and 1 Blacksmith. We're going to skip the Blacksmith, because it's inconvenient, and we don't really need that event's reward (and it only has a 5% chance of triggering in the first 6 rooms of each dive anyway).

Mountain is a wind dungeon with one added earth monster. The wind monsters are weak against fire, and the earth monster is weak against wind. Therefore, a combination of wind and fire pets should work well.

This team has 4 core pets that are well suited to the Mountain specifically -- Valkyrie, Dog, Fairy and Dragon. It has 2 wildcard pets which are filling in secondary roles. Your own wildcard pets may be different, and this is not to say that you should follow this example. You might have Rudolph as a wind Rogue, for example, which would be better suited than Mole. This is simply one example, containing pets that are likely to be available for a player in the early depth 2 stage. It also demonstrates how we might plan around a pet whose element is "wrong" for a given dungeon.

The first thing we'll note is that this team has two Defenders, as required for the depth 2 event. This means the other pets are much less likely to be targeted, compared to a typical team with one, or even zero, Defenders. Mole is weak against most of the monsters in this dungeon, but we've placed it in the back row, behind two Defenders, which should help. Also, it's a Rogue, which means we want to give it a knife -- which is wind equipment. If we give it even more wind equipment, it'll be quite well protected against the monsters at this depth, and the wind gear provides a lovely speed bonus.

The Dragon is an extremely strong Mage in this dungeon. We can give it fire equipment, which increases attack and confers a water elemental weakness that we can ignore. We'll most likely want to start it out with water gems that boost HP, or neutral gems that boost elemental levels. Later, if all goes well, we might be able to switch to some fire gems for extra attack power, or wind gems for speed. If the Dragon is lower level than the rest of the team, then we might use a single piece of neutral equipment to help boost its survivability. Wind gear could be used, but because wind gear reduces fire, that would cut into Dragon's offensive capability. Then again, wind gear also boosts speed, which is nice....

The Mage is going to be the primary damage source for this team (unless it's low level), but we've added a fire Assassin as a backup. There are a couple other fire pets which get an Assassin specialist bonus (Ape and Succubus), but Ape is often used as a growth camp Adventurer, and Succubus may not be available. Thus, the wildcard Camel. Cat could also be used here, or even Egg, although a wind Assassin is not ideal in the Mountain.

The three front-row pets can be given straight wind equipment, or a mixture of neutral and wind in the case of the Defenders. The Fairy Supporter should avoid neutral gear, because we want speedy healing. If the single earth monster is a concern, the Fairy could use HP/defense/elemental gems. But it's more likely we'll just ignore the earth monster, and use wind gems for speed.

That leaves our wildcard Camel Assassin. Depending on its level, we might need to boost its survivability (wind/neutral gear), or we might want to boost its offense (fire gear). If it's high level, we might even want to move it to the front row, swapping with the Fairy, to avoid the 20% back-row damage penalty. Wind gear reduces its fire element level, which hurts its attack power (as with Dragon), so the decision to use wind gear would have to be made with careful deliberation. A mix of fire and neutral equipment may work as a compromise.

Recommended Dungeon Gear for D3/Mimics
Moving into D3 dungeons, elements are more important than ever. As many D3 dungeons have monsters of most elemental types, keeping an eye on your elemental weaknesses is key to survival. As you progress further into D3, about the time you reach the D3-5/6 mark, it would be a good idea to begin fighting the Mimic enemy to farm more XP and Mimic Points for the Treasure/Mimic pet.

To remedy any elemental deficiencies you might have on your pets (any element below 0) you can mix-and-match different elements of equipment, enchant T3+ equipment, and/or use Neutral Gems.

Note: It is not worth it to enchant any equipment below T3, since enchant levels are halved when you upgrade a tier.

Blacksmith
Weapon: Titanium Sword or Knives (only use knives if you don't require double titanium in the other two slots). Armor: Titanium Armor/Forest armor (preferably titanium). Accessory: Titanium Ring (pure dungeon stats), Forest Bracelet (for god stats), Alchemist Cape (used for V4s) Gems: Your main focus should be on HP unless you plan on using it for V4s, then you may need to focus on Defense, otherwise use triple HP. Make an exception if you end up with negative elements even with fully enchanted gear and use a Neutral Gem.

Mage
Weapon:

All: Ego sword (This is more important for those trying to funnel exp to Mage Pets in order to break into higher depths.) Fire: Tsunami Spear or Inferno Sword. (Tsunami Spear is useful if you need more HP or need to raise your Elemental Resistance.) Earth: Inferno or a Bow. (Forest axes are inferior unless on Rabbit, but can be used if you have nothing else.) Water: Tsunami Spear or Inferno Sword. (Either is fine as they are very similar in terms of damage dealt. Wind: Inferno Sword.

Armor: Match the pets element.

Accessory: Almost always Inferno, but consider a Forest Bracelet for Water Pets if you see them dying a lot.

Gems: Until later Dungeon Levels, your Mage will need to focus on HP/Neutral Gems usually in 2 HP/1 Neutral, but you can adjust as needed depending on the Mage Element. You can focus on full attack if you want to minmax V4s but your dungeons will suffer from that.

Defender
Weapon: Titanium Sword (Dungeons) or Magic Pot (V4s) Armor: Titanium (Dungeons) or Forest Armor (God Stats) Accessory: Titanium (Dungeons) or Forest (God Stats). Gems: HP (Dungeons) or Defense (V4s)

Supporter
Weapon: Similar to Mage except Knives can be useful for extra speed or when you no longer need more healing power to keep pets alive. You can see a supporters healing power by hovering over it in the dungeon team slot (where you put pets into teams).

Armor: You can focus on whichever stats/element you feel you need most.

Accessory: Similar to the armor choice, although Inferno Gloves are a good choice overall as they give speed as well as healing power.

Gems: One of each Attack/HP/Neutral will serve you well unless you want to specialize. The occasional speed gem can also be a good choice but should never replace the Neutral or the HP gem. Neutral pets can eventually drop the neutral gem if you want, but using it is still fine. You can focus on full attack if you want to minmax V4s but your dungeons will suffer from that.

Rogue
Weapon: Knives.

Armor/Accessory: Just don't give them anything with negative speed (before being over 1.5k speed even with negative speed gear). Focus on getting all elements above 0 and after that, you can go for survivability and/or god stats.

Gems: Same as armor.

Ghost: Ghost is a special case as their unique scare ability scales entirely with it's attack strength. Therefore it is best to equip an Inferno Sword, Inferno Armor, and Inferno Gloves. The gems should be either Fire for additional Attack, or Water (HP) for survivability.

Assassin
Weapon: All: Assassins share the weapon choices of Supporters but make better use of Knives. Archer: Bow. Armor: Matching element. Accessory: Almost always Inferno. For water pets consider a Forest Bracelet if you see them dying a lot. Gems: Usually it is better to stick with more defensive gems over offensive gems unless you are dying to room collapses or ultimate attacks. Neutral pets can focus more on offensive gems since they naturally have better resistances, but you can gem them the same as others if you prefer.

Equipment Crafting
Creating equipment (weapons, armor and accessories) requires a Blacksmith pet. Each Blacksmith may work on one project at a time, and cannot explore dungeons or go on campaigns while working. Rebirthing does not disrupt Blacksmith crafting.

Blacksmiths have four actions: Forge (create a new item), Upgrade (improve an item's "plus" stat), Reforge (improve an item's quality rating), and Gem (attach a gem to an item). Newly Forged tier 1 equipment are always +0, but have a randomized quality rating from F (worst) to SSS (best).

Newly made T2 and T3 equipment starts at half the upgrade value, and half the enchantment level, of the lower tier equipment used as an ingredient to craft them, rounded down. Gems, if attached, are kept. Quality levels above the minimum required in the ingredient equipment will be consumed to boost your roll for the quality of the new equipment.

The Blacksmith's class level gives a bonus to crafting speed, and when forging it also gives a bonus to the quality roll, increasing the odds of getting a higher quality equipment piece to begin with. A Blacksmith's element also gives a quality bonus when Forging an item of the matching element, and a speed bonus when working on any project with the matching element.

The formula for the Blacksmith's quality bonus is:


 * (1 + 0.02 * level) * (1 + classbonus * level) * hammer * petstones + specials

The petstones bonus is either 1.00 (not purchased) or 1.25 (purchased). For example, a level 34 Anteater Blacksmith (class bonus 0.7%) with a 35.98% hammer bonus, the 25% pet stone crafting bonus, and 14.2% ant bonus gives:


 * (1 + 0.02*34) * (1 + 0.007*34) * 1.3598 * 1.25 + 0.142 = 3.6772 which rounds to 368%.

Same-element smithing gives a 10% bonus on top of this (for our example, that would be 404%).

Tier 1 equipment can be Forged using tier 1 and tier 2 materials that drop from dungeons. Alchemists can also convert 8x tier 1 material into a corresponding tier 2 material.

Tier 2 equipment is forged using whetstones, tier 1 materials, tier 2 materials, and a matching tier 1 equipment to upgrade that is at least B quality and +5.

Tier 3 equipment is forged using sacred stones, tier 2 materials, tier 3 materials, and a matching tier 2 equipment to upgrade that is at least S quality and +10.

The HP, Attack, Defense and Speed values given below are for quality level A. The values will be smaller (closer to 0) for lower quality equipment, and larger (farther from 0) for higher quality.

Special Equipment
These equipment don't confer player bonuses like ordinary. Each one is designed for a special purpose, and applies only to the Pet who equips it.

Unique Equipment
Currently this section only includes 2 equipments, but there could be similar equipment in the future. For in detail info, just click the item link.

Upgrade
Upgrading a piece of pet equipment increases the item's "plus" (a.k.a. upgrade level) by 1 point. The Blacksmith's level and element affect the speed of an Upgrade, but there is no randomness in the result. The quality level will remain the same.

The cost of an Upgrade increases with the item's current and new plus. All items require 2*plus whetstones for +1 to +10, and 2*(plus-10) sacred stones for +11 to +20.

Starting from new plus of +4, you must pay tier 1 and tier 2 materials of the same types as were required to forge the item (if any). Starting at 1 each material and rising by 1 for every 5 additional pluses. For example an Iron Sword costs 10 Iron Ore (tier 1 material) and 2 Iron Bar (tier 2 metal material) to forge, so upgrading an Iron Sword from +11 to +12 costs 3 Iron Ore and 3 Iron Bar, in addition to 4 Sacred Stones. While a tier 3 hammer did not cost any tier 1 or tier 2 materials, so it only costs 20 whetstones to upgrade to +10.

Starting from new plus of +11, you must pay tier 3 materials of the same types as were required to forge the item (if any). The amount needed is twice as much as t2 materials would be required for the same level. +11 requires 2 tier 2 materials, so it requires 4 tier 3 materials. Since Water Spear (tier 1 weapon) does not cost any tier 3 material to forge, it doesn't cost any tier 3 materials to upgrade. While Tsunami Spear (tier 3 weapon) requires 10 Nevermelting ice (tier 2 material) and 2 Magic Ice (tier 3 material) to forge, as such it requires 2 nevermelting ice and 4 magic ice to upgrade to +11, in addition to the 2 sacred stones.

Note that this pricing method makes hammers, which are forged with three different elements, three times as expensive to upgrade as pots and sticks are, despite forging and reforging costs being similar (forging is the same, but reforging is a bit different).

Reforge
Reforging increases the Quality of an item by one step (e.g. from F to E, from A to S, from SS to SSS, etc.) The cost of reforging is a percentage of the cost to forge the item, and this percentage increases with the quality as shown in the table below. To determine the cost to reforge an item, multiply the cost factor by the amount of each material required to forge it, rounding up each time. Equipment used in forging is excluded.

Enchant
Alchemists can increase the Enchantment level of a piece of Equipment. Alchemists do not get disrupted from their work by a rebirth. Enchantment levels are halved when you use a piece of equipment to create a higher tier version, so it is highly recommended you wait until tier 3 to enchant.

Free enchants: Some enchantments are free in terms of resource costs, costing only time. (tested only E1 thus far). Those are walking sticks (tested tier 2), alchemy pots (tested tier 2), smithing hammers (tested tier 3), and all basic neutral weapon, armor, and accessories such as titanium sword, titanium armor, and titanium ring.
 * Enchanting Basic Neutral equipment raises all its elemental affinities (water, fire, wind, earth). Exact quantities need spading
 * Enchanting walking sticks does nothing
 * Enchanting smiting hammers does nothing
 * Enchanting alchemy pots raises all elemental affinities (water, fire, wind, earth). (seemingly. at E1 the affinities are green indicating they increased, but are rounded to the same figure as before)

Training Swords: Training, leeching and ego swords are special water equipment that lets pets steal XP. It confers a water affinity bonus and a vulnerability to fire, earth, and air. Enchanting those costs fire materials (at level 1). Enchanting mitigates the vulnerability to fire, wind, and earth. (by how much?)

Standard enchants: Enchanting Howling/Thundering/Bursting knives, or any of the basic weapon/armor/accessory for the elements of water, fire, wind, or earth has a material cost that varies by the equipment tier and the vulnerability of the equipment in question.
 * Water equip costs earth materials and reduces their vulnerability to earth
 * Earth equip costs wind materials and reduces their vulnerability to wind
 * Wind equipment costs fire materials and reduces their vulnerability to fire
 * Fire equipment costs water materials and reduces their vulnerability to water
 * Knives count as wind equipment.
 * Vulnerability reduction is enchantment level * 5%p. So at E20 you have a 100% reduction in vulnerability.

'''Note: All costs in the table below are in T2 materials. Nevermelting Ice (T2 water), Fire Stone (T2 fire), Bound Feather (T2 wind), Special Wood (T2 earth)'''

Player Bonuses
The bonus conferred by pet equipment to your God's stats depends only on the item's element and tier. For example, a tier 1 iron weapon and a tier 1 iron armor both give the same bonus to the player.

The "quality multiplier" is 1 for F, 2 for E, 3 for D, and so on up to 9 for SSS.