[PART 5.2] LFW Gameplay: UNDERSTANDING HERO’S EQUIPMENT
Author: Nhan Nguyen
In the last article, you’ve learned all the basics about how to enhance your NFT power. This part will give you a closer look on Hero Equipment.
Equipment plays a vital role in increasing heroes’ power, enabling your team to overcome tough enemies. Legend of Fantasy War offers a system of heroes’ equipment with great depth, forcing the players to be more strategic and considerate when it comes to resource management. This article will give you a closer look at this feature at the most fundamental level.
1. Set components
Every hero has the same number of equipment slots and each of these slots have corresponding equipment which can be socketed in. All types of equipment provide specific stats that vary based on their enchantment and grades.
A set of equipment includes:
Weapon: increases physical and magical attack.
Armor: increases physical and magical defense.
Ring: increases accuracy.
Necklace: increase HP.
Boots: increases Evasion.
All equipment can be obtained in the campaign. The quality of equipment scales with the difficulty of the stages in the campaign.
Moreover, a specific piece of equipment can only be used by a handful of heroes. In the picture below, by clicking on the question mark on the interface of Old Friend Pin, a pop-up window appears showing which heroes can equip this equipment, in this case, they are Ancient Tomb, Greenie, Shadow Rider and Sorrow Witch. This means any heroes of these four can wield Old Friend Pin exclusively.
2. Equipment’s grades
In LFW, equipment has seven distinct grades, namely: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Orange and Red. White equipment has the lowest stats while its Red counterpart has the highest of all.
As mentioned above, the higher stages you battle, the higher grade of equipment you are able to obtain. Moreover, stronger equipment has more stats and apparently, the stats are also higher than those of the lower grade equipment.
3. Blacksmith
Blacksmith is an NPC located in the main city. He provides various services that can greatly improve your equipment with the cost of several resources.
3.1. Level up
This feature increases the equipment’s grade (color). There are three materials required for this, which are:
Gold: a universal currency in LFW, which can be obtained in a lot of activities.
Crystalized Soul: increases the equipment’s star. Can be obtained in campaign, Prison, Treasure Hunt and by disintegrating equipment.
Soul Stone: used to level up equipment once it reaches 05 stars. Can be obtained in campaign, Prison and Treasure Hunt.
By default, an equipment, at any grade, has 0 star. In order to level it up, it must be upgraded to 05 stars using Gold and Crystalized Souls. The number of Crystalized Souls consumed increases along with the equipment’s grades, which means it gets more and more costly as the grades of the equipment rise.
Once an equipment reaches 05 stars, it can be leveled up with Gold and Soul Stones. Similar to upgrading equipment’s stars, the number of materials consumed in this process goes up with the grades. For each star the equipment gains, its base stats are raised as well.
While Crystalized Soul is a generic material, Soul Stones, on the other hand, is specified by equipment types. This means that there are five different types of Soul Stones: Weapon, Armor, Necklace, Ring and Boots. Furthermore, Soul Stones also have grades like equipment. A specific grade requires its corresponding color of Soul Stone to level up, on the above picture, Green Armor requires Blue Armor Soul Stones to level it up to Blue Armor.
There is no RNG taking place while leveling equipment, so you are guaranteed to successfully level up your gear all the time. Leveled-up equipment has increased stats and sub-elements as well as its maximum enhancement, making it more superior to the lower grade ones.
3.2. Enhancement
Enhancement increases all stats of the equipment and each equipment has its maximum capacity of enhancement based on its grade, hence the higher the grade is, the more enhancement the equipment can get.
Enhancement requires two materials:
Gold: a universal currency in LFW, which can be obtained in a lot of activities.
Mystical Crystal: increases successful chance of enhancement. Can be obtained in Crusade, Mock Battle, Treasure Hunt, GEM Shop or synthesizing.
You must insert Mystical Crystal to perform enhancement on your equipment. There are a maximum five slots to insert Mystical Crystal in the Enhancement window. The moreMystical Crystal you insert, the better chance of success you have.
The two pictures above illustrate the differences between different enhancement levels. The first picture (1) is an equipment with 0 enhancement, it costs 10 Gold and 01 Mystical Crystal 1 to enhance with 100% success rate. While on the other picture (2), the same equipment, at level enhancement, costs 30 gold and 03 Mystical Crystal 1 to enhance with 100% success rate.
Currently, the maximum level of Mystical Crystal is 11 but you can only purchase Mystical Crystal 4 in GEM Shop, higher level Mystical Crystal must be obtained in other activities. Higher level Mystical Crystal also gives a better success rate.
Equipment has a limit of how many times it can be enhanced, excluding failures. Higher grade equipment has higher limits. The number of successful enhancements made on an equipment is depicted as a yellow number on its icon.
As the enhancements reach a higher level, it consumes more Gold and has a lower success chance. Enhancements that fail will consume Gold and all Mystical Crystal used, but worry not as the enhancement level of the equipment remains unchanged if you fail.
3.3. Refinement
Another function that adds more depth to the hero's equipment. Refinement provides additional affixes in the equipment, called “sub-elements”. Similar to Enhancement, Refinement also depends on equipment’s grade, meaning higher grade equipment has more sub-elements.
Refinement requires two material:
Gold: a universal currency in LFW, which can be obtained in a lot of activities.
Smithing Hammer: activates refinement slots and augments existing sub-elements. Can be obtained in Mock Battle or purchased in GEM Shop and Guild Shop.
By default, White equipment has one opening refinement slot and for every level it has, the number of slots increases by one, hence Green has two slots, Blue has three slots and so on.
When an equipment has a refinement slot available, you can activate that slot using Gold and one Smithing Hammer, regardless of the equipment’s grade. However, augmenting an existing sub-element costs more Gold and Smithing Hammers for everytime you perform this action.
An extremely important note you should keep in mind is that the sub-elements revealed when you activate the slots are all random and not fixed. So, the value of an equipment can be significantly raised by its sub-elements. A well-rolled White Weapon can cost much more than a badly-rolled Purple one.
3.4. Transfer
In order to give players more freedom to experience different heroes, LFW offers an interesting feature called “Transfer”. It basically allows you to transfer the property of a piece of equipment to another, including its enhancement and refinement.
To perform this action, you will need:
Gold: a universal currency in LFW, which can be obtained in a lot of activities.
Smithing Hammer: Can be obtained in Mock Battle or purchased in GEM Shop and Guild Shop.
You can choose equipment that is being used by your heroes to transfer. However, the equipment grade is not transferred in this process and only pieces that have the same grade can be chosen as original and receiving ends.
Furthermore, you can choose to preview the outcome of the transfer before you decide, as shown in the below pictures.
This feature may come in handy in dire situations such as when one of your heroes is “injured” in the Story Questline. Although you cannot deploy an injured hero, you can still interact with it, meaning you are able to alter its level, skills and equipment. Using “Transfer” to transfer that injured hero’s equipment status to another’s can save you a lot of time as you do not have to grind for more resources to invest in other heroes. And after you successfully heal the injured hero, you can revert the transfer easily.
3.5. Disintegrate
This is a great way to utilize the “leftover” equipment that you find no use. Disintegrating equipment gives you back Crystalized Souls, an essential resource used to upgrade equipment’s star.
You can also mass select equipment to disintegrate by choosing the “Fast Disintegrate” option in the HUD.
3.6 Synthesize
In LFW, there are no items unused or deemed worthless, especially Mystical Crystal. This is an absolutely valuable resource that will remain sought after throughout the game at all stages because of how important it is in upgrading and perfecting equipment.
If you find low level Mystical Crystal no longer useful for you in enhancing your equipment, you can start merging them into higher level Mystical Crystal by using the “Synthesize” feature. It is a highly effective way to obtain rarer pieces of this resource.
Upon choosing ingredients for synthesization, the HUD will show the possible outcomes of the process with specific rates, as shown in the picture below.
As you can see, by placing 02 Mystical Crystal 1 and 01 Mystical Crystal 2 in the synthesize window, you have a chance to receive 01 Mystical Crystal 3 or in case you fail, you will only receive 01 Mystical Crystal 2 for the price of 02 Mystical Crystal 1 and 01 Mystical Crystal 2. The chance of a successful upgrade is increased by the number of Mystical Crystal you input as well as the level of the ingredients.
When the chance of obtaining a Mystical Crystal with 01 level higher exceeds 100%, you will have a chance to obtain the next level Mystical Crystal. That means you can get Mystical Crystal 4 with just Mystical Crystal 2, given that Lady Lucky smiles at you.
If you love gambling and have some spare Mystical Crystal, Synthesize is perfect for you.
4. Conclusion
With a sophisticated system of equipment for heroes in LFW, those who have better knowledge of how to utilize the relevant features and manage their resources will definitely have an edge over those who do not pay much attention to this aspect.
Through this article, we want our Legends to be the most powerful as they can be. Next time will be other aspects that also help you take the leading position.
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READ MORE:
[PART 5.1] LFW Gameplay: Account Level vs. NFT Hero Level
[PART 5] LFW Gameplay: NFT Enhancement - To Be The Most Powerful
[PART 4] LFW Gameplay Series: GEM - A Important In-game Currency
[PART 3] LFW Gameplay: GUILD - Stronger Together, Conquering & Earning More
[PART 2] LFW GAMEPLAY: FORMATION IS KEY
[PART 1] LFW Gameplay: In-game Overall Features
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