Equipment

Basic explanation
Equipment provides passive buffs to your party when equipped.

Unlock the Equipment routine in Smith's Village. This also unlocks many equipment items in Astral World costing from 100 to 900 inspiration. More equipment will unlock in Astral World as story progress is made.



Each ally can only equip 1 equipment at a time. Equipment can be equipped by pressing Party > Main > Equip on an ally. Ally-equipped equipment is indicated by bold lettering in equipment lists and an asterisk if that ally is currently in your party.

Equipment must be forged before it can be equipped by allies. Forge equipment under Routine > Equipment by collecting equipment-specific resources and pressing Add to permanently contribute them to the forging process. The resources required for forging and your current progress are found by hovering over Add. This button will be replaced by Forge once all resources have been contributed.

Equipment can become more powerful by gaining equipment experience by using it in combat and/or consuming Mana Crystals.

Equip Automation Slots enable automating the forge process and grant equipment experience out of combat. They can be purchased in Astral World (up to 2 slots), Akashic Record (up to 1 slot) and the Shop (up to 3 slots).

Crystal converter
Mana Shards can be traded for Mana Crystals at a base rate of 100:1 using Main > Instant Action > Common Action > Crystallization. Increasing Instant Action Efficiency beforehand is strongly recommended. Mana Shards can be earned by spending gold at the Routine > Equipment screen. Use "Put in" to trade all of your gold for Mana Shards at your next Dark Ritual or Reincarnation. Trading gold can be automated by checking the checkbox next to "Put in". The amount of gold traded can be limited with the "Improved Put in" upgrade purchasable at the Ruby Shop. Trading enough gold before a Dark Ritual or Reincarnation will grant a chance at earning Mana Crystals.


 * every 100k gold get 1 Mana Shard
 * every 1M gold get either 1 bonus Mana Shard (90% chance) or 1 Mana Crystal (10% chance)

Crystal converter passives from Allies/Greed and Crystal Converter Efficiency from quests both improve gold to shards and gold to bonus crystal ratios.

Level/Bonus level
Passives can be raised indefinitely but at a reduced rate after lv100. Passive's level is the sum of equipment level and the bonus level. Effect strengths are:

$$base\times\left(1+\frac{\min(level, 100)}{100}+\frac{\sqrt{\max(level-100, 0)}}{100}\right)$$

Bonus levels are obtained by spending a Mana Crystal on the equipment.

Bonus levels provide unlocks in stages:


 * lv5: New additional effect (always first of shown four)
 * lv10: New passive effect
 * lv20: New additional random effect (25% on each of the four)
 * lv30: New passive effect
 * lv50: New additional random effect (25% on each of the four )

Reroll random additional effects after reaching bonus level max (50); at a cost (20 crystals).