Equipment isn’t something you’ll find when you first boot upRogue: Genesia. No, I’m not talking about Soul Cards. While those include weapons and armor and other things we would normally call “equipment,” those are just cards. I mean, the equipment you can slap on your character is the one in the Equipment tab you see when selecting a new world.
If you can’t see the equipment tab, you might want to come back to this article after a couple of hours of gameplay when you’ve unlocked it. Maybe take the time to find some of the new Soul Cards in Rogue: Genesia, too. Or you could continue reading if you want to spoil the surprise. Come on, we both know you want to.
How to unlock equipment in Rogue: Genesia
Before being able to craft and enhance equipment, you mustunlock the equipment screen itself. Unlocking it isn’t hard and doesn’t require paying much attention to the game at all, so you might have done it without noticing. To check if you have already unlocked the ability to find and put on equipment, see if you can click on the Equipment tab on the bottom left of the World selection screen right before starting a new run. You can see this button highlighted in the screenshot above.
To unlock the ability to find, equip, and scrap equipment, you mustfinish a run in an E-rank worldand then find the random event in which a blacksmith grants you this power. Assuming you’ve been playing the game for more than an hour or so, you should have already unlocked this event. If not, try to bump into as many question marks on the map as possible since that’s where you’ll find the blacksmith.
It seems like you might need to complete a run with the character Rog in order for the event to become available. While it’s hard to be sure, based on my personal experience, I’d suggest you redo a run with Rog if you’re having problems unlocking new crafting mechanics.
How to level up equipment and increase tier
Leveling up and increasing the tier of equipment are two different actions inRogue: Genesia, which are unlocked at different points in the game. However, since both are similar, let’s explain them together.
Leveling up equipment is extremely easy: just go to your inventory, click on Forge next to the Equipment button, and use the Level-up button that appears when you select a piece of equipment. Increasing the level of a piece of equipment will cost you some Soul Coins. The max equipment level is 10, but keep in mind that a low-level equipment of a high tier will always be better than one with a higher level but lower tier.
Toincrease an item’s tier, bring it to level 10, and then you’ll see the option to upgrade its tier by one rank. This also turns its level back to level one. Tiers are expressed in letters, the highest being SSS, while levels are written in numbers going from one to 10.
To unlock equipment level-up, first complete a D-rank world run. This enables a blacksmith encounter that unlocks leveling up equipment. attempt to bump into as many question marks as you can on the world map, and you’ll find the blacksmith soon enough. The same process applies to increasing equipment tiers, but you have to complete a B-rank run instead.
How to add modifiers to equipment
Adding and removing modifierscan seem intimidating, but it’s actually quite easy. First, select the piece of equipment you want to modify. Click on the hammer and anvil icon next to a modifier to switch it out. You’ll enter a new screen on which you’re able to select which modifier to put in its place if you have the required crafting material.To learn a modifier, you have to scrap a piece of equipment that contains it. You can craft a modifier you know as many times as you want, as long as you have the materials and Soul Coins to spare.
Every piece of equipment has a primary modifier as well as positive and negative secondary modifiers. The number of the secondary modifiers is decided by the primary modifier, but not every object lets you change the primary modifier.Modifiers change the Required Levelof a piece of equipment. The more useful the modifiers, the higher the level. A required Level is the number of cards you need to find during a run before you unlock most of the benefits given by a piece of equipment.
Unlocking the ability to edit modifiers is exactly like unlocking every other equipment mechanic. In this case, you have to finish a run in a C-rank world and then keep playing until you trigger the right blacksmith event.
Before closing out, I should specify thatyou cannot craft equipmentin the traditional sense inRogue: Genesia. you’re able to modify equipment in every way that matters, but if you want a shield, you’ll have to find it in battle. Not that it will be a problem, anyway. Equipment drops aren’t rare, and almost every challenge run (of which you’ll have to complete a lot anyway) grants you a special piece of equipment when completed.
