Maximum gear score

The gear score is the sum of six parts per equipped piece, and the character number is the sum of the pieces. It is the same number on the C panel, on the Discord card and in the site ranking: the server calculates it once and everyone reads from there. Rarity and gear score look at the same signals, but they are separate things: rarity is the color, gear score is the continuous ruler.

• 268cap on a single piece
• ~2,900fully geared top character
• 90cap on the tier part
• 8points per excellent option

The six parts

Adding it all up: 90 plus 70 plus 48 plus 4 plus 26 plus 30 gives 268. A piece without sockets, which is the case for most top equipment, stops around 238.

The refining table

The points per refining level are not linear: they climb fast in the middle and slow down at the top, because the ramp was designed to reflect how much each level actually costs.

Where the tier part stops growing

Tier is the item drop level divided by two, capped at 90. That means any piece with drop level 180 or higher is already at the maximum of that part. In practice, from Holyangel armor on the tier gives nothing more, and all the growth comes from refining, excellent, luck and ancient.

The rank

The gear score turns into a rank with a color, shown on the C panel and in the tooltip. The cuts are not round fractions of the cap: they were placed where the server has a real progression milestone.

The server calibration references are: a beginner character around 100, mid game around 1,200 and a fully geared top character around 2,900, with a soft cap at 3,000. The character gear score is the sum of everything worn across the twelve equipment slots.

Getting close to the cap

A 238 point piece, without sockets, is the realistic target. It needs all of this at the same time:

1. Drop level 180 or higher, which means Holyangel armor and up, or a weapon of equivalent tier. Worth 90.
2. Refining +15. Worth 70, and the last three levels are worth 12 of those 70.
3. Six excellent options. Worth 48, and it is the hardest part to complete: the drop gives you one guaranteed and the others by chance.
4. Luck. Worth 4, it is cheap and it is almost always there.
5. Active ancient. Worth 26 with one discriminator. The mastery sets belong to a set group, so this part usually comes together with the high tier.

• Rarity and Gear ScoreThe five colors and the three ladders.
• Building the top setWhich tier to chase in each bracket.
• RefiningThe real rates and when to stop.