Equipment in Tower of Fantasy is its own category of character progression, has no bearing on your character's appearance, and is entirely separate from Weapons, Matrices, and Simulacra.

Equipment is also one of the core drivers of your Combat Strength, or CS, and you'll want to invest time and resources into upgrading it as much as possible. Here's how to do that.

Equipment comes from many sources, and there are even more sources of upgrade materials, almost all of which come just from playing the game. Most of these sources are time-limited, either through Vitality or by having access determined by reward token. We've listed all of them below.

Equipment is gained entirely through play, and while getting the best of it takes time, it's usually worth the grind.

Upgrading equipment in Tower of Fantasy comes in two forms: level and star rating. To improve your weapon's level, and thus its stats, you spend Gold and Booster and Advancement modules.

You can gain Booster modules by completing:

The Gold cost is static at 2,000 per upgrade, but you'll need more modules as your weapon improves in both level and rarity.

You only need to upgrade the level of Equipment once. When you equip another instance of the same type at the same or higher rarity, you can transfer all the upgrades from your old gear to your new.

It's adding stars to your Equipment that's the tricky bit. Each piece of Equipment has an experience track that you can spend other units of the same type of Equipment to advance. White gear gives 10 to 20 XP, and purple gear gives upwards of 1,000. The more powerful the Equipment, the more experience it takes to give it a star.

You can infuse as much unused Equipment as you want even if you don't hit the experience requirement, as the game will retain the value. If you upgraded some blue gear to two stars and then equipped some purple, be aware that stars do not transfer, but they do significantly boost their provided infusion experience.

It's worth it, then, to collect as much Equipment as you can even if you can't immediately use it — it will have an eventual purpose as infusion fuel to take your actually good gear up a star or two.

That's all there is to upgrading equipment in Tower of Fantasy. Like most systems in the game, it's not the simplest to explain but becomes routine after doing it a few times. We've covered other upgrade mechanics here, including how to upgrade Matrices. We've also provided a best Weapons tier list and a guide to leveling up fast. Our Tower of Fantasy guides hub has more.

John Schutt has been playing games for almost 25 years, starting with Super Mario 64 and progressing to every genre under the sun. He spent almost 4 years writing for strategy and satire site TopTierTactics under the moniker Xiant, and somehow managed to find time to get an MFA in Creative Writing in between all the gaming. His specialty is action games, but his first love will always be the RPG. Oh, and his avatar is, was, and will always be a squirrel, a trend he's carried as long as he's had a Steam account, and for some time before that.