Forge
The Forge is the home of your equipment. All your pieces live here: you salvage what you do not need and turn the rest into the pieces you actually want to wear. It crafts nothing. It refines what you already have.
It has three tabs: Salvage, Refine and Level up. It appears in the menu from chapter 3, together with equipment. The first actual refine step comes in chapter 4. At the top you always see how full your gear storage is, plus your gear shards and transcendence crystals.
Salvage
Unused pieces become gear shards, the feed for your best gear.
- All pieces sit in a tile grid. Filters for type, rarity, affinity and stats plus a sort order help you tidy up. You can collapse the filter area, on phones it starts collapsed.
- By default you only see free pieces. Worn ones can be shown via the filter: they have a yellow border and show who wears them.
- Pieces with a blue border are worn by a Mebuli in one of your other teams (badge "Team 2" and so on). Salvage them and they will be missing there after switching.
- With multi-select you mark many pieces and salvage them in one go. Worn pieces and pieces assigned in other teams can only be salvaged one at a time, with a confirmation.
- Holding Ctrl and clicking the hammer salvages a free piece instantly, without confirmation.
- The history lists your latest equipment actions: received, salvaged, upgraded.
- Yield: roughly 60 % of the base cost × the piece's level.
- Base cost by rarity: common 5 · uncommon 10 · rare 20 · epic 40 · legendary 80.
- Your gear storage holds 60 unequipped pieces, more with the skill Inventory Expansion and VIP levels (see Equipment). Equipped ones do not count.
Salvaging is not a loss
A legendary ring no Mebuli needs is worth more as shards than sitting in storage. Keep your storage empty enough that no drop goes to waste.
Refine (rarity)
A piece climbs one rarity step while keeping everything that defines it: name, row, element, binding, archetype, level and the quality of its rolls. The piece you like becomes the better piece you like.
You pick a piece from the list, and the card next to it shows the wearer, the rarity before and after and the new stats. One button, done. Worn pieces can be refined directly and stay equipped.
You pay with transcendence crystals, the same currency that opens a Mebuli's transcendence path.
| Target rarity | Crystals |
|---|---|
| Uncommon | 1 |
| Rare | 2 |
| Epic | 4 |
| Legendary | 8 |
Going from common all the way to legendary therefore costs 15 crystals.
How far may you forge?
The Forge never runs ahead of your progress:
| Progress | Highest target rarity |
|---|---|
| Chapter 3 | no step possible yet |
| Chapter 4 | Uncommon |
| Chapter 6 | Rare |
| Chapter 8 | Epic |
| Story 1 fully completed | Legendary |
The Forge is the plannable way up
Battle drops cap at rare everywhere: story 1, the Elemental Realms, the Prism Rift and the dungeons. Otherwise epic and legendary only come from high-tier ring and amulet quests, the daily chest, the bazaar and the marketplace. The Forge is where you make them on purpose. Better equipment means collecting crystals, not luck.
Level up (level)
Every piece levels from 1 to 10. Each level adds +8 % to all bonuses, level 10 sits roughly +72 % above the drop.
Here too you pick a piece from the list. The card shows the wearer, the level before and after, the new stats and the cost. Rarity and row stay the same, and worn pieces can be levelled up directly.
| Rarity | Cost (level L → L+1) |
|---|---|
| Common | 5 × L |
| Uncommon | 10 × L |
| Rare | 20 × L |
| Epic | 40 × L |
| Legendary | 80 × L |
Heavy armor and breaker trophies cost × 1.3. That is their second price alongside the attack malus.
Maluses do not grow
The attack malus on heavy pieces stays fixed when levelling up. Otherwise every level would make the piece better and worse at the same time.
Where do transcendence crystals come from?
| Source | Details |
|---|---|
 Mebulit shop | 12 Mebulit per crystal |
 Resonance Chamber | Legendary and mythic Mebulis at max level fill the Crystal Collector in the Afterglow: 1 crystal per 24 hours of Mebuli time |
| Achievements & events | occasionally via system mail |
A crystal has two uses and you have to choose: either one equipment piece one rarity higher, or one Mebuli sent onto its transcendence path.
Where do I equip gear?
Not here, but in the Equipment Chamber. See Equipment.