Gear Improvement - Choosing Gear

Choosing gear is a very personal choice for the most part. It really depends on what your goal is for your character and how much effort and $$ you are willing to put into it. However, there are some standard ideas to keep in mind.

Gear Grade

• Gray and white gear is not very good. This does not sell in ah; just sell this to an npc unless you have nothing else to wear.
  
• Green is better, and it can be sometimes easier to get. It would be fine until you can find better. Green gear sometimes sells better in ah than blue as long as you keep the price reasonable - scavengers can get good mats from it.
  
• Blue gear is what you are looking for. There are several shades of blue gear - but these shades do not indicate a quality difference, blue is blue. Blue gear that you can not use can be sold fairly well in ah. OR, see if your guildies can use it :)
  
• Purple is your epic gear. Get this gear if you can find it and afford it. Otherwise, blue gear should be just fine for most purposes.

Gear also comes with grade marks. These are little badge-like symbols under the name of the gear. The theory is that the more of these there are, the better the gear is - but really I have found that it is more important to concentrate on what the attributes are than worry about these marks.

Gear attributes

Although choosing gear attributes is an even more personal thing, there are a few things you want to consider when choosing which gear you will use and which you will sell : what are your character's strengths and weaknesses?

To know what will boost your character's strengths are, look at the skills that you have, especially the ones that you use most. If they are water based, you will want to get some gear with water attributes. If they are fire based, you will want fire attributes - etc.

You most likely already know what it's weaknesses are. Do you find yourself dying way too easily? Maybe a little defense or evasion built into your gear could help. Do you find that your attacks are not up to what you would like them to be? Then look for gear that will increase that.

Also keep in mind that there are certain things that you can get from gear that you can't get from adding gems. For instance, mastery is not something that you can really gain from gems. Gems can be used to increase attack, mana, evasion, defense, accuracy, crit rate, crit defense - so use them and look for the attributes for things gems can't give you.

Some gear also have more attributes than others. I only recommend buying gear that has at least two original additional attributes (before IDing the piece). The more attributes you can get on gear, the better off you will be.

Make sure to identify the gear before binding it - if it does not come out the way that you want, then you can still sell it to another player. Fire id for you may not be good, but maybe another player is looking for just that.