Choose the troop type and slot first
Heroes use four compatible gear slots. Head and Feet emphasise Expedition Lethality; Chest and Hands emphasise Expedition Health. Flat Conquest stats are a different layer. Choose the slot that helps the hero’s actual job before assuming every piece of the same colour contributes equally.
Keep the upgrade tracks separate
- Enhancement uses its own experience and materials; mastery uses Forgehammers. A high enhancement level is not a high mastery level.
- Check the remaining Forgehammer and gear costs before choosing a mastery target.
- The official ascension requirements include enhancement 100, mastery 10 and kingdom availability. Reaching one requirement alone does not unlock ascension.
- The website numbers the combined enhancement path up to 200; the game’s post-ascension track runs to 100 again. Read which numbering the table uses before comparing screenshots.
Plan before consuming another piece
Ascension and imbuement can require other gear as material. Keep equipped pieces and future hero sets out of the consumption list until you have checked the exact confirmation. Use the calculator to compare finishing one useful piece with partly upgrading several.