Gear & Materials

 
To gear up your character, you need a few things: 

 • Meet the level requirement

 • Meet the essence requirement to 'upgrade' a gear and

 • Have materials

MATERIALS?

Yes, materials.

Materials actually drop from quite a few places - you can gain them through numerous means:

 • Upgrade events

 • Alliance Shop

 • Gem Shop

 • Campaign Nodes

 • Hero Challenge nodes

 • Hero Packs

 • PvP Packs

 • Arena Packs

 • Raids

 • Monthly Login

 • And possibly other ways that I didn't take time to include.

Material is split in 3 types - Energy, Physical and Mystical material. As you've probably guessed, each type covers a specific affinity and will only be required by a character of that affinity.

Furthermore, each of the 4 pieces of material is split into 3 different level - level 1, 2 and uh... Oh yeah, 3. The more you upgrade gear, the more you'll need higher level materials.

Here is a neatly designed table that shows how much material you need for any gear level, and the total

With this table, you'll know if you have enough to go from zero to eleven

HOW CAN I OPTIMALLY FARM MATERIAL?

Glad you asked.

The best and probably easiest way to farm material is to run the Upgrade Events - Everyday, there is a different upgrade event (which also enables you to get Legendary Essence and Energy Rings, both necessary to upgrade characters and their abilities.) - On Sunday, all upgrade events are available.

So the best way is to farm those upgrade events, and as follow:

FOR LEVEL 1 MATERIAL

 • Farm the first node of the upgrade event - guaranteed to give you all the pieces of level 1 materials and level 1 XP meta-agents

FOR LEVEL 2 MATERIAL

 • Farm the third node of the upgrade event - guaranteed to give you all the pieces of level 2 materials and level 3 XP meta-agents

FOR LEVEL 3 MATERIAL

 • Farm the fifth node of the upgrade event - this one is not guaranteed to give you all pieces but it is guaranteed to give you only level 3 materials and level 5 XP meta-agents

The 2nd node gives a mix of level 1 and level 2 materials (and level 2 XP Meta-agents), and the 4th node fives a mix of level 2 and level 3 nodes (and level 4 XP Meta-agents)

 • NODE 1 will always award 35 items total.

 • NODE 2 will always award 29 items total.

 • NODE 3 will always award 25 items total.

 • NODE 4 will always award 18 items total.

 • NODE 5 will always award 12 items total.

GREAT! WHAT ELSE?

That's about it! Although here are a few additional tips & tricks:

DOs and DON'Ts

 • DO use your gems to refresh upgrade nodes. It is actually one of the best ways to spend your gems!

 • DO upvote this thread for visibility. Maybe. Yeah.

 • DON'T refresh the ring nodes though... They cost 500 gems instead of 100!

 • DON'T ever use gems to BUY mats directly... Prices are horribly scaled and you'll gain much more from using those gems to refresh the upgrade events...

 • DON'T expect to gain much mats from Hero Challenge nodes... Only focus on the shard nodes for these.