Simply leveling up your witches wont cut it in MementoMori, and you'll need to enhance their stats with Gear! Read on to find out what Gear is, what kind of stats they affect, and how to enhance your Gear.

Gear Guide

Gear in Memento Mori Explained

'Gear' refers to the items that you can equip witches with to boost their stats. For instance, a Weapon increases a witch's ATK, which could give them a big power boost and win the battle.

Each piece of gear has two effects: the Base Effect and the Bonus Effect. The Base Effect is the stat boost the Gear would give by itself, while the Bonus Effect is a set of other stats boosted by the Gear in question. The rarer a piece of Gear is, the more stats that will be boosted by the Bonus Effect.

Gear pieces also have their own level requirement called 'Gear Lv' or gear level. This level also dictates how much you can Upgrade a piece or gear. Your unit won't be able to equip this particular item if its Gear Lv is higher than the witch's Character Lv.

Stats Boosted By Gear

Stats Affected by Gear Only

Gear Type	Stat Affected by Base Effect
Weapon	ATK
Accessories	Debuff RES
Hands	DEF
Head	P. DEF
Body	M. DEF
Feet	DEF

Stats Affected by Gear Augments

	Dark	Holy
Weapon	ATK	ATK (%)
Accesories	P. DEF	ACC
Hands	M. DEF	CRIT DMG Boost
Head	CRIT	P. CRIT DMG Cut
Body	DEF Break	M. CRIT DMG Cut
Feet	HP	HP Drain

Augmenting a piece of gear adds extra stat boosts based on whether Dark or Holy equipment was used in the process. Key Augments to prioritize are DEF Break with Dark equipment for chest armor, CRIT DMG Boost with Holy equipment for gloves, and ATK (%) with Holy equipment for your witch’s weapon.

Stats Affected by Runes

Stats Affected by Offensive-type Runes (Weapon, Accessories, Hands)	Stats Affected by Defensive-type Runes (Head, Body, Feet)
STR, DEX, MAG, ATK, PM. DEF Break, ACC, CRIT, Debuff ACC, SPD	STA, HP, P. DEF, M. DEF, EVD, CRIT RES, Debuff RES

You can stick items called 'Runes' to your Gear to grant even more stat boosts to your witches. They are divided into two types - Offensive Runes, and Defensive Runes. This determines where you can attach them.

You'll get a whole lot of runes for free just by progressing through the game, but the best runes by far are PM. DEF Break and SPD, which you can only buy from the Rune Shop.

Special Types of Gear

Gear Sets

Gear sets are pieces of gear that have their own motif as well as their own stat bonuses if your character has more Gear equipped that belongs to the same set. These special pieces of gear are unlocked through the Gear Invocation banner, which is unlocked around Chapter 13.

Unique Weapons

Unique or Exclusive Weapons are special gear obtained by using Magic Crystals in the Gear Invocation banner. These crystals allow you to purchase parts needed to create weapons that provide unique effects, enhancing the assigned witch’s skills and stats. For instance, the Lance of the Unbending Vow not only serves as a lance but also boosts Florence’s Scarlet Shimmer skill and gives her a passive ATK increase.

Similar to the Gear Invocation banner, Unique Weapons become available around Chapter 13, and characters must be at least level 180 to equip them.

Unique Weapons can also level up and have their rarity increased to raise their level cap. As the level cap increases, more Unique Weapon skill effects are unlocked, further enhancing your character’s skills.

Where To Get Gear?

Get From the Main Quest, Tower of Infinity, and Cave of Space-Time

The primary way to get your hands on Gear pieces is by progressing through the game. The Main Quest, Tower of Infinity, and even the Cave of Space-Time (through the Mystery Shop) can give you a lot of Gear pieces. You'll be smelting most of these to create Dark Equipment and Fragments. For Holy Equipment, you'll need Holy Fragments, which can be earned from the Battle League or Guild Raid rewards.

Buy From the Shop

The Shop is another potential source of equipment for your witches. It sells normal, Dark, and Holy gears, which can come in handy if you need to do a few more Augments on your item to increase its Holy or Dark level. While Dark and normal gear are very easy to find, the shop is the only place to get Holy Equipment.

Get From Guild Raids

Participating in Guild Raids can also net you equipment that you can either put on your characters or use as fodder for the smelter to get Dark equipment. Make sure to participate often as Guild Battles are also your primary source of Holy Fragments (which are used to buy Holy equipment).

Pull From Gear Gachas

Gear Gachas allow you to get gear parts such as tomes and scrolls that you can use to get high-level gear starting on level 180. Aside from the gear parts, they also provide items that you can use to increase your character's gear levels and upgrade its skill boost.

What are the Gear Gachas?

How Should I Prioritize Upgrading My Gear?

Prioritize Upgrading Your Weapon, Hands, and Feet Gear

Because upgrading your gear's level will only enhance just one corresponding stat, it's best to prioritize the ones in the Weapon, Hands, and Feet slots. Weapon increases your unit's ATK while gloves and boots increase a witch's DEF.

P. DEF, Debuff Res, and M. DEF that you'll get from the other gear types is also very important, but ATK and DEF is useful in ALL your matches while the others are a little bit more situational.

How to Upgrade Gear

Augment Weapon/Hands Gear With Holy and Chest Armor With Dark

Each piece of gear also enhances a specific stat when you augment them and increase their Dark/Holy level. Just like with the regular upgrades, some Augment Effects are more valuable than others. You should be using your unused dark gear and Dark Perfume to augment your main unit's chest armor to increase her PM. DEF Break stat, as this is by far the most impactful stat that dark augments can offer.

Inversely, your holy gear should be used on both your weapon to increase your carry's ATK by a certain percentage, and your hands/gloves to improve the damage you deal with crits. A good holy level ratio for your weapon and hands is 2:1.

How to Augment Gear

Prioritize PM. DEF Break Runes First and Then SPD After

You'll earn a lof runes from Mystery Rune rewards, but you can't get PM. DEF Break and SPD runes from there. These two runes are the most important ones because PMDB will help carries shred through defenses while SPD will improve the chances of your character attacking first in the turn, two very valuable things to have, especially for carries that you rely on to win battles. These runes can only be bought from the Rune Shop with Rune Tickets.

Rune Guide

Get The Unique Weapons For Your Key Units

Unique Weapons are weapon-slot gear that you can equip only for a specific unit, and they'll improve that said units' capabilities, often improving the numbers of their abilities and adding more powerful effects. Once you get a unit to Lv 180, getting them their UW should be one of your top priorities, especially if the unit in question is your carry.

However, don't just blindly get unique weapons for all your units. You'll have to read through what these UWs do and determine which ones you should prioritize getting first, as some bonus effects are much more impactful than others. For example, getting Cordie's UW at base allows her to inflict an 80% DEF debuff to multiple opponents, which is a very strong debuff that makes her opponents vulnerable to attacks from Cordie and the rest of her team. Meanwhile, getting Mimi's UW will only increase the damage she does with her Wild Claw skill at base, which is surely nice to have, but is far less valuable than Cordie's DEF debuff. If you have both Mimi and Cordie at 180, it makes complete sense to prioritize getting Cordie's first.

Unique Weapons Guide

Try Getting Named Gear Set Effects

Later into the game, you'll start getting named gear that, when paired with the other gear belonging in the same set, offers powerful passive buffs to the witch you equip them on. The more gear in a set you have equipped on a certain unit, the more effects they'll receive. Getting all 6 of a specific set will grant the unit all the bonuses it has to offer, but a lot of people like to mix it up and get different bonuses from different gear combos.

That said, try to make the most of these bonuses as the boosts from here might be just what you needed to get yourself un-stuck and continue progressing.

Premium Packs with Gear Enhancement Materials

Below are the Premium Packs available that has Gear Upgrade and Augment materials.

Premium Pack	Cost	Inclusion
Witch's Gift (LR)	$37.99	Diamonds x 3000 Upgrade Panacea x 300 Fragments x 100000
EXP Orb Pack (Daily)	$3.99	Diamonds x 325 EXP Orb (24h) x 1 Upgrade Water x 200
Upgrade Water Pack	$3.99	Diamonds x 325 Upgrade Water x 500
Upgrade Panacea Pack	$5.99	Diamonds x 500 Upgrade Panacea x 50
Red Panacea Pack	$18.99	Diamonds x 1500 Kindling Orb (6h) x 6 Upgrade Panacea x 120
Paladin Pack	$37.99	Diamonds x 3000 Kindling Orb (24h) x 16 Upgrade Panacea x 90
Holy Maiden Pack	$37.99	Diamonds x 3000 EXP Orb (24h) x 16 Upgrade Water x 6000
Upgrade Panacea (L) Pack	$18.99	Diamonds x 1500 Upgrade Panacea x 160
Witch's Gift (UR+)	$37.99	Diamonds x 3000 Ticket of Chance x 15 Grand Dark Perfume x 3
Secret Perfume Pack	$18.99	Diamonds x 1500 EXP Orb (6h) x 6 Dark Perfume x 8

If you would like to farm these items faster, you can purchase the premium packs that also comes with an additional upgrade item and Diamonds.

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