Gear Set Levels 200: Core Requirements

The Gear Workshop has a feature called Set Gear Leveling.  Set Gear Leveling allows you to upgrade your gear sets. Maximum set gear level for core sets is now 200 while normal set maximum level is 100.

New gear set levels provide rally leaders incredible attack and defense debuff while defensive players gain defense and health. In this guide, we discuss all gear levels including requirements, strengths, and benefits.

Want to level up your gear but lack the required Gear Workshop level?  Visit our Gear Workshop guide for more information on upgrade requirements.

Gear Levels

As I mentioned, gear levels range from 0-200 for attack and wonder core sets and from 0-100 for normal gear sets.

NOTE: Core set boosts will be applied to all future core sets as well.

Gear levels require Gear Level Experience and Charms which vary depending on the gear set. The following chart describes the first release of gear set levels to 100 attack cores and level 50 for normal gear sets.  The new gear set level requirements are provided a bit further down this guide.

Normal Gear Level Requirements

It takes 1 million of the appropriate type of charm. I've provided a chart below to determine which type of charm you need to reach level 50 on Normal Gear Sets.

How to Level Up Gear

Go to your Gear Workshop. And find the Set Gear Leveling. Next, choose a set you wish to level up. Hit it with Set Gear XP then use the appropriate Charm from the chart above that will level it up!  It's very similar to leveling up your Hero.  You need Set Gear XP to max out the current level then a Charm to upgrade to the next level.

Pro Tip: You can save on Set Gear XP with this tip.  Equip the Gear Set you wish to level up.  Now hit monsters with it.  You will gain XP simply by hitting monsters while wearing it. Then all you need is charms to level up.

Charms Needed for Each Set Gear Type

Each set gear requires a type of Charm to level up.  Keep in mind that some gear sets share the same Charm. So choose wisely which Gear Set you'd like to level up first!

Legion Stats

Many players are a bit confused about Legion Attack and Health. These stats are simply bonuses you receive from Gear Levels.  These stack on your gear stats. These stats can't be debuffed until Legion Debuff is introduced.

So, when you see Legion stats just think of those a tertiary stats that stack on your type and general boosts.  Legion stats are obtained from gear, research, gems, runes and other places.  Whether the Legion stat is applied to your troops depends where you obtained the Legion stat.

For instance, Legion stats obtained from research apply to troops regardless of where they are located, wonder, tile, stronghold, marching etc unless specified otherwise. For example, "with Hero" or "while defending Wonder" means the Legion stat is applied in those circumstances.

Gear Leveling for Trap Players

So you're a trap and Set Gear Leveling is out. SWEET! You search how it can benefit you?

Pegasus, which is used by many players to fight tiles or take rallies isn't included as one of the Set Gear Leveling options.

Also, the defense sets of Jiao Dragon and Lycan are the other only defense sets currently eligible for Gear Leveling. Let's take a look at the benefits.

Jiao Dragon provides +1,000 Attack, Health, and Defense at max level.

Meanwhile, rally leaders can get 75,000% at max level.  So, take a look at the core options for traps. You could use Wonder Cores . Currently, you can use Ice Atlas, Aether, Nian, or Ice TheLegend27.

I scored great positive points in the latest kill event using a wonder core set while playing as a health-based, relatively low troop trap with 300 B power. I explain more about my experience in the following article:

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Attack and Wonder Core Sets Leveling

Core sets used for attacking such as Cronus, Styx, Rhea, Ice Luna, Ice Aura, and Ice Perses qualify for leveling up. Attack Core Set levels will be applied to new sets as they are released.  In other words, you won't need to Gear Level new cores when they are released.  You will need Gear XP and Striking Charms.

Also, Wonder Core sets Ice TheLegend27, Helios, Ice Atlas, Nian, Aether and any core sets released in the future qualify for Set Gear Leveling.

Maximum Level Stats and Requirements for Attack Core Sets

If you have additional requirements information please provide them in the comments below! Thank you GoW Real Tips Family *high five*!

Set Gear Level 200 for Cores, 100 for Normal Sets

Normal set level max is now 100 instead of 50.  The core set level max is now 200. The picture below shows the maximum stats of set gear 200.

Gear Level 200 for Rally Leaders

The 500,000% Defense Debuff is a bit misleading. If you take a look at the next image below then you'll see its actually split between 250,000% Empire Defense Debuff and 250,000% Legion Defense Debuff.

Set Gear 200 actually provides zero Troop Defense Debuff. However, it may be enough given the added 2,500,000,000% attack.

Gear Level 200 for Defensive Players (Traps)

Defensive players are adding 600,000% defense.  At first glance this seems like a lot but when you consider the defense is split among 250,000% Empire Defense, 250,000% Legion Defense, and 100,000% Troop Defense. This split makes it much easier for rally leaders to debuff.

It would benefit traps more to provide a great deal of one type of defense than to spread it around because the higher it is the harder it is to be debuffed by the leaders.  Since we have no Legion Defense Debuff resistance, set level 200 is no gain in legion defense over rally leaders.

The same could be said of Empire Defense.  250,000% Empire Defense for traps is great! Unfortunately, rally leaders also gain 250,000% Empire Defense Debuff. However, traps also gain 100,000% Troop Defense!  Nice advantage!

Rally leader's gain zero additional Troop Defense Debuff from Gear Set 200.

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Gear Level 200 Charm and XP Requirements

The requirements for level 200 are coming soon.

It is 240,000,000 of the appropriate charm types to get all normal gear to level 100 from level 50. The same number of charms will get you to 134 on cores.

Core Level 200 Requirements and Benefits

The image below shows Empress XxCtesseDNxX with Attack Core Set Level 200.

Please help this project by providing your findings in the comments below! You can expect higher levels of Core Attack in the future as 75,000% attack becomes relatively low attack.

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Thank you to K386 - Stotty83 for his contributions to the requirement findings!