How To Craft And Modify Equipment In Rogue: Genesia

Equipment isn’t something you’ll find when you first boot up Rogue: Genesia. No, I’m not talking about Soul Cards. While those include weapons and armor and other things we would normally call “equipment,” those are just cards. I mean, the equipment you can slap on your character is the one in the Equipment tab you see when selecting a new world. If you can’t see the equipment tab, you might want to come back to this article after a couple of hours of gameplay when you've unlocked it. Maybe take the time to find some of the new Soul Cards in Rogue: Genesia, too. Or you could continue reading if you want to spoil the surprise. Come on, we both know you want to. How to unlock equipment in Rogue: Genesia Screenshot by Destructoid Before being able to craft and enhance equipment, you must unlock the equipment screen itself. Unlocking it isn’t hard and doesn’t require paying much attention to the game at all, so you might have done it without noticing. To check if you have already unlocked the ability to find and put on equipment, see if you can click on the Equipment tab on the bottom left of the World selection screen right before starting a new run. You can see this button highlighted in the screenshot above. To unlock the ability to find, equip, and scrap equipment, you must finish a run in an E-rank world and then find the random event in which a blacksmith grants you this power. Assuming you’ve been playing the game for more than an hour or so, you should have already unlocked this event. If not, try to bump into as many question marks on the map as possible since that’s where you’ll find the blacksmith. It seems like you might need to complete a run with the character Rog in order for the event to become available. While it’s hard to be sure, based on my personal experience, I'd suggest you redo a run with Rog if you’re having problems unlocking new crafting mechanics. How to level up equipment and increase tier Screenshot by Destructoid Leveling up and increasing the tier of equipment are two different actions in Rogue: Genesia, which are unlocked at different points in the game. However, since both are similar, let’s explain them together. Leveling up equipment is extremely easy: just go to your inventory, click on Forge next to the Equipment button, and use the Level-up button that appears when you select a piece of equipment. Increasing the level of a piece of equipment will cost you some Soul Coins. The max equipment level is 10, but keep in mind that a low-level equipment of a high tier will always be better than one with a higher level but lower tier. To increase an item’s tier, bring it to level 10, and then you’ll see the option to upgrade its tier by one rank. This also turns its level back to level one. Tiers are expressed in letters, the highest being SSS, while levels are written in numbers going from one to 10. To unlock equipment level-up, first complete a D-rank world run. This enables a blacksmith encounter that unlocks leveling up equipment. Try to bump into as many question marks as you can on the world map, and you’ll find the blacksmith soon enough. The same process applies to increasing equipment tiers, but you have to complete a B-rank run instead. How to add modifiers to equipment Screenshot by Destructoid Adding and removing modifiers can seem intimidating, but it's actually quite easy. First, select the piece of equipment you want to modify. Click on the hammer and anvil icon next to a modifier to switch it out. You’ll enter a new screen on which you can select which modifier to put in its place if you have the required crafting material. To learn a modifier, you have to scrap a piece of equipment that contains it. You can craft a modifier you know as many times as you want, as long as you have the materials and Soul Coins to spare. Every piece of equipment has a primary modifier as well as positive and negative secondary modifiers. The number of the secondary modifiers is decided by the primary modifier, but not every object lets you change the primary modifier. Modifiers change the Required Level of a piece of equipment. The more useful the modifiers, the higher the level. A required Level is the number of cards you need to find during a run before you unlock most of the benefits given by a piece of equipment. Unlocking the ability to edit modifiers is exactly like unlocking every other equipment mechanic. In this case, you have to finish a run in a C-rank world and then keep playing until you trigger the right blacksmith event. Before closing out, I should specify that you cannot craft equipment in the traditional sense in Rogue: Genesia. You can modify equipment in every way that matters, but if you want a shield, you'll have to find it in battle. Not that it will be a problem, anyway. Equipment drops aren't rare, and almost every challenge run (of which you'll have to complete a lot anyway) grants you a special piece of equipment when co

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How To Craft And Modify Equipment In Rogue: Genesia

Equipment isn’t something you’ll find when you first boot up Rogue: Genesia. No, I’m not talking about Soul Cards. While those include weapons and armor and other things we would normally call “equipment,” those are just cards. I mean, the equipment you can slap on your character is the one in the Equipment tab you see when selecting a new world.

If you can’t see the equipment tab, you might want to come back to this article after a couple of hours of gameplay when you've unlocked it. Maybe take the time to find some of the new Soul Cards in Rogue: Genesia, too. Or you could continue reading if you want to spoil the surprise. Come on, we both know you want to.

How to unlock equipment in Rogue: Genesia

The run selection screen in Rogue: Genesia with the Equipment button highlighted in red.
Screenshot by Destructoid

Before being able to craft and enhance equipment, you must unlock the equipment screen itself. Unlocking it isn’t hard and doesn’t require paying much attention to the game at all, so you might have done it without noticing. To check if you have already unlocked the ability to find and put on equipment, see if you can click on the Equipment tab on the bottom left of the World selection screen right before starting a new run. You can see this button highlighted in the screenshot above.

To unlock the ability to find, equip, and scrap equipment, you must finish a run in an E-rank world and then find the random event in which a blacksmith grants you this power. Assuming you’ve been playing the game for more than an hour or so, you should have already unlocked this event. If not, try to bump into as many question marks on the map as possible since that’s where you’ll find the blacksmith.

It seems like you might need to complete a run with the character Rog in order for the event to become available. While it’s hard to be sure, based on my personal experience, I'd suggest you redo a run with Rog if you’re having problems unlocking new crafting mechanics.

How to level up equipment and increase tier

Looking at an item in detail in Rogue: Genesia, including its modifiers, level, and tier.
Screenshot by Destructoid

Leveling up and increasing the tier of equipment are two different actions in Rogue: Genesia, which are unlocked at different points in the game. However, since both are similar, let’s explain them together.

Leveling up equipment is extremely easy: just go to your inventory, click on Forge next to the Equipment button, and use the Level-up button that appears when you select a piece of equipment. Increasing the level of a piece of equipment will cost you some Soul Coins. The max equipment level is 10, but keep in mind that a low-level equipment of a high tier will always be better than one with a higher level but lower tier.

To increase an item’s tier, bring it to level 10, and then you’ll see the option to upgrade its tier by one rank. This also turns its level back to level one. Tiers are expressed in letters, the highest being SSS, while levels are written in numbers going from one to 10.

To unlock equipment level-up, first complete a D-rank world run. This enables a blacksmith encounter that unlocks leveling up equipment. Try to bump into as many question marks as you can on the world map, and you’ll find the blacksmith soon enough. The same process applies to increasing equipment tiers, but you have to complete a B-rank run instead.

How to add modifiers to equipment

Editing the modifiers in the inventory screen of Rogue: Genesia.
Screenshot by Destructoid

Adding and removing modifiers can seem intimidating, but it's actually quite easy. First, select the piece of equipment you want to modify. Click on the hammer and anvil icon next to a modifier to switch it out. You’ll enter a new screen on which you can select which modifier to put in its place if you have the required crafting material. To learn a modifier, you have to scrap a piece of equipment that contains it. You can craft a modifier you know as many times as you want, as long as you have the materials and Soul Coins to spare.

Every piece of equipment has a primary modifier as well as positive and negative secondary modifiers. The number of the secondary modifiers is decided by the primary modifier, but not every object lets you change the primary modifier. Modifiers change the Required Level of a piece of equipment. The more useful the modifiers, the higher the level. A required Level is the number of cards you need to find during a run before you unlock most of the benefits given by a piece of equipment.

Unlocking the ability to edit modifiers is exactly like unlocking every other equipment mechanic. In this case, you have to finish a run in a C-rank world and then keep playing until you trigger the right blacksmith event.

Before closing out, I should specify that you cannot craft equipment in the traditional sense in Rogue: Genesia. You can modify equipment in every way that matters, but if you want a shield, you'll have to find it in battle. Not that it will be a problem, anyway. Equipment drops aren't rare, and almost every challenge run (of which you'll have to complete a lot anyway) grants you a special piece of equipment when completed.

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