Age of Ashes: Dark Nuns is a visually stunning MMORPG developed with Unreal Engine, immersing players in a sprawling, apocalyptic world where darkness and hope collide. Featuring a seamless, fully explorable 360° open-world map without loading screens, you’re free to roam desolate landscapes, ominous ruins, and mysterious forests with cinematic quality and lifelike character models. The equipment system of the game is quite simple to understand but difficult to master. This guide will help players get familiarized with the equipment system and its nuances. Let’s begin!

What is Equipment in Age of Ashes: Dark Nuns?

Equipment, as the name itself might suggest, are pieces of gear that players can equip on their character to impart them with bonus stats and additional passive abilities. Gear pieces come in differing rarities and tiers, each affecting how good the individual piece itself is. The higher the tier of the gear, the more stats it will impart to your character. Similarly, the higher the rarity of the gear piece, the more sub-stats it will have. Each gear piece has 2 types of stats – main stats and sub stats.

The main stat cannot be changed and remains fixed for the gear type but sub-stats can vary according to each gear piece. It is recommended that players choose gear that suits the playstyle of the class they have chosen.

What are the Different Gear Types?

Like we mentioned before, equipment or gear comes in a variety of types, denoted by the slots they go into. Each character, regardless of the class you have chosen, can equip up to 10 different gear pieces in 10 different slots. These slots unlock as you gradually level up your account. Players can see the slots as follows:

• Weapon
• Helmet
• Breastplate
• Legplate
• Wristplate
• Boots
• Bracelet
• Necklace
• Ring
• Amulet

Each gear slot has a specific purpose as the type of main stat remains the same across the board for all of their gear pieces. For example, players will find that the weapon slot gear pieces always have attack and pierce stats as their main stats. Similarly, the helmet slots always offer more HP and Defense as the main stats. Players can min-max the amount of stats by either upgrading the gear piece itself, or trying to get a higher tier gear piece that naturally has more stats than lower tiers.

Some gear pieces are also tied to a particular class, and thus can only be equipped by that class. Each gear piece in the game stems in either one of 2 ways – a class-specific part, or a universal part. Naturally, class-specific gear can only be equipped by the particular class they are made for. On the other hand, universal gear can be used by any class, regardless of your choice.

How to Enhance Gear?

The Forge system allows you to upgrade your gear by increasing its rarity and stats. It’s advisable to concentrate your upgrades on rare or epic items, as they have higher long-term value. When your inventory fills up with low-rarity gear, dismantling it is a wise decision because it provides materials for upgrading your better equipment. Fusion Stones can also be used to improve rare or epic gear’s stats significantly. Just don’t waste them on popular products; the payout isn’t worth it.

How to Get more Powerful Equipment?

You might be wondering how to get more powerful equipment in Age of Ashes: Dark Nuns. Well, not to worry, as the developers have laid out multiple ways via which you can upgrade the power level of your character. The best ways to get powerful equipment are as follows:

• Dungeon – There are a host of different types of gear dungeons that offer different types of gear pieces. Each dungeon has multiple difficulties, and the higher the difficulty, the stronger the gear drops are.
• Quests – Many of the early game gear pieces you get are class-specific sets that are given by the game when you complete main quests.
• Events – Since Age of Ashes: Dark Nuns is a live-service game, events are happening on a consistent basis. Many of these events also offer lucrative gear pieces and chests as rewards.

Players can enjoy playing Age of Ashes: Dark Nuns on a bigger screen of their PC or Laptop via BlueStacks along with your keyboard and mouse.