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Getting ahead inWo Long: Fallen Dynastyrequires not only a mastery of its combat system, but it also requires a certain amount of technical planning when it comes to your equipment and how you develop it alongside your progression.
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From upgrades to cosmetic changes to finally doing some spring-cleaning for your inventory, all potential for your equipment, in appearance and in stats, rely on an early game character who will guide you first across a few chapters and then open her shop to you later on.
Unlocking The Armourer, Zhu Xia
Available for the first timeafter defeating Zhang Liang, Zhu Xia will first appear in early maps as aninteractable NPCwho offers access to her shop to:
After dominating the first two chaptersof Wo Long,Zhu Xia will open a storefront location within the Hidden Villagefor the remainder of the game. Once this location is open, three additional functions will also be available to you:
In order to use any of the functions at the forge, you’llneed to have the appropriate amount of copper. Thankfully, copper is quite easy to find in the game, and Zhu Xia’s costs are relatively low.
Upgrading
You can upgrade all of your armour pieces (except accessories) and weapons at the forge by paying a small amount of copper and having on-hand a certain amount of materials.Upgrading your armourwill allow you toincrease their durability and defensesagainst attacks while upgrading your weaponswill allow them toscale higher with certain elements and increase their overall damage.
For each upgrade,you’ll need three of the item’s specific materials of increasing rank. For example, upgrading a piece of armour from +4 to +5 will require you to use three pieces of Rank Five leather.
Each piece of equipment (except accessories)can be upgraded nine times, and the materials needed to upgrade at higher levels become available within maps the farther along you progress in the story.
For those whopre-ordered the game and received its bonuses, the two4-star armour setsgiven as a reward for purchase have the unique skill “Inheritance.” As such, these armour sets do not require upgrade materials to upgrade so long as you are upgrading them to the appropriate level you are at within the story progression.
Embedding
Embedding is the bread and butter of any set-up, and having as many beneficial skills active at any given time will essentially determine the success of any build.you’re able to embed any piece of equipment and change its skills except for Accessories, which can only be swapped out by rerolling for new ones with thePanda Shitieshou.
Each piece of equipment above 1-star has an editable embedment slotthat allows the use or presence of a special skill. Most equipment pieces have one permanent skill slot that cannot be changed (and this is normally placed at the top of the skills), buthigher-ranked equipment will have more editable slots.
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Editable slots may be affected when wearing full sets of armour. Gear with aset bonushave a trade-off oflosing one editable embedding slot.
To begin the embedding process, you’llneed to have enough copper and Jewel Fragmentsin order to remove and add skills to a piece of equipment. The copper cost is low, butJewel Fragments can only be gained by removing skills from items or salvaging pieces of equipmentin the “Salvage” menu.
With enough materials on hand, you’ll need to do the following to change a skill on a weapon:
Keep in mind that there arespecial skills that are indicated by a circle icon on the left side of the skill’s nameandhave a limited number of usesbefore they’ll need to be extracted for use again from another piece of equipment. Otherwise,all other skills are entirely unlimitedin use and can be removed and replaced an infinite number of time so long as you have the resources to purchase the embedding.
Even pieces of equipment that are not currently in use (such as an equipped ranged weapon) will contribute to the skills you have active. You can check to see which skills are currently active in yourStatus menu(to the right of your inventory) under “Special Effects.”
Decorating
For a small price of copper, you canmake any piece of equipment take on another appearance. Keep in mind thatDecorating only changes the appearance of items but does not transfer stats.
For armour, any piece can be made to look like another of the same equipment type (e.g., any helmet can take on the apperance of other helmets).
For weapons, any piece can be made to look like another of the same style. For instance, any sword can be made to look like another, but a sword cannot be made to look like a hammer, and vice versa.
You cannot change the appearance of Accessories, and you cannot change the appearance of any equipment to look as if you aren’t wearing one. With helmets, there is no option to make it look as if you are not wearing one.
Salvaging
Due to the extraordinary amount of useless or irrelevant pieces of equipment to be gained during standard gameplay, the Salvage feature is incredibly valuable in the resources it provides and the opportunity for clearing out your bloated inventory.Salvaging a piece of equipment lends you:
In general, it is recommended to use this feature rather than selling equipment, and it is also recommended to not salvage all unused 4-star equipment so that you may use it to gain helpful accessories from thePanda Shitieshou.
