Spending Fantasy Gear

## Spending Trans Gear

If you've finally gotten a Trans A piece of equipment, **do not use it to upgrade the gear or put it in the altar**. Instead, break it back down to Fant A gear, and spend those gears as detailed below.

## Spending Fantasy Gear

Exactly how you should use your Fantasy-grade gear depends on what stage of the game you're in.

### Before Transcendent Gear

If you haven't yet unlocked Transcendent gear, you have three goals: get bonuses from the first two rows of Combat Plant 1 (a village building); get your gear to Fantasy A; and finally get your Altar Of Sword to level 3.

The optimal path in terms of diamonds/bonus is:

* Get Fant D of all gear (and level to 200; don't upgrade rings).
* Max out Whetstone, Damage Scroll, and Orb Of Life (first row in Combat Plant 1). If you're still using HP Regen, max Potion too.
* Get Fant C of all gear (and level to 200; don't upgrade rings).
* Get Fant B of swords, armor, and belts (level to 200), then break it down to max the Rare items in the second row of Combat Plant 1.
* Get Fant A sword (and level to 200).
* Get Fant B ring (don't upgrade it), then break it down to max the Rare Damage Scroll.
* Use leftover rings to +10 everything Mythic B and below. +10 Mythic A if possible. Do not upgrade Fant rings at all.
* Get Fant A armor and belt (and level to 200).
* Throw all your swords, armors, and belts into the Altar. (Save your rings, they're more expensive.) Keep summoning and sacrificing until you reach Altar 3.

While you're doing all of this, you can also spend your low-level equipment and extra gear stones to get your lower-level gear (everything up to Mythic C) to level 1000, to benefit from higher Owned Bonus on them. This is most important for swords.

### After Unlocking Transcendent Gear

* Summon swords and belts until you can merge into Trans D. Level to 200.
* Do it again for Trans C.
* Focus on swords to reach Trans A, then *break it down into 36 Fant A swords*.
* Upgrade Mythic B and Mythic A sword to 1000, and Fant D sword to 300.
* Upgrade Supreme Whetstone (Combat Plant 1) to level 7.
* Focus on belts to reach Trans A, then *break it down into 36 Fant A belts*.
* Summon armor until you reach Trans C, then *break it down into 9 Fant A armors*.

### After Getting (and disassembling) Trans A Sword and Belt

The combat plants are now the major source of your upgrades. The third row of Combat Plant 1 requires one Fant A gear per level; Combat Plants 2, 3, and 4 each require two (different) pieces of Fant A gear per level. Throughout this, you'll be summoning more of all your gear, including Rings, as they're now worthwhile to advance. At high summon levels, "finishing" a level will give up to 8 free Fant A gears, which will be where most of your gear comes from.

(You may be ready to unlock Village 8 at this point. Go ahead and do so as soon as you can; its upgrades only cost village coins, so they can be done at the same time as all the combat plants.)

All damage bonuses are approximately equal, but rings are more expensive than other gear, so the Combat Plant upgrades are split into "SAB Plants" (sword, armor, or belt only) and "Ring Plants" (needs a SAB and a ring). Everything in a category will be leveled equally.

* SAB Plants: Ghost Blade (SA), QuickRevenge (SA), Attack Amplification Stone I (SB), Ax of Knight (SB), Ax of Giant (SB), Flowery Band (SB), Red Strap (SB)
* Ring Plants: Attack Amplification Stone II (SR), Attack Orb (BR), Trident (SR), Reaper (SR), Destructive Copper Ring (SR), Destructive Brass Ring (SR)

The most efficient upgrade path is:

* Upgrade "SAB Plants" bonuses to level 2.
* Summon rings until you get Trans D. Break them back down to Fant A.
* Upgrade "Ring Plants" bonuses to level 1.
* SAB Plants to level 3.
* Ring Plants to level 2.
* SAB Plants to level 4.
* **Altar Checkpoint:** Dump swords, belts, and armors into the Altar until it reaches level 4.
* Fantasy D sword to level 450.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 2.
* Supreme Whetstone to level 9.
* Ring Plants to level 3.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 3.
* SAB Plants to level 5.
* Summon rings to Trans C.
* Supreme Whetstone to level 10 (max).
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 4.
* SAB Plants to level 6.
* Summon rings to Trans B, then break down into Fant A.
* Ring Plants to level 4.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 5.
* **Altar Checkpoint:** Dump swords, belts, and armors into the Altar until it reaches level 5.
* SAB Plants to level 7
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 6
* Ring Plants to level 5.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 7.
* SAB Plants to level 8.
* Fantasy D sword to 800.
* Ring Plants to level 6.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 8.
* SAB Plants to level 9.
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 9.
* Ring Plants to level 7.
* SAB Plants to level 10 (max).
* Supreme Damage Scroll to level 10 (max).
* Ring Plants to level 8.
* **Altar Checkpoint:** Dump swords, belts, and armors into the Altar until it reaches level 6.
* Fantasy D sword to 1000.
* Fantasy C sword to 300.
* Ring Plants to level 9.
* Summon rings to Trans A, then break down into Fant A.
* Ring Plants to level 10 (max).

### After Finishing Combat Plants

Now we get to the truly late game, when awakening Trans gear starts to make sense, and really deep Altar investments kick in.

Note: Transcendence gear levels differently, after awakening the increase per level goes up. This makes the last stretch (800->1000) actually more cost efficient than the stretches before that, even though you need more pieces for awakening. This is why you'll only see the -> 1000 below: as soon as it's worth to awaken, it's worth to max those.)

* Fant C sword to 450
* Trans D sword to 1000
* Altar to 8.
* Trans D belt to 1000
* Fant C sword to 800
* Altar to 11.
* Fant C sword to 1000
* Fant B sword to 300.
* Altar to 15.

Only now does it become viable to awaken your Transcendence Weapon and Belt past D and rings. But let's be honest, this is purely theory as probably no one will get to this point before things change again.

```
Sword Transcendence C -> 1000
Sword Fantasy B -> 450
Belt Transcendence C -> 1000
Belt Transcendence A -> 450
Sword Transcendence B -> 1000
Belt Transcendence A -> 1000
Sword Transcendence A -> 1000
Sword Fantasy B -> 800
Ring Transcendence D +10
Sword Fantasy A -> 300
Sword Fantasy B -> 1000
Sword Fantasy A -> 800
Ring Transcendence C +10
Sword Fantasy A -> 1000
Ring Transcendence B +10
Ring Transcendence A +10

```

(Guide adapted from Shimrod's guide on Discord.)