Equipment

Equipment are items in Tower Keeper that improve the stats of your heroes. They increase attack and defense, damage for weapons and armor percentage for armor. Many of these items also have special properties that boost your hero in certain ways such as extra health or increased crit chance.

## Acquiring equipment

Equipment may be acquired through crafting or being found. Crafting weapons and armor requires you to learn the recipe before you are able to craft the item. Your artisan levels determine the minimum level of the equipment piece when you craft it, and if you are lucky it will craft over the minimum (up to a maximum of 5 levels over).

Common and uncommon equipment can also be acquired randomly as a reward from campaign levels, from chests or from PvP. Rare equipment is available as milestone rewards in the Catacombs, Wizard Tower and Festival Events. Super Rare equipment can be found in the gold event (2 mil. gold spent) or dragon boss (stage X). Epics can never be found, except for the Vorpal Warsword for 35,000 gems in the gem event.

## Equipment rarity

There are 5 tiers of rarity:

* common
* uncommon
* rare
* super rare
* epic (separated into tiers, see below)

The rarity can be distinguished by the item's border color, which corresponds to the colors above. With few exceptions, higher rarity equipment is better than lower rarity. At tiers higher than rare, this difference becomes quite massive. Because of this, crafting *any* lower-tier items, including rare, will prove a waste of precious resources.

### **Epics – Tier 1 vs Tier 2**

Tier 1 epics are epic items that were available in the original release of the game. They become available to craft sometime between levels 37-45 (depending on the item), require 3-14 void cores to craft (typically 7-9 for weapons), and have level maximums around 60-65 (again, depending on the item). Note that some crafting trees have more than one Tier 1 epic.

Tier 2 epics were added in an update in August 2017. They share the same golden border as a tier 1 epic, but require a minimum level 55 to craft. Tier 2 epics require as many as 28 void cores to craft (~19 for weapons), and all share a level maximum of 75. These are considered end-game content, standing head and shoulders above other items.

## Guild Shop-only equipment

Certain equipment is uncraftable, being exclusively available through the guild shop for a hefty cost of 300,000 guild marks or randomly via events (gold festival event at 2 million gold spent or dragon stage X). These are all super rare tier equipment. They are:

* Blade of Wonder
* Wand of Swiftness
* Guisarme of Power
* Flaming Great Scimitar
* Recurve Bow of Warding
* Abjurer's Staff of Protection

These appear once every 2 weeks in the order above, and persist in the shop for a total of 4 weeks for a guild to purchase. This means that each item is introduced to the shop only once every 12 weeks (almost 3 months).

## Combining equipment

Combining is the way to level up equipment or monsters, increasing attack, defense, and dmg or armor stats (health+skill numbers for monsters). Combining functions by consuming items of equal or lesser level and costs gold as well. The consumed items are permanently destroyed. In exchange, the item gains experience and may level up.

Items in the same category are shown first in the combine menu, providing a +50% experience bonus for being the same category, followed by all other items of the same type. For example, if you're leveling up a fist weapon, all weapons are available to be combined, but other fist weapons will provide the bonus, and will be at the top of the list. Monsters, machines and armor will not be shown, and cannot be used to level up weapons.)

Combining an item or monster so that it will be above your keeper level will have greatly decreased gains, and will become very expensive, both in terms of the items and gold needed.

Boosters are special items that combine with a 100% bonus and zero gold cost. Importantly, they **do not** suffer as much from decreased gains for items above your keeper level, making them invaluable for maxing out epic items. They can be found in special campaigns, events, and the Guild Shop.

Equipment has a maximum level, which varies for each item. The only consistent rule is that tier 2 epics all have a max level of 75.

## Enchanting equipment

Enchanting equipment will increase the Attack and Defense stats of item (even if one of the stats was previously 0). Unlike combining, enchanting only requires gold. The gold cost for enchanting is determined by keeper level and the item's rarity. An item can be enchanted up to 11 times.

The cost and bonus granted by enchanting are determined by two factors: the rarity of the item and your *keeper level* (not the equipment level, as many expect). The more rare the equipment, the higher the bonus. Similarly, the higher your keeper level (according to certain thresholds), the higher the bonus. Keeper level 51 represents the start of the highest enchantment tier. At level 51, an epic tier item costs 1,006,500 gold, in total, to enchant from 0 to +11.

Take note! The first time you enchant an item, you lock it into that keeper level bracket. Every subsequent enchantment will be based on that cost and value, and will provide the same bonus as the first time, regardless of increases to your keeper level! You cannot undo an enchantment, so make sure your first enchantment is at a keeper level you're okay with for the item's future. (In other words, you probably don't want to enchant epic gear unless you are at keeper level 51 or higher.)

## Types of equipment

### Weapons

* One Handed Slashing
* One Handed Hacking
* One Handed Stabbing
* Wand
* Two Handed Slashing
* Two Handed Hacking
* Two Handed Stabbing
* Staff
* Bow
* Fist

### Armor

* Cloth
* Leather
* Chain
* Plate