Gears

Gear can be equipped by trooper during encounters or missions.

Each gear has a specific slot (grunt gear, tactician gear, or power gear) and it will only fit in one slot. Different troopers have different slots available. Tactician and power gears will give strong bonuses in encounters. Grunt gears will provide bonuses in missions.

Gears can be either virtual or NFTs.

Virtual gears has four different types of rarity: common, rare, epic and legendary. Each rarity of gear has a different empire level requirement in order to be equipped.
Common: Required empire level 1
Rare: Required empire level 1
Epic: Required empire level 5
Legendary: Required empire level 10

Virtual gears can be upgraded by combining 10 of each same type and same rarity of gears with some ocuriums.

Example:
10 common armor plates + 100k ocuriums = 1 rare armor plate
10 rare armor plates + 2 million ocuriums = 1 epic armor plate
10 epic armor plates + 10 million ocuriums = 1 legendary armor plate

Many people are confusing about how many common gears are required to become 1 legendary virtual gear.

Example:
1 legedary armor plate = 10 epic armor plates
10 epic armor plates = 10 rare armor plates x 10 times = 100 rare armor plates
100 rare armor plates = 10 common armor plates x 100 times = 1000 common armor plates

In conclusion, 1000 common gears are required to become 1 legendary virtual gear.

be required to upgrade to 1 rare gear.  Likewise, 10 rare gears will be required to upgrade to 1 epic gear.  1000 of the same common gear will be required to get to 1 legendary gear.