what does "party" gear do?

[Zydrate]

I really wish there was a 'confirm' on the prestige button. I hit 60 on everyone and was working on gearing the raid slots and occasionally the party stuff as well. I understand you need raid gear in order to raid but I do not understand what the "party" tab does. It talks about buffing inactive party members? If they're inactive then what's the point?

[|0FF| Drake]

I just level up to 60 my first character and I was just wondering the same...

[Zydrate]

Originally posted by |0FF| Drake:

I just level up to 60 my first character and I was just wondering the same...

93 hours on steam + probably 50 back in the Kongregate days and I never knew what to do with it either.

[Telneron]

Party gear is for when your character is in the party being boxed..

Active gear is when you are actively leveling
Party gear is for when they are i the party
raid gear is for raids

You get group and raid gear from raids / taco's

[HNATE]

If you don't have party gear, craft epic weapon and body lv1 and head lv8 for all the characters you use in your party. Like that, they give bonuses at th beginning and you just have to level up these characters to level 8 after a prestige to have all their bonuses from party gear.

If you have lv60 gear in your party stuff and the character isn't lv60, you won't have the bonuses.

[MrMaliciousxTc]

Party gear adds to the group stats, and are stack-able. Gold, speed, chances,...ad to the party you currently have logged in. I have 5 in my party as I lvl the characters to 60. you can buy mods and market items to increase your party as well as other benefits. I am lvling 10 chars atm to full 60 full skill then prestige.

[beast76123]

Party gear helps when a character is in the leveling group, but is not the character who you are actively leveling up. You want to put it on the characters that you use most often while leveling characters after prestiging.

For instance, I always level my warlock first so every character afterwards gets his Exp buff. Since my warlock will be in nearly every leveling group, I give him Party gear so he can buff the group while being an inactive character (boxing him on one of the other screens, not the active character on the main/center screen). Then I give my paladin, priest, rogue, and mage party gear, since I like using those five to support whoever is being leveled.

Think of it like this:

When you are in a raid, the game will look at your Raid gear.

When you are the ACTIVE character, being leveled, the dude on the main screen, the game will look at your Active gear tab.

When a character is being boxed on screens 2-5 or 6 , the game looks at the Party gear tab and only the Party gear tab, the Active and Raid don't matter. If you don't use a character for assisting others level after prestiging, there is no need to put Party gear on them. It does nothing in raids or while the active character, only when the character is being boxed to level another character.