Noob questions about gear

[Tax evasion]

Hey,

So, as stated in the title, I have a few "issues" with gear I hope you can resolve. I tried looking on the wiki, but it didn't quite answer my questions.

1. Regarding gear level, the maximum is 180. Now, we have 6 pieces of equipment : 3 armor, 3 weapon. If my calculation is correct, each piece should have 30 gear level. However, I'm currently rep 12 with centurion and the only gear I drop (and have been dropping since rep 9-10 iirc)is level 25 with those little "diamonds" on top ; two of them. But if I upgrade them, I only get one level per upgrade, and can do it twice (I think, I haven't upgraded anything yet), so it's a total of 27. On the wiki, it also shows "lvl 30 refined", should I look for those pieces ?
   How do I reach that 30 gear level per item ? It seems like black magic to me.
   EDIT : I just looted at level 25 hilt with 4 diamonds.
   
   
2. Regarding changing visuals ; I have a lot of star weapon pieces that I keep if I want to change visuals on a weapon. I noticed that, in the "change visualisation" menu, that there is my collection. However, it has come to a point where I have a LOT of different star pieces, taking up my inventory. Can I just scrap them and keep them in the visual menu, or do I have to physically keep them to apply the visual to another piece of equipment ?
   
   
3. Regarding the gear boosts, I read that you can only have so many combinations, with a max of 3 activated. However, I can only mix them up to get 2. How do you get 3 ? Is there a special way to do it (I read about non-epic / legendary perks, but I have no clue how that works).

I'm looking forward to your answers.

[Friedrich Bär]

1) rng at your rep or level your centurion rep higher so at a certain point you'll only drop lev28 4 diamonds gear.
2) you can scrap them since now they are stored in a database, which wasn't the case before.
3) https://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en-ca/news-community/164-336559/for-honor-marching-fire-perks-explained

[Tax evasion]

Thanks for the concise answer.
I missed that link where they explain the combination. Thanks !

[Robert Zerker]

1. Gear level is not important anymore (unless you have Marching Fire DLC and you play Arcade)

2. Scrap. Note that applying a visual from a lower-tier item cost extra salvage and steel. (Also, skins from events cost more steel to apply)

3.
Let's sort those perk :
A, B and C are common (grey)
D is rare (blue)
E is heroic (purple)
F is Epic (yellow)
G is legendary (blue-greenish)

To have 3 perks, it's possible to have this at Epic level of gear but only with the A+B+C combo
Otherwise, you must have legendary gear (blue-greenish, that drops after yellows)

Then you can have either

¤ any of the 3 from A, B, C, D
¤ 2 from A, B, C, D + only 1 from E, F, G

There are no other combos with 3 perks, afaik.


I would advise to play without upgrading gear at all before you reach legendary level for drops (arround rep 8 or 9 for the hero) because the advantages from perks are really minor and won't help that much really.