Active, Party and Raid gear explained

An explanation of the Active, Party and Raid gear slots

Gear Areas

[antiphon]

@Sigsig No, the party bonuses don't work until that character meets the party gears' requirement. If you want to cheese it a bit, you can craft level 1 party gear over and over (then farm materials on another character) until you get good bonuses so that you always start with them after a prestige.

[antiphon]

@Voland The best way to swap items out of your active gear is to craft temporary replacement gear, then swap the active item for the replacement.

[antiphon]

@Amonrama No - if you put that piece of gear into the party slot for that character, then invited that character as a party member, that's when you would get that bonus. You are getting it actively because it is your active character and it is in your active gear set.

[antiphon]

After progressing through the game more and doing raids - I do understand why raid gear is different than active gear - if you prestiged, you would effectively be ruining your ability to do any raids until you re-leveled and re-geared those characters again.

That said, maybe the instructions in game could be a bit more clear.

[amonrama]

I have an item in my 5th Active gear slot that gives +4% gold find. Looking at the stats table, under Gold Rewards - Party Gear Bonuses, it says 4%. If I put the same item in the Party gear slot and look under at the stats table it says 0%. Is this backwards?

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"When Raiding, raiding gear is used if it exists, and defaults back to Active if a raiding slot is empty."

My 5 logged in characters have 2700+ active gear score, and no raid gear. Based on this guide, my active gear should count as raid gear, but in my barracks it says "Raid gear score: 0" under all 5 characters.

So, do I need to equip 2700+ in raid gear anyway? Then when would the above quote ever apply?

[Voland]

juko, antiphon, agreee - would be nice to have "mod" so party gear = active gear

tbh biggest problem with this system that you CANT move active gear to party gear easily, since you cant unquip active gear, unlike party one

[Voland]

Sigsig, good question since, gear have lvl restrictions to be equipped in active slot, but in party slot its just "red"

[Sigsig]

Question : Is the main character level relevant when using party gear? Like will I get the bonuses if I shove all my Lv60 Purple gear to my next Lv1 toon's party gear slot?

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Thanks antiphon. It really is needlessly confusing.

It doesn't even make the game harder or make you farm more, because you still only need 1 set of gear per character (ignoring raid gear, just talking about active/party). It's just an added chore to move the gear between active and party gear slots when you change active characters. You can simply fill the active slots of your party characters with junk crafted gear.