Affix transfer
Season 2 introduces new gear mechanics named Gear Refinement and Affix Transfer.
Speaking of Affix Transfer, starting from season 2 onward, players can transfer their affixes (or reroll them) from a Mythic or better gear onto another Mythic or better gear. This action will destroy the left side item immediately without leaving anything behind (not like when we dismantle them with the Cauldron).
The inherited item must be the same type as the parent item, which means you need a sword to inherit a sword, or a tome can only transfer to another tome, not boots.
Besides that, there will be no cost for doing an Affix transfer within a season. As long as you have enough gears, you can transfer as many times as you want. Do note that the Affixes will increase/decrease based on gear level. For example, in the picture above, you can see that the ATK stat increases from 2084 => 3577 because the gear level is now 162, not 130.
The problem starts rising when you try to retain stats from the previous season to the current one, aka cross-season. For example, if you have a god-tier Staff in Season 2, and you want to keep those affixes in Season 3, you will have to spend a new currency named Divinecraft Stones. This stone can be received by dismantling Mythic or better Gear/Shard.
The cost increases depend on how many lines you want to retain, as shown in the table below.
In order to transfer, you can click the shortcut button on a gear or go to Cinder Ridge and find Micaela (the blacksmith girl) to transfer.
Gear Refinement
Not like tradition MMORPG where we grind gears and throw them away when substats don’t match our preference, in SxS, you can farm a gear, reroll the affixes till you like and keep them forever (if you can afford it)
To refine a gear, it must be Mythic or better. You can refine them by clicking Enhance on the gear interface, then choosing the new tab Refine
The game will display 4 lines like this
Here you check the odd table for available lines and the value of each line by clicking the Affix Preview button. Clicking refind will reroll all non-locked lines to a new effect and value. Some affixes are unique, which means they can only show up 1 time per gear. For example, the Wind Shield effect below is one of the unique effects.
Locking a line won’t cost anything (yet, god damn Nikke), so does unlocking it. But with more lines locked, the cost to reroll will increase.
No line locked: 100 Stones per roll
1 line locked: 300
2 lines locked: 1200
3 lines locked: 3200
Gear effect, although it is a copy of a Technique, is not a Technique, therefore they won’t trigger any Technique-related effect. In exchange, gear effect will stack with Tech/Charm, for example, if you equip Wind Shield charm and have Wind Shield effect on gear, both shields will stack.
When multiple gears have the same Unique affix, for example, 2 gears have the Wind Shield effect above, only 1 shield will be applied; thus, do not aim to duplicate Unique affixes among your gears.
Some effects can only be rolled on certain types of gears, for example, the Wind Shield at the start of combat can only show up on Helm/Armor/Boots and not weapon or off-hand slot.
Unique effect will be marked with the Unique Tag.