Whiteout Survival is a survival strategy game themed on the context of a glacial apocalypse. Fight the winters by upgrading your Furnace and forging strong bonds with the rest of humanity. In Whiteout Survival, gear plays a crucial role in enhancing your heroes’ stats and overall performance. Properly equipping and upgrading gear can significantly impact your success in both PvE and PvP modes. This guide will provide a detailed breakdown of the different types of gear, how to obtain and upgrade them, and strategic tips for optimizing your heroes’ gear sets.

What is Hero Gear?

Much like any other RPG, players can summon and recruit strong heroes in Whiteout Survival. At first, it might seem that there’s no way to equip gear to them as that option unlocks when you raise your Furnace to level 15. Gear is an essential part of the game as it increases your hero’s combat power significantly. It provides your heroes with buffs for attack, defense, and health, as well as Command bonuses for troop health or lethality.

Hero Gear is Troop-specific. This means you can only equip Hero Gear that corresponds to your Heroes’ Troop Type. Sergey, for example, is an Infantry Hero, as indicated by the blue shield icon, and thus can only wear Hero Gear designed for Infantry Heroes, which is indicated by a shield icon on the gear. However, the game does this automatically and does not display Hero Gear for other Troop kinds when you equip the Gear. There’s not much to worry about there.

Gear comes in different rarities, denoted by the color surrounding them. They are as follows:

• Grey
• Green
• Blue
• Purple

Gold

Depending on the rarity, the amount of stats given to the Hero is decided. Grey is the lowest rarity of gear, and this is what the majority of players will be using at the start. Eventually, you will get access to the higher rarity gear as you progress in the exploration mode and participate in events. Keep in mind, Gold rarity gear is only available via the Arena store or by making in-game transactions.

Gear is further divided into 4 different types of pieces:

• Headgear – Headgear provides bonuses to your Heroes’ attack and health, as well as a Lethality Command enhancement for that Hero’s troop type.
• Gloves – Gloves provide your Heroes with Hero Defense and Health boosts, as well as a Health Command boost for their Troop type.
• Belts – Belts provide your Heroes with Hero Defense and Health bonuses, as well as a Health Command boost for their Troop type.
• Boots – Boots provide your Heroes with Hero Attack and Health boosts, as well as a Lethality Command enhancement for their Troop type.

Gear Enhancement

Gear, much like heroes, can also be enhanced to provide more potent effects and stats. Enhancing Hero Gear improves the buffs, both Hero and Command, for that particular piece of gear. To improve Hero Gear, you can utilize Enhancement XP Components, other Hero Gear, or a mix of the two. Keep in mind that Grey quality gear cannot be enhanced. Players will gain enhancement points when they upgrade their gear. Depending on the quality of the gear enhanced, these points will vary. Here’s a short breakdown:

Grey gear: 10 points

Green gear: 30 points

Blue gear: 60 points

Purple gear: 150 points

Equipping and enhancing gear is quite simple. Firstly, you need to check for any red dots on the hero screen next to any piece of gear. If there’s a red dot, it means either you have not equipped a piece of gear, or there’s a higher quality piece of gear available that can replace the existing one. If there’s a green arrow pointing upward on the gear piece, it means it can be enhanced. When you start upgrading your gear, you should see a progress bar. Keep upgrading till you see the gear jump to the next enhancement level.

Mastery Forging

Mastery Forging is another type of enhancement that is exclusively available for Gold-quality gear. To use this Enhancement, your Furnace must be upgraded to level 20 along with the piece of Gold Gear at Enhancement level 20. Mastery Forging adds an x% benefit to both Gear Strength and all other buffs offered by that piece of gear. When both prerequisites are completed, tapping on the piece of Gold Gear to Enhance it displays the Mastery Forging button alongside the standard Enhancement button.

Essence stones are the core currency used for increasing the mastery forgery level of gear. Once finished, you should be able to see a yellow text denoting the number of mastery forging levels of the gear. If you’re wondering where they are available, Arena Shop is your answer.

Exclusive Gear

As the name suggests, these special gear pieces are tied to only Gold rarity heroes. Exclusive Gear boosts your Hero’s power while also improving the Hero’s Attack, Defense, and Health. It also has Command bonuses for troop health and lethality. In addition, this Gear provides your Hero with two additional Exclusive Skills. Widgets are the currency required to enhance exclusive gear. At the time of writing, players can get Widgets only via the Mystery shop or by purchasing in-game packs.

Players can enjoy Whiteout Survival on their PC or Laptop with BlueStacks, complete with your keyboard and mouse.