Gear Optimizer

Start by choosing what you want to equip.

Battle General searches optimize gear for a general you use in combat.

Subordinate City Mayor searches optimize debuff gear for a Mayor.

The controls that follow adjust depending on which type of search you choose.

For Battle General searches, choose what you mean by the “best” loadout.

When using My Gear Inventory, Gear Optimizer can also consider new Civilization gear.

You can choose the maximum number of new Conquest and Supreme pieces you are willing to craft.

These limits apply across Battle General and Mayor searches, including both single and multiple search modes.

Newly crafted Civilization pieces are calculated at 5★.

This lets you tell Gear Optimizer how much new Civilization gear you are actually willing to make rather than having it recommend an unrealistic number of new pieces.

For a One General search, you can choose how many recommended loadouts you want to see, up to five.

Showing several loadouts can be useful when the mathematically strongest result uses a piece you would rather keep somewhere else. The additional recommendations let you see other high-performing options without running another search.

Multiple Generals returns one recommended loadout for each general.

Mayor searches return one recommended loadout for each Mayor being optimized.

For a Battle General search, choose:

• the Troop Class you are equipping;
• the Role in which the general will be used; and
• the Opponent Class you expect to fight.

These selections determine the battle conditions Gear Optimizer uses when comparing loadouts.

Gear that performs best for one troop class, role, or opponent may not be the strongest choice under different conditions.

For a Mayor search, choose the enemy troop debuffs that matter most to you and assign each one a priority:

• Highest — considered first
• Important — considered second
• Secondary — considered third

Use these levels to tell Gear Optimizer which debuffs matter most to your build. Debuffs assigned to the same level are treated as having the same priority.

For One Mayor, Gear Optimizer uses those priorities to find the strongest available loadout for that Mayor. A Certified result means it has verified the strongest available loadout under those selections.

For Multiple Mayors, your priority levels guide how gear is distributed across the entire group.

Priority concentrates on the debuffs you selected, following the Highest → Important → Secondary order.

Balanced begins with those same priorities, then also considers the remaining debuffs when distributing gear across the Mayors to create a more complete overall set of loadouts.

Because Multiple Mayors is optimizing a shared gear inventory across the group, an individual Mayor may not receive the same Certified loadout that Mayor would receive in a One Mayor search.

You do not need to enter regular crafted gear into My Gear Inventory.

Gear Optimizer automatically includes eligible gear from these sets:

• Dragon
• Ares
• Achaemenidae
• Imperial
• Parthian
• Apollo
• Asura

This gear is treated as unlimited because multiple copies of the same piece can be crafted.

Civilization gear is different. Civilization pieces are tracked individually because Gear Optimizer needs to know which pieces you own, their star levels, which ones are Equipped, and how many new pieces you are willing to craft.

Gear Optimizer compares the complete six-piece loadout, not just the largest individual buff numbers.

The calculations include gear buffs, relevant debuffs, gear set bonuses, and refines.

This is important because gear normally thought of as “debuff gear” can sometimes make a stronger offensive march.

The piece that looks strongest by itself is not always part of the strongest complete loadout.

You do not need to enter the refines currently on your gear.

For comparison purposes, Gear Optimizer evaluates each piece as if it were fully percentage-refined for the troop class being searched. This keeps the comparison on a level playing field, even though real player refines will vary and may not be fully maxed.

• Weapon and Ring: ATK
• Helmet and Legs: HP
• Armor and Boots: DEF

Four maximum percentage refine lines are used on each piece based on the refine limit for that type of gear.

Flat refines are not included.

This lets Gear Optimizer compare the potential of the gear itself rather than favoring a piece simply because it happens to have better refines today.

For all Siege vs Siege searches, Gear Optimizer assumes the opposing siege march has a 15% Siege Machine Range bonus from gear. Siege loadouts are evaluated against that same assumption when comparing gear combinations.

When a result method shows Certified, Gear Optimizer has verified that no eligible gear combination scores better under that method and its search settings.

The optimizer may safely eliminate combinations that cannot affect the answer, but it does not sacrifice exactness by simply sampling the search space.

Certified always describes the specific result method carrying the badge.

A One Mayor result can also be Certified as the strongest available loadout under its selected debuff priorities.

Multiple Mayor results are group-optimization recommendations and are not individually Certified in the same way.