I've been equipping items to the Party tab. Doesn't seem to do anything at all. So far it looks like it's just extra inventory space. What is this actually for?

What it _seems_ to be doing, is that when that character is playing as a bot (in another character's party) that's the stuff it wears. I put some items that give a chance for 20% speed boost in the warrior's "party" boxes. Now when I'm playing as the ranger I'm getting that occasional 20% boost.

But why would it do that when it could just use the regular equipment from the "bot" character... Plus, the numbers just don't add up when I check the "?" next to Quest Speed. The "Party Gear Bonuses" make no sense. I just started so I have two characters at 60 now. It doesn't matter who is active and who is the bot, it never adds up properly even if I count regular equipment as well.

> *Originally posted by **[darxide23](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13223730)**:* > But why would it do that when it could just use the regular equipment from the "bot" character... > > Plus, the numbers just don't add up when I check the "?" next to Quest Speed. The "Party Gear Bonuses" make no sense. I just started so I have two characters at 60 now. It doesn't matter who is active and who is the bot, it never adds up properly even if I count regular equipment as well. I believe your bot characters must meet the level requirement of their party gear to gain the stats for the party (unlike the raid equipment which counts the gear score regardless of that character's current level). This is why I attempted to get party gear that was level 15 or below (the lower the better), so that I could quickly level them up to their highest gear slot requirement before starting to level my first character to 60 on a new reset. It's actually a greatly welcomed addition to the game. Before, you'd have to try hard not to accidently auction or vend your high stat low level items because the character would auto replace them with better gear while leveling after a reset. With the addition of party gear, your high stat items are essentially safe and you never have to go through the pain of swapping them in/out. Ideally, you load up all 4 (or 5 if you unlocked the 6th monitor) party members with party gear that is: -Level 1, or the lowest you can get -Has auto open chest -Has 5% Gold find -Has 5% xp find You probably want to sub out a few Gold or Xp % lines for 20% speed boost. Which will be active almost indefinitely depending on your current quest speed. So with, let's say 5 bots with full 5xp/5gold party gear, all at level 1, you'd basically have perma 125%xp and gold starting off each reset which is huge early on! Note that party gear dropped from Raid bosses can sometimes have better stats than mentioned above, but the nice feature is that they don't have any level requirement by default.

> *Originally posted by **[Brethj](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13223831)**:* > > I believe your bot characters must meet the level requirement of their party gear to gain the stats for the party (unlike the raid equipment which counts the gear score regardless of that character's current level). This is why I attempted to get party gear that was level 15 or below (the lower the better), so that I could quickly level them up to their highest gear slot requirement before starting to level my first character to 60 on a new reset. I don't understand any of what you said. Bot characters should all be level 60. You can't even unlock another character until you get 60, so you can't have more than one character under level 60 at any given point and having that character as a bot is pointless, right? And I have found maybe one purple item that was below level 15. I just can't make heads or tails of what you're saying. And most of everything else you said makes zero sense as well. I have 3 characters at 60 now. I'm not anywhere near the stuff you're talking about in the rest of the reply.

Most of what Brethj is talking about is for later in the game (raid requires 5 characters and lower level bots are possilbe after prestige) The party gear bonuses in the ? box refer to the bonuses provided by purple gear in your bot members party equipment. The strength of the gear does not matter, only the purple gear bonuses.

> *Originally posted by **[IHOPancake14](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13224452)**:* > The party gear bonuses in the ? box refer to the bonuses provided by purple gear in your bot members party equipment. The strength of the gear does not matter, only the purple gear bonuses. I know this. I didn't know that the level mattered. I thought if the bot could wear it then it would always be active, but now that I know that the level of the current character (the non-bot) is what matters, what I'm saying that the Party Gear bonuses don't add up.

I've been playing for about a day, with my second character at 39. Here's what I understand (someone please correct what's wrong): Once you get all 10 characters unlocked (which means 9 of them will be level 60), perhaps once you get the tenth character to 60, you'll be able to Prestige, which sets all 10 characters back to level 1 (but still Unlocked), and then you can pick whichever one you want to level, going back and forth as you choose. This is a good bit farther in the game than I am or you were (two months later, you are surely much advanced.) Gear in the Party slot of your Active character does not have an effect, aside from being extra storage space. When a character with Party gear is joined into your Active character's group (like an NPC, but higher skilled and doesn't go offline): the Party gear's strength ratings do not matter; only the Party gear's bonuses (like chance for speed boost, +% gold, +% exp, etc.) will be applied -- *but ONLY IF* the gear's level is lower than that non-Active character's level. In your first run through, as you're unlocking characters, the non-active ones will be level 60, but later after you Prestige, they will all be level 1 until you go around and individually level them up. Thus, high-bonus-but-low-level purple gear is ideal, as you won't have to do as much levelling post-Prestige to get the Party effect active again.

Yes Delthin, that is how I understand it as well, I also started a couple of days ago and haven't prestiged yet. Now the question is, how do you get low level purple gear with high bonuses? Is it just farming the level 1-4 area with a whole bunch of priests? Are there any upgrades that give you more bonuses on purple gear?

I've gotten some good ones post-prestige through crafting. There're upgrades that give the possibility of rare/epic level crafted items, and that includes the level one "junk" gear. Power level that stuff and you may be surprised what you end up with.

> *Originally posted by **[Navvakkaji](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13279572)**:* > I've gotten some good ones post-prestige through crafting. There're upgrades that give the possibility of rare/epic level crafted items, and that includes the level one "junk" gear. Power level that stuff and you may be surprised what you end up with. Hmm interesting, I have the upgrade that lets me craft the Blue gear but none of it has any bonuses, I'm hoping that changes when I can craft Purple gear. Still though, that only covers the Helmet/Chest/Weapon slots, there's still the Ring/Trinket slots that can't be crafted, are we left to farming the level 1-4 area for those ones?

I haven't had to actively farm for them, but yeah, farming's going to be the way to go if you really want good stuff early. Other upgrades increase the drop odds of Epic gear, so just in leveling my alts I've gotten decent Epic gear for the Party tabl

Eh I went back to the 1-4 area with a level 60 character and was still getting level 60 gear, so it was more difficult than I thought to get very low level epic gear (level 1) through farming. However, I unlocked raids and found out you can get legendary party gear which has no level requirement, so I guess raiding is the way to go to get the best gear, although all the legendary gear I'm finding tends to only have 1 stat on them, rather than 3 that I get with epic gear. EDIT: I also found that the epic gear that you get from raids has the same level requirement as your current active character. So if you prestige and do raids on a level 1 character, all of the gear that you get from the raids will be able to be used as party gear by level 1 characters.

> *Originally posted by **[darxide23](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13223730)**:* > Plus, the numbers just don't add up when I check the "?" next to Quest Speed. The "Party Gear Bonuses" make no sense. I just started so I have two characters at 60 now. It doesn't matter who is active and who is the bot, it never adds up properly even if I count regular equipment as well. Each character has own party tab. Items, that you equip on first character in that tab while playing as him, will count while you are playing as second character and have first character in your party.

Another way to find low level epic gear is to craft Ghost Goggles, start a new character and go to the starting zone. Ghost chests contain epic items, and they will be the level of the active character.

> *Originally posted by **[Thrope](/forums/1015700/topics/1856663?page=1#13315964)**:* > Another way to find low level epic gear is to craft Ghost Goggles, start a new character and go to the starting zone. Ghost chests contain epic items, and they will be the level of the active character. Came here to say that, Thrope. Ghost Goggles are the way to go for farming low level epic gear, though it does require active gameplay for the most part, as you need to click on the chests when they appear. I also strongly recommend saving up and spending 2000 raid ingots on the Gear Manager, as that allows you to see all of your characters' party and raid gear plus your bank on the same screen, so you can easily keep track of what your other characters have equipped, and go swap stuff easily without having to log out.