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Overview

The Gear System in Honor of Kings: World governs the equipment players wear on top of their Resonance combat style. Gear provides base stats, piece-level progression through upgrades, and set bonuses that activate at specific piece-count thresholds. The system has been verified from Chinese launch walkthroughs and the zh.game-walkthrough.com gear guide. Unlike many free-to-play ARPGs, Honor of Kings: World does not gate gear behind a weapon-banner gacha at launch: all gear is earned through gameplay. See Monetization for the full picture on what can and cannot be purchased.

Rarity Tiers

Gear uses a five-tier rarity system named after colors, matching the Chinese wiki conventions used by most MMOs.

Earlier wiki drafts described a "1 to 6 star" rarity scale borrowed from Chinese beta speculation. That scale does not match the launch build. The verified launch scale is the five-color scale above, from white to gold.

Equipment Slots

Players equip gear across five body slots. Each slot contributes to the player's total gear level (装等), which interacts with a global difficulty-scaling mechanic called gear-level suppression. Weapons occupy a separate slot and follow their own progression path. For weapon details, see Weapon Types.

Gear-Level Suppression (装等压制)

Honor of Kings: World uses a gear-level suppression mechanic where the gap between the player's total gear level and the enemy's gear level directly modifies damage dealt and damage taken. Higher gear level increases outgoing damage and reduces incoming damage; lower gear level does the opposite. This mechanic makes full-set gearing critically important for late-game dungeon content, because a single low-level slot drags down the player's effective combat rating.

Set Bonuses

Set bonuses are the primary reason endgame players farm specific dungeon drops. Each set has a cumulative "set level" that ticks up as players wear more set pieces. Different set tiers use different breakpoint rules.

At the endgame, full-set priority (套装优先) is the meta: a 20-level high-tier set outscales any combination of higher-rarity mixed-set pieces. The 20-level bonus is the strongest single effect a gear slot can contribute, so build optimization revolves around completing set-level breakpoints rather than maximizing individual piece rolls.

Gear Stats and Customization

Gear pieces roll a mix of offensive and defensive stats. Gem sockets and other customization affixes let players mix-and-match pieces from different sets when they are chasing specific breakpoints, though the set-level meta generally rewards committing to one set. Inscriptions (铭文) are a separate customization layer that lets players further shape their stat distribution, and they are obtainable without payment.

How Gear Drops

• Dream Realm dungeons are the primary endgame gear source. Stamina-gated and rotated weekly, Dream Realm runs are how active players pursue set completion.

• Boss encounters drop specific high-rarity pieces as part of main-story and side-story content. The Yunsheng (Divine Pattern Cloud Beast) and Crimson Divine Beast fights both reward named gear sets.

• Crafting lets players convert gathered materials into specific gear pieces, though the highest-rarity tiers usually require boss-drop components.

• Open-world exploration, wild-region elite kills, and quest chains round out the mid-tier gear pool.

No Weapon Gacha

Pre-launch speculation (including earlier drafts of this wiki) attributed a 90-pull character pity, an 80-pull weapon pity, and specific Genshin-style 5-star / 4-star drop rates to Honor of Kings: World. These numbers were copied from Genshin Impact's documentation and are not part of the S0 launch build. The launch monetization structure is cosmetic-only, and gear is entirely earned through gameplay. The only pity-style mechanic in the game is the Mythic outfit 天赏 (Heavenly Reward) banner, which applies only to cosmetics. See Gacha and Pity System for the full explanation.

Interaction with the Resonance System

Gear bonuses apply to whichever Resonance is currently active in combat. When players swap between their two equipped Resonances in real time, the gear stats travel with the character: the total gear level and all passive affixes remain in effect regardless of which Resonance is on the field. This means gear-building in Honor of Kings: World optimizes for the player character's overall combat rating, not for a specific hero, which simplifies build planning compared to character-specific gear in traditional gacha ARPGs.

Sources

• zh.game-walkthrough.com gear guide: https://zh.game-walkthrough.com/post/wzrysjzbxt.html

• 17173 monetization and progression: https://news.17173.com/content/04072026/103944012.shtml

• Tencent S0 portal: https://world.qq.com/

• Baidu Baike 王者荣耀世界: https://baike.baidu.com/item/王者荣耀世界/62078704