D5 Equipment & Mythic
Complete data one click deeper: D5 Full Tables — All 30 Promotion Steps & Enhancement 0–100
Hexagons are the real level system
Section titled “Hexagons are the real level system”The hexagons under an item are the promotion track. Each whole hexagon has 6 sub-steps. The item’s displayed Lv. is just a readout of the hexagon count.
| Hexagons | Item Lv. | Max enhance | Weapon power | Helmet power | Armor power | Boots power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 | +5 | 362,766 | 366,790 | 365,516 | 369,540 |
| 2 | 60 | +10 | 462,330 | 466,575 | 467,830 | 472,075 |
| 3 | 65 | +15 | 561,838 | 566,305 | 570,088 | 574,555 |
| 4 | 70 | +20 | 661,402 | 666,120 | 672,402 | 677,120 |
| 5 | 75 | +25 | 760,911 | 765,880 | 774,661 | 779,630 |
Base stats move only on whole hexagons
Section titled “Base stats move only on whole hexagons”Weapon Hero ATK: 5,493 → 5,838 → 6,183 → 6,528 → 6,873 (+345 flat per hexagon)
Weapon Hero ATK%: 5.3 → 5.6 → 5.9 → 6.2 → 6.5 (+0.3 per hexagon)
Sub-steps do not change base stats. They move promotion stats only.
⭐ The single most important rule
Section titled “⭐ The single most important rule”How this was proven: a live Lv.65 SMG showed 620,358 power and a Lv.65 helmet showed 624,825. Subtract the hexagon-3 base from each and both give exactly +58,520 — five sub-steps. Both also showed promotion stats of +5,679 Hero ATK and +12.3% Troop DMG, which land precisely on hexagon step 3 5/6 in the full table.
Promotion cost per piece
Section titled “Promotion cost per piece”| Milestone | Cumulative Zents | Cumulative Power Cores | Cumulative Orange Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hexagon 1 | 6M | 1,100 | 0 |
| Hexagon 2 | 16M | 3,900 | 0 |
| Hexagon 3 | 28M | 8,400 | 0 |
| Hexagon 4 | 44M | 14,900 | 1 |
| Hexagon 5 | 68M | 25,400 | 10 |
Inside hexagon 5 — the gold-gated steps
Section titled “Inside hexagon 5 — the gold-gated steps”The last hexagon’s cost isn’t evenly spread. The step-by-step track (cross-checked against Last Z Helper, whose per-step numbers land exactly on our live-verified cumulative totals):
| Step | Zents | Power Cores | Orange Equipment | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| → 4 (completes hexagon 4) | — | 1,500 | 1 | the only gold cost below hexagon 5 |
| → 4 1/6 | 3M | 1,500 | 1 | |
| → 4 2/6 | 3M | 1,500 | 1 | |
| → 4 3/6 | 3M | 1,500 | 2 | the gear cost starts climbing |
| → 4 4/6 | 3M | 1,500 | 1 | |
| → 4 5/6 | 3M | 1,500 | 1 | |
| → 5 (completes) | 9M | 3,000 | 3 | the single most expensive step in the game |
The Zent column closes exactly: five 3M sub-steps plus the 9M finisher = 24M, which is precisely the hexagon 4 → 5 jump in the cumulative table above (68M − 44M).
The stat slices are just as lopsided. Every step moves the promotion stats — but not evenly. At Lv.75, a normal sub-step (read off step 4 5/6) pays +174 ATK / +0.2% Troop DMG on weapon and helmet (+174 DEF / +0.2% Troop HP on armor and boots), while the completing step pays +434 / +0.7% (defense: +434 / +0.5%) — roughly 2.5× the flat stat and 2.5–3.5× the percentage in one step. Full-track totals land on 7,417 / 15% for the offense pair (matches our live gear ✅) and 7,417 / 10% for the defense pair. Note the asymmetry with power: power ticks a flat 11,704 per sub-step, but the stats don’t — so the completion step carries the biggest stat slice and the ~41,000-power spike and the base-stat bump. One more reason never to park at 5/6.
The gear-rationing rule that falls out of this: the front of hexagon 5 (the first two steps) costs 1 Orange Equipment per step; the back half costs 7 gear plus the 9M-Zent finisher for its four steps. So when Orange Equipment is your bottleneck — it always is — go cheap-wide, then expensive-narrow: take your pieces through the 1-gear steps broadly, but spend the back half of the hexagon finishing one piece at a time, offense first. Weapon and helmet are the offense pair (identical ATK + Troop DMG promotions), armor and boots the defense pair — and 15% Troop DMG vs 10% Troop HP over the track makes the offense pieces the better finish for attackers (see Where Your Battle Stats Come From for the HP-vs-DMG math). The completion step remains the best power-per-core buy in the hexagon (~41,000 power for 3,000 cores), so “finish the hexagon or don’t start its back half” still holds.
A formation is 5 pieces, not 4
Section titled “A formation is 5 pieces, not 4”Gearing one full formation costs 340M Zents / 127,000 Power Cores / 50 Orange Equipment — exactly 5× the single-piece cost, even though only four slot types appear in the tables above.
The 5th slot is the exclusive weapon: a hero-specific slot that every combat S hero has — the faction leader, defense and HP heroes, 9 in Season 2. Economy S heroes and A/B heroes have none. Check it on the hero screen (top-right of the hero portrait).
What’s known about exclusive weapons ✅ (holders and stat kits verified live; acquisition channels community-reported):
- Verified holders: all 9 combat S heroes — Scarlett, Nyx, Alma · Oliveira, Selena, Bella · Evelyn, Sakura, Harleyna. Two stat kits at max: the leader kit (+9,077 hero ATK / +5,119 DEF — Scarlett, Oliveira, Evelyn) and the combat kit (+7,166 / +7,166 — the other six). DEF values were rebalanced in a September 2026 patch. Full kit table on the Heroes page.
- Later-season heroes reported to get one too: Yu Chan, Queenie, Amber (Season 4) — community-reported. Evelyn’s weapon is called Starlight Bazooka.
- The weapon must be unlocked first (typically via a launch bundle or event) before any fragments can be applied.
- Fragment sources: VIP rewards, daily missions, seasonal events, season-end alliance ranking rewards, hero battle passes, the Glory Shop (framework fragments), the Time-Limited Shop (universal fragments, VIP 10+), and event shops. Upgrading to Lv.5 takes 575 fragments total (25 / 50 / 100 / 150 / 250 per level).
- Star levels on the weapon add further bonuses on top of the level track.
Four formations: 1,360M Zents / 508,000 Power Cores / 200 Orange Equipment.
Enhancement (the Mythic track)
Section titled “Enhancement (the Mythic track)”| Enhance level | Alloy spent | Weapon Hero ATK | Hero ATK% |
|---|---|---|---|
| +15 (hexagon 3 cap) | 120,000 | 2,733 | 2.90 |
| +20 (hexagon 4 cap) | 200,000 | 3,078 | 3.20 |
| +25 (hexagon 5 cap) | 315,000 | 3,423 | 3.50 |
| +50 | 2,005,000 | 5,148 | 5.00 |
| +75 | 6,655,000 | 6,873 | 6.50 |
| +100 | 15,805,000 | 8,598 | 10.00 |
Alloy cost per level escalates hard: 5,000/level early, 300,000/level in the 76–89 band, 450,000/level for 91–100. Levels 91–100 alone cost 4.5M Alloy — 28% of the entire track for ten levels.
Mythic upgrade
Section titled “Mythic upgrade”Orange D5 gear upgrades into Mythic quality using Forging Stone and Pulse Module. Since D5 caps at +25 enhance, the 0–100 enhancement table above belongs to the Mythic track.
| Level | Forging Stone | Pulse Module | Electricity | Basic stat boost | Max enhance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | — | 10M | +10% | 0 |
| 2 | 50 | — | 30M | +30% | 0 |
| 3 | 100 | — | 50M | +50% | 0 |
| 4 | 200 | — | 70M | +75% | 0 |
| 5 | 300 | — | 100M | +100% | 0 |
| Mythic | 300 | 50 | 200M | +200% | +25 |
| Total | 980 | 50 | 460M | — | — |
Where the materials come from (community-reported)
Section titled “Where the materials come from (community-reported)”- Forging Stone: orange-tier bounty mission chests are the main free source — run 3–4 orange bounties daily. Also event milestone rewards and limited-time Mythic events.
- Pulse Module: the bottleneck. Currently only from paid bundles in monthly event rotations and milestone rewards during major events — far scarcer than Forging Stones. Spread Mythic upgrades across your formation rather than maxing one piece.
- Not sources: the Glory, Merit, VIP and Camilla’s shops don’t stock either material, and Alliance Duel gives Enhancement Alloy only — no Mythic materials.
- Availability: Mythic transformation arrives with Season 4 content — treat this whole section as a preview until it reaches your server.
- Community cost estimates put a fully paid Mythic piece at several hundred to ~$1,200 in spend; a free-to-play piece is a many-month project gated by Pulse Modules. Exact income rates are not yet documented — they’ll be added here once verified.
One open question
Section titled “One open question”Every live-checked gear piece matched the unenhanced power values exactly, which strongly suggests enhancement is tracked separately from the displayed Equipment Power number. Treat that as likely-but-unconfirmed for now.
The complete per-step and per-level data — all 30 promotion steps for all four slots, and enhancement 0–100 — is on the full-tables page below.