Lost Sword Gear Stats and Substat Rerolling Guide

To optimize equipment in Lost Sword, prioritize percentage-based offensive attributes for your damage dealers, stack survivability on frontline heroes, and lock only high-tier matching substats before rerolling. Total combat power (CP) is less important than having the correct stat distribution for each hero's role.

Stat Priorities by Role

Equipping high-rarity items with mismatched secondary attributes reduces your team's effectiveness against late-game bosses and campaign waves. As hero base levels rise, percentage-based bonuses significantly outperform flat numerical values.

Damage Dealers (DPS)

Offensive carries require critical scaling and percentage damage to clear stages before incoming damage overwhelms the team:

• Critical Hit Rate: The initial requirement for carries, ensuring consistent activation of critical damage multipliers and passive kit effects.
• Critical Damage: The highest-value multiplier for endgame damage output once your critical hit consistency is stable.
• Attack %: Scales higher than flat Attack once hero base levels increase into the mid and high tiers.
• Boss Damage and Skill Damage: Strong secondary substats that provide multiplicative bonuses against single-target dungeon encounters.

Tanks and Supports

Frontline and support units require pure defensive buffering rather than offensive rolls:

• Damage Reduction and Defense %: Core attributes for frontline tanks absorbing direct boss strikes and area-of-effect cleaves.
• HP %: Expands total health pools to survive heavy burst damage.
• Effect Resistance and Utility Stats: Protects supports from crowd control so their healing, shields, and buffs activate without interruption.

How to Reroll and Lock Substats

Rerolling replaces unwanted substats with random attributes from the general gear pool. However, locking a substat line to preserve it increases the currency and gold cost of all subsequent rerolls on that item.

To manage resource scaling, apply these reroll rules:

1. Never lock an unwanted stat type. Even a maximum-tier roll on flat defense or flat HP is dead weight on a dedicated DPS weapon.
2. Only lock high-tier target stats. Verify that the numerical percentage is worth preserving. Locking a low-tier roll forces you to pay inflated reroll costs on remaining slots while keeping a suboptimal stat.
3. Settle on partial perfection during progression. Securing two or three priority lines on weapons and accessories provides sufficient power for mid-game progression. Save full four-line optimization attempts for permanent, endgame equipment.

Hero Specialty Allocation

The Specialty system provides permanent, hero-specific attribute gains and perk nodes. Allocate points to reinforce the unit's primary combat assignment:

• For DPS Heroes: Route directly toward branches granting Critical Hit Chance, Critical Damage, and Attack multipliers. Skip defensive nodes so your primary carry reaches major offensive capstones earlier.
• For Tanks: Route paths toward Max HP and Damage Reduction nodes to keep the frontline intact during boss enrage phases.
• For Supports: Invest in nodes that boost survivability and skill uptime, ensuring your buffers and healers survive room-wide attacks.

If a Specialty tree allows stat rerolls or node customization, mirror the hero's gear setup: offensive attributes for DPS units and defensive buffers for tanks and supports.

Enhancement Order

Gold and upgrade materials are limited, so enhance equipment slots based on role impact rather than upgrading an entire team evenly:

1. Weapons and Offensive Accessories (Carries): Provide the core Attack values and offensive substats required to meet stage damage checks. Maximize your primary carry's weapon before investing heavily in armor.
2. Chest Pieces and Helmets (Tanks): Provide base physical and magical survivability to keep frontliners alive through sustained boss hits.
3. Support Equipment: Upgrade support gear only to the threshold required for them to survive unavoidable area attacks.

Avoid heavily upgrading low-tier transitional gear that will be replaced quickly. When higher-tier equipment drops, dismantle obsolete pieces to recover upgrade materials and maintain enhancement momentum.