Seven Knights Re:BIRTH: Gear Crafting and Restructuring Guide

In Seven Knights Re:BIRTH, use direct crafting to fill missing equipment slots across your roster, then use restructuring to recycle unwanted high-tier items into new gear with rerolled properties. Before interacting with the restructuring forge, immediately lock any gear pieces with valuable substats—such as Speed, Critical Hit Rate, or percentage-based defensive stats—to prevent accidental consumption.

Direct Crafting vs. Gear Restructuring

Direct crafting and restructuring solve different gear progression problems and draw from distinct resource pools.

Direct Crafting Priorities

Use direct crafting at the blacksmith forge when specific hero roles bottleneck your progression:

• Weapons: Craft physical or magic weapons when damage carries cannot beat raid or Castle Rush enrage timers.
• Armor: Craft chest and boot pieces when front-line tanks and supports collapse under area-of-effect or burst damage.
• Material Management: Save premium crafting materials until you reach the highest unlocked crafting tier. Spamming low-tier recipes depletes ore and gold that yield better baseline stats and set probabilities at higher brackets.

Selecting Gear for Restructuring

Restructuring functions as a recycling loop. It requires sacrificing a batch of designated items—typically matching-rank pieces—along with gold to produce a replacement item with randomized primary and secondary attributes.

What to Use as Fodder

Treat items with mismatched or flat attributes as restructuring fuel:

• Armor pieces that roll flat defense instead of percentage defense.
• Defensive set items that roll flat offensive secondary stats.
• Weapons that roll flat attack instead of percentage attack, Critical Hit Rate, or Critical Hit Damage.
• Duplicate high-tier drops that roll incompatible primary and secondary stat lines.

What to Keep

Retain pieces that feature critical set bonuses or scalable percentages, even if individual rolls appear low:

• High-Impact Sets: Keep items belonging to Speed, Critical Rate, Counterattack, and Life Steal sets. The set bonuses often outweigh a single imperfect substat.
• Percentage Scaling: Hold gear with percentage-based attack, defense, or HP values over flat stat values.
• Multi-Line Viability: If a piece has two or more desirable substat lines, keep and test it before considering it for fodder.

Substat Targets by Hero Role

Evaluate crafted and restructured results against the stat requirements of specific team roles:

• Damage Dealers (Physical and Magic DPS): Prioritize Attack Percentage, Critical Hit Rate, and Critical Hit Damage on weapons and accessories. In Arena play, prioritize Speed substats to secure turn initiative before enemy shields deploy.
• Tanks and Frontline Bruisers: Prioritize HP Percentage, Defense Percentage, and Block Rate. Retain pieces with crowd control resistance and damage reduction for Castle Rush and Advent Expedition content.
• Healers and Utility Supports: Target Speed and Cooldown Reduction to cycle buffs, cleanses, and heals. Pair these with percentage defense and HP to survive boss sweeps.

Enhancement Rules and Gold Management

Restructuring multiple items consecutively drains gold quickly, which can halt hero promotions, skill levels, and basic gear enhancements. Manage your forge sessions with the following progression rules:

1. Maintain a Gold Reserve: Set a minimum gold floor for daily needs, such as shop purchases and rank-ups, before spending gold on restructuring batches.
2. Restructure in Batches: Collect enough confirmed fodder to run planned restructures, rather than spending gold on single, piecemeal attempts.
3. Test at Breakpoints: Enhance promising restructured gear to +3 and +6 first. If those early rolls upgrade flat stats instead of desired percentage multipliers, stop spending enhancement stones and mark the piece as fodder for your next restructuring batch.