The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Gear Engraving and Stat Locking Guide

In The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, optimize your equipment by locking desirable secondary attributes before rerolling enchantments and reserving gear engraving for fully leveled, high-rarity pieces. According to developer notes covering gear progression changes, these systems reduce reliance on pure random rolls by protecting valuable stats while you refine an item's remaining affixes.

How Enchantment Stat Locking and Rerolling Work

The updated enchantment system allows you to preserve specific substat lines on an item while rerolling unwanted secondary attributes. When you lock a stat, rerolling resets only the remaining open slots, drawing replacements from the pool of secondary affixes.

Because locking material costs increase significantly with each protected line, plan your rerolls around the scaling resource commitment:

Locking multiple lines at once demands high amounts of locking catalysts. For mid-tier progression gear, lock a single high-priority roll and accept usable secondary stats. Reserve multi-line locking for end-game equipment.

How the Gear Engraving System Functions

Engraving serves as a permanent stat expansion for your equipment rather than a temporary stat tweak. Applying an engraving increases the item's base stat ceiling, unlocking specialized attribute brackets beyond standard leveling limits.

• Stat Retention: Engraved items preserve their core enhancements when moved between different party members.
• Slot Scaling: Engraving bonuses amplify primary offensive or defensive multipliers connected to the hero's elemental role.
• Prerequisites: Items must reach maximum base enhancement before engraving unlocks.

Because engraving materials are scarce, hold these catalysts for high-grade purple and gold base items that already possess favorable innate attributes.

Hero Substat Priorities

To conserve locking catalysts, only lock substats that directly benefit the equipped hero's combat kit.

Offensive Damage Dealers

• Critical Hit Rate and Critical Damage: Prioritize over flat attack values to maximize damage scaling in dungeons and raids.
• Elemental Damage Amplification: Lock bonuses that match the hero's specific element (such as Fire or Earth) ahead of generic attack percentage increases.
• Penetration and Defense Ignore: Target these affixes to counter heavily armored bosses with high damage mitigation.

Tanks and Support Heroes

• Maximum Health Percentage: Essential for supports and defenders whose shields or healing scale with total HP.
• Damage Reduction and Armor: Primary choices for frontline tanks absorbing sustained pressure.
• Ultimate Skill Energy Gain: Accelerates skill rotations for continuous barrier uptime and crowd control.

Step-by-Step Gear Optimization Process

Use the following sequence to upgrade your equipment efficiently without exhausting crafting currencies:

1. Acquire Base Items: Farm high-rarity pieces that feature high initial baseline stats and at least one desirable innate attribute.
2. Reveal Substats: Level the item to its first stat milestone to expose its hidden secondary lines.
3. Evaluate the Roll: If the piece reveals only flat or unusable secondary stats, scrap or store it. Do not spend locking items to salvage low-value gear.
4. Lock Key Affixes: If the piece rolls a high-percentile critical or elemental attribute, lock the line before rerolling the remaining slots.
5. Reroll and Engrave: Once the open slots roll acceptable complementary stats, finish standard leveling and apply gear engraving to permanently lock in the higher stat ceiling.

Prioritize your main carry's weapon and offensive armor pieces before spending locking and engraving materials on your supporting roster.