Equipment is important.
You know it, that guy knows it, and even the hopeless youngest son of Baron Ferguson next door knows it.
Gloves, pants, accessories, and clothes. Even underwear counts as equipment here.
And that makes sense. After all, clothes are the equipment you wear the longest.
Then.
So, what matters most when choosing equipment?
Equipment grade?
Materials?
The shopkeeper next door swears it's all about how the equipment feels in your hands, but you should be wary of crafters like that.
In my opinion, the most important thing is one.
Compatibility with the wearer.
The resonance and flow of mana.
No matter how top-grade the equipment is, if it doesn't fit the user, it's meaningless.
On the other hand, when the compatibility is just right, the synergy can boost the user's overall strength by several levels.
Even a single perfectly matched piece can make all the difference.
Some call this superstition.
I can understand why. After all, there's no way to measure compatibility.
So only a very few lucky ones get their hands on equipment that perfectly matches them.
That was a post on an online forum.
[✪] [Actually, we might be wearing equipment that doesn't match us at all lol]
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Honestly, equipment is all about stats.
Just go for the highest grade you can get.
Honestly, I wonder if the wrong equipment can actually do more harm than good.
The compatibility theory is superstition, but honestly you can't deny it, it's sus.
When the Sword Queen and Laevatein accidentally swapped equipment while clearing Floor 201, they didn't even notice, lol.
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-Anonymous: I think they just didn't notice because their body types are similar lol bang lololol
└Anonymous1: Real lololol
└Anonymous2: I'm only a Floor 7 newbie, but is there really no way to check compatibility? I'm seriously starting to doubt my equipment.
└Anonymous1: If you're a newbie, just raise your grade. Compatibility itself is superstition.
Not a single comment was wrong.
But what if there were a way to check compatibility?
What if you didn't have to buy a hundred pieces of high-grade equipment or rely on guesswork, trying them on one after another until you found the right fit?
"Take a look. This is the top-grade chest armor I personally received from the Royal Vault."
Its surface looked like molten lava frozen in place.
Mana radiated from it so intensely that even the naked eye could see it.
The problem is.
[Compatibility 3.1/100][★★★★★]
[Part: Top / Lava Pool Plate Armor]
[The user's innate flame mana is incompatible with the properties of the lava material. Prolonged use will cause mana backlash. Continued wear will inevitably inflict an internal injury debuff. Do you really intend to keep wearing this?]
"The rogues have been saying things as if they doubt my equipment lately. Ridiculous."
In short: 'Take that damn thing off already.'
My job was to break the news about their atrocious equipment compatibility as gently as possible.
Or craft them something new.
There was one surprising thing.
"Take it off."
"What?"
"When you wear that, your skin stings, right?"
"How did you know?!"
That, more than expected, the compatibility of top rankers' equipment is hopelessly messed up.
"Aren't you going home?"
"I absolutely won't go until you make me gloves and a necklace!"
They'd even pitch tents outside my workshop and refuse to leave until I crafted something for them.
"Go ahead and kill me. Do you think that'll make me leave?"
"If you don't leave, I'll go on strike."
"...Better watch yourself when you sleep. You might wake up in my bed."
"Crafters are not public property."
"Hmph, ridiculous."
That big shots with nothing to fear... carry out threats without hesitation.
I became the only equipment crafter around.
Or, more precisely, a blacksmith, tuner, enchanter, and...
Anyway, thanks to that, there's not a single quiet day.
I had no idea it would get this bad.
[Custom Crafting]
[Don't get too attached to your current equipment. I'll check how well it suits you.]
[Payment: 1kg of special mineral]
I shouldn't have advertised.