Gear

Gear is the core custom system of Ancient Ember. Each Pokémon in your party can equip two pieces of gear — one Accessory and one Armor — providing passive stat bonuses and battle effects.

Slots

Each Pokémon has both slots. Equipping gear uses a bag index reference — the gear itself stays in your Gear Bag (50 slots total).

Rarities

Trainer battles yield significantly higher rarity rolls. The weights are applied after the drop check passes.

Base Types & Set Bonuses

Each gear piece has a base type that determines its visual name and set membership. Equipping both the Accessory and Armor from the same set on one Pokémon grants a +20% damage bonus to that Pokémon’s matching-type moves.

Prefixes (Offensive / Mixed)

Gear can roll up to two prefixes (slots p1, p2). Value 0 = no prefix.

Suffixes (Defensive / Utility)

Gear can roll up to two suffixes (slots s1, s2). Value 0 = no suffix.

Quality

Every gear piece has a quality value from 0–15, applied as a percentage scalar to all stat bonuses:

stat_bonus = base_bonus × (85 + quality × 3) / 100

Starter gear has quality 5. Rolls from drops are random. Legendary gear always has quality 15.

Stat Bonus Magnitudes

Base percentages before quality scaling:

Gear Score

Each Pokémon gets a Gear Score (0–100) shown on its summary screen with a letter grade (S/A/B/C/D):

• Rarity contributes up to 40 points
• Quality contributes up to 30 points
• Affix count contributes up to 20 points
• Legendary bonus adds 10 points

The party’s average Gear Score appears in the EMBER stats panel.

Gear Bag

• Capacity: 50 slots
• When the bag is full, new drops are auto-scrapped into Shards
• Use SELECT in the Gear Bag to mass-scrap all Common-rarity gear
• The Loot Filter (R in EMBER menu) can auto-scrap below a minimum rarity

Drop Rates

See Drop Modifiers for all stacking multipliers.

After-Battle Feedback

After every battle win, a compact Battle Result Bar appears at the top of the screen and fades away automatically (press A to dismiss early). It surfaces gear-relevant information at a glance:

• Mercy counter — if you’ve gone many battles without a drop, the bar shows how close you are to a guaranteed drop
• Well Rested counter — if the buff is active, the bar shows how many boosted-drop battles remain
• Streak count — your current win streak and any bonus shards earned
• Milestone fanfare — on a milestone, the bar transforms into a special announcement instead of the normal summary

You never need to open a menu to see where you stand on drops.

Amber Archive

The Amber Archive is a passive record of your best gear finds. Every time you pick up a new piece of gear, the game silently checks whether it’s the highest-quality version of that base type you’ve ever found. If so, it’s logged.

After 10 or more battles without setting a new record, the EMBER menu quietly shows “Archive: N records” — a count of how many base types you’ve found your personal best for.

There are 8 base gear types (Accessory and Armor across the 4 elemental sets). A complete Archive of 8 means you’ve found a peak-quality piece of every type. There’s no reward for completion — just the satisfaction of knowing.

Echo of the Fallen

When all your Pokémon faint (whiteout), the game records the gear loadout of your strongest Pokémon at that moment. Up to 3 of these “Echo” records are stored.

In future wild encounters, there’s a 5% chance a ghostly encounter replaces the normal wild Pokémon. You’ll see the message:

“A familiar presence stirs…”

The Echo fights using the remembered gear, and defeating it always drops Rare or better gear. Echos are harder than normal wild encounters — they carry the power of that fallen moment — but the reward reflects it.

Echos accumulate over whiteouts. If all 3 slots are full, the oldest record is replaced.