Hero Enhancement

Hero Enhancement
In Age II, players can use their workshops to create gear for their heroes to wear which will increase their power. There are several different types of gear that can be researched:
 * Weaponry
 * Mount Training
 * Charm
 * Head Gearing
 * Chest Gearing
 * Gauntlets
 * Legs Gearing
 * Shield Construction
 * Necklace Fabrication
 * Ring Crafting
 * Shoulder Gearing
 * Back Gearing
 * Belts
 * Foot Gear

Levels
Each item can be upgrade up to 10 levels. It is required to have a workshop of the level that the player wants to research an item to. This means that a player has to own a level 10 workshop in order to have level 10 Gear. Every level of gear gives the hero a bonus in either Politics, Attack, or Intelligence, depending what the player has set the gear to. Researching comes with a cooldown before the next level of a gear can be researched. See the separate page of the Gear for cooldown times. Level 10 seems to always have a cooldown of 819h and 12min. To upgrade gear, the player needs some items:
 * Iron Ore
 * Crude Gemstone
 * Wood
 * Fabric
 * Thoroughbred
 * (Level 3 and higher) The lost Armor Script (can be obtained from farming, wheel, and shop)

These items can be obtained from the wheel, NPC farming, or chests. Chests can be bought from the shop for cents. There are several chests, and each chest includes only one kind of item: See the links for more information on each chest. From level 3 and higher, additionally to the player also needs a Lost armor script to start the research.
 * Iron Ore Box (Iron Ore)
 * Crude Gemstone Box (Crude Gemstone)
 * Wood Box (Wood)
 * Fabric Box (Fabric)
 * Riding Reing (Thoroughbred)

Star Levels
Additionally to the Levels, a player can also add stars to the gear. It is not recommended to research stars until all gear is level 10, as every gear upgrade decreases the current star level by 1, while increasing the total possible star level by 1. A player can have up to 15 stars on each item. Adding stars costs Delicate Gems or Flawless Gems. Flawless Gems hjave higher success rates, as the procedure of adding stars is a game of luck. If an upgrade fails, which it does very frequently, all the stars for this gear are erased and the player has to start over with the stars on this gear. It requires 1000s of gems to get a level 15 star set, as it is called when a player has maxed out his/her gear and added all stars. Gems can easily be acquired from farming, as they drop very often. If a player farms NPCs frequently, they are easily going to get enough gems, although it takes a while to upgrade everything.