Orange Equipment

Biodata

Defining Traits

Orange Equipment is the highest equipment quality normally accessible to players; it is valued for powerful, specialized functions rather than merely raw attributes. Its quality varies substantially depending on each item's practical effects. 1594 2040

• Orange Equipment has no inherent negative effects, unlike Purple Equipment. 429
• It is described as an indestructible decoration that must be soul-bound before it can be used. Soul Dissolving Water is required to undo a binding. 429
• Equipment recognition may require the user to understand and express the item's intended meaning rather than simply force a binding. 1270
• Orange Equipment can consume energy during clashes with other Orange Equipment; depleted items require maintenance or recharging, or their effects may weaken. 1287
• Orange Equipment can be damaged by sustained attacks, though it normally recovers quickly if not destroyed in a single strike. 1904

Acquisition and Creation

Common Methods

• Battlefield acquisition — Orange Equipment can be recovered from defeated players, though its attributes may be unsuitable for the victor's class or build. 1863
• Purple-equipment upgrading — Technology exists to upgrade Purple Equipment to Orange quality; around Level 30, players commonly begin upgrading their most-used Purple items. 738
• Blacksmith forging — Authorized armories and blacksmith shops can produce Orange Equipment. Earlier methods required five to ten years of nurturing, but newer techniques simplified the charging and nurturing stage. 1612
• City transformation — A damaged city with sufficient remaining power can be transformed into Orange Equipment, as Luna did with a Mirror Image city. 1090 1091
• Equipment refinement — Wonders and advanced equipment can strengthen lesser items to Orange quality, including the Octopus Head Pyramid's equipment-nurturing function. 2727
• Mass production — Certain Soldier-oriented Orange Equipment can be produced in quantity from crafting methods, though such equipment often relies on formation size and coordinated use. 1513 1804

Documented Forging Rates

Master Niu's stated prices illustrate the expense of Orange Equipment work; these are his individual rates rather than universal prices. 1355

Sets, Variants, and Specialized Forms

Set Equipment

Some Orange Equipment belongs to multi-piece sets, whose individual pieces may have limited effects until combined.

• Nine-tailed Divine Might Set — The Fox Eye Ring is one of nine components. Completing the set grants mastery of all Mind spells at Level 9 and makes all troops under the user's command immune to Mind effects. 429
• Nine-tailed Whip — Another component of the Nine-tailed Divine Might Set; a three-piece Orange set may have the potential to become Red Equipment. 2010
• Venom Stone — A city-decoration item forming one-seventh of a set. Its completed set can create a Light Curtain and activate the indiscriminate Mutual Destruction domain. It is explicitly stated that this set cannot become Red Equipment. 2222

Soldier Equipment

Soldier-oriented Orange Equipment is designed for troops rather than individual players.

• Evil Blood Leather Armor — Raises a soldier's level and Attack, strengthens nearby wearers of the same armor, temporarily upgrades ordinary gear to Purple quality, and allows conditional body-stealing resurrection. 1513
• Purple Lightning Spear — Gains scale through nearby identical weapons, can damage enemy Purple Equipment, stores electrical power, and can self-destruct into a Thunder Tribulation. 1554
• Lightning Observation Helmet — Forms a Static Force Field when multiple identical helmets are nearby, grants Lightning immunity, and improves Lightning attacks through group use. 1856

Orange Equipment Guardians

Orange Equipment can manifest through specialized Guardians, autonomous entities capable of wielding an item's full power.

• An Orange Equipment Guardian can be summoned at the cost of the owner's entire Mana reserve and can fully utilize its Orange Equipment, unlike ordinary Holders within the Flame Light Six Paths Lamp. 1850
• The Corpse Pile War God Statue can seal up to three Orange Equipment pieces and turn them into Orange Equipment-wielding guardians that can be summoned to battle. 1849
• A Guardian's equipment is its true body. Destroying the manifested body alone is insufficient; the underlying Orange Equipment must be destroyed, unbound, or separated from its source to prevent a new Guardian from forming. 2837
• Red Equipment has shown a decisive advantage over Orange Equipment Guardians in direct combat. 2836

Notable Examples

Documented History

Social Value and Ownership

• Possessing even unsuitable Orange Equipment can be sufficient to establish a family or redirect that family's long-term development. 2501
• Bailian City promised support to establish an Esteemed Family for any player who recovered one of its lost Orange Equipment pieces. 1065
• City Lords may treat Orange Equipment as hereditary property even when it is nominally owned by the city. 1067
• Schools, governments, militaries, and established families may provide Orange Equipment to younger players for protection while retaining ownership themselves. 2146 2501
• Orange Equipment is not universally suited to every user; Gu Xi rejected the Earth Fruit necklace because its tank-oriented abilities did not fit his Necromancer role or subordinates. 1863