What are Crew Gears?
Crew Gears are items that you can equip to your Crew Members for additional stats, which will increase your performance during matches. These bonuses will be added to all tanks in your garage when equipped to an assigned crew. There are four types of Crew Gears:
- Combat Helmets
- Ballistic Goggles
- Tactical Gloves
- Battle Gadgets
Each crew member can equip one of each type. Once it's equipped, Gears can be freely swapped or reassigned between crews at no cost!
You can get up to 4 Gears for each crew, so that results in up to 12 Gears in regular matches and up to 20 Gears in Arena mode.
Gear Upgrades and Rarities
Upgrading a Gear improves its base attributes and adds new ones. The maximum upgrade level depends on the item’s rarity. There are currently three rarities of Gears:
- Uncommon
- Epic
- Legendary*
*Legendary Gears have an exclusive perk where you receive additional attributes at every 10 upgrade levels, similar to Command Center upgrades.
Gear Level Caps by Tank Tier
Each tank tier has a Gear Level Cap, which is the maximum bonus power that can be applied to tanks of that tier. You can continue upgrading your Gears beyond a tier’s cap, but tanks in that tier will no longer gain additional stats from higher Gear levels.
For example, let's say that Tier 2 cap is at Legendary Gear Level 10 - in that case, upgrading the Gear to level 11, 12, or higher would not grant any more stats to the tank.
Higher-tier tanks have significantly higher caps, allowing greater potential as you advance. This system ensures that same-tier battles (e.g., Daily Raids, Challenges, and Championships) are influenced but not dominated by Gear levels. Even if opponents have much higher-level Gears, their impact is limited by the cap.
Upgrade Resources and Recycling
Crew Gears can be upgraded using two exclusive resources, both of which are primarily earned during events:
- Boost Ore
- Hypercube
You can also recycle Gears you don't want to upgrade others! In the upgrade screen, you can choose to use Boost Ore or unwanted Gears (or both). Each Gear has a base ore value depending on its rarity.
If a recycled Gear had previous upgrades, all Boost Ore invested in those upgrades is also refunded. Don't worry, no Boost Ore will be lost during the recycling process.
Gear Stats
Crew Gears provide both existing (normal) and new types of stats that affect tank performance in battle.
Normal Stats (Already Existing in the Game)
- Attack - Adds a fixed value to the tank’s base attack.
- Armor - Adds a fixed value to the tank’s base armor.
- Attack % - Adds a percentage bonus to the tank’s base attack. Example: A tank with 1,000 base attack and +10% Attack % will have 1,100 total attack.
- Armor % - Adds a percentage bonus to the tank’s base armor. Example: A tank with 1,000 base armor and +10% Armor % will have 1,100 total armor.
New Stats (Introduced with the Gear System)
- Crit Rate % - Determines the chance of landing a critical hit per shot. Each critical hit deals 150% of final damage, applied after all other modifiers (patterns, ammo, Command Center, rear/side shots, etc.).
- Crit Resistance % - Reduces the extra damage received from enemy critical hits. Example: If an enemy deals 1,500 critical damage and you have 10% Crit Resistance, you take 1,350 damage instead (1,500 – 10%).
- Defense - Acts as an enemy attack damage reduction. The higher the Defense value, the greater the proportion of incoming damage that is mitigated. The defense final value is not directly equivalent to the negated enemy damage.
Brawl Arena Exclusive Stats
- Attack Arena Multiplier % - Increases the tank’s base attack by a percentage only in Brawl Arena. Example: A tank with 1,000 base attack and +10% Attack Arena Multiplier % reaches 1,100 base attack before other modifiers.
- Armor Arena Multiplier % - Increases the tank’s base armor by a percentage only in Brawl Arena. Example: A tank with 1,000 base armor and +10% Armor Arena Multiplier % reaches 1,100 base armor before other modifiers.
- Defense Arena - Adds a fixed Defense bonus exclusively in Brawl Arena mode.