Gear Evolution¶
Tensura Gear Evolution is the authoritative equipment progression system in TSR.
Apotheosis and other competing random rarity/affix progression systems are intentionally excluded.
Intended equipment loop¶
Normal equipment
→ earn EP through use
→ evolve
→ Tensura material tiers
→ advanced forging
→ endgame specialist equipment
Integrated equipment systems¶
- Tensura Gear Evolution
- Tensura Metalworks
- Silent Gear
- Productive Metalworks
- Silent Gear Metalworks
- Sophisticated Backpacks
- Tensura Backpack Expansion
Rule¶
Any additional equipment mod must complement this progression rather than provide an easier parallel path to stronger gear.
Beta baseline¶
Automatic Silent Gear starter items are disabled so equipment progression begins through authored quests rather than a free parallel kit. Gear Evolution currently loads the 399 registered equipment existence overrides from the assembled runtime. Milestone gates, trait definitions, and contextual EP modifiers remain empty until their authored progression data is added and tested with the quest campaign.
Before release candidate freeze, integrated gameplay validation must cover equipment EP gain, at least one evolution, Silent Gear material construction, Tensura Metalworks processing, backpack component retention, death/recovery behavior, and save/restart persistence.