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Six gear slots (five stat pieces and the Viral Genome) and seven rarities from Common to Prismatic. Collect boss sets and continent sets, roll unique abilities, enhance your favourites, combine duplicates, and hope for a mutation.
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EquipmentGear SlotsYour virus wears six pieces of gear: five stat pieces and the Viral Genome, which adds levels to skills instead. Each…6Loot tiersRarity TiersGear comes in seven tiers, from white Common to rainbow Prismatic. Higher tiers roll more stats, class-ability bonuses…7
RollsGear StatsA piece rolls as many stats as its tier allows (1 on Common, 7 on Prismatic, out of the 7 or 8 its slot can roll)…14
Class synergyClass-Ability BonusesFrom Rare up, gear rolls bonuses to your class's abilities: 1 on Rare, 2 on Epic and Legendary, 3 on Mythic and…5
Signature effectsUnique AbilitiesEight signature effects. They roll on Legendary (1), Mythic (2) and Prismatic (3) gear, and a Bonus ability mutation…8
Named lootBoss SetsEvery organ boss always drops one named piece of its own five-piece set (in Pandemic Game Mode, an ordinary piece of…8
Pandemic Game Mode exclusivesContinent SetsNine sets you can't get anywhere else. Infect every city on a continent in Pandemic Game Mode and that continent's…9
Loot sourcesGear SourcesGear drops from cells, Killer T cells, chests, bosses and more. Walk over a drop to pick it up: it floats with a 'GEAR…12
UpgradingEnhancingSpend enhancement materials to raise a piece from +0 to +10. Each level makes all of its stats and ability bonuses 8%…5FusionCombiningFuse two pieces of the same slot and tier into one piece of the next tier up. You choose exactly what the new piece…6
Happy accidentsGear MutationsCombining (18%) and enhancing (8%) can mutate a piece. Each mutation a piece already carries halves the chance of…6
Managing lootGear Screen & BagThe Gear screen opens from the main menu once you've finished a run. The Loadout is on the left, the bag (grouped by…6
CraftingEnhancement MaterialsThree enhancement materials, each named for a real enzyme a virus depends on, plus the four nucleotides (A, T, C, G)…5
FlavorNamed GearEvery regular drop gets a hand-written name for its slot and tier: 95 drawn from influenza's history and biology and…10
CosmeticsThe StoreSkins change how your virus and its effects look, and nothing else. They come only from the Store, never dropped or…7CosmeticsSkin ThemesThirteen themes, each available in all six slots so a full set reads as one look. Every theme has its own body design…13Key numbers
| Gear slots | 6 |
|---|---|
| Rarity tiers | 7 |
| Gear stat types | 14 |
| Class-ability bonus types | 5 |
| Unique abilities | 8 |
| Gear sets | 17 |
| Boss sets | 8 |
| Pandemic Game Mode sets | 9 |
| Max enhancement | +10 |
| Power per enhancement level | +8% |
| Bag capacity (shared by every virus) | 150 |
| Enhancement materials | 3 |
| Hand-written gear names | 190 |
| Combine mutation chance | 18% |
| Enhance mutation chance | 8% |
| Skin slots | 6 |
| Skin themes | 13 |
| Store skins | 78 |