Last Asylum Plague Gear Guide

Published: 2026-10-25

Every hero in Last Asylum: Plague wears four pieces of gear: a Sword, Armor, Gauntlets and Boots. Gear comes in R, SR, SSR and UR rarity, and a UR piece promoted to five stars becomes MR. The Gear Workshop crafts SR gear at level 1, SSR gear at level 5 and UR gear at level 10, and star promotion opens at level 20, so your first goal is a level 10 workshop and your second goal is level 20.

Gear Slots and Rarities

Each hero has four gear slots, and a piece fits only its own slot. An equipped piece stays on one hero, so a squad of five heroes needs twenty pieces. A higher rarity gives stronger base stats, a higher enhance cap and extra bonus stats. R gear cannot be enhanced, SR gear stops at level 15, SSR gear at level 30 and UR gear at level 60. The might column adds up all four pieces of one rarity, so it shows how much a full set is worth on the might screen.

The four UR slots split the work between them. Sword and Gauntlets carry attack, while Armor and Boots carry HP and defense, so the right slot depends on the role of the hero who wears it. Heroes are sorted into Tank, damage dealer and Support on the heroes page.

Gear Workshop Levels

The Gear Workshop appears at Sanctuary level 4. From level 5 on, a workshop level needs the same Sanctuary level, so the workshop never passes the Sanctuary. Most levels only add might, and four levels open new options: level 1 for SR crafting, level 5 for SSR crafting, level 10 for UR crafting and level 20 for UR star promotion. Level 20 alone costs 16.19M Grain, 49.54M Timber and 5.79M Herb and takes 4d 8h 42m at base speed. Other buildings are covered on the buildings page.

How Gear Upgrades Work

Gear moves through four steps: craft a piece, enhance its level with Gearstones and Herb, promote UR pieces with blueprints, and dismantle pieces you no longer need to get materials back. This video shows the gear screens and the order of those steps, which helps before you spend your first blueprints.

Gear Blueprint Sources

The Gear Blueprint (UR) is the key material for star promotion: every one of the 20 steps from 0 to 4 stars uses at least one, and 50 are needed per piece. The Gear Blueprint (MR) is used only for the fifth star. Blueprints set the pace of promotion, so the table below shows where each one can be bought. Compare the price with your own currencies on the shops page before you spend.

The Fame Medal shop alone covers one piece: its limit of 50 purchases matches the 50 blueprints that one piece needs for four stars. Blades Out and Recluse Merchant are events, so their offers are available only while the event runs.

Gearstones and Materials

Two buildings feed the gear system. The Smelting Workshop produces Gearstones, which pay for every enhance level and every promotion step. The Weaving Workshop produces Cloth, the first of five crafting materials: Cloth, Leather, Brass, Refined Iron, Tempered Steel. Fusing 4 pieces of one material makes 1 piece of the next, so one Tempered Steel equals 256 Cloth. Both buildings appear at Sanctuary level 5 and you can build up to 5 of each.

Output grows with building level. The figures below are for one workshop, so multiply them by the number you have built.

Dismantling returns the crafting materials, the Gearstones and the blueprints you spent, but it does not return Herb. An unenhanced piece gives back the full craft material, as the table shows.

Enhance Gear Levels

Enhancing raises a piece one level at a time. UR pieces become expensive quickly: level 1 to 4 cost 1,500 Gearstones and 180K Herb per level, and level 57 to 60 cost 27,500 Gearstones and 51.56M Herb per level. Without stars a UR piece stops at level 44. Taking one piece from level 0 to 44 costs 245,000 Gearstones, 123.63M Herb and 600 Tempered Steel, and level 60 costs 595,000 Gearstones, 779.88M Herb and 4,800 Tempered Steel.

Some levels add a bonus on top of the normal stat gain. UR pieces get one at levels 10, 20, 30 and 40, and SSR pieces get a 2% bonus at levels 10, 20 and 30: Sword and Gauntlets add damage to monsters, while Armor and Boots reduce the damage monsters deal. SR gear has no bonus levels.

Promote UR Gear

Promotion unlocks at Gear Workshop level 20 and works only on UR pieces. Each star is made of 5 steps, and each step costs UR blueprints, Gearstones and Tempered Steel. A star also raises the enhance cap by 4 levels, from 44 without stars to 60 with four. The Sword gets +500 ATK at star 1, +2.5% Crit rate at star 2, +500 ATK at star 3, +2.5% Crit rate at star 4, and the other slots get their own stat bonuses.

Four stars on one piece take 50 UR blueprints, 72,500 Gearstones and 870 Tempered Steel. A full set of four UR pieces at level 60 with four stars each comes to 2,670,000 Gearstones, 25,680 Tempered Steel (crafting included) and 200 blueprints.

MR Gear and the Fifth Star

A UR piece with 4 stars can go one step further. The fifth star is a single step that costs 10 Gear Blueprints (MR), 27,500 Gearstones and 330 Tempered Steel. The piece becomes MR, keeps the level 60 cap and gains +10% DMG when countering. MR blueprints are sold in the Strange Bazaar and the Era Shop, so plan them only after the four-star pieces on your main squad are done.

Gear Upgrade Priority

Gear competes with the Sanctuary and research for the same Herb, so the order matters. The upgrade guide shows where gear sits in the full progression, and the steps below cover gear only.

1. Raise the Sanctuary to level 10, then the Gear Workshop to level 10. Craft UR pieces directly instead of spending Herb on SR and SSR pieces you will replace. One guide suggests holding materials until you have 750 Tempered Steel for the first UR piece.
2. Give gear to the heroes in your main squad before anyone else. Damage dealers get Sword and Gauntlets first, Tanks like Arthur get Armor and Boots first, and Support heroes such as Harper need Armor and Boots before the attack slots.
3. Enhance the core pieces to level 40 to collect all four bonus levels. Reaching level 40 costs 195,000 Gearstones and 29.88M Herb per piece, and the price per level climbs sharply after it.
4. Buy blueprints at the Fame Medal shop before anything else it sells. Blueprints are scarce, and two guides rank them as the best purchase in their shop.
5. Raise the Gear Workshop to level 20, then promote one piece to its next star before you spread blueprints across several pieces. Each star lifts the enhance cap, so a promoted piece also lets you keep enhancing.
6. Dismantle every unequipped piece. You get the materials back and lose only the Herb, and the materials go into the next UR craft.

The Gear Upgrade event hands out Heavy Supply boxes and other gear rewards. One guide suggests saving blueprints for events that score points for crafting actions, so check the events page before you spend. Daily resource collection keeps Herb coming for the enhance costs in between.

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