Gear

Gear, also known as equipment, are things you can equip onto your units to increase their stats and give them unique abilities. There are three main types of gear: Weapons, Armors and Arte Souls. All gear are split into different rarities, from N to UR++. Units have two equipment slots that can be filled with weapons or armors, and can only have one Mystic Arte equipped to them at a time.

Weapons
Weapons are gear that mainly add to the unit's ATK stat when equipped. They may have HP and/or RCV stats, but these stats will usually be lower than the ATK stat. Weapons are divided into five categories: Slash, Thrust, Shot, Bash and Spell. Each type of weapon can only be equipped to the corresponding type of unit, e.g Slash weapons can only be equipped to Slash units. Weapons are the only gear that has elements, thus can give an elemental advantage or disadvantage to the unit equipping it. Few weapons have passives.

Armors
Armors are gear that mainly add to the unit's HP and RCV stat when equipped. Very few armors give the ATK. Armors can be equipped to all units. Armors generally have passives to help prevent ailments.

Arte Souls
Arte Souls are unique gear that are only equippable to units that have their name on the Arte Soul. They give the unit the ability to do a Mystic Arte, a special move that only activates when the unit is the finisher of a 9-link chain. They multiply the unit's ATK on top of the 150% multiplier due to the overlink arte. Arte Souls range from R rarity to UR++ rarity. R arte souls requires a Goddess Drop to be upgraded while UR arte souls requires Goddess Love to be upgraded. The higher the rarity of the Arte Soul, the larger the damage multiplier on it. Higher rarity Arte Souls can also give a small boost to ATK. Note: The Arte Soul of Vargas Sara does not follow the table above. The UR++ Arte Soul of Vargas Sara will have 100 ATK and a 450% damage multiplier.

Note 2: Mystic Artes actually have a hidden additional 2x multiplier since the damage of the Mystic Arte is applied before and after the Mystic Arte animation.

Miscellaneous
There are some gear that give extremely little stats. These gear are usually classified under armor, but are not supposed to be equipped onto your characters. These gear have various other uses.

Orbs
Orbs are gear that are meant to be fused into other gears to help level them up. They give more EXP compared to any other type of gears.

Metals
Metals are gear that are meant to be sold for gold. They give the most gold of all gears at base level.

Evolution Items
Evolution items are meant to increase the rarity of your weapons, armors and arte souls. Weapons and armors have coatings while Arte Souls have Goddess Drops and Goddess Love.