The Equipment & Skills Menu

Screen Layout

Here, you can choose the equipment and skills your party members will use. Press the right and left bumpers to cycle through the characters in your party.
You can also change your weapon-switching settings on this screen by pushing in the left stick.

Equipment/Skills List

Shows you what equipment and skills each character is currently using. Press the left and right bumpers to cycle through weapons, armor, and skills.

Details of the Currently Selected Item of Equipment/Skill

 

Character Appearance

You can use the right stick to rotate the character.

Character Status

This shows the characters' levels, HP, MP, and other parameters.
Once you have found some of your characters' special outfits, you will also be able to cycle through them with the BACK button.

Understanding Character Parameters

Melee Attack Strength	Indicates how much damage will be inflicted by attacks with swords, axes, etc.
Ranged Attack Strength	Indicates how much damage will be inflicted by attacks with bows, guns, etc.
Magical Attack Strength	Indicates how much damage will be inflicted by spells and abilities.
Physical Defense	The higher this number, the less damage will be taken from physical attacks.
Magical Defense	The higher this number, the less damage will be taken from spells and abilities.

Changing Equipment

Each character can equip up to three melee weapons, one ranged weapon, and one each of the following: bodywear/armor, foot/legwear, rings, and necklaces/pendants.

Equipment Names

The color of a piece of equipment's name indicates its quality, ranging from white for everyday items, on up through blue, red, and purple.

Rarity

This indicates how hard to find a given item is. The more stars, the rarer.

Times Improved/Improvement Limit

Once Evan has built an outfitter's and a weapon workshop in his kingdom, he will gain the ability to improve items of equipment.

Quality

The higher this number, the higher the quality of the item in question, and the better its parameters will be. When creating new equipment at the outfitters or the weapon workshop, the more items listed under "Catalysts" you use, the higher the quality of the resulting item will be.

Equipment Parameters

The icons for these are the same as those for character parameters.

Zing-Related Information

The higher a weapon's "Charge Build" rating, the more quickly it will accumulate Zing. There are seven ratings, ranging from F (slowest), up through E, D, C, B, A, and S (fastest). The number above this rating shows you the current Zing percentage of the selected weapon.

Equipment Effects

Weapons and armor can have up to two supplementary effects. When one of these is listed as "???," you'll need to take the item of equipment in question to the outfitters or the weapon workshop and opt to unlock the unidentified weapon or armor skill in order to use it.

Selecting Skills

Each character can assign up to four skills, one for each of the buttons shown on the skill palette.

Skill Effects

 

Power and MP Cost

 

Effect When Higgledies Are Absorbed

If a skill can be improved by absorbing higgledies, the name, elemental affinity, and power of the improved skill will be displayed here. The number to the left of this tells you how many of which type of higgledy will need to be absorbed in order to obtain the desired effect.

Learning and
Strengthening Skills

Skills are divided into weapon-specific abilities and standalone spells.
Some are learned when leveling up, while others will have to be developed in the spellworks in Evan's kingdom.