Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Version 1.5 Gear Overhaul — Strategy Guide

Before 1.5, engraved equipment occupied the same slots as your armor parts — equipping an engraved piece meant giving up an armor part, so it was practically impossible to run a 5-piece (or larger) armor set and engraved passives at the same time. Most of the armor you farmed ended up as salvage material.

From 1.5 the two systems coexist. Engraved passive effects and armor set effects apply simultaneously, and your armor's main stats plus its randomly-rolled options are kept. Netmarble's stated goal in Developer Note #13 is exactly this: make the armor you farm a meaningful, valuable part of the build instead of fodder — which raises overall survivability and HP across the board.

Until now, crafting a piece gave a fixed quality, which made many sets not worth crafting. In 1.5 the fixed value becomes the minimum and each piece rolls within a range up to a per-item maximum — as high as 125 on the strongest accessories. This is the official table from Netmarble's equipment notice (min = the old fixed quality):

Players had long flagged that the Gluttonous Soul special-weapon set didn't perform well enough for the materials it demands. In 1.5 each weapon in the set gains a new secondary bonus, matched to the kind of hero that wields it. Exact values come with the Update Details notice; the bonuses are:

1.5 adds two brand-new armor sets and expands the engraved-gear pool. Where the equipment notice gave the systems, the livestream showed the sets themselves — note the values shown on stream are directional until the Update Details notice confirms them.

SSR Magic Crystal Shards — the material gating SSR weapon limit breaks — were previously hard to source. 1.5 opens a new path and makes the feeder cheaper, so raising weapon caps (and the attack + survivability that brings) is more accessible.

None of the below requires invented numbers — it follows directly from the confirmed mechanics. The theme: stop treating armor as pure salvage, and stage your materials so you can act the moment the patch lands.

Do I lose my engraved gear when 1.5 lands?

No. The change is additive: engraved equipment now equips alongside armor instead of replacing armor parts. Your engraved passives keep working and your armor set effects apply on top of them.

Should I salvage my armor before the patch?

No — that's the single biggest mistake. From 1.5 armor set effects stack with engraved passives, so good armor becomes a live build piece. Hold onto strong pieces with good main stats and rolls instead of breaking them for materials.

How high can crafted quality go now?

It depends on the piece. The old fixed quality becomes the minimum, and each set rolls up to a per-item maximum — as high as 125 on Cursed Pulse and Hymn of Regeneration accessories. The full min→max table is in the crafting section above. Separately, the new Greedy Ruler set reaches quality 120–130 via the Vow system (new-content gear, not a craft).

Is the overhaul a buff or a nerf?

Net buff. Engraved + armor stacking adds combat power, and Netmarble commits to heroes being clearly stronger overall. But some armor secondary bonuses, passive values and set effects are tuned down to control excessive synergy — main stats are unchanged. The exact per-item values come in the Version 1.5 Update Details notice.

What's the fastest way to more SSR weapon limit breaks?

Bank SR Magic Crystal Shards now. 1.5 adds a recipe that crafts SSR Magic Crystal Shards from SR ones and makes SR weapon crafting cheaper, so you can craft SR weapons, salvage them into SR shards, and convert up — a direct route past the old SSR-shard bottleneck.