Brawl Busters - Shop/Gear

In this post, I'm going to talk a little bit about how gear works as well as the real money store.

Currency:

The game consists of two types of currency: Buster Points (which you get from playing the game) and Rock Tokens (which you buy with cold, hard, real money.)  Standard weapons and costume pieces are purchased with BP, cosmetic accessories or appearance changes are purchased with RT and upgrades can be purchased with both BP and RT.

Weapons and Costume pieces:

Gear is class specific. You have five different costume slots: head, chest, legs, hands, feet as well as a weapon. All of the costume pieces for each slot are identical except for the look so you can mix and match to suit your appearance as you wish. Each class has two different available secondary and special attacks which can be mixed and matched depending on which weapon you have. I've been playing a Slugger primarily so I'll use it as an example:

Secondary attacks: Trinity Ball - Fires three projectiles or Continuous Fire - Fires one projectile with a significantly decreased cooldown

Special attacks: Big ball - fires an orb that ends with an AOE explosion or Time bomb - places a bomb on the heads of what it hits and explodes a second or so later

Each weapon will make one secondary and one special attack available. I recommend buying multiple weapons and trying all the attacks out before you decide which two you want to use most of the time. Once you do so, then you can start upgrading that weapon.

Upgrades:

To upgrade your gear, you purchase items that have either single or multiple charges on them from the store. Weapon+ items increase the level of your weapon and hence the damage and Costume+ items increase the defense of items as well as your max HP. Costume pieces also have another slot for what are called "fuse upgrades." These add certain special stats to your gear such as reduced blast damage or increase crit damage.

The catch to upgrading your gear is that there is a chance that using the upgrade item will actually downgrade your item or destroy it completely. This provides the game with a money sink as well as the major advantage to spending real money on RT: upgrade protection. When you go into the upgrade screen, it gives you the option of spending RT to eliminate the chance that your weapon/costume pieces will be destroyed or downgraded. This will save you time from having to get more BP to buy more gear to replace what is destroyed.