One of the most important things you must constantly do and pay attention to is the enchancement of your equipment as doing so will increase the BR of your characters stats, this includes the HP, ATK, and DEF. The grade of the equipment plays an important role when you enhance it, common tier equipment for example will provide very low BR as compared to legendary tier equipment.
To enhance your equipmentment select the 'Inventory' tab and then on the left side of the screen select the piece of equipment you want to enhance and then tap 'Enhance'. Below is a list of the different ways you can enhance your equipment.
Gem:
Use gem material to level up socket gems and increase HP, ATK, and DEF stats.
Enchant:
Enchanting improves the equipment attribute.
Refine
This process requires a refining stone which can be obtained by destroying useless equipment or from Treasure Hunt mode.
Shuffle:
Shuffle the stats (replace with better)
Polish:
Polishing equipment will unlocks its hidden stats.
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