Gear

Gear
Good source of gear information:

https://beardmonkey.wordpress.com/tag/hero-equipment/

There are various aspects to gear. The attack and life base values are the most important. The added attributes make small additional boosts, but they are often limited and very complicated to use.

Base Values:  The numbers after the crossed swords are attack boosts and the heart number is life.

Attack and Life Numbers: divide these by 100 to get the percentage of attack boost.

700 = 7% boost

300 = 3% boost
 * 1) The best general gear is Pilfered.  It has the best base attack and life per piece.
 * 2) Ent Gear has a lower base attack and life by 1% (100 points) but has 2 life attributes that work for all troops, so the difference between Pilfered and Ent is that Ent has 1% less attack, but 1% more life.  Use Ent gear when you attack and will have survivors.  The life points save more of your troops, so you will lose fewer troops with higher life points.  Good for Battling Smaug.
 * 3) The Dirty_Few Gear is the same base as Pilfered, and has 2% mroe attack per piece for T3 troops.  T3 fight at about half the tk ratio as T1, so even with a full set, the 10% boost still makes attacking or defending with T3 much worse than T1 with a Pilfered hero.
 * 4) The Havoc Gear is also 1% less attack and life than Pilfered, but has 2 attack boosts that work with Tier 4 troops.   Since tier 4 troops get bad tk ratios comared to T1, this gear is only good for making large attacks on a city that has lots of troops.
 * 5) Everything else.  If you can get only Prisoners Gear, use it, but Pilfered and the others above are better than Prisoners.  All of the "gray" gear is worthless...only better than a naked hero.

The overall numbers you see on the hero page start with the base values, and add on some portion of the attribute boosts, but since they don't usually apply to all troops, those numbers are reduced to indicate they only have partial effect.

The life numbers for Ent gear can be huge since the 2 attribute boosts apply to all troops.