Chrono Odyssey: Gearing, Progression, and Crafting Guide

We're diving deep into one of the most important aspects of Chrono Odyssey: how to get strong. That means gearing, progression, crafting, and all the systems that contribute to your character's overall power. If you're wondering how to increase your character's power, gear score, stats, or simply want to craft better stuff without grinding dungeons 24/7, this article breaks it all down.

Understanding Equipment and Stats in Chrono Odyssey

Let's start with the basics: your inventory and gear layout.

Your character is equipped with:

2 weapon slots

6 armor slots: Helmet, Chest, Gloves, Legs, Boots, and Back

4 accessory slots: Two Rings, a Belt, and a Necklace

That's 12 total gear pieces that contribute to your average equipment score—a number that functions similarly to item levels in other MMOs. This score influences how tough enemies are relative to you, particularly in dungeons. Being below the recommended score means you'll take more damage and deal less. Being above makes content easier.

Whether weapon slots are weighted more heavily in this average remains unclear, but upgrading both weapons is important, even your secondary one. Its stats still apply even when unequipped, which is a nice touch and incentivizes keeping both slots competitive.

In terms of stats, you've got:

Primary stats: Strength, Dexterity, Intellect, Wisdom, Vitality

Secondary stats: Attack, Physical Defense, Magical Defense, Crit, Incoming/Outgoing Healing, and more

What makes Chrono Odyssey interesting here is its hybrid stat scaling system. Unlike games like New World, where a weapon scales only with one stat (e.g., Strength for Great Axe), Chrono Odyssey takes a broader approach. All stats provide some benefit across builds, though certain stats are naturally better for specific classes. For example, Vitality is great if you want to tank, but even Intellect may slightly improve crit or other passive effects on a melee class.

Rarity Tiers and Gear Attributes

Chrono Odyssey uses the traditional rarity ladder:

Gray (Common)

Green (Uncommon)

Blue (Rare)

Purple (Epic)

Orange (Legendary)

As you climb the rarity tiers, gear starts getting more interesting:

Higher rarity = more perk slots

Gem sockets become available

Items have attributes like "Cleric" (Wisdom + Vitality) or "Barbarian" (Strength + Vitality)

These item traits matter, especially if you're min-maxing your build for PvP or PvE. You can also get items with single-stat attributes, which may be ideal in specific cases.

Weapon Mastery and the Chronoctor System

Outside of traditional gear, Weapon Mastery and Chronoctor progression serve as key components in your power scaling.

Weapon Mastery: Leveling up your weapons unlocks abilities and passives. Even if it doesn't directly increase weapon damage, the utility and enhancements make it worthwhile.

Chronoctor: This is unlocked as you progress through the Epic Questline and defeat Chronogate bosses. You get new Chrono Abilities, which impact combat significantly. These are upgraded using Beacons of Time found through open-world exploration and labyrinth challenges.

Together, these two systems create meaningful progression paths outside the gear treadmill, allowing for character customization and mid-game power spikes.

Permanent Stat Potions

Another system worth mentioning is permanent stat potions. You earn these from hidden trials or mini-challenges in caves and side areas.

Once completed, you can spend the earned currency for minor permanent bonuses, like small HP or damage increases. While not massive, these boosts stack over time and reward exploration-minded players.

How Questing and Exploration Reward Gear

Chrono Odyssey doesn't hand you powerful gear just for completing quests. Your first few story missions will help fill in missing slots (like gloves or boots), and an early quest chain involving fallen soldier tokens can get you a set of green gear.

However, most meaningful upgrades—especially in early and mid-game—come from crafting, gathering, and exploration, not traditional quest rewards.

Crafting and Gathering: The Backbone of Early Progression

Chrono Odyssey's crafting system is refreshingly straightforward yet deep enough to keep you engaged. It's divided into three stages:

1. Gathering – Chop trees, mine ore, skin animals.

2. Refining – Turn raw materials into ingots, cloth, or leather.

3. Crafting – Use refined materials to make gear, accessories, or tools.

Gathering Tools

To start gathering, you need tools:

Logging Axe

Pickaxe

Butcher's Knife

You can buy these from vendors or craft them from basic materials like twigs and flint.

Gathering Freedom

Unlike other MMOs, Chrono Odyssey doesn't restrict what you can gather by level. You can go chop the best tree in the game on Day 1—it'll just take forever. Better tools and higher gathering levels increase your speed, but nothing is off-limits. This system is player-skill and effort-focused rather than level-gated.

Resources are tiered:

Young Tree → Mature Tree → Redwood → Arch Tree

Iron Ore → Silver → Titanium → Meteorite

Higher-tier nodes yield better arch, a currency/resource used in crafting and tradable among players.

Crafting Gear

You can craft:

Weapons/Armor/Accessories (Rings, Amulets, Belts)

Crafting is RNG-heavy:

Random stat lines (e.g., Strength + Wisdom, Intellect + Vitality)

Random equipment score within a range

Random perk combinations

No stats are completely useless, which helps soften the RNG. But for those chasing perfect gear, crafting is a grind. There are no crafting mods or ways to influence the outcome, at least not in the preview build.

Crafting Tips:

You can craft directly from your storage shed—major quality of life win.

Perks for gatherers (e.g., mining yield, speed) can roll on accessories.

Recipes can drop from bosses or chests, allowing you to craft purple gear earlier than usual.

Salvaging, Perk Transfers, and Enchanting

Salvaging gear breaks it down into crafting materials.

Perk Transfer NPCs let you move a perk from one item to another of the same type (e.g., gloves to gloves). Requires Chrono Odyssey gold and a currency like Ember Shards, which drop from elite enemies.

Enchanting or “plusing” gear is also available:

+1 to +7

Uses green/blue shards bought daily from stores (2,000 gold each, 15 per day)

Increases gear stats and score

No visible failure chance in the preview build

Whether upgrades can be transferred like in Throne and Liberty remains unknown.

Gems and Socketing

Weapons and gear can have gem sockets, particularly at higher rarities.

So far, available gems mostly upgraded skill levels (e.g., +1 to “Sever” on a Battle Axe). It's unclear if more complex or build-altering gems exist, but this system appears to be class-specific and limited to applicable gear.

Other Sources of Gear

Beyond crafting and exploration, you'll find gear through:

1. Open World Bosses

These are inconsistent. Sometimes you'll get nothing or a low-tier drop, but there's a chance at blues and recipes. No purples or legendaries dropped in my playthrough.

2. Time Dungeons

Solo or group content that rewards chests, gems, and even the occasional purple item. There are multiple tiers, so find one appropriate to your gear score.

3. Bounty Board System

By far the best early-to-mid game gear source. Found in the first major town, bounties are offered:

XP

Bounty Tokens

Reputation for higher-tier bounties

Tokens can be spent on powerful gear, particularly purple accessories, which can't be crafted at lower levels. If you're trying to gear up efficiently, the bounty board should be your go-to.

MMOexp Chrono Odyssey Team