2 Way Affinity Counts by Color
Added 2020-03-08 17:32:57 +0000 UTCI was doing some research into the gear and decided to make these images for reference. They count all the gear with 2 affinities by color and direction. (Note: Cards with more than 2 affinities are counted more than once. For example, Sleeping Virus Flower will be counted in the following
* Left ~ Up
* Left ~ Right
* Left ~ Down
* Up ~ Right
* Up ~ Down
* Right ~ Down
As you can see from the layouts, there are some combinations with very little gear that possess them. These counts include the Core, Expansions, and Promo Gear. I probably should have left the promo gear off, but it's already done now.
The initial reason I started doing this was when I was researching into Dragon Armor for the Community Edition. Then I saw that there was an issue with activating both the Dragon Mantle and Dragon Belt. There are only 3 cards that have the required Up and Left Blue to complete both gear's affinity bonus.
The following 3 gear are the only gear that can fulfill this need.
The Nuclear Knife would obviously not be used there since you wouldn't be able to activate it either. So you are left with 2 pieces of gear. Given the choice between activating the Belt or the Mantle, one has a stronger ability and likely it would be activated most of the time, leaving the other one worthless.
When designing homebrew gear, keep these counts in mind and use this for reference to fill out the under-represented affinities. See the full size reference image attached.
Next week, I will show all the gear organized by affinity color and directions. These are separated into Armor, Utility, and Weapon layouts.
