Upgrading gear is pretty straightforward.

This is part of the quest ‘Way of the Blacksmith’.

Once built, visit Heiji at the Forge to upgrade your gear.

Naoe faces shelves of weapons decorating the Forge in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

However, this Forge will only upgrade your gear up to level 20.

Then grab the Forge and choose the upgrade option.

Once you’ve upgraded the Forge, you’ll also be able to add engravings to your gear.

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Any gear that can hold an engraving will be displayed under the ‘Engrave’ tab.

Then hold X/A to apply the engraving.

All you gotta do is opt for gear you want to dismantle and then hold X/A to confirm.

The upgrade screen for the Forge in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

Legendary gear cannot be dismantled.

That’s all for this guide to upgrading gear in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.

An upgrade screen in Assassin’s Creed Shadows showing Yasuke holding a weapon to be upgraded; to the right are numbers displayed in green to indicate improved stats while a number displayed in red indicates the player is short on materials.

The engraving screen in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, with a list of perks displayed.