what is gear step and enhance

[Pantsu Pirate]

title! a lot of skills say during gear step do whatever (e.g. ducking, jump during gear step), and i can't find gear step. the same for enhance. how does this work?

[Hanakarasu]

Hi there!

I haven’t been on my Defensio for a while so I may be off on some points.
Gear step is a mechanic that allows Machinas to chain combos and take advantage of ducking.
Following skills are considered Gear step:

• Stomp Shuffle
• Steam Release
• Step Up

As for Enhance: Whenever you perform a Gear step, you can chain it with an appropriate attack skill, thus granting said skill aprox. 20% more damage as compared to using the skill without utilizing a Gear step.
Example:

• Performs Beatdown, dealing aprox 2.4m damage
• Performs Step Up (Gear step) --> Beatdown, now with 20% more damage, deals aprox. 2.88m damage

Hope this helps in some way

[vara]

going off of ^

Enhance is when you gear step into the skill.

(these should be right, i dont remember off the top of my head)
Step Up + Left click = Beatdown
Step Up + Right click = Twisterkick
Stomp Shuffle + Leftclick = Flow Up
Stomp Shuffle + Rightclick = Flow Through
Steam Release + Leftclick = Flying Knee Kick
Steam Release + Rightclick = Kidney Blow