Red Pyroxene is specifically used when crafting equipment, making it a valuable resource once you start working on stronger builds. Independent gear guides also recommend dismantling unwanted gear rather than allowing spare blue items to accumulate.

Which Equipment Should You Dismantle?

For the best results, focus on dismantling blue-rarity equipment and anything above it that you no longer intend to use.

Gear rarity affects the dismantling rewards:

• Lower-rarity equipment provides fewer and less valuable materials.
• Blue equipment is a good starting point for regular dismantling.
• Higher-rarity equipment produces more materials and can provide better-quality resources.

This means that purple, gold, or other high-rarity equipment can be especially valuable when dismantled. However, do not destroy a rare item simply because it offers better materials. Check its stats, set bonus, and potential usefulness first.

A good rule is to keep equipment that improves one of your active characters and dismantle duplicate, outdated, or clearly inferior pieces.

How to Open the Correct Equipment Menu

The most important part of this process is opening the equipment screen from the correct location.

You must access Equipment through your Inventory. Do not open the Equipment menu through the Hero menu.

The Hero menu is primarily designed for managing the equipment worn by individual characters. Although it displays your gear, it is not the correct route for dismantling unwanted items.

Follow these steps:

1. Open your Inventory.
2. Select the Equipment section inside the Inventory.
3. Find the dismantling option.
4. Select the unwanted gear you want to break down.
5. Review the materials shown on the confirmation screen.
6. Confirm the dismantling process.

After selecting the dismantling option, mark the equipment you no longer need. Blue-rarity and higher items should provide the most worthwhile returns.

Before confirming, inspect the selected items carefully. Dismantling is intended for spare equipment, so avoid selecting anything currently used by a hero or anything you may need for a future equipment set.

Why Is the Dismantle Option Missing?

When players cannot find the dismantling button, they have usually entered the Equipment menu through the Hero screen.

Exit the Hero menu, open your main Inventory, and enter the Equipment section from there. The two screens may look similar, but they serve different purposes.

Remember this distinction:

Hero menu: Equip and manage items for a specific character.

Inventory Equipment menu: Review your complete equipment collection and dismantle unwanted gear.

Tips for Efficient Gear Dismantling

Do not dismantle every new item immediately. Compare it with your current equipment and check whether it belongs to a useful set.

Set bonuses can be important in DragonSword: Awakening, and some builds use a combination of three pieces from one set and two pieces from another. An apparently unnecessary item may therefore complete a useful two-piece or three-piece bonus.

It is also worth locking valuable equipment, when possible, so that it cannot be selected accidentally. Keep your strongest pieces, useful set items, and gear with desirable stats. Everything else can be recycled to support future crafting.

As you progress and obtain more purple or higher-rarity drops, your dismantling rewards will improve. Clearing your inventory regularly is therefore one of the easiest ways to maintain a steady supply of Red Pyroxene, Mana Crystals, and Mana Ore.

Final Summary

The best way to obtain Red Pyroxene, Mana Crystals, and Mana Ore is to dismantle unwanted equipment, particularly gear of blue rarity or higher.

Always open the dismantling screen through:

Inventory → Equipment → Dismantle

Do not access Equipment through the Hero menu, as that is the wrong screen for this process. Save useful set pieces, dismantle duplicates and outdated gear, and prioritize higher-rarity items when you need more or better materials.