User blog comment:Seieireppa/SHIO! (with MANY thanks to Beast)/@comment-81.140.169.44-20151020143431/@comment-26113680-20151020161357

Even if the equipment is hacked if you look at the stats, They are clearly Rank 7 equivalents.

Though the "Invisible Tower Shield" of her is more like a Rank 9 variant, the Blade has 100 Pierce, 100 Sunder and 100 Divine as attributes. Given that the overall gun modifier is 1.5, it's barely anything to be honest.

Not to mention that all of the God Arc parts are blank, NPC weapons lack abilities completely.

Sure their sheer stats pre Rank 7 missions are great, but starting from R7, well.. it's more of a fun competition that hacking yourself to victory :V