Four major types of equipment enhancement combined with a rich variety of craftable, buyable, or findable items result in an endless array of unique weaponry and armor. Visit the local Enchanter, Alchemist, and/or Blacksmith with the right precious substances and some gold in order to engineer the perfect equipment. Be careful, however, as certain processes carry the risk of damaging or destroying the item being enhanced.
* Enchant
Equipment can be brought to an Enchanter, who will apply his or her powers to the item and a player-supplied precious stone to add special properties, for a price. Certain stones provide specific enhancements while others supply randomly selected ones. Enchantment does not affect the weapon or armor’s basic stats, but can produce a sword with a higher damage rating versus certain types of targets, for example, or armor which boosts the effectiveness of healing buffs. Enchantment stones are extremely rare, however, which makes enchanted equipment all the more valuable.
* Level Down
All equipment carries a minimum level requirement for use, which is troublesome when a player finds a great piece of armor or weaponry but is still a few levels away from being able to equip it. The Level Down enhancement is the perfect solution. For a fee which increases as the item rank increases, a Blacksmith will attempt to reduce the minimum required level for a specific piece of equipment.
De-leveling is a riskier endeavor and carries a greater penalty if the procedure doesn’t succeed – you may end up spending your money only to increase the required level for equipping an item! However, many fearless players consider the gamble worthwhile for the chance to use higher quality weaponry and armor.
* Transfer
Another reason to become very familiar with your local Blacksmith is his ability to infuse equippable items with the properties of other equipment. This process is called Transfer, and it entails a one-to-one reassignment of a particular item’s offensive, defensive, and magical statistics to another of the same type of item. The two pieces of equipment involved must be similar in all respects except for these statistics – it is impossible to transfer a weapon’s properties to a helmet, for example, or Warlock boots’ properties to Paladin boots. The cost of Transfer is always 500 gold, but the process itself is less reliable. There is a chance that the operation will not succeed, in which case both items will remain unaffected. Transfer requires the presence (and consumption) of Athlon, a special stone which can only be found or received as a reward.
The procedure may be useful for an instance where a player wishes to disguise the true nature of his or her level – transfer enables a more experienced player to take on the appearance of a new player (via lower rank armor and weaponry) without sacrificing the power of level-appropriate armaments. Alternately, transfer could prove a boon to the player who wants to preserve the aesthetics of an item while changing its features to match a less visually appealing but more powerful piece of equipment. Note, though, that level restrictions transfer along with the item’s other properties, and that the item whose statistics are being reassigned is destroyed after a successful transfer.
* Reinforce
The crystalline powder known as Hira and the liquid chemical Kaize are renowned for their armor and weapon-reinforcing powers, and in the hands of a capable Alchemist they can add considerable heft to an item’s attack/defense properties.
Hira and Kaize may be found or purchased, but as they come in different ranks as equipment does, one must take care to match the rank of the substance with the rank of the item being reinforced. This process adds points to the statistics of an equippable item via a percentage increase which accounts for the rank of the item. The cost of reinforcement rises with the quality of the equipment, and there is significant risk involved – if the procedure fails, the item being reinforced may be damaged or destroyed, especially if it has already been reinforced several times. Still, the advantages which reinforced equipment confers in battle encourage savvy players to stomach the uncertainty.
1. Upgrade System
Reinforcing equipment is the act of upgrading it's stats. With each upgrade, you will gain a upgrade in attack power for weapons, and defense for armors. To reinforce items, you must visit the Alchemist in town.
To upgrade the items, Weapons require a Hira and armors require Kaize. You will also have to use the corresponding ranking of the upgrade materials to upgrade the items. Rank F weapon requires Hira Rank F, Rank C Armor requires Kaize - Rank C)
Rank F Kaize and Hira can be bought at the general store. They can also be found at any rank on all monsters or as quest rewards.
2. Why do You Upgrade
Successfully reinforcing an item will add a +1 to the name and increase the appropriate stats such as attack or defense. Upgrades beyond the safety level will will warrant a higher stats gain. For armors, some damage reduction bonus will also be granted depending on the equipment. However, there is no additional bonus for weapons.
3. Safety Levels
Equipments have a safety level of upgrade. After the safety levels, the equipments will have a chance of downgrade (losing upgrade levels) and breaking which you will lose the item completely.
For normal equipments, the safety level is +3. Superior equipments have a safety level of +4. Honor equipments have a safety level of +3.
4. Upgrading in Game
The chance of breaking your item is fairly high that you will conduct many tries before reaching your goal. The game is setup so that your items have a higher chance of breaking instead of downgrade.
It is common practice for players to spend good amount of real cash in the game's cash shop in order to upgrade their equipments past +7 levels.
5. Cash Shop Enhancements
Cash shops sell Hira or Kaize Extracts to help players with their upgrade endeavors.
To upgrade past the safety levels until +6 or +7, it is recommended to use normal extracts to protect against item breakage.
However, to upgrade past +7, it is recommended to only use the Enriched Hira Extract or Enriched Kaize Extract because these also protect you against downgrade.
The chance of successfully upgrade is fairly low to encourage players to spend more money in their cash shops. It is typical for players to spend upward of $30 to a couple hundreds to get top equipments in the server.
6. Weapon Glow
From upgrade level of +4 on, your weapons gain a pretty glow effect. It is cosmetic to allow other players to guess the stats of your weapons.
+4 - Faint blue glow
+5 - Blue glow
+6 - Strong blue glow
+7 - Yellow glow
+8 - Golden glow
+9 - Red glow
+10 - Pink glow
+11 - Purple-blue glow
Credits: Aika NA, ProGamer Cite, Aika Global
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