Enhancing Guide

Introduction

To start enhancing equipment you will need “Black Stones”.

There are different Black Stones for different types of gear.

How to enhance/disenhance

To enhance any piece of equipment, summon your Black Spirit then click “Enhancement”. Right-click your gear and a Blackstone then click “Enhance”. You can also click the Black Stone in your inventory to open up the Enhancement window directly.

To disenhance a piece of equipment you will need to go to a blacksmith and click “Extraction” then “Blackstone Extraction”. Right-click the gear you want to disenhance then click “Extract”.

This will destroy the piece of equipment but you will get Blackstones back.

Disenhancing an item that has not gone past its safe enhancement will always give you all of the Blackstones back. But after that, it is random what amount you will get back. For example: If you disenhance a +4 armor piece (safe enhance is +7), you will get all 4 Black stones back. If you disenhance a +11 weapon (safe enhance is +7), you may only get 9 Black stones back, despite putting more into the weapon.

How to repair Weapon/Armor Max Durability

Each time you fail to enhance an item the max durability will decrease.

It’s important to note that you will never actually lose your weapon/armor by enhancing it. If your maximum durability reaches zero, it will just become unusable until you repair the max durability.

• To repair the item’s max durability again you will need the exact same item but unenhanced, and it will consume the item.
• If you have upgraded the grade of the item, you do not need the same grade of weapon and can use a green grade instead.
  • For example, if you are enhancing an Ultimate Tadd Shuriken, you can use a normal Green grade Tadd Shuriken to repair the max durability.

Go to a blacksmith and click “Repair” then “Maximum Durability Recovery”. Place the item you want to repair in the “Recovery Target Equipment” slot and the item you want to forfeit into the “Materials” slot. Then click “Recover Max Durability” to confirm. Each item you use will increase the max durability by 10.

Memory Fragments

You can also repair your max durability using Memory Fragments instead of using the item. Durability recovery amount varies by item’s grade:

• White = Recovers 10 (Amount increases 3x if used with Artisan’s Memory)
• Green = Recovers 5 (Amount increases 3x if used with Artisan’s Memory)
• Blue = Recovers 2 (Amount increases 3x if used with Artisan’s Memory)
• Yellow = Recovers 1 (Amount increases 3x if used with Artisan’s Memory)

You should only use Memory Fragments on boss armor (Blackstar, Dim Tree, Red Nose, Bheg’s Gloves, Leebur’s Gloves etc.) and boss weapons (Blackstar, Kzarka, Kutum, Nouver, Dandelion).

This is because obtaining another of the same item to repair its max durability will cost a lot and is hard to do. It is more cost-efficient to save any Memory Fragments you get for just those items.

Artisan’s Memory

Artisan’s Memory is an item that can be obtained through various events, or bought from the Pearl Store/Loyalty Store.

Using the item when repairing your max durability, will increase the max durability recovery by x5.

• So for example, if you use Artisan Memory x1 with Memory Fragment x1 on boss armor, it will repair 5 durability instead of just 1.
• You can also use it with items to repair 30 max durability.

Enhancing Armor

Helmets, chest, gloves, and shoes can be enhanced using a Black stone to increase their defense (DP). The “safe” enhancement for armor is +5. This means that there is a 100% chance of success until you reach +5. After this, the chance of success becomes less likely and if you fail to enhance the armor, the max durability of the item will decrease by 5 each time.

Once you get to +15 you will need to use an item called “Concentrated Magical Black Stone” to enhance your armor to PRI (+16) and higher. If you fail to enhance after DUO (+17) your enhancement level will be reduced by one. For example: if I have a TRI (+18) item and fail to enhance when going to TET (+19), it will go back to DUO (+17).

Enhancement chances in the table below are based on BLUE and YELLOW (boss gear) grade armor.

Enhancing Weapons

Mainhand, Offhand, and Awakening weapons can be enhanced using a Blackstone to increase their damage (AP). The “safe” enhancement for weapons is +7. This means that there is a 100% chance of success until you reach +7. After this, the chance of success becomes less likely and if you fail to enhance the weapon, the max durability of the weapon will decrease.

Once you get to +15 you will need to use an item called “Concentrated Magical Black Stone” to enhance your weapon to  PRI (+16) and higher. If you fail to enhance after DUO (+17) your enhancement level will be reduced by one. For example: if I have a TRI (+18) item and fail to enhance when going to TET (+19), it will go back to DUO (+17).

Enhancement chances in the table below are based on BLUE and YELLOW (boss gear) grade weapons.

Enhancing Accessories

Rings, earrings, necklaces, and belts do not have a “safe” enhancement. In fact, they have a high chance of failure and only enhance from PRI (+1) to PEN (+5).

Enhancing accessories requires two of the same accessory and if the enhancement fails, both of the accessories will be destroyed.

Accessories also have a “soft cap” failstack. Once you reach the soft cap, the increased chance of success will drop.

For example, to work out your chance of success when enhancing a DUO accessory with 50 failstacks, you would use 10% base chance + (40 failstacks * 1%) + (10 failstacks * 0.2%) = 52% chance of success.

Enhancement chances in the table below are based on BLUE and YELLOW grade accessories.

Other Equipment

You can also enhance horse gear, Silver Embroidered Clothes, wagon parts, ship gear, fishing rods, fishing floats, hunting matchlocks, and various other equipment using Black Stones.

These work slightly differently depending on the gear. Check out our Gear Progression and Failstacking guide for a list of what failstacks to use on these.

Force Enhancing

You can force enhance gear to enhance it with a 100% chance of success but it will require more Black Stones and will also reduce the Max durability by a set amount. Force Enhancing is only possible up to TRI and most players will not use force enhancement and will use failstacks instead to increase their chance of success. This is because force enhancing usually ends up costing more due to the Black Stones needed and the cost to repair.

Cron Stones

Cron Stones can be bought from a Black Smith for 3 million silver each, and are used to prevent an item from losing an enhancement level if the enhancement fails.

Cron Stones can usually be used on:

• Weapons that are DUO (+17) or higher
• Armor that is DUO (+17) or higher
• Accessories that are PRI (+1) or higher

The amount of Cron Stones required is a fixed amount depending on the item and enhancement level. You can check our Cron Stone Cost List for the amount of crons needed for gear.

Regardless of whether the enhancement succeeds or fails, the Cron Stones used will be removed. You also only gain +1 failstack while using cron stones.

Cron Stones can also be used on accessories to stop them from breaking if unsuccessful. However, its enhancement can either remain the same OR decrease if you are unsuccessful.

• Accessories have a 40% chance of dregrading if you use cron stones.

Cron stones can also be obtained by “melting” pearl store costumes.

This is the most cost-effective way of gaining cron stones, since players can buy a full costume set from the central market.

• 1.63 billion silver per costume, 993 crons per costume = 1,641,490 silver per Cron Stone
• Buying Cron Stones directly from a Black Smith = 3,000,000 silver per Cron Stone

To “melt” a costume, you must go to a Blacksmith, click the extract option, and select “Outfit Extraction”. You can choose whether you would like to receive Valks’ Cry or Cron Stones. Doing this will destroy the costume piece.

Valks’ Cry/Fairy’s Blessing

Valk’s Cry and Fairy’s Blessing can be used to add +1 to your total Failstacks. Valk’s Cry and Fairy’s Blessing can only increase your total failstacks by a maximum of 10 combined.

So for example:

• you can use a maximum of 10 Valks’ Cry to increase your failstacks by 10
• OR you can use 5 Valks’ Cry and 5 Fairy’s Blessing
• OR you can use 10 Fairy’s Blessing
• OR you can use 1 Valks’ Cry and 9 Fairy’s Blessing
• ETC.

How to obtain Valks’ Cry

• Buy from the Pearl Store (F3) > Loyalties, for 100 Loyalties (limited to 5 per family per week)
• “Melt” pearl store costumes to obtain Valks’ Cry (more info below)
• Can also be obtained through various events

To “melt” a costume, you must go to a Blacksmith and then click the extract option and select “Outfit Extraction”. You can then choose whether you would like to receive Valks’ Cry or Cron Stones. Doing this will destroy the costume piece.

How to obtain Fairy’s Blessing

• Laila’s Petal x10 can be exchanged for Fairy’s Blessing x1
• Can be exchanged at Theiah, located at Kamaslyve Temple (east of Heidel)
• You must have completed the quest [Awakening] Traces of Edana, or be level 30+ to use Fairy’s Blessing.

Exchanging Blackstones for Failstacks

You can exchange Black Stones for Failstacks (up to +30) in the Enhancement Window. This is useful for obtaining low failstacks quickly without any RNG.

Storing Failstacks (Naderr’s Band)

There are two ways of storing Failstacks, the first way is to use Naderr’s Band. This allows you to store up to 16 different failstacks which you can then access from any character in your family.

• To unlock Naderr’s Band, first, speak to your Black Spirit on a character that is level 58 or higher.
• The Black Spirit will have a quest for you in the Suggestions tab called “[Naderr’s Band] Magic of the Dark Energy”.
• This quest is only available once per family and will unlock Naderr’s Band on all your characters.
• The quest will lead you to Tarif to obtain a follow-on quest, before completing it at the Tarif Storage Keeper.

Next, speak to your black spirit again to unlock Naderr’s Band, and then make sure to right-click the “Naderr’s Parchment” item in your inventory.

Naderr’s Parchment is required to unlock slots in your Naderr’s Band. You are given one free slot and then must purchase additional slots from the Pearl Store. These can be found by opening the pearl store (F3) > Function > Naderr’s Parchment (1,100 pearls each, max of 14 purchases). You can also buy one Naderr’s Parchment for 10,000 loyalties (one purchase per family).

Once you’ve unlocked Naderr’s Band, you will have a new UI when enhancing. Click the button with the two arrows to open Naderr’s Band, then simply click the slot to store a failstack. You can then click the slot again to put the failstack back on your character. If the character already has a failstack, it will swap them. Naderr’s Band and any stored Failstacks can be accessed by any character in your family.

The second method of storing failstacks is to use a Blacksmith’s Secret Book. These can be useful if you don’t have any Naderr’s Band slots left. These can be bought from any Blacksmith, but you will need to make sure you buy the correct book.

• If you have 20 failstacks or less, buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 20: 100,000 silver
• If you have 30 failstacks or less, you must buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 30: 400,000 silver.
• If you have 40 failstacks or less, you must buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 40: 1,000,000 silver.
• If you have 50 failstacks or less, you must buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 50: 2,000,000 silver.
• If you have 80 failstacks or less, you must buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 80: 10,000,000 silver.
• If you have 100 failstacks or less, you must buy the Blacksmith’s Secret Book – 100: 20,000,000 silver.
• Failstacks over 100 cannot be stored this way and must be stored using your Naderr’s Band.

Once you have the correct book for the size of failstack you have, speak to your Black Spirit and choose the “Enhancement” option. Then click the “Extract” tab along the top and switch to “Blacksmith’s Secret Book”. You can also click the book in your inventory to directly open this window. You can now select the book and turn your failstacks into an Advice of Valk’s, which can be placed into storage and used by any character. Simply right-click the Advice of Valk’s to turn it back into a failstack on the current character.

Cleansing Gear

Players will often try to build failstacks on cheaper items. If the item goes to +15 whilst you are trying to failstack, then you can go to a blacksmith in town to “cleanse” the gear. This will put the gear back to +14 at the cost of 100k silver so that you can build stacks on it again.

Devouring Gear

• You can “Devour” gear to destroy an enhanced weapon or armor and it will give you a failstack increase instead.
• You can only Devour armor that is +6 or higher, and weapons that are +8 or higher.
• Items must be at least green grade to devour.
• You can fail to Devour an item if you already have failstacks.
• The more failstacks you have, the lower the chance of Devour being successful.

To Devour an item, summon your Black Spirit then select the “Enhancement” option. Next, click “Extract” to open the Devour window.

The image below shows two examples of devouring an item based on your current failstacks. Click the image to enlarge it.

The table shows failstacks gained if you are at 0 failstacks.

Enhance vs Durability

When you are enhancing green gear between +1 to +15 you have the option to either use “Enhance” or “Durability”. These options must be selected in the enhancement window but enhance is the default option.

• Enhance: Selecting this option doubles your enhancement chance from your current failstacks, making the gear easier to enhance. Use this option if you are trying to enhance the gear and don’t want to failstack.
• Durability: Selecting this option will decrease the amount of Max Durability you lose when you fail, but it also increases the chance of failing when enhancing. This option is used when building failstacks on green-grade items.

Enhancing Titles

Enhancing titles does not affect your chance of success/failure.