Refinement System
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Overview
Equipment in Ragnarok Online can be 'upgraded' or 'refined' by upgrade NPCs in each major towns to make them more powerful. All equipment has a maximum upgrade level of +10, starting from +0. +0 items do not have any prefixes, but once they are upgraded, the number of upgrade levels will be displayed on the equipment - IE) +5 Stunner.
Also, you can turn in Rough Oridecon and Rough Elunium to create single refined Oridecon and Elunium, which are needed for upgrading Lv. 3 / Lv. 4 weapons, items and armors, respectively.
Upgrade NPC Locations
- Inside Prontera (prt_in) 63,60
- Inside Morroc (morocc_in) 73,38
- Payon (payon) 144,173
- Inside Alberta (alberta_in) 29,59
- Basement of Juno Armory (juno) 119, 137
- 2nd floor of Einbroch Blacksmith Guild (einbroch) 255, 108
- Basement of Lighthalzen Weapon Shop (lighthalzen) 194, 35
Upgrade Requirements
To upgrade equipment, make sure you have the following:
- Equipment
- Money
- Reagent
Not all item types can be upgraded. Following list shows item types that cannot be upgraded.
- Mid and Low Headgears
- Accessories
- Any items that are not equipments
- Certain armors cannot be upgraded, these usually have such noted in its item description. Most headgear that gives 10% damage reduction against a certain race falls into this catagory.
Reagents and Cost
To upgrade, you need to provide a reagent in order to upgrade your equipment. Reagent required differs depending on weapon level of the equipment. As for armors, they all take same reagent regardless of type.
Money taken also differs depending on weapon level of the weapons.
Following list shows reagent + money required.
- Weapon Lv. 1 - Phracon (200 Z from NPC Shop) + 50 Z Fee
- Weapon Lv. 2 - Emveretarcon (1,000 Z from NPC Shop) + 200 Z Fee
- Weapon Lv. 3 - Oridecon (Monster drop) + 5,000 Z Fee
- Weapon Lv. 4 - Oridecon + 20,000 Z Fee
- All Armor Types - Elunium (Monster drop) + 2,000 Z Fee
Refining Rough Oridecons and Eluniums
When you collect 5 Rough Oridecons and Rough Eluniums, you can convert it to a single Oridecon or Elunium by talking to an NPC in the upgrade shop. Note that you can make only one pure Oridecon or Elunium each time you talk to the NPC.
Effects Gained
When you successfully upgrade, you gain following effects:
- Weapons
- Weapon Lv. 1 - Every +1 upgrade gives +2 ATK (+3 ATK for every overupgrade).
- Weapon Lv. 2 - Every +1 upgrade gives +3 ATK (+5 ATK for every overupgrade).
- Weapon Lv. 3 - Every +1 upgrade gives +5 ATK (+7 ATK for every overupgrade).
- Weapon Lv. 4 - Every +1 upgrade gives +7 ATK (+13(?) ATK for every overupgrade).
Upgrades are useful, as for weapon upgrade, it reduces damage range between min - max damage (allowing you to do better average damage), it also increases your damage range. For armors, it reduces damage you take by 2/3% per every upgrade level.
Safety Level
Safety Level is maximum level of refinement you can do to an equipment with guaranteed success with 0% chance of failure. Anything past the safety level has chance to fail, and failure means your equipment will be permanently destroyed and gone from the game, including any cards and other enchantments it may have had. You won't be refunded money and the reagent took to upgrade in failed upgrades.
So give it a careful thought if you want to upgrade an equipment beyond its safety level.
- Weapons
- Weapon Lv. 1 - Safety Level +7
- Weapon Lv. 2 - Safety Level +6
- Weapon Lv. 3 - Safety Level +5
- Weapon Lv. 4 - Safety Level +4
- Armors
- All armor types have Safety Level +4
Success chances
Chances to successfully refine an item are:
| Upgrade | Lv. 1 | Lv. 2 | Lv. 3 | Lv. 4 | Armor |
| +4 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| +5 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 60% | 40% | 40% |
| +6 -> +7 | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| +7 -> +8 | 60% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| +8 -> +9 | 40% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| +9 -> +10 | 20% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% |
Success chances using Enriched Oridecon/Elunium are:
| Upgrade | Lv. 1 | Lv. 2 | Lv. 3 | Lv. 4 | Armor |
| +4 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 90% | 90% |
| +5 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 90% | 60% | 60% |
| +6 -> +7 | 100% | 90% | 75% | 60% | 60% |
| +7 -> +8 | 90% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| +8 -> +9 | 60% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| +9 -> +10 | 20% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% |
Note that red colored numbers mean no improvement over normal Oridecon or Elunium.
Originally, the Blacksmith's skill Weaponry Research was believed to add 1% refining chance per skill level (up to 10% at skill level 10) to the Blacksmith. This has been proven false. However, the Mastersmith skill Upgrade Weapon will increase self-weapon refining chance by 1% per job level after job 60. At job 70 the smith has a +10% better chance to successfully refine a weapon than an upgrade NPC does.
Socket Enchants
For more details on the system, go to Socket Enchant.
This is a relatively new system instated that allows players to add an additional card slot into select pieces of equipments. They are divided by "ranks", which will require different amount of zeny and items (more expensive stuff will be required the higher the rank of the item you plan to upgrade). Success rates will also depend on the rank; higher rank items will have lower success rates.
When successfully enchanted, item will gain one more slot to insert a card into. However, there are some exceptions. Some items have different effects as a result of successful enchant.
External Links
- To search for these items, visit R.O.D.E.