Grade Enhancing
Overview
The grading system is the latest method to further strengthen your gears.
Grading serves 4 main purposes:
- Acquire grade-specific bonuses from an equipment. These bonuses are cumulative.
- Example: Grade B Thanatos Bow-AD will provide all bonuses described under [Bonus by Grade] for Grades D, C, and B.
- Acquire grade-specific bonuses from a card or an enchant.
- Increase stats gained from refine.
Each grade has a certain percentage bonus compared to an ungraded item. Refer to the Refine page for exact values.
| Grade | Additional Refine Bonus | |
|---|---|---|
| Weapons | Armors | |
| GRADE [D] | 10% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine | 10% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine |
| GRADE [C] | 30% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine | 30% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine |
| GRADE [B] | 50% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine | 50% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine |
| GRADE [A] | 100% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine | 100% Increase in ATK & MATK per Refine |
Example: Grade B weapon will provide 12 ATK & MATK per refine (8 * 1.50 = 12).
Item Aesthetics
When an equipment is graded, it will have distinctive aesthetics for the level of grade.
| Item Prefix (In Game) | Item Prefix (Market Search) | Item Icon | Item Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| [D] | [MAGIC] |  |
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| [C] | [RARE] |  |
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| [B] | [EPIC] |  |
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| [A] | [UNIQUE] |  |
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Procedure
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Talk to the NPC (Option 1) which opens the Grading UI.
During Refine Event, all grading procedure's base success chance is increased by 10.00%.
| Process | Refine | Materials | Base Zeny Cost | Failure Penalty | Base Success Chance | Bonus +1.00% Success Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Grade → Grade D | +9 | 1 Etel Aquamarine | 100,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 10% | 1 Blessed Etel Dust |
| 5 Etel Aquamarine | 500,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| +10 | 1 Etel Aquamarine | 100,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 20% | ||
| 5 Etel Aquamarine | 500,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| +11 | 1 Etel Aquamarine | 100,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 70% | ||
| 5 Etel Aquamarine | 500,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| Grade D → Grade C | +10 | 1 Etel Topaz | 125,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 20% | 3 Blessed Etel Dust |
| 5 Etel Topaz | 625,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| +11 | 1 Etel Topaz | 125,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 60% | ||
| 5 Etel Topaz | 625,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| Grade C → Grade B | +11 | 1 Etel Amethyst | 200,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 50% | 5 Blessed Etel Dust |
| 5 Etel Amethyst | 1,000,000z | Equipment Safe | ||||
| Grade B → Grade A | +11 | 2 Etel Amber | 500,000z | Equipment Destroyed | 40% | 7 Blessed Etel Dust |
| 10 Etel Amber | 2,500,000z | Equipment Safe |
Note:
- Only specific Lv 5 Weapons and Lv 2 Armors can be graded.
- When a Grade is successful, refine resets to +0.
- Regardless of success or failure, grading preserves enchants, cards and line options.
- Maximum of +10.00% bonus success chance can be acquired from Blessed Etel Dust.
- The system is designed where base and bonus success chances can be modified server side.
- Future implementations can have up to 3 possible methods of grade procedure. Currently, there are only 2 methods per each grade.
- Zeny Cost is variable depending on the equipment and grade. Possible up to +50% increase in zeny cost.
Grading Materials
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Talk to the NPC (Option 2) to craft grading materials.
| IMG | Item | Currency Amount |
|---|---|---|
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Etel Stone | 100,000z
Etel Dust 5 |
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Blessed Etel Dust | 100,000z
Etel Dust 5 Blacksmith Blessing 1 |
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Etel Aquamarine | 100,000z
Etel Stone 3 Aquamarine 1 |
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Etel Topaz | 200,000z
Etel Stone 6 Topaz 1 |
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Etel Amethyst | 300,000z
Etel Stone 10 Amethyst 1 |
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Etel Amber | 500,000z
Etel Stone 15 Amber 1 |
Note:
- Etel Dust are common drops from Lv 200+ dungeons such as Nifflheim Dungeon and Amicitia. (approximately 3% drop rate)
- Aquamarine, Amethyst, Topaz and Amber can be purchased from Morroc Jeweler /navi morocc 166/54.