Refinement Guide

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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 - e.g. +4 Infiltrator.

Upgrade Requirements

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

Also, you can turn in (5) Rough Oridecon and Rough Elunium to create single refined Oridecon and Elunium.

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).

Armors

• Every +1 upgrade gives +1 (it's actually only 0.66) Equipment DEF (not VIT DEF).

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 0.66% per every upgrade level.

Safety Level

The Safety Level is the maximum level of refinement that can be given to equipment with guaranteed success (0% chance of failure). Anything past the safety level has chance to fail, and failure means your equipment will be permanently destroyed, including any cards and other enchantments it may have had. You won't be refunded Zeny and the ore used to upgrade if it fails. Give careful thought before deciding if you want to upgrade a piece of equipment beyond its safety level.

Safety levels when upgrading with regular ores:

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

There are 3 (4 if we consider HD ores) different ways to refine your equipment.

• Normal Refine (Normal Success rate)
• Special refine or Suhnbi (Enriched Oridecon & Elunium rate)
• Whitesmith refine weapons (10% higher than normal success rate at job 70).
• HD Refine (Same as Normal success rate BUT protects your equipment from breaking if you fail).

Success chance with normal ores

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%

Enriched Ores

Success chances using Enriched Oridecon/Enriched Elunium are:

Upgrade	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 4	Armor
+4 -> +5	100%	100%	100%	90%	90%
+5 -> +6	100%	100%	90%	70%	70%
+6 -> +7	100%	90%	80%	70%	70%
+7 -> +8	90%	70%	40%	40%	40%
+8 -> +9	70%	40%	40%	40%	40%
+9 -> +10	30%	30%	30%	20%	20%

Note that red colored numbers mean improvement over normal Oridecon or Elunium.

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