Upgrading

How to upgrade your equipment:

How to Protect your equipment:

Runes of Protection

To upgrade, you must have both the smelt type you want to use and the equipment piece you want to upgrade in your inventory. You may only upgrade equipment that belongs to your class type. Why? Because the next thing you need to do is equip the piece you want to upgrade--and you can only equip things that belong to your class. After you've equipped the correct equipment piece, select the icon of the smelting stone you want to use and drag it from your inventory, up into the top half of the window. Don't release your mouse button until you see the name of the equipment piece appear. (See the screenshot on the right for an example.) After the equipment's name appears, let go of the smelt. The upgrade window should pop up, looking something like the ones below.

	This is the upgrade window you will get if your item is +0, +1, or +2. Once an item reaches +3 it is at the end of the "safezone." The safezone is the number of +'s you are allowed to go to without risking having your equipment break. This item, Dursk Wand, is currently +0, so their is no risk of breaking--only of no change.

	If your item is +3 or higher, the window displayed on the left will show up. If you look at the item name, you will see that it is Dursk Wand +6. +6 is higher than +3, so the upgrade message has changed and now warns you that their is a chance of your equipment breaking because its level of + is beyond the safezone. The "Insurance of smelting stone" mentioned is actually a Rune of Protection I. There is also a Rune of Protection II, which is used for higher +'d items. These are both discussed on the Runes of Protection page. This message will show up when you use a LSS on an item between +3 and +6, however you may ignore it. There is no chance of breakage with a LSS, they simply have not coded a different message for it yet. This is because the community wanted the LSS released before the developers had a chance
to completely finish everything. In the future, they may add in a message specifically for upgrades done with LSS. Until then, don't let the "this may possibly break" message worry you--thousands of LSS have been used and none of them have ever failed or broken equipment.

Look below for screenshots of the four different possible outcome messages and the smelt type/situation they apply to.

	Smelt Lucky Smelt Heaven Stone Extreme Stone Chaos Smelting Stone		Heaven Stone
	Smelt if item is +3 or above Heaven Stone if item is +3 or above		Smelt if item is below +3 Heaven Stone

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KhaosGOD

Upgrading

Dec 15 2010, 1:37 AM EST by 5fingers

Thread started: May 7 2010, 2:28 AM EDT Watch

Anyone know any links to up grading?
or any specail way to have a higher sucess rate of pgrading?
please reply me thnx ^_^

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LCiteraryParadigm

12/29/09 update

Jan 11 2010, 6:29 PM EST by LCiteraryParadigm

Thread started: Jan 11 2010, 6:29 PM EST Watch

aeria_ks1lent has stated the following:

with HS,
Chance to upgrade is 60% - increasing amount per "+" on equipment
Chance of no change is 20% + increasing amount per "+" on equipment
Chance to break fixed at 7%
Chance to downgrade fixed at 13%

And regular smelts can only upgrade or break, starting at 50/50 and getting less favorable from there

Upgrade events alter the initial upgrade/no change likelihoods BUT NOT subtracted amount

Which means to me that during a 200% upgrade event, chance to upgrade from +0 should be 100%
Naturally, this explains how a "200% chance" event is possible.

<http://forums.aeriagames.com/viewtopic.php?t=661811>

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Fronius

Upgrading and weapon/ armour smith skills

Dec 3 2009, 3:44 PM EST by 5fingers

Thread started: Jun 16 2009, 2:04 PM EDT Watch

I heard a rumour floating around that having higher level armour or weapon smithing skills increases your chances of upgrading. Since I can't find any info on this site or in the LC forums, I assume it is just a rumour?

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RE: Upgrading and weapon/ armour smith skills
By: 5fingers, Dec 3 2009, 3:44 PM EST

Yea, that is one of those Urban Legends, LOL I have been hearing that since I was in Cariae, 2 years ago. What they people confuse it with, is that say you have Level 3 Flawless Stone processing, you can make Black Diamond, at a 80% rate, If you use the Master of Processing, then it is about 40% rate. I did 2 tests on different days. I was making armor in those days. I tried 100 times on the making my own diamonds and making them through the Master of processor.

So like the joke that gets distorted, probably they get skills making things better to one guy just thinking out loud, "Bet if you are higher level, therefore make the upgrades better." So the armor or weapon smith skills have no advantage. In Sarissa, I had maxed my smithing skills, and i had a low level 40 rogue making high level armor and weapons . One guy from Sarissa, WarMonger, I had a 100% smithting rate with him. That was strange as it seems others i would fail here and there.

What increases your chances, is to be somewhere where there are no mobs or people around. The guild hall is good. Also i have gone to the edge of the map too. Try to get a server that is slow. I suggest late at night if you are from USA.

Remember the secret word, CYCLES. Some days i can upgrade good and some days when i break a piece on the first upgrade, I QUIT. lol So you just have to have the feel of upgrading and be patient too. Of course, in some upgrade events, the event may be hot or cold too. Again, you have to get the feel. When it is hot, I do not use RoPs. Of course, this has only happened twice, that I was able to do this. Just in a good mood, so long answer, lol.

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