Refinement System
Overview
Equipment in Arcadia 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. +5 Stunner.
Also, you can turn in Rough Oridecon and Rough Elunium to create single refined Oridecon and Elunium, which are needed for upgrading Lvl 3 / Lvl 4 weapons, items and armors, respectively.
Upgrade NPC Locations
- Inside Prontera (prt_in) 63,60
- Inside Morocc (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. The following item types cannot be upgraded:
- Mid and Low Headgears
- Accessories
- Any items that are not equipment
- Any equipment that specifically says it cannot be upgraded
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 Lvl 1 - Phracon (200 Z from NPC Shop) + 50 Z Fee
- Weapon Lvl 2 - Emveretarcon (1,000 Z from NPC Shop) + 200 Z Fee
- Weapon Lvl 3 - Oridecon (Monster drop) + 5,000 Z Fee
- Weapon Lvl 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 them into 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. This service does not cost any Zeny.
Effects Gained
When you successfully upgrade, you gain following effects:
- Weapons
- Weapon Lvl 1 - Every +1 upgrade gives +2 ATK (Random Bonus ATK value: +3).
- Weapon Lvl 2 - Every +1 upgrade gives +3 ATK (Random Bonus ATK value: +5).
- Weapon Lvl 3 - Every +1 upgrade gives +5 ATK (Random Bonus ATK value: +8).
- Weapon Lvl 4 - Every +1 upgrade gives +7 ATK (Random Bonus ATK value: +13).
Random bonus ATK: For each overupgrade (upgrade over the safety level), the weapon adds a random number between 1 and [Random Bonus ATK value*Number of overupgrades] to each attack. Example: A Lvl 2 Weapon upgraded to +8 gains +24 ATK (fixed) plus a +10 Random Bonus ATK (a random bonus between 1 and 10 in each attack).
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.
Arcadia Online NPCs offer the following safety levels when upgrading with regular ores:
- Weapons
- Weapon Lvl 1 - Safety Level +7
- Weapon Lvl 2 - Safety Level +6
- Weapon Lvl 3 - Safety Level +5
- Weapon Lvl 4 - Safety Level +4
- Armors
- All armor types have Safety Level +4
Success chances
Success chance with normal metals
Chances to successfully refine an item with normal metals are:
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 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 | 19% | 19% | 19% | 9% | 9% |
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 | Armor |
| +0 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| +0 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 60% | 24% | 24% |
| +0 -> +7 | 100% | 60% | 30% | 9.6% | 9.6% |
| +0 -> +8 | 60% | 24% | 6% | 1.92% | 1.92% |
| +0 -> +9 | 24% | 4.8% | 1.2% | 0.384% | 0.384% |
| +0 -> +10 | 4.56% | 0.912% | 0.228% | 0.03456% | 0.03456% |
Note: The Whitesmith skill Weapon Refine increases self-weapon refining chance by 0.5% per job level after job 50. At job 70 the smith has a +10% better chance to successfully refine a weapon than an upgrade NPC does.
Success chance with job level 70 Whitesmith
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 |
| +4 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| +5 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 70% | 50% |
| +6 -> +7 | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% |
| +7 -> +8 | 70% | 50% | 30% | 30% |
| +8 -> +9 | 50% | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| +9 -> +10 | 29% | 29% | 29% | 19% |
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 |
| +0 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| +0 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 70% | 35% |
| +0 -> +7 | 100% | 70% | 42% | 17.5% |
| +0 -> +8 | 70% | 35% | 12.6% | 5.25% |
| +0 -> +9 | 35% | 10.5% | 3.78% | 1.575% |
| +0 -> +10 | 10.15% | 3.45% | 1.0962% | 0.29925% |
Success chance with enriched metals
Not available on Arcadia Online
Chances to successfully refine an item with Enriched Oridecon/Elunium are:
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 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 no improvement over normal Oridecon or Elunium.
| Upgrade | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 | Armor |
| +0 -> +5 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 90% | 90% |
| +0 -> +6 | 100% | 100% | 90% | 63% | 63% |
| +0 -> +7 | 100% | 90% | 72% | 44.1% | 44.1% |
| +0 -> +8 | 90% | 63% | 28.8% | 17.64% | 17.64% |
| +0 -> +9 | 63% | 25.2% | 11.52% | 7.056% | 7.056% |
| +0 -> +10 | 18.9% | 7.56% | 3.456% | 1.4112% | 1.4112% |