Refinement System

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. +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. Additionally, 25 Oridecon can be exchanged into an HD Oridecon and 10 Elunium can be exchanged into an HD Elunium at the Premi Silvervine NPC in the Main Office.

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. 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 Lv. 1 - Phracon (200 Z from NPC Shop) or HD Oridecon + 50 Z Fee
• Weapon Lv. 2 - Emveretarcon (1,000 Z from NPC Shop) or HD Oridecon + 200 Z Fee
• Weapon Lv. 3 - Oridecon (Monster drop) or HD Oridecon + 5,000 Z Fee
• Weapon Lv. 4 - Oridecon or HD Oridecon + 20,000 Z Fee
• All Armor Types - Elunium (Monster drop) or HD Elunium + 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.

Refining Oridecon and Eluniums

When you collect 25 Oridecon or 10 Elunium, you can convert them into a single HD Oridecon or HD Elunium by talking to the Premi Silvervine NPC in the Main Office. When using HD ores, the upgraded equipment does not break upon failure, but its refine level is instead reduced by 1. However, if refinement fails at safety level, the equipment stays at that refinement level. The conversion service does not cost any Zeny.

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 +0.7 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 0.7% 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, unless HD ores are used. 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.

• 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%

Upgrade	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 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	4.8%	0.96%	0.24%	0.0384%	0.0384%

The Mastersmith skill Weapon Refine or HD Weapon Refine can be used instead to refine weapons. The refine chance of these skills is increased by 0.5% per job level after job 50 of the Mastersmith. At job 70 the Mastersmith has a +10% better chance to successfully refine a weapon than an upgrade NPC does. This refine chance is added to the original refine chance. The refinement chance using Weapon Refine or HD Weapon Refine are:

Upgrade	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 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	30%	30%	30%	20%

Upgrade	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 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	10.5%	3.15%	1.134%	0.315%