Rare items/loot

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• rertez Member UncommonPosts: 230

  March 2016

  You don't have to rely on being lucky enough to collect a rare loot but instead you have to make enough money to buy stuff from other players through the AH. Gear upgrade components alone are not that rare and they actually drop pretty frequently but you need tons of them if you're aiming to upgrade stuff to +15. Upgrading gear involves a punishing rng system which means that the higher you want to go the higher the chance is to waste your materials required for a single try. Upgrading to +5 has no rng but going higher requires you to fiddle with managing your fail stacks to reach your goal with the least amount of materials possible. The so called least or optimal amount is still a lot. I do mean a LOT. It requires a lot of play time and dedication to achieve a high level upgrade. I would advise you to check out some video guides on the gear upgrade system to understand how it works in practice.
  
  Also gear has no level requirements in this game so that you can wear anything (even the best +15 pieces) from level 1 if you can afford it. Leveling your character is basically good for unlocking higher and higher level combat skills but getting your base stats signifficantly higher is basically done through getting your gear to up to +15.
  
  It all depends on how you enjoy different game mechanics (combat, gathering, trading, fishing, building your own economy, READING and doing quests, guild missions, etc.). It's all about how you enjoy the game itself. Just give it a shot with a 7-day friend invite key and be prepared to learn a lot.
  
• MMOHO Member UncommonPosts: 55

  March 2016

  Thanks for the informative response! I kinda like that upgrading system. My first MMO experience is Cabal online and getting an item to +7 was very rewarding!
• Onigod Member UncommonPosts: 756

  March 2016

  There are multiple ways to get fail stacks.. keep trying to combine cheap accesories (cheaper than upgrade stones)  accesories have a very high chance of failure and you get get some failstacks..  I have upgraded 1 piece of equipment to +15...  I first wanted a ton of failstacks before attemtping to upgrade it from +14 to +15
  
• MMOHO Member UncommonPosts: 55

  March 2016

  Do items change color or appearance when upgraded? What stats increase?
• rertez Member UncommonPosts: 230

  March 2016

  MMOHO said:

  Do items change color or appearance when upgraded? What stats increase?

  There is a dye system that is very detailed but also fairly "grindy". That feature might help ease the lack of variety of armor/weapon appearances. In fact everything looks pretty generic but also very believable if we look at the default skins (I haven't noticed them changing as being enhaced so far). Gear visuals can be altered by getting costume sets or pieces via loot or a fairly expensive ingame store. Let's say this game is not a heaven for players who love to customize their characters to be looking unique or even badass compared to others. This game's visuals are well crafted and even the basic armor appearances are very detailed and believable but as I said they lack variety if you're not upgrading their visuals by other items. Also there is nothing immersion breaking in this game. Not a single prop or armor is out of place. Everything is part of this real world. They did a great job on making a realistic atmosphere with realistic elements.
  
• v0ldem0rt_putin Member UncommonPosts: 4

  March 2016

  @MMOHO good question. Been wondering the same