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By Fishy, November 20, 2021 in Guides

grading guide grade

Fishy Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) 

This is a simple guide to grading your equipment. You can follow it exactly
or just use it as a guideline.

Highly recommend you refine/grade your gears during refine event (yes it
also increase the chance of grading).
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*There are items that would grade your equipment for you for no extra cost.
The most common ones are D Grade Box and C Grade Box.

There's a version of D Grade Box (ID: 1910000216) that doesn't bind your
equipment to your account (making it untradable ), but other boxes will bind
your equipment to your account.

These boxes are available through https://wiki.shining-

moon.com/index.php/Instance_Points_Shop , https://wiki.shining-
moon.com/index.php/Reputation , https://wiki.shining-
moon.com/index.php/Purgatory#Purgatory_Traders , and Kachua Keys

1. Refine to +10:

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Use Etherium for your armors or Etherdeocon for your weapons

to refine them to either +6 or +7 base on how lucky you feel.

Then use Enriched Etherium or Enriched Etherdeocon to refine

them the rest of the way to +10.

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I do not use blacksmith's blessing during this step because I feel

it's a waste when there's no chance to break.

At grade 0 and grade D you can start the grading process

(Step 3) at refine level +9 (for grade 0) or refine level +10
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(for grade 0 and grade D) but at lower success chance.

Here is the breakdown:

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from Grade 0 to Grade D: cost 75 etel dust each attempt

+9: 10%
+10: 20%
+11: 70%

from Grade D to Grade C: cost 150 etel dust each

attempt
+10: 20%
+11: 60%

*Note: This is the base chance, if you're grading during

refine event, the chance shown in the grading window
will be the base + event bonus.

Example: during a 10% refine event, the chance

shown when you grading to D at +11 will be 80%.

and refine from 10~11 has a base 15% success chance

(with HD Etherdeocon or HD Etherium) and cost 7 bsb
each attempt.

I prefer grading equipment (skip to Step 3) at +10 at grade

0 so you don't need to use blacksmith's blessing to +11.

But you can do a cost analysis for yourself and see what is
cheaper.

2. Refine to +11:

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Use HD Etherium or HD Etherdeocon and blacksmith's blessing

to get to +11.

You NEED to use blacksmith's blessing here or your equipment

will break on failure.

3. Grade your equipment:

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Now just talk to the Grade Enchanter to grade your equipment.

(See what materials you need and talk to the NPC again to get
them)

ALWAYS pick the second option that cost 5 materials so your

equipment doesn't break on failure.

I recommend not using the Blessed Etel Dust to increase the

success chance because it is not worth it.

If you fail, the materials are lost but your equipment stays the
same, so just try again.

When you succeed with the grading process, the refine level of your
equipment will be reset back to +0.

Repeat the 3 steps above until you get your desired grade.

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Grade D, C, B, A (Courtesy of hazyforest.com)

And repeat step 1 and 2 when you reach your desired grade and refine it
until you get your desired refine level. You can only safely refine to +14,
after that it will have a chance to break because you can no longer use
blacksmith's blessing.

jRO gear grading (Niflheim exclusive):

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jRO equipment can be graded once (going from non-graded to

grade A)

The process is similar to normal grading:

+11 your equipment (you can grade at +9 or +10 but

since the cost of refining lv 4 or below weapon and lv 1
armor is so cheap, you're better off grading at +11).
Grade your item at Grade Enchanter, pick the 5x Etel
Aquamarine option (DO NOT use Blessed Etel Dust).
If it fails, do it again until you succeed.

Mini refine guide:

1. Use refine ticket on your equipment (+7 or +8 it doesn't really

matter) (ID: 6234, 6230, 6233, 6229).
2. Use limited enriched oridecon or elunium (ID: 6315, 6314) to
refine to +10.

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3. Talk to Basta in the Refiner building (just walk in a little bit more,
don't enter any warp portal) and with HD Bradium or Carnium
(ID: 6226, 6225), refine your equipment to +11.

All the NPC you need for the materials can be found in the Refiner building
(which can be found by walking to the right side at @go 0).

The ores you need to refine (Etherium, Etherdeocon, etc.) are from Dietrich,
and grading materials are from Grade Enchanter.

Topaz and Amber can be found at the Jeweler in Morroc (/navi moc_ruins
110/105) and the rest of the jewels can be dropped from monster.

I'd say prepare at least ~2.5k etel dust and 100 bsb to get to grade A.

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Good luck!

Edit: For more info about grading

https://wiki.shining-
moon.com/index.php/Refinement_System#Level_5_Weapons_.26_Level_2_
Armor

Edited November 11, 2023 by Fishy

add some info

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