Act's Gear Upgrading Guide

[Actout 11]

Guide Contents:

Equipment Upgrading 0 to +20

Equipment Piercing 0/4 and 0/10

Elemental Upgrades

Change Element Type

Jewels and Runes

Bonus Stats

 

We will be focusing this guide around Baruna items as upgrading lesser equipment is not really needed due to the abundance of these items in the game. For our examples, we will be using a Baruna Bileire Suit and a Baruna Curtana weapon. They both are classed as “Clean” meaning no upgrades are present on them. Clean gear usually sells for around 20-30 Perin each in SM, while weapons vary depending on the class.

 

 

Equipment Upgrading 0 to +20

Regular equipment can be upgraded to +10 while a Baruna item can be upgraded to +20. To upgrade we will need plenty of Stones of Balance and Ultimate Blessing of Baruna’s. Stones of Balance can be bought from Peach along with being found from various mob loot drops. Ultimate Blessing of Baruna’s can be bought from the store, or found in the AFK collectors area. Be aware that upgrading Baruna weapons can be quite costly for a new player. You are able to use Scrolls of Smelting to increase the chance of success up to +10 should you have collected any of these during your playtime.

 

We will be using the “Safe Upgrade” option available with BoBoChan, found at the blacksmith area. Add your item to upgrade into the top box and fill the slots with both of the Stones of Balance and Ultimate Blessing Stones, once done, click start:

 

 

Continue this process until you run out of materials, hit your desired upgrade target, or reach +20.

 

57 Attempts to +10, 228 total attempts to +20

68 Attempts to +10, 205 total attempts to +20

Upgrading a Baruna weapon to +20 unlocks 8 rune slots, we will discuss these later in the guide.

 

Piercing

Suits, Weapons, and Shields are the only items that are able to be pierced. The following are the types of cards available and where they can be pierced:

 

 

Suits can be pierced up to a maximum of 4 times, while weapons and shields can be pierced 10 times. To pierce our items we will be using the “Safe Piercing” option available with BoBoChan, found at the blacksmith area. Add your item to upgrade into the top box and fill the slots with moonstones (PVE mob drops) and Scrolls of GProtect (bought from Peach), once done, click start:

 

 

Continue this process until you run out of materials, hit your desired pierce target, or reach 0/4 or 0/10.

 47 Attempts to 0/4 the suit.

 93 Attempts to 0/10 the weapon.

 

Next, we will attach our cards by double-clicking on the card, then clicking on the item. For the suit, we are placing 4x 10% Earthquake cards to give us 40% more defense, and we are placing 10x Land Card (s) into our weapon for 80 STA and 10% HP.

 

 

Elemental Upgrades

Suits, Weapons and Shields are the only items that are able to be upgraded with an element using element cards. These items can be upgraded with an element to a maximum of +20. With each higher level providing a greater glow on the weapon along with a bonus to damage or reduction based on the enemy you are fighting. To element upgrade our items we will be using the “Safe Element Upgrade” option available with BoBoChan, found at the blacksmith area. Add your item to upgrade into the top box and fill the slots with your desired element card (PVE mob drops) and Scrolls of SProtect (bought from Peach), once done, click start:

 

 

For our examples, we will be upgrading both our suit and our weapon with Generator Cards (Electric).

415 Attempts to +20 the weapon.

490 Attempts to +20 the suit.

 

Change Element Type

You are able to change the element in your equipment by using a Scroll of Element Change, on sale at the Red Chip Trader for 250 Red Chips. To use this scroll, active it, place your item into the slot, and select the new element. We are going to change our suit from Electric to Wind:

 

 

Jewels and Runes

Once a weapon has been upgraded as per the first part of this guide, jewel slots will be unlocked. The maximum number of Jewel slots for a Baruna weapon is 8 and is achieved once the weapon reaches +20.

In these slots you can put Jewels (only use Diamonds), or even better, Runes. Runes can be incredibly cheap, or very expensive, depending on what type you would like. Runes come in 3 types: Attributes, % PVE Damage Increase and % PVP Damage Increase.

For our example, I have purchased the runes from a player vendor in SM how has farmed them from dungeons. The runes I will be adding are % PVP Damage Runes. To add the rune, simply double click the rune and click the weapon.

We were lucky, none of them failed… yes they can fail and you lose the rune!

 

 

Bonus Stats

You are able to add bonus stats onto equipment by using attribute scrolls (Scroll of Strength, Scroll of Stamina etc.) available from the Event Shop. These scrolls will add a bonus attribute to your item ranging from 1 to 4. These scrolls cost 100 Event Coins each and the roll is random.

This upgrade is a costly luxury and is only really chased by players who have little else to upgrade and want to min/max their builds. To add the bonus stat, simply double-click the scroll and click the item.

Each attempt will overwrite the existing bonus; we were lucky and landed a +3 on the suit!

 

The End Result!

The last step is to sort the awakes out, more information on how awakes work can be found in my Awakes Guide Here.

 

 

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