Special Upgrade

The Upgrade Anvil Where a player can Special Upgrade.

Details

Upgrading Screen.

Both R-Type (top) and S-Type (bottom) at Upgrade Level 3.

Hit impacts change when using a Special Upgraded weapon.

The icon of a weapon that failed a step 5+ attempt.

The description of a weapon that failed a step 5+ attempt.

Perform a Special Upgrade by selecting both a weapon that's already been upgraded with a jewel and an Upgrade Stone.

• A Special Upgrade allows one to greatly enhance a weapon with either Critical Hit Damage or Min and Max Damage.
  • Fomor Weapons, items purchased through Returned Milletian's Seals, and Legendary Weapons may not be specially upgraded; except for the Master Lich Wand and Bracer Knuckle.
• To perform a Special Upgrade, you must have a weapon that has all 5 Upgrades and a Gem Upgrade.
• To perform a Special Upgrade, click on an Upgrade Anvil. Locations include:
  • Dunbarton, South of the square, midway between Statue and Healer's House.
  • Tara, near the shadow gate.
  • Tailteann, near Andras.
  • Bangor, near the entrance to Barri Dungeon.
  • Outside the gates of Qilla Base Camp.
  • Filia, near Meles.
  • Vales, near Taunes.
  • In homesteads that have installed a Homestead Upgrade Anvil
• A special Upgrade Anvil can be found in the Alban Knights Training Grounds if an Alban Knights Training Stone (Hidden Floor: Aton Cimeni Anvil) is used, with increased success rates (see below).
• To upgrade you need to use one Red Upgrade Stone or Blue Upgrade Stone.
  • If you upgrade with a Red Upgrade Stone, the weapon will become an R Type. Using a Blue Upgrade Stone will cause it to become an S Type. Make your choice carefully, as the upgrade type may not be changed once it is applied.
    • R Types focuses on Critical Damage, stacking with critical damage from skills: (Critical Damage Skill % + Upgrade %).
    • S Types focuses on flat damage that's appropriate for the weapon type, such as Min and Max Damage.
• The upgrade process will cost 30,000 gold per attempt for upgrades 1 through 3 and 50,000 gold per attempt for upgrades 4 through 6. Step 7 upgrade process will cost 500,000 gold.
• Once the process is complete, your weapon will be personalized, allowing it to be stored in your Special Inventory.
• Failing an upgrade will not bring its durability down, but instead lower the upgrade level by 1.
• It is possible to lower the upgrade even below upgrade 1, but the weapon will still be of the same type and bound to the player.
• The maximum upgrade level is 7.
  • A weapon becomes (Unable to special upgrade) if it fails a step 5-6 and 6-7 attempt without a Protective Upgrade Stone.
    • A weapon in this state cannot receive any further special upgrade attempts and will have to be repaired at Edern.
      • This requires one Special Upgrade Recovery Essence, which is time-consuming and expensive to craft.
• At the first two upgrades, the weapon will emit a small, hardly-noticeable glow. At the third and sixth upgrade, the glow's effect increases.
  • In addition to this glow, your attacks will emit a glow of the color of your upgrade type.
    • This effect occurs even when the attack used is not related to weapon. (e.g.: Magic with swords.)
      • Effect is only player-sided. Others will not see this effect.
    • Broken weapons stop glowing until they are repaired.
• Bows, Control Bars, Crossbows, Dual Guns, Instruments, Chain Blades, and Knuckles are considered two-handed weapons.
• An S-type upgrade can give you a higher maximum critical damage than an R-type of the same level until:
  • Max Damage > (S-type Bonus / R-type bonus) * (100 + Critical Rank Bonus)
  • Example: for a +3R Claymore to have a higher maximum critical damage than a +3S Claymore at rank 5 Critical Hit, the max damage with the sword must be greater than (21 / 26) * (100 + 110)=169.6.
• An S-type upgrade will give you higher maximum damage across 10 hits (assuming 30% critical rate) than an R-type of the same level until:
  • Max Damage > ((S-type Bonus) * (700 + 3 * (100 + Critical Rank Bonus))) / (3 * (R-type Bonus))
  • Example: for a +3R Claymore to have a higher maximum damage across 10 hits than a +3S Claymore at rank 5 Critical Hit, the max damage with the sword must be greater than ((21) * (700 + 3 * (100 + 110))) / (3 * (26))=277.3.

Success Rates

Step	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Success Rate	100%	50%		45%			30%
Success Rate (Alban Anvil)	100%	75%		67%			45%

Upgrade Bonus

R Type (Red Upgrade Stone)

• R types focuses on critical damage, stacking with your critical hit rank (Critical Hit damage % + Upgrade %).
• When dual wielding R-Type weapons, the critical damage bonuses will add together when using single hit skills (i.e. using smash with 2 3R swords would give +36% critical damage, 2 6R swords would give +84%).

	1 Handed Axes	1 Handed Weapons Scythes	2 Handed Weapons Wands & Cylinders	Hurricane Cylinder
1	5%	4%	6%	Freezing Range +4
2	14%	11%	16%	Freezing Range +8
3	23%	18%	26%	Freezing Range +12
4	33%	26%	38%	Freezing Range +18
5	43%	34%	50%	Freezing Range +24
6	53%	42%	62%	Freezing Range +30
7	63%	50%	74%	Freezing Range ?

S Type (Blue Upgrade Stone)

• S types focuses on minimum and maximum damage.
• The Celtic Tetra Cylinder, Revenant Insight Cylinder, and Perseus Tyrannus Cylinder receive all special upgrades from all water, earth, fire and wind cylinders
• Magic Damage from wands applies only to their respective element.
  • Magic damage to staves applies to all magic.

	1 Handed Axes	1 Handed Weapons	2 Handed Weapons	Magic Weapons	Celtic Tetra Cylinder (all effects)				Gospel Cylinder
					Water Cylinders	Fire Cylinders	Earthquake Cylinder	Hurricane Cylinder
1	Min Damage +2 Max Damage +4	Min Damage +2 Max Damage +3	Min Damage +2 Max Damage +5	Magic Attack +12	Water Damage +5	Fire Damage +3	Barrier Spikes' HP +60	Freezing Time +1 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +1
2	Min Damage +5 Max Damage +10	Min Damage +4 Max Damage +8	Min Damage +6 Max Damage +13	Magic Attack +24	Water Damage +10	Fire Damage +6	Barrier Spikes' HP +120	Freezing Time +2 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +2
3	Min Damage +8 Max Damage +16	Min Damage +6 Max Damage +13	Min Damage +10 Max Damage +21	Magic Attack +36	Water Damage +15	Fire Damage +9	Barrier Spikes' HP +180	Freezing Time +3 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +3
4	Min Damage +12 Max Damage +23	Min Damage +9 Max Damage +19	Min Damage +15 Max Damage +30	Magic Attack +52	Water Damage +20	Fire Damage +12	Barrier Spikes' HP +240	Freezing Time +5 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +5
5	Min Damage +16 Max Damage +30	Min Damage +12 Max Damage +25	Min Damage +20 Max Damage +39	Magic Attack +68	Water Damage +25	Fire Damage +15	Barrier Spikes' HP +300	Freezing Time +7 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +7
6	Min Damage +20 Max Damage +37	Min Damage +15 Max Damage +31	Min Damage +25 Max Damage +48	Magic Attack +84	Water Damage +31	Fire Damage +19	Barrier Spikes' HP +370	Freezing Time +9 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage +10
7	Min Damage +24 Max Damage +44	Min Damage +18 Max Damage +37	Min Damage +30 Max Damage +57	Magic Attack +100	Water Damage +38	Fire Damage +24	Barrier Spikes' HP +450	Freezing Time +11 sec	(All) Alchemic Damage ?

Available Equipment for Special Upgrades

• For a list of Equipment that can be Special Upgraded, see here.

Trivia

• Some equipment use 1-Handed R-type Special Upgrade despite being 2-Handed Weapons.
  • This includes the Merlin's Shyllien Mana Knuckle (Type 1) and (Type 2), as well as the Shyllien Mana Knuckle variant.
  • This includes the Barbaric Fox Scythe and the Devil Slayer.