Refine Success Rate
prt_in 63,60📍 Where: Hephaestus, the blacksmith in Prontera — prt_in 63,60. Talk to him, pick the piece you want refined, and he tells you the exact ore cost, the zeny fee and your odds before you commit.
⚠️ A failed refine no longer destroys the item — it breaks it. The piece turns red, comes off, and cannot be worn until it is mended. It keeps its refine level and its cards, so nothing is lost forever.
🃏 Mending a refine-break costs TCG, not zeny. Take it back to Hephaestus: 1 TCG Card per refine level it was carrying when it cracked (a broken +7 costs 7 TCG; a +0 costs 1). No Repairman and no Blacksmith's Weapon Repair can fix it — those only mend gear broken by a monster or a skill, which stays a plain zeny repair.
🔎 You can tell the two apart on the item itself. A piece Hephaestus cracked carries the line Broken by Refine - N TCG to mend in its tooltip, where N is exactly what he will charge. Gear broken by a monster or a skill has no such line — that one is a zeny job for a Repairman.
🔥 Not worth mending? Scrap it. Hephaestus buys cracked gear back — Scrap a cracked piece in his menu. He pays the item's ordinary NPC sell price, no more, and the piece is gone for good along with any cards still in it. This is the only way to cash one out: the client itself refuses damaged gear in a normal shop window, so no other NPC can ever be handed one.
🛡️ +9 and above is protected
A piece at +9 or better cannot be dropped on the ground and cannot be sold to any NPC — not by an ordinary shop, and not through Hephaestus' furnace either. It simply will not appear in the sell window. That is a deliberate guard: those pieces cost far more ore than any shop pays for them, and one misclick should not be able to end one.
- Below +9 everything behaves normally — drop it, sell it, scrap it.
- Cracked +9s are protected too. Mend it instead; the TCG bill is a great deal cheaper than the refine was.
- Trading and vending are untouched. You can still hand a +9 to another player or put it in your shop — the guard is only against destroying it yourself.
🔨 What it costs
- Ore —
2 × (current refine + 1)per attempt, so it climbs as you go: 2 ore at +0, 10 at +4, 20 for the last swing to +10. Taking one piece from +0 to +10 costs 110 ore. Armor: Elunium · Weapon Lv1: Phracon · Weapon Lv2: Emveretarcon · Weapon Lv3 & Lv4: Oridecon. - 🪶 Those four ores weigh 1 each on FullRO (official: 20), so even a 20-ore swing is only 20 weight. Carry the pile.
- Zeny —
10,000z per ore, i.e. 20,000 × (current refine + 1). It climbs with the ore: 20,000z at +0, 200,000z for the last swing to +10. Taking one piece from +0 to +10 costs 1,100,000z. No swing is free any more. - 📢 Every +9 and +10 is announced to the whole server.
- 💎 Hephaestus works with those four basic ores only — he does not take Enriched or HD ore.
🛡️ Armor — Elunium
| Refine | Ore per attempt | Success Rate | Zeny per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 → +4 | 2 – 8 | 100% | 20,000 – 80,000z |
| +5 | 10 | 84% | 100,000z |
| +6 | 12 | 64% | 120,000z |
| +7 | 14 | 64% | 140,000z |
| +8 | 16 | 36% | 160,000z |
| +9 | 18 | 36% | 180,000z |
| +10 | 20 | 17% | 200,000z |
⚔️ Weapon Lv. 1 — Phracon
| Refine | Ore per attempt | Success Rate | Zeny per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 → +7 | 2 – 14 | 100% | 20,000 – 140,000z |
| +8 | 16 | 84% | 160,000z |
| +9 | 18 | 64% | 180,000z |
| +10 | 20 | 34% | 200,000z |
⚔️ Weapon Lv. 2 — Emveretarcon
| Refine | Ore per attempt | Success Rate | Zeny per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 → +6 | 2 – 12 | 100% | 20,000 – 120,000z |
| +7 | 14 | 84% | 140,000z |
| +8 | 16 | 64% | 160,000z |
| +9 | 18 | 36% | 180,000z |
| +10 | 20 | 34% | 200,000z |
⚔️ Weapon Lv. 3 — Oridecon
| Refine | Ore per attempt | Success Rate | Zeny per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 → +5 | 2 – 10 | 100% | 20,000 – 100,000z |
| +6 | 12 | 84% | 120,000z |
| +7 | 14 | 75% | 140,000z |
| +8 | 16 | 36% | 160,000z |
| +9 | 18 | 36% | 180,000z |
| +10 | 20 | 34% | 200,000z |
⚔️ Weapon Lv. 4 — Oridecon
| Refine | Ore per attempt | Success Rate | Zeny per attempt |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 → +4 | 2 – 8 | 100% | 20,000 – 80,000z |
| +5 | 10 | 84% | 100,000z |
| +6 | 12 | 64% | 120,000z |
| +7 | 14 | 64% | 140,000z |
| +8 | 16 | 36% | 160,000z |
| +9 | 18 | 36% | 180,000z |
| +10 | 20 | 17% | 200,000z |
⚔️ Tip: Every level up to the first row below 100% is free of risk — take every piece that far before you gamble a single zeny. Past that, Hephaestus tells you the odds before he swings. A miss no longer costs you the item, but it does cost you the ore, the zeny and a TCG bill to put it back together — so the deeper you push, the more a bad swing stings.