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.
🔨 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.