ArcheAge instance gear is no longer useless. Now any equipment from dungeons is synthesized and improved until at least the Age of Wonders. It became available with the August mid-term update, which also brought the awakening of the Ramian gear . This guide covers everything about dungeon gear.
Instances
Ranking dungeon gear is now only possible through synthesis. Any item of equipment from dungeons is used as a material. It should be noted that the number of free passes has been increased to three. Items drop from bosses in the following instances:
- Burnt Fortress arsenal (Heroic),
- Khadir’s farm (heroic),
- Howling Abyss (Heroic)
- Cradle of Destruction (Heroic)
- Nagashar,
- Eternal island
- Pleasure gardens.
In Heroic Instances, in Nagashara and on the Eternal Isle, unique items are always dropped, and in the Gardens of Pleasure only of rare quality. If, before installing the update, there were pieces of equipment from the above instances in the inventory, then they automatically become available for synthesis. Improved items with the help of scrolls before installing the update retained their quality, but you can already improve it only through synthesis.
Free shield with update 4.0; Synthesized Boots from the Gardens of Pleasure for 400 gold; a belt from the Gardens of Pleasure; Eternal Isle helmet
However, such freebies have limitations. Each type of equipment has a maximum synthesis rank. All equipment from the Gardens of Pleasure is synthesized only before the Age of Legends. This applies only to weapons of the first and second level, which can be re-crafted on a universal plasma generator or awakened using a special scroll. Tier 3 weapons are synthesized before the Age of Twelve.
- Age of Wonders item (heroic instances);
- subject of the Age of Legends (Nagashar, the Eternal Island);
- Age of Legends item (Pleasure Gardens);
- Age of Twelve item (Awakening Weapon of the Gardens of Pleasure).
Equipment synthesis
In instances, breastplates and leggings very rarely drop. Other pieces of equipment are obtained much more often and therefore can be used for synthesis. There are practically no restrictions. Equipment from one instance is upgraded with the equipment of another. For example, a bib can be synthesized with a helmet, bib, or weapon. However, with this update, it is no longer possible to use the Ephenic dungeon fusion gear.
Essences are an additional way to level up equipment, but unlike essences of light for Ramian equipment, essences of chaos are created, not mined. There are three types and four ways of crafting:
- weak essence of chaos(400 experience units) – you need 25 “shards of chaos”, which are obtained from monsters in the dungeons;
- Essence of chaos(1,000 experience points) – you need three “fusion of elements” that fall from the bosses of instances, as well as the “spirit of madness” from Barragi the Mad or “sphere of raging waves” from Douta;
- concentrated essence of chaos(2000 units of experience) – you need six “alloys of elements” and two pieces of “substances of light” from the Gardens of Pleasure.
Everything is easy and simple to mine, but a lot of gold is required for synthesis. Sharpening equipment is cheaper than weapons and shields. A set from the pleasure gardens of the First Age will cost no more than 3,000 gold. Just one Age of Wonder Predator item will cost that much. All of this can be counted as an easy start to help newbies. It remains only to decide on the way of earning.
Awakening the weapons of the Gardens of Pleasure
The awakening of weapons from the Gardens of Pleasure occurs with the help of the Epherian Scroll of Awakening. It can only be used on Legendary Age weapons. All engravings, moon runes, synthesis effects, transfiguration are preserved. This scroll initially has a 30% success rate. It will increase by 5% with each failure, but the item may simply remain unchanged or become corrupted.
The following materials are required to create a scroll:
- Essence of Light x30 (obtained from the Gardens of Pleasure);
- Rainbow Pearl x5 (Crafted from Rock Crystal, Topaz, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Black Pearl Shell);
- Essence of Solar Akchium x4 (obtained from Watered Achium Tree Sapling);
- Essence of Water x1 (drops from Ishtar for completing Gardens of Pleasure on Heroic difficulty).
The following weapons awaken:
- the rune spear of the guardian of the gardens,
- staff of the Epherian diviner,
- dagger of the Epherian courtesan,
- rune katana gladiator,
- the steel bastion of Iferia,
- enamel bow of the Epherian oppressor,
- rune hammer of the Epherian templar,
If the weapon deteriorates, then it is restored at the expense of the “Ramian Scroll of Restoration”. The item is personalized and sold for 10,000 honor points.
