MapleStory MGLBMapleStory M Equipment Refinement Guide
Summary
Official Refinement guidance covering Empress, Longinus, and Genesis refinement, eligible base equipment, material sources, inherited attributes, ability growth, and resulting attack or defense changes.
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You can enhance your current equipment with new abilities through Refinement.
For Mythic equipment or Inherited Ancient equipment, you can refine it into Empress equipment, and you will receive additional bonuses to the success rate when crafting Necro or Chaos items.
The effects obtained through refinement will be reset when crafting Necro/Chaos items.
For secondary weapons, you can refine them into Longinus Spear, which can deal significant damage to bosses.
Introduction to Refinement
- You can refine your equipments via [Bag > Equipment > Forge] or [Main Menu > Forge > Refine].
- Refinement comes in 3 types — Empress Refinement, Longinus Refinement, and Genesis Refinement — and the type varies depending on the attributes of the equipment item registered as the base.
| ★ TIP! - When performing Refinement, all options and trade attributes of the equipment registered as the base are inherited. - During Empress Refinement, additional probabilities are applied when crafting Mythic > Necro, crafting inherited Ancient equipment > crafting Chaos. |
Refinement Requirements and Required Materials
| Refinement Type | Refinement Base | Avail. Rank for Refinement | Material (Refinement Lv. 0 > 1) | Materials (Refinement over Lv. 1) | Material Sources |
| Empress Refinement | Weapon | Mythic or Inherited Ancient Equipment | Fire Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus | |
| Armor | Water Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus | |||
| Cape, Shoulder | Life Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus | |||
| Longinus Refinement | Secondary Weapon | Unique – Mythic | Rubian | Sharenian’s Culvert Elite Dungeon Chaos Mode | |
| Genesis Refinement | Arcabe Umbra Weapon | Chaos | Genesis Refinement Stone | Afterimage of Darkness | Refinement Stone : Liberation Quest AoD : Obtained upon defeating Commander bosses after completing the Liberation Quest. |
*The Refinement base and grade criteria are based on equipment that has not undergone alchemy (equipment with no alchemy level).
*To proceed with Genesis Refinement, you must first clear the Genesis Weapon Liberation Quest, [Lingering Question and Fresh Start].
Refinement Requirement and Required Materials
| Refinement Base | Avail. Rank for Refinement | Material | Material Sources |
| Weapon | Mythic Rank or Inherited Ancient Equipment | Fire Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus (Expedition, Chaos Expedition) |
| Armor | Water Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus (Expedition, Chaos Expedition) | |
| Cape, Shoulder | Life Dream Stone | Corrupted Empress Cygnus (Expedition, Chaos Expedition) | |
| Secondary Weapon | Unique ~ Mythic Rank | Rubian | Sharenian's Culvert Elite Dungeon Chaos Mode |
Refinement Process and Results
- Longinus Spear refinement will add ‘Sharenian Ability’ stat, which increases with increasing Ability Levels.
- Ability stats will require an increasing amount of material items with increasing Ability Levels, and the success rate will differ with on each level.
- When unrefined equipment is refined, it will change into another item but maintain its original ability.
- Upon refinement, PHY weapons increase in their PHY ATK.
- Upon refinement, MAG weapons increase in their MAG ATK.
- Upon refinement, armors increase in their PHY/MAG DEF.
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