Upgrading And Refining Items Guide

Refining = Upgrading your armor, and weapons. if you look at a weapon or clothing item you’ll see it has a grade

Definition: Refining increases the stats of an item. It will not increase bolded bonus stats, set stat bonuses or gem stats.

For weapons. Refining increases the following.
- weapons attack power.
- weapons accuracy.

For armor it increases the following.
- defense
- magic defense
- dodge rate

How to refine:
The only 3 things needed to get started on refining are the following.
- Item you want to increase

- Zuly to pay for the service
- Bind/Talisman/Apotrope of the same grade number as the item.

• This is what you're looking for, although each grade of "Bind"-"Tali"-"Apo" will have diff color, and image depending if its a Armor, Back or Weapon rune.

  Talismans

Bindrunes

Apotrope

Ancient Scarab For Unique Gear Refining Materials

Item Mall Weapons or Event Gears Refining Materials

Where to refine:
Most major planet cities and some smaller ones offer this service at the Weapon Smith NPC
Speak to one of the Refining NPCs -- only they have the power to refine an item. Click the option to 'Refine an item' or 'Upgrade an item'

Raffle in Zant

Mairath in Breezy Hills

Crune in Junon city

Pavrick in Magic City Of The Euscar (Luna)

Nel Eldora in Xita Refuge (Aldeon)

Mahyr In Desert City Of Muris (Orlo)

Ekblovo in Ancient Oasis Shrine (Orlo)

Simply request to upgrade your item. The refine User Interface will open.
- first drag and drop the item you wish to refine into the window.
- next drag the bind/talisman/apotrope corresponding to the item.

A % success rate will now show at the bottom of the window displaying your odds of successfully refining the item.

"How do I increase the % to succeed?"
By adding catalyst to the window your chances of a successful refine will improve. The following is a list of catas.
Pink Powder

Purple Powder

Lisent Hg

Lisent U

"Is there any other way to increase % to succeed?"
Yes. By adding runes from the item mall your chances are even higher. Up to 20% even.

"Is any NPC better to refine with?"
That's entirely based on speculation, some player emotionally feel that one NPC will provide better results then another, in the end the game is coded to have each Smith NPC be exactly the same as far as odds go for a successful refine.

"Will I break my item if I fail?"
No, recently it was changed so failures will never break an item. You can however degrade your item based on items Grade and Current refine. A notification window will appear displaying that "Upon failure the item will degrade 1 refine level." and then give you the option to continue or cancel

Also a graph has been posted by ShadowFox displaying the "raw*" % to succeed on each grade of Armor, Back Armor and Weapon in the next post below~ Credits to him and the other volunteers of the ROSE Wiki {link to wiki posted in credits section}

Raw % means nothing but the Item and Required stone to refine. No Item Mall Runes or Catalyst have been added.

"Can I prevent the item from Degrading?"
Yes! If you possess a pluto rune, and use it as an item -during- the attempt that failed, the rune will prevent the item from losing a refine. 
 

Refine System Changes
Grades 1-5 upon failure will degrade 1 (Plutorune will prevent degrade 1)
Grades 6-10 upon failure will break (Plutorune will prevent Break, but item will degrade 1)
Grades 11-15 upon failure will degrade 2 (Plutorune will prevent degrade by 1)
Item Mall items only
Grades 1-5 upon failure will not be altered
Grades 6-10 upon failure will degrade 1 (Plutorune will prevent degrade by 1)
Grades 11-15 upon failure will degrade 2 (Plutorune will prevent degrade by 1)

 Plutorune From Item Mall

Refine Grade Values
* Refine values scaled down slightly on grades 1 ~ 9.
* Refine levels have been extended to grade level 15, with bonuses that well exceed the old level 9 bonuses.
Success chances have changed
Grade – %
[1] 90%
[2] 85%
[3] 80%
[4] 70%
[5] 65%
[6] 55%
[7] 45%
[8] 35%
[9] 25%
[10] 15%
[11] 1%
[12] 1%
[13] 1%
[14] 1%
[15] 1%
 * New refine Catalyst items (Chemicals) are now available.
Refine System
* Catalyst items can be used to influence the success rates of refining.
* An indication display of the success chances for a refine has been added to the refine menu.
* Each refine will require 1 Rune (Bindrune/Talisman/Apotrope) & at least 1 Catalyst
* Catalyst Items will add to the success rate during any refine (up to 20 of the same Catalyst can be used during any single refine attempt)
* Venarune will yield 5% to a refine attempt (up to 2 of Venarunes can be used during any single refine attempt)
* Plutorune will protect based on the below chart (only 1 Plutorune can be used during any single refine attempt)
* Neptarune will protect based on the same Plutorune chart below and offer an additional 5% to the success rate
* The Refine UI will now show the % success rate the refine will have
In the main towns you can refine
We have 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th grade talismans, currently in-game.
The same goes for Bindrunes. As said above, there is not a 9th grade.
Note: Face items cannot be refined.
 

Satarunes (for Item Mall items): Some Item Mall items can also be refined with Satarunes which are also bought in the Item Mall, the only difference with those, is that they do not break they just fail
Venarunes a 10% success addition to your item.

 

Refine Chart

Source :
http://guidescroll.com
http://rose.irowiki.org