The Forge

The Forge allows players to repair, salvage, reforge, and improve their equipment. It does not allow for the creation of new equipment from scratch.

Repair

All equipment have Condition and Durability. Condition degrades with use while Durability determines what the maximum Condition of an item is and therefore how often it needs to be repaired. Equipment degrades by a fixed value for every monster killed; difficulty and round/turn count do not have any effect. Being defeated in battle does not impact Condition; condition is deducted at the end of every round regardless of outcome. If a player were to average 10 monsters per round then after 1,000 rounds their equipment would lose ~100 condition. Players under level 100 will not lose Condition whilst players between levels 100 and 200 will only lose half.

As an equipment's condition drops below 50% its effective attributes are reduced until it is repaired. This reduction increases linearly with the loss of condition and will update mid-battle. At 0% Condition equipment provides no attributes (except burden and interference).

Every tier has a given range of possible durability values. Rare tier gear are generally more fragile than the corresponding common tiers. The range of possible durability values is narrower for rare gear than for common gear, with a bonus based on the equipment quality.

Dropped gear from battles will start out at a random wear level between 50% and 100%. Gear from Snowflake's Shrine and the Lottery will always start at 100%.

Equipment at full Condition is not listed whilst in the Repair area of the Forge.

Repair Costs

Scrap materials are used together with a catalyst to fully restore an equipment piece to its maximum condition. Scrap can be salvaged from unwanted equipment or bought from the Item Shop.

The amount of items required to repair an item depends on its quality and percentage-wise degradation. Equipment with high Durability need less frequent repairs and comparatively less items to maintain over time. Repairing equipment will grant forge experience according to the number of items used in the repair.

Amount of materials required to repair equipment:

Scraps	1 + rounddown((100 - condition%) / quality_mod)
Catalysts	1 + rounddown((100 - condition%) / 25)

Where condition% is the equipment item's condition in percentage, and the quality_mod value is specified in the table below:

Quality	Coefficient
Superior and lower	10
Exquisite and Magnificent	4
Legendary and Peerless	2

Upgrade

Upgrading is done using the materials brought to players by their monsters, drops in battles, or purchased in the Bazaar's item shop. Catalysts are also required.

• Each upgrade level adds the following factor to the base stat.

For non-ADB/MDB factors: 1 + 0.2 * ln(0.1 * forge_count + 1)

For ADB/MDB: 1 + 0.28 * ln(0.1 * forge_count + 1)

• Stats can only be increased.
• Only stats that already exist on the gear (including those stats gained from equip prefixes/suffixes) can be increased. No new stats may be added.
  • Any stats that are gained from Potencies cannot be forged.
• Most upgrades are limited to 25 levels, except for physical and magical damage which go up to 50 levels.
  • This upgrade cap can be increased by Forge Level up to double (50 and 100 levels respectively).
• No bindings for increasing any proc stats exist.
  • Likewise for decreasing Burden and Interference.

Materials

Basic Materials

These come in Low, Mid, and High-grade varieties.

Name	Required to Reforge & Upgrade
Cloth	Cloth armor
Leather	Light armor and Shields
Metals	Heavy armor and Weapons
Wood	Staffs and Shields

Rares

Name	Required to Reforge
Crystallized Phazon	Phase armor
Shade Fragment	Shade armor
Repurposed Actuator	Power armor
Defense Matrix Modulator	Force Shield

Bindings

Name	Upgrades
Binding of Slaughter	Base Physical Damage
Binding of Balance	Physical Hit Chance
Binding of Isaac	Physical Crit Chance
Binding of Destruction	Base Magical Damage
Binding of Focus	Magical Hit Chance
Binding of Friendship	Magical Crit Chance
Binding of Protection	Physical Defense
Binding of the Fleet	Evade Chance
Binding of the Barrier	Block Chance
Binding of the Nimble	Parry Chance
Binding of the Elementalist	Elemental Magic Proficiency
Binding of the Heaven-sent	Divine Magic Proficiency
Binding of the Demon-fiend	Forbidden Magic Proficiency
Binding of the Curse-weaver	Depreciating Magic Proficiency
Binding of the Earth-walker	Supportive Magic Proficiency
Binding of Surtr	Fire Spell Damage
Binding of Niflheim	Cold Spell Damage
Binding of Mjolnir	Elec Spell Damage
Binding of Freyr	Wind Spell Damage
Binding of Heimdall	Holy Spell Damage
Binding of Fenrir	Dark Spell Damage
Binding of Dampening	Crushing Mitigation
Binding of Stone-skin	Slashing Mitigation
Binding of Deflection	Piercing Mitigation
Binding of the Fire-eater	Fire Mitigation
Binding of the Frost-born	Cold Mitigation
Binding of the Thunder-child	Elec Mitigation
Binding of the Wind-waker	Wind Mitigation
Binding of the Thrice-blessed	Holy Mitigation
Binding of the Spirit-ward	Dark Mitigation
Binding of the Ox	Strength
Binding of the Raccoon	Dexterity
Binding of the Cheetah	Agility
Binding of the Turtle	Endurance
Binding of the Fox	Intelligence
Binding of the Owl	Wisdom
Binding of Warding	Magical Mitigation
Binding of Negation	Resist Chance

Material Costs

• The first 5 levels of upgrades on any piece of equipment do not require any bindings and will always have the same material costs.
  • Past the first 5 levels the material costs gradually rise and 1 binding corresponding to the stat being upgraded is required.
  • The amount required varies based on the equipment's quality and the number of upgrades already done in that stat. As the equipment is upgraded further it will require more high-grade materials, although the total number of materials needed should remain the same.
    • Superior and below start out at 6 low-grade materials, Exquisite at 4 low/2 mid, Magnificent at 2 low/4 mid, and Legendary+ at 6 mid.
• For rarer equipment (Phase, Shade, and Power armors) a special component is required to upgrade them by a level in a stat. Doing so however, allows for all other stats to be upgraded to that level without another special component.
  • Shade and power armors, in particular, will require at least 50 special components to fully upgrade its physical damage.

Enchant

• Gives time-limited bonuses to equipment in order to make them more powerful.
• Requires a shard or an Infusion to activate.
• Expires after 1 hour real-time.
  • Infusion on weapons expires after 15 minutes real-time.
• Different shard/infusion types can be applied the same equipment simultaneously to get multiple effects.
  • However, weapons can only have two different infusion enchantments active at maximum.
• Applying the same shard/infusion type multiple times extends the effect's duration per shard/infusion.

Shards

• Lasts 1 hour per shard (besides Amnesia which is permanent).

Name	Weapons	Armors	Effect
Voidseeker's Blessing	✔		The weapon's damage type is changed to void, and a +50% physical accuracy bonus. These bonus do not stack when dual-wielding enhanced weapons.
Suffused Aether	✔		Gives +10% mana conservation bonus and a +50% magic accuracy bonus. These bonus do not stack when dual-wielding enhanced weapons.
Featherweight Charm	✔	✔	Reduces the equipment's burden and interference by 7 or 50%, whichever is higher.
Amnesia Shards	✔	✔	Resets an equipment's Item Potency completely back to 0.

Infusions

• Weapons can have up to two different elemental strike effects active at the same time. Lasts 15 min. per infusion.
• Armors can have any number of different infusion types active at the same time. Lasts 60 min. per infusion.

Equip type	Effect
Weapons	The infused weapon gains a corresponding elemental strike effect.
Armors	The infused armor gains 5% resistance to the corresponding element.

Salvage

Salvaging retrieves materials from higher-quality equipment pieces and scrap from all pieces. Only low/mid/high-grade base materials can be directly acquired this way. Locked and equipped items cannot be salvaged.

• Salvaging yields between 1 and 50 scrap per equipment depending on its sale value. This scales such that it is always more economical to salvage for scrap rather than sell the equipment in order to buy the same amount of scrap from the bazaar.
  • Scrap is given with the following formula: roundup(sale_value / 100); e.g. if the equipment's sale value was 101 a player would receive 2 scrap
• Salvaging equipment with upgrades will always return 90% of the materials spent on upgrading rounded down (but never any catalysts).

Quality	Salvage Result
Average or lower	Only Scrap
Superior	Low-Grade + Scrap
Exquisite	Mid-Grade + Scrap
Magnificent or higher	High-Grade + Scrap

Reforge

Reforging can reset the Item Potency experience and unlocked potentials of an equipment. Locked or equipped items cannot be reforged.

• Reforging requires Amnesia Shards. The number of shards required is equal to the equipment's Item Potency level.
• Players can only choose to forfeit all the existing Item Potency levels or keep all of them.
• Any potencies that had stats further increased via Forging will become latent (inactive but still present) if the potencies are removed in this manner.

Renaming

A custom name can be given to the equipment.

• The equipment needs to have its potency maxed.
• The original name of the equipment will always be preserved, and will be displayed on the equipment popup below the custom name.
  • The custom name can be removed by renaming to blank or the same as the original name.
  • Sending the equipment through the MoogleMail will also remove the custom name.

Forge Level

Every time a player upgrade an equipment, the forge will gain a certain amount of experience.

• The Forge level is capped at 50; extra EXP is still stored after this capped is reached.
• The upgrade cap will be increased by Forge level.
• The amount of experience gained depends the level of the materials used for the upgrade: +2 per low-grade, +10 per mid-grade and +40 per high-grade; giving an effective cap of 250 per upgrade.
  • The amount of EXP that will be gained is shown when hovering over an upgrade.
  • The amount is unaffected by the bindings used.
  • This also gives an amount of potency EXP equal to 1/10 of the forge EXP.

Forge Ranks

• Experience to reach next forge level = (Current forge level * 250) + 250
• Upgrade cap increases by 2% per forge level, rounded down
  • At forge level 50 the upgrade cap will increase from 50/25 to 100/50

Level	Rank	EXP required	Upgrade Cap
			WD/ADB/MDB	Others
0	Novice	250	50	25
1	Novice	500	51	25
2	Novice	750	52	26
3	Novice	1000	53	26
4	Novice	1250	54	27
5	Novice	1500	55	27
6	Novice	1750	56	28
7	Novice	2000	57	28
8	Novice	2250	58	29
9	Novice	2500	59	29
10	Apprentice	2750	60	30
11	Apprentice	3000	61	30
12	Apprentice	3250	62	31
13	Apprentice	3500	63	31
14	Apprentice	3750	64	32
15	Apprentice	4000	65	32
16	Apprentice	4250	66	33
17	Apprentice	4500	67	33
18	Apprentice	4750	68	34
19	Apprentice	5000	69	34
20	Journeyman	5250	70	35
21	Journeyman	5500	71	35
22	Journeyman	5750	72	36
23	Journeyman	6000	73	36
24	Journeyman	6250	74	37
25	Journeyman	6500	75	37
26	Journeyman	6750	76	38
27	Journeyman	7000	77	38
28	Journeyman	7250	78	39
29	Journeyman	7500	79	39
30	Artisan	7750	80	40
31	Artisan	8000	81	40
32	Artisan	8250	82	41
33	Artisan	8500	83	41
34	Artisan	8750	84	42
35	Artisan	9000	85	42
36	Artisan	9250	86	43
37	Artisan	9500	87	43
38	Artisan	9750	88	44
39	Artisan	10000	89	44
40	Expert	10250	90	45
41	Expert	10500	91	45
42	Expert	10750	92	46
43	Expert	11000	93	46
44	Expert	11250	94	47
45	Expert	11500	95	47
46	Expert	11750	96	48
47	Expert	12000	97	48
48	Expert	12250	98	49
49	Expert	12500	99	49
50	Master	-	100	50

See also

• Equipment
• Monster Lab
• Item World