Advanced Honing

Advanced Honing is one of the option available at the "Gear Honing" NPC. The others being Gear Transfer, Honing, and Special Honing.

Details

• Advanced Honing provides an alternative way to increase a character's item level.
• It can be done on every gear piece (armor and weapon), granting up to 20 extra item levels.
• Advanced Honing is unlock at item level 1620 after having defeated Echidna Gate 1.
• It can either be done in Tier 3 or Tier 4.

Tempering

• Before Advanced Honing can be done, the gear piece needs to be tempered.
• Tempering requires  Silver, Shards ( Honor Shards on Tier 3 piece or  Destiny Shards on Tier 4 piece), and Echidna materials.
  • Advanced Honing 1-10:  Tempering: Agris's Scale (Solo and Normal)
  • Advanced Honing 11-20:  Tempering: Alcaone's Eye (Hard)
• Tempering needs to be done once per piece to unlock the 10 honing levels.
•  Tempering: Alcaone's Eye can be used as a substitute for  Tempering: Agris's Scale at a 1:2 ratio.
  • If you have both required materials and substitute materials, required materials will be consumed first.
  • If you have enough required materials, you cannot use substitute materials.

Tier 3

	Advanced Honing levels unlock	Tempering cost
		Silver	Honor Shard	Tempering: Agris's Scale	Tempering: Alcaone's Eye
Armor	1-10	1,120,000	48,000	12
	11-20	1,280,000	96,000		12
Weapon	1-10	1,440,000	80,000	30
	11-20	1,600,000	160,000		30

Tier 4

	Advanced Honing levels unlock	Tempering cost
		Silver	Destiny Shard	Tempering: Agris's Scale	Tempering: Alcaone's Eye
Armor	1-10	1,120,000	24,000	12
	11-20	1,280,000	48,000		12
Weapon	1-10	1,440,000	40,000	30
	11-20	1,600,000	80,000		30

Advanced Honing progression

• Each Advanced Honing level requires 100 XP.
• Completing each level grants one item level on that piece.
• Extra XP can carry over the next level up to the threshold of the range (level 10 or 20).

Attempt

• Clicking the Advanced Honing button costs materials and grants XP. The amount of XP can vary based on luck.
  • Success: 80% chance to trigger, grants 10 XP.
  • Great Success: 15% chance to trigger, grants 20 XP.
  • Great Success x2: 5% chance to trigger, grants 40 XP.
• Using full rate-up materials grant Great Success +15% and Great Success x2 +15%.
  • Tier 3:  Solar Grace,  Solar Blessing,  Solar Protection.
  • Tier 4:  Glacier's Breath (armor),  Lava's Breath (weapon).
• Some events also provide rate-up scrolls, which grant Great Success +30% and Great Success x2 +20%.
  • Armor:  Artisan's Tailoring: Level 1 (1-10),  Artisan's Tailoring: Level 2 (11-20).
  • Weapon:  Artisan's Metallurgy: Level 1 (1-10),  Artisan's Metallurgy: Level 2 (11-20).
• The cost is the same on all levels in the same unlock (1-10, 11-20).

Tier 3

	Levels	Attempt cost							Optional rate-up
		Blue Stone	Red Stone	Shard	Leapstone	Fusion	Silver	Gold	Grace	Blessing	Protection
Armor	1-10	475		4,400	11	9	22,800	760	12	6	2
	11-20	650		8,800	14	10	32,000	1,440	18	9	3
Weapon	1-10		500	7,200	14	15	25,200	900	12	6	2
	11-20		800	13,600	18	16	40,000	2,000	18	9	3

Tier 4

	Levels	Attempt cost							Optional rate-up
		Blue Stone	Red Stone	Shard	Leapstone	Fusion	Silver	Gold	Glacier	Lava
Armor	1-10	250		2,400	6	7	22,800	760	6
	11-20	450		4,800	8	8	32,000	1,440	9
Weapon	1-10		300	4,000	8	12	25,200	900		6
	11-20		550	8,000	11	13	40,000	2,000		9

Ancestor's Grace

• Each attempt fills 1 Ancestor's Grace Orb. Can have up to 6 Orbs.
• Doing an attempt while at 6 Orbs resets all orbs activates Ancestor's Grace, which triggers one of the following effect, based on luck:

Name	Chance	Effect
Galatur's Hammer	15%	XP gained multiplied by 5
Ghelar's Sword	35%	XP gained multiplied by 3
Kuhumbar's Anvil	15%	Gain 30 XP Completely recharges Ancestor's Grace for the next attempt
Temer's Chisel	35%	Gain 10 XP Next attempt doesn't cost materials, but you can still use rate-up materials and scrolls

Patch History

April 2025 Update

• Tempering stage 1 and 2
  • Required shards and silver reduced by 20%.
• Advanced honing level 1 - 20
  • Required honing materials reduced by 50%.
  • Required Shards, Silver and Gold reduced by 20%.

Call of the Wildsoul

• Advanced Honing and regular Honing now give the same amount of stat increase.
•  Artisan's Metallurgy: Level 2 and  Artisan's Tailoring: Level 2 added as rewards in events.

Winter Soloist

•  Artisan's Metallurgy: Level 1 and  Artisan's Tailoring: Level 1 added as rewards in events.

Arkesia Ignited

• Tier 4 Advanced Honing added.

Summer Heat - Added