Rappelz: A New Player's Guide

Now this game would be entirely boring if everyone could buy the same weapons from the same NPC and everyone looked just the same. This is why they invented Upgrading/Enchanting. But what's the difference between the two? Well, I'm about to let you know.

Upgrading is possible only through a blacksmith. Here is a picture of me and a blacksmith in Rondo.

 Upgrading concerns the levels on your weaponry. A weapon starts off as level 1. Sometimes, they start off as level 2 because you find them as a drop, but all NPCs sell weaponry at level 1. In any case, with each upgrade you make, a bit of the stats of the weapon/armor are increased resulting in better weaponry. Here is a display of what I get when I talk to her. 

 As you can see, my robe is already level 10 and has a +3 next to it. That's the enchanting level. Here, we are concerned with upgrading. Now, I want to upgrade my Crescent from level 2 to level 3.

It's an ungodly 225,000 Rupees just to upgrade from level 2 to 3. Now after that's complete, the stats are increased. By how much, I cannot tell you: I forgot to take screenshots of before and after. So you'll have to trust me on this.

As you can see, it gets more expensive as you go along. Here is upgrading from level 3 to level 4.

 Now, by level 10, the upgrades start to add up. You can spend anywhere from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 just upgrading to begin with. Eventually, the price skyrockets to tens of millions. 

Now I'll have to tell you, if you skipped the item section, I went over partial bonuses there but I'll go over it here again to refresh your memory.

 This is a max-upgraded dirk. The P.atk is 184/194. Why is that? That's because I'm not the recommended level yet; I'm only level 68. The recommended level for this weapon is level 77. When I'm level 77, I'd begin to get the full bonus, 194/194 P.atk. 

Unlike Enchanting, Upgrading is foolproof and increases the stats of your weapon the same way each time. Let's move onto enchanting. 

Enchanting cannot be done simply through an NPC. Enchanting is done using cubes that you find. The cubes that you use are not available anywhere else except by drops. You have to use the right type of cubes on your weapon to enchant it.

 Here's a set of gloves that I had freshly socketed. I'll go over that later. We're going to enchant it using the combination box in your item menu, also accessible by typing in "/union" in your chat box.

 Now all you need to do is drag the cubes of the right rank right in there with the gloves. It'll look like this. 

 All you have to do now is click confirm and you get something like this.

 o____O No difference. Well, let's do it 4 more times.

 Begin to see the difference? But be careful, you can't do this forever. The max is +20 but one must know that anything past +5 is risky. Once you get past that point, the probability of success decreases drastically. +3 is almost guaranteed. +4 and +5 are normally possible. +6 is where problems begin. In any case, this glove broke on +6. Broken items are unable to be equipped and just sit there. Kind of odd. Well, how do you fix it? 

The problem is, you can't. You can get the cubes that you wasted back as a partial refund but that's it; your item will be destroyed in the process (that is of course, unless you have an e-repair, a cash shop item that fixes your item). Here is how you get half the cubes you used, back.

 In the topmost box, there is a reducing kit. What's it do? Well, you need a reducing kit and a reducing cube in order to get your enchanting cubes back. Here is the description of the reducing set, if you're interested.

 And next to the failed gloves, there is the reducing cube.

 And then you click "Confirm" to get a partial refund of your cubes. Depressing. =/

But here's a cool thing about enchanting. If you get high enough, you get something that looks like this. This is a guild member's +13 2H mace. =P 

 Omg. It gloooooows. Pretty cool. By the way, this is the old glow. There's a new glow but I don't know what it looks like since my game is on minimum setting all the time.

Soul stones, according to the NPC, are made of lak and have magical properties to increase some of your stats. There are 2 types of stones: basic and lair. 

Basic soul stones increase stats while Lair type stones really increase stats. Their names are different and they come in different colors. I'll give you a list later. But first, here is how you socket something. 

Here is me and a Soul Stone Craftsman, one of the people who socket your equips.

 Choosing to socket your equip will end up giving you a menu like this. 

 Basically, you just drag the item into the item box and the stones that you want into the sockets. Looks like this.

 Now,all you do is click confirm and you'll end up with a soul-stone socketed weapon. These increase your base stats.  Here's a close up of the Pelktone I used to upgrade my gloves with.

 Once you've socketed it, your dex will have increased by 5. Pretty cool. Now if you scroll up a little bit, you'll see that there is a line called Soul Power. This shows how effective the stones are at the moment. Should the soul power drop below 50%, you'd only get half of the dex, meaning 2.5. Or, rounded, 3. Not as great as 5. Big deal? Oh yes. Especially when you get to the +12 stat stones. So how do you fix this? There are 2 options. 1. Resocket. 2. Recharge!

All you need to do is click recharge and it will take you to the recharge menu. However, instead of rupees, you spend Lak to recharge.  

Upgrading: Costs Rupees. Increases stats of item arithmetically. Does not fail.

Enchanting: Costs cubes. Increases stats of item geometrically. May fail. 

Socketing: Costs stones. Increases base stats. Does not fail. Requires recharging.