What is Equipment Enhancement?

Equipment enhancement is a process that increases the combat stats and gear score of your equipment. The Enhancement Artisan is the NPC which provides players with the option to enhance their gear. The enhancing process starts by ‘Fortifying’ equipment up to level 5. After that, the equipment can be ‘Upgraded’ into the next rarity tier, resetting its fortification level to 0.

Figure 1: Enhancement Artisan NPC

Figure 2: Enhancement Artisan’s icon in the Map Menu

Figure 3: Interface of Enhancement menu

How to enhance an equipment piece?

Interact with the Enhancement Artisan.
Highlight the equipment that you want to upgrade. A label: ‘Fortification Available’ will be visible if the Player has the required materials.
Hold the ‘A’ button to ‘Fortify’ the item.
A result prompt will inform the player if the fortification was successful or not.

Figure 4: A Successful Fortification

Fortify Item

Equipment (Yellow): The equipment you wish to fortify.
Fortified Equipment (Green): The result of a successful fortification. The number beside the equipment is the fortification level.
Success rate (Orange): The chance of a successful fortification.
Required materials (Blue): This displays the required amount of Fortification Stones, Gold, and Artifact Shards/Cores needed to fortify the equipment.

Figure 5: Fortify Item UI

Upgrade Item

+5 Equipment (Yellow): The equipment you wish to upgrade.
Upgraded Equipment (Green): The result of a successful upgrade. A new Alchemy Gem is unlocked when upgrading.
Success rate (Orange): The chance of a successful upgrade.
Required materials (Blue): This displays the stone required to upgrade the equipment.

Figure 6: Upgrade Item UI

Damaged Equipment

If the fortification process fails, there is a chance that equipment will suffer a ‘Damaged’ penalty and therefore drop its fortification level by 1. Damaged equipment cannot be fortified until it is repaired.