Improve equipment without guessing
Understand how enchanting fails, what each failure costs, and how to protect valuable equipment before committing materials.
The rule that prevents regret
Enchant failure is not one result. Depending on the additive you use, a failed attempt can do nothing, reduce enchantment, remove a sphere or setting, or destroy the equipment. The material tooltip and final system-result line matter as much as the displayed success chance.
Prepare a replacement, remove valuable spheres if the system permits it, repair the item, and confirm exactly which failure results your additive blocks before pressing the final button.
Enchanting
The chance to succeed falls as the enchant level climbs, and the highest steps fail far more often than they succeed. An additive can change which outcomes are possible, add a bonus, or raise the maximum level you can reach. Read what the upgrade panel shows before you commit materials.
When an attempt fails
A failed attempt ends in one of the results below. An additive can block some of them before you attempt the enchant.
| Failure result | What it means |
|---|---|
| No penalty | The attempt fails and nothing else happens. |
| Downgrade by one | Enchant level falls by one. |
| Downgrade by two | Enchant level falls by two. |
| Setting lost | An empty sphere setting is destroyed. |
| Sphere lost | A socketed sphere is destroyed. |
| Setting and sphere lost | The setting and its sphere are destroyed. |
| Item destroyed | The equipment itself is destroyed. |
Additives differ in which failure results they allow. Some leave only destruction possible, and others allow every result. Several also add a bonus or set a maximum enchant level. Read the additive's tooltip before you use it.
Recognizable named additives include Visregnum's Superior Adamantium, Tornair's Adamantium, Superior Steel of Resurrected Regnus, Bai's Flawless Adamantium, and event variants.
Some enchant attempts show a generic success message first, then a separate message with the actual failure penalty. If the messages conflict, trust the specific one describing downgrade, setting loss, sphere loss, or destruction.
Do not close the panel until you have inspected the equipment and confirmed its current enchant level and sockets.
Engraving
| Equipment branch | Accepted sigils |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Dimension Sigil and Infinite Sigil |
| Player armor | Misted Sigil and Infinite Sigil |
| Necklace, earring, ring | Refined Dimension Sigil, Refined Misted Sigil, and Infinite Sigil |
| Anima equipment | Star Sigil |
Engraving gets less reliable as item level rises.
Sealing and release
Sealing an item uses the Sealing Crest of Imago. The number you need depends on the item's grade and level.
Check the item in game to see its exact seal count before you commit.
Irreversible dismantling
Item grade and equipment branch choose the result group and its minimum and maximum output. Benign Metil increases the minimum, Corrosive Metil increases the maximum, and Toxic Metil guarantees the maximum.
Confirm the icon, name, level, grade, and enchantment.
Do not dismantle an item while assuming you can recover its sphere afterward.
Grade and branch affect the result group. Decide whether a Metil modifier is worth using.
Decomposition is permanent. You cannot get the item back.
Repair, identify, compare replacement, remove recoverable value, select the exact material, review failure coverage, confirm the displayed chance, perform one attempt, then inspect the final item state before doing anything else.
