[ArcheAge 3.5] – More on Erenor Gear

Hello everyone! I’ve gathered a bit more information regarding Erenor gear, so here’s the information for it.

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How does it work?

A lot of people have asked what can be used for synthesizing Erenor gear. The system is quite easy, however.

It basically divides all gear into whichever slot they go to, so a helmet would need head armor to be synthesized. A greatclub would need any two-handed weapon.

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What specific items can/can’t be used for synthesis?

I’ll take the easier route and tell what can not be used for synthesis since that list is shorter.

Kinds of items that cannot be used for synthesis are:

• Temporary/Timed Equipment
• “Honor’s” Equipment (like Honor’s Frenzied Nodachi, etc)
• Lost Garden Weapons (woops, look like I interpreted it incorrectly in that other post)
• Hellkissed Equipment
• Pretty much any item that’s not in the 3.5 Equipment Encyclopedia, so that includes quest items, mob drops, etc. (Wow, I really messed up that interpretation haha)

Note that you can not synthesize Erenor equipment with other Erenor items. It doesn’t work like that.

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Okay, How about the EXP requirement thing?

I stated before that you need equipment to level Erenor items, and that they have to be of the same grade to do so (you need Divines for a Divine Erenor, etc). We (Kurita, Darsy, Sparx and I) have came up with a hypothesis of how the leveling system works for Erenor items.

The following item is hypothetical. It is not confirmed. We think that it would be plausible, but, again, be a bit skeptical since we’re just thinking about what it could be.

Hypothesis : EXP is in proportion to gear score

This seems to be the most likely of all of the hypotheses. 

EDIT: Found out this hypothesis is false (thanks Mark for the correction! ^^). 

The EXP earned is proportionate or one-to-one of the equipment points (or gear score) of the equipment. This would mean that equipment that naturally have higher equipment points would give more  EXP.

For example, say you’re synthesizing a Rare grade Erenor jerkin. We want to choose between a rare grade Magnificent Jerkin and a rare grade Epherium jerkin. That Magnificent Jerkin’s on sale on the Auciton House, but your buddy is giving away armor pieces he doesn’t need. What do you pick?

You would pick the Epherium tier jerkin, as Epherium is one tier higher than the Magnificent jerkin.

*Note that the categories, “Easy”, “Normal” and “Difficult” (that were mentioned in the 3.5 regrade post) also apply to the EXP gain. So Obsidian equipment would give the highest amount of EXP since it belongs in the “Difficult” category.

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i want some unusual stat, say spirit on a bow. Can i do that?

Yes! You can put any stat you’d like on an equipment piece. Let’s look at a few examples.

(Disclaimer: You technically can’t choose the stat you want. It’s all RNG… But you can reroll it!)

There probably is something a bit unusual about this bow than bows that you’ve seen. Check out the synthesis stats!

There’s the Spirit stat (boosts magic defense and increases healing power), which is not found on crafted bows! Only a few dropped bows in ArcheAge have the Spirit stat.

The secondary synthesis stat is Stamina (increases HP and parry rate). That’s found commonly on bows, but having a Spirit and Stamina combination on a crafted bow has not happened before.

I believe the Erenor equipment, although very expensive, will be nice for people who want a unique combination of stats that they need that will suit to their class.

Now that we’ve seen a bow, let’s look at another Erenor item that someone has on the KR Auction House.

It’s a Staff!

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Here, we have a Heroic grade Erenor staff.

It has an odd stat, which is Strength. As one might know, Strength is not regularly found on staves, since Strength is not a mage’s main stat.

But how are these stats determined?

It’s RNG-based, but that probably is because regrading Erenor is not RNG-based. Kind of balances out.

Stats luckily can be rerolled by using the Ipni Fortune Favor, a crafted scroll that works much like how a Serendipity Stone works on a costume. Note that this scroll only works on Erenor weapons, armor, and accessories. For cloaks, you use the Cryptic Lucky Scroll.

Now, you might be interested in how stats for Erenor items are chosen. They are similar to costumes, however.

Let’s find out!

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I want to hear some details on how stats are chosen!

We have three pools of stats that the RNG gods choose from. These are the main stats, sub-stats, and special stats.

• Main stats aren’t very fun. They’re those STR/STA/INT/AGI/SPI stats. It’s chosen by random. You get them when you start synthesizing your Erenor item.
• Sub-stats are much like the main stats (the 5 basic stats). They’re more work to get to, since you have to feed your other equipment to your Erenor item. Sub-stats pop up at the Heroic Grade.
• Special stats are the fun stats! These are obtained at the Divine grade… So after you spent a hefty amount of gold to push your Erenor weapon to Divine, you finally get the interesting stats. Here’s a list of them below:
  • Weapons (excluding bows and instruments):
    • Attack Speed increase
    • Cast time decrease
    • Melee, Ranged OR Magical critical rate increase
    • Healing critical rate increase
  • Instruments:
    • Melee, Ranged OR Magical damage increase (probably a flat change, could be wrong though).
    • Healing increase (again, that’s probably a flat change too.)
  • Bows:
    • Physical Defense penetration
    • Magical Defense penetration
    • Continuous HP regeneration
    • MP regen after using a skill
  • Armor:
    • Max HP increase
    • Max MP increase
    • Critical healing amount increase
    • Evasion rate increase
  • Accessories:
    • Necklace
      • Max HP increase
      • Max MP increase
      • M. Def penetration
      • P. Def penetration
      • Magic Defense increase
      • Critical healing amount increase
    • Earring
      • M. Def increase
      • Evasion rate increase
      • Damage reduction
      • Melee ATK increase
      • Parry rate increase
      • Max HP increase
      • Max MP increase
    • Ring
      • M. Def increase
      • Attack speed increase
      • Cast time decrease
      • P. Def penetration
      • Melee, Ranged OR Magical damage increase (I think it’s a percentage? Can’t remember how accessory increases to damage work.)
      • Max HP increase
      • Max MP increase

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Where are the set effects?

Surprise! Erenor doesn’t have any set effects… By default.

You have your Synthesis stats, and then you have these special Lunafrosts. But they aren’t called Lunafrosts. In another post I wrote, I call them “Ipni Eclipse” enchants. But I’m going to change the name to “Ipni Umbrastone”. Seems more fitting for the translation of “Moon Shadow”, and the fact that it looks like some kind of enchanted stone.

They’re effective in their 3,4, and 7 sets. You have to make one for each armor piece.

 Raging ipni Umbrastone (Flame)

Enchant Effect: +10 Melee Attack

• 3 Set: Focus +506
• 4 Set: Resilience +560
• 7 Set: Critical Damage Increase +18.6%

zephyrous Ipni Umbrastone (Gale)

Enchant Effect: +10 Ranged Attack

• 3 Set: Focus + 506
• 4 Set: Resilience +560
• 7 Set: Movespeed increase +4.1%

 Serene Ipni umbrastone (Earth)

Enchant Effect: +80 Physical Defense

• 3 Set: Toughness +452
• 4 Set: Resilience +560
• 7 Set: Damage Reduction by 4.1%

 Surging Ipni Umbrastone (Wave)

Enchant Effect: +10 Magic Attack

• 3 Set: Toughness +452
• 4 Set: Resilience +560
• 7 Set: Skill Damage increase +4.1%

 Vivacious Ipni Umbrastone (Life)

Enchant Effect: +10 Healing Power

• 3 Set: Toughness +452
• 4 Set: Resilience +560
• 7 Set: Healing Critical Rate Increase +4.1% (not sure if this healing bonus or rate)

There’s four others too, but they don’t seem to appear in crafting recipes. Not sure when they’ll pop in the game!

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Just a notice for now: I will be taking AP exams in late spring so I will be preparing for them, allowing less time for the blog. I plan to update more over the summer though!