Soul Crafting System

Soul crafting: general information
Soul crafting deals with adding options to equipment, as well as increasing their ATK and MATK and/or DEF and MDEF given the soulcrafted item has any to begin with. It is performed through interacting with a Soulsmith NPC, which can be found in every town, and requires souls and money, as well as Enchant Insurance Scrolls (IS) that can be obtained through the cash shop or the trading of Silver coins to the Consumables merchant, located to the West of the centre island in the Port of the Winds city.

Souls can traditionally be obtained through disassembling equipment, clicking the disassemble hammer in the Equipment inventory. Doing so will destroy targeted item and award a number of souls. This number increases with the item's level and soul force, as well as with its supposed importance (i.e.: the higher the item's gold value to a merchant NPC, the higher the number of souls one obtains from disassembling it). The vending machines, in Odelia and the Port of the Winds, provide another means of obtaining souls, this time by exchanging 5 Silver coins to 999 souls, which given its efficiency makes the traditional disassembling obsolete.

While some items in the cash shop promise to increase the success chance of soulcrafting, tests run by players tended to show they only added around 4 percentage points to the base chance. Given their prices and the fact that one such item is consumed on every attempt at upgrading, it is mostly recommended not to use them.

Do note that the higher an item's soulcraft grade, the higher the amount of materials that are required to attempt upgrading it again, and the lower the chance to succeed on each attempt. As a result, the amount of resources needed to upgrade increases dramatically with item grade.

Soul crafting table
In the following table:
 * Column "Success chance" describes the chance to succeed in upgrading soulcraft from previous grade. Non-applicable to Regular grade, as it is the number zero grade and cannot be upgraded to.
 * Column "Soul force" describes the increase in base stat of the soulcrafted item. 1 point of soul force corresponds to an increase in base ATK and MATK (for weapons) or base DEF and MDEF (for armour) by 0.5%. A weapon with 250 base ATK and 12 soul force will thus boast a total of 250 x (1 + 12 x 0.5%) = 250 x 1.06 = 265 ATK.
 * A failed attempt at upgrading an item of grade Advanced or higher will result in said item being destroyed, with no conventional mean to get it back. Such result can be avoided by using an Enchantment Insurance Scroll: in this case, each attempt at upgrading said item will consume one scroll and a failure will not destroy it.
 * Colour of an item's name will not change if said item is premium, and will stay yellow.

Sealed items
Some equipments are obtained with grade Sealed. These require being unsealed using a Seal removal scroll obtained through interacting with a Soulsmith, at a rate of three souls for one scroll. Unsealed item will be given a grade Advanced or above, with a chance for the grade Cursed which requires to remove said curse by interacting with a Soulsmith and spending souls and money, pretty much the way one would soulcraft the item.