Shadow Gear Refinement

Refining Shadow Gear

Example of the Refiner NPC with Shadow Gear to be refined.
As seen here, you don't select the Shadow Orb, it's just to know which one you need/are going to use. The rest is like any other gear.

Shadow Gears can be refined by any NPC that refines normal gear such as Suhnbi at (payon 157, 146)Copied!.

Refining Shadow Gear requires either Elunium or Enriched Elunium, a Shadow Orb, and 200,000z.

Like normal armor refining, it is completely safe to refine up to +4. From +4 onward Enriched Elunium will have a higher chance of success than Elunium. They don't break however, they get Cursed instead.

Different Shadow Gear asks for different Shadow Orb. Always check where the gear comes from and what Shadow Orbs are used to refine it. You can check the list of places that offer Shadow Gear here. Each page should tell you the needed Shadow Orb to acquire the needed Shadow Orbs. Be aware that Low Rank Shadow Gear can't be refined.

When a refinement is failed using a Shadow Orb, there is a 70% chance to curse the Shadow Gear and 30% chance of it losing 1 refine. These chances have no impact when a refinement is successful.

When a Shadow Gear becomes Cursed, it will be unable to be upgraded until it is purified. It will still be usable, retain its stats and works exactly like a non-cursed version, except it will be unable to be refined.

To purify a Cursed Shadow Gear, speak to the same NPC used to refine and select the purified option to purify the Cursed Shadow Gear. He'll be able to purify it for a fee of assorted identical Ingots, some Gold Coins, and zeny.

Alternatively, a player can use Blacksmith's Blessings (BSB) to prevent those curses at 100%. Depending on the refine level, different number of BSBs are needed. Be aware that the refine can still fail, this doesn't guarantees any success.

Depending on the Refine of the Cursed piece, the cost to purify will change as shown below:

Refine Rate	# of Gold Coins	# of Flamestone, Aquastone or Dragonstone Ingots (only for Shadow Gears obtained from MH)	Zeny Needed (only for Shadow Gears NOT obtained from MH)
+6 or lower	5	1	2,500,000
+7 or +8	10	2	5,000,000
+9 or higher	20	3	7,500,000

The refinement success rate and the number of BSBs needed for safe refine are the same for Shadow Gears as for regular armors, as shown below:

Upgrade	Success Rate		Safe Refine Requirement
	Elunium	Enriched Elunium	# of BSBs
+4 -> +5	60%	90%	1
+5 -> +6	40%	70%	1
+6 -> +7	40%	70%	1
+7 -> +8	20%	40%	1
+8 -> +9	20%	40%	2
+9 -> +10	9%	20%	4

Shadow Orb

Shadow Orbs are used to refine Shadow Gears. They are crafted with Monster Energy, acquired by turning in drops from their respective monsters from where the Shadow Gear comes.

This means that Shadow Gear from Monster Hunter needs drops from Primal or Great Monsters, Shadow Gear from Nightmare Toy Factory needs drops from Nightmare Toy Factory, and so on.

Monster Hunter

Lisbeth
NPC Purpose:	Armor Spheres NPC
Map:	The Wyvern (@go mh)
Coordinates:	(2009rwc_03 241, 201)Copied!(241, 201)

Monster drops can be converted to Monster Energy and further into Shadow Orbs by Lisbeth, located at The Wyvern (2009rwc_03 241, 201)Copied!, accessible by typing @go MH.

A Shadow Orb costs 100 Monster Energy.

Each type of loot will give you a different amount of Monster Energy, shown in the chart below:

Primal Monster Energy - crafts Primal Shadow Orb
Small Monster Bone	Primal Monster Bone	Bone Fragment	Primal Monster Skull
2	50	100	500
Garanth Monster Energy - crafts Garanth Shadow Orb
Juvenile Dragon Scale	Juvenile Dragon Claw	Juvenile Dragon Heart Piece	Juvenile Dragon Tail
30	40	55	100
Nyia Monster Energy - crafts Nyia Shadow Orb
Juvenile Mermaid Scale	Juvenile Mermaid Cloth Piece	Juvenile Mermaid Droplet	Juvenile Mermaid Tail
30	40	55	100
Garronath Monster Energy (crafts Garronath Shadow Orb
Poison Dragon Talon	Poison Dragon Claw	Poison Dragon Venom	Garronath Head
30	40	55	100
Nysori Monster Energy (crafts Nysori Shadow Orb
Mermaid Scale	Mermaid Harp Piece	Mermaid Bracelet	Mermaid Tail
30	40	55	100

Others

Outside Monster Hunter, this system is simplified.

You simply buy Shadow Orbs with drops from the instances that have the Shadow Gear that you want. This means that Shadow Gear from Nightmare Toy Factory needs Celine Shadow Orb, and so on.

Name	Instance	Cost	NPC Location
Celine Shadow Orb	Nightmare Toy Factory	20 Bloody Cloth Piece 50 Shard of Nightmare	Auran (xmas 150, 317)Copied!
Thanatos Shadow Orb	Thanatos Tower [Hard]	30 Thanatos Sword Fragment 50 Shard of Wrath	Duran (thana_step 150, 376)Copied!
Anomalous Shadow Orb	Ancient Laboratory	10 Ancient Drive	Nuran (jup_fild01 306, 344)Copied!
Juperos Shadow Orb	Ancient Juperos	1 Research Papers 5 Juperium Energy	Rydel (jup_cave 207, 218)Copied!
Faceworm Shadow Orb	Faceworm's Nest [Hard]	10 Shard of Earth	Duran (dali 87, 66)Copied!

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