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Perfect World Entertainment continues its series of exclusive Jade Dynasty developer journals with Ten Ton Hammer, this time showcasing the ways to enhance gear via imbuing and refinement. The unedited journal entry includes two exclusive images.

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Previously we reviewed the crafting system in Jade Dynasty. In this journal, we want to take a look at the next part of making your own gear: imbuing and refining.  To Imbue or Refine an item, visit the Enchanter in Sunstream City.

Imbuing

Imbuing can increase a single stat of a piece of gear. To imbue, a player must take the piece of equipment they wish to improve as well as the desired imbue talisman. There are 11 different types of beginning imbue talismans:

• Sharpness Talisman – increases attack power +2
• Shield Talisman – increases defense +1
• Lifeblood Talisman – increases health +10
• Spirit Talisman – increases spirit +10
• Focus Talisman – increases accuracy +1
• Windflying Talisman – increases evasion +1
• Steadfast Talisman– increases stun resistance +3
• Vigilance Talisman – increases sleep resistance +3 
• Unfettered Talisman – increases paralyze resistance +3
• Unwavering Talisman– increase weakness resistance + 3
• Tranquil Talisman – increases silence resistance +3

As players progress and journey deeper into Jade Dynasty, they can uncover better and more powerful talismans to further improve their gear. 

Each item can only be imbued with one type of talisman. For example, you cannot imbue your weapon with increased attack and increased accuracy. However, you do not have to use the same type of talisman on your other pieces of gear.  If you want, you can replace the current talisman type by overwriting it with a new type.

An item can be continually imbued with talismans to further increase its stats; however, the more imbues on an item, the higher the chance that the imbuing process will fail. If this happens, all stat increases will be reset to zero.

Imbuing may just give you that extra edge in battle!

Refining

Refining an item will increase its base stats, instead of adding extra stats on. For a weapon, this would increase the weapons minimum and maximum damage, while for armor this would increase stats like defense or health. With refining, players can potentially double an item’s stats.

However, an item has a chance to be destroyed with each refinery attempt. This chance will increase with the more refinery attempts on that item. It is wise to craft a few extra items of what you are trying to refine, in case one is destroyed in the process.  For common and basic gear, you will need to use refinery talismans which can be purchased from players or picked up from monster drops.

Luckily, there are items that can be found in the game world to prevent destroying an item. These are Sigils, which will guarantee success up to a certain refine level—a Bronze Sigil is up to +5, for example. 

Have you been wondering how some players have that glow to their armor? That is from refinement. The different colored glows are dependent on how high you are able to refine the equipment.

And another helpful tip! It is recommended to refine your gear first, and then add imbues.

In Closing

By imbuing and refining players will develop the most powerful gear in the game. So if you want to make gear for questing, PvP or to simply sell, there is unlimited combinations of gear that you can create by upgrading in Jade Dynasty.