Here i'll be chronicling my fails refines as a testament to the piss poor state of the current refine system. My absolute least favorite thing about this game is the god awful, unforgivable, ruthless refine system. I'm hoping that this thread will be productive in bringing about change upon the refine system. That will not happen most likely, so I'll settle for serving the purpose of letting you bastards laugh at my pain. Feel free to join in the fight, by annotating your own refine success/fail data here if you please.
5/25/2015
Goal: Get 2 valk shields to +7 using ENRICHED elus for refine levels 4 -> 6, then a safe ticket on level 6 -> 7. This is the most cost effective option due to outrageous price of safe to 7 armor tickets.
Valk Shield 1 of 2
Refine attempt 4 -> 5 (90% chance of success w/ enriched) SUCCESS
Refine attempt 5 -> 6 (60% chance of success w/ enriched) FAIL, BREAK
valk shield 2 of 2
Refine attempt 4 -> 5 (90% chance of success w/ enriched) SUCCESS
Refine attempt 5 -> 6 (60% chance of success w/ enriched) SUCCESS
Refine attempt 6 -> 7 (40% chance of success w/ regular elu and safe to 7 ticket) SUCCESS
well now I look like an friend. I think this is literally the luckiest i've ever been with refines. The highest i've ever been able to upgrade anything is +8 WITH enriched most of the time. Thats in about 10 years of on/off playing. Stay tuned folks, much more to come.
Edited by cju711, 27 May 2015 - 04:54 PM.