Choi's Prerenewbie Guide to Renewal: Difference between revisions

At level 100, you can talk with Labraham and Louis at @go Eden to get gear. These gear will require Pickaxes, Blue Hair, and Elastic Bands. Once you get these, you will be at Stage 1 in her Gear Progression Table.  

Instances: Celine's Ribbon requires Bloody Coins to be created. Bloody Coins can be received when completing the Instance "Horror Toy Factory" and can be dropped from mobs within that Instance.  

Quests: Grace Equipment requires Unknown Parts and Cor Cores. In order to access the map (without warp portal) that allows you to exchange these currencies for Grace Equipment, you need to complete the 17.1 episode quest. The quests involved in this will provide you a good amount of that currency. Mobs in areas and dungeons related to Cor will provide you the currency as well.  

Mob Drops: Certain equipment can be received from mobs. Illusion dungeons are an example of this. Another example is Rudus Dungeon 4. Within that dungeon, all mobs have a low chance of dropping Battle Processor, Battle Processor [1], Cor Core Booster, Cor Core Booster [1], and CD in Mouth.

When deciding which gear to farm, I look through the different equipment options starting from Stage 2 and upwards and compare them to my Eden Paradise gear and consider the effort required to get there. The Eden Paradise gear starting out is already pretty good overall. So for example, when looking at Armor, I reviewed the Grace Armor, Automatic Armor, and Celine's Dress, and decided that it wasn't an improvement enough to replace my Eden Paradise Armor. Instead, I skipped to the Stage 4 armor Gray Wolf Armor.  

I did this for each slot of my gear, and then decided to work on the earliest stage gear that I decided I would use. So: I decided I wanted the Grace Footgear, Gray Wolf Armor, and Illusion Silver Guard. Instead of working on the Stage 4 Gray Wolf Armor, I started on the Stage 2 Grace Footgear and Illusion Silver Guard. I also prioritized the Middle and Lower Headgear of Cor Core Booster + CD in mouth as I didn't have an Eden Paradise equivalent, so it was an easy boost in gear.

The Grace gear may be a good place to start if you're looking to upgrade your Paradise gear!

17.1 Illusion is needed for Grace Equipment

17.2 Sage Legacy is needed for Automatic Equipment

18 Direction of Prayer is needed for Gray Wolf Equipment

19 Issgard Land of Snow Flowers is needed for Snow Flower and Glacier Equipment.  

Now that you have these gears, you may be looking to refine them. Detailed information on refining can be found here: [[Refinement]]. Refining in Renewal is very important as cards and gears will have special bonuses at specific refinement levels or at specific intervals of refinement!  

Refining in Renewal is a bit different, as there are a lot of upgrade boxes and upgrade items. Some equipment have special ways to refine them to a higher level without any of the risk of refining it to that level. So while leveling to 4 is safe for a weapon but anything above that has a risk of breaking when you refine them, items exist that will jump you to the higher refine level without that risk.  

One item you may have found while leveling in the Illusion Dungeons is its related Refinement Box. These Refinement boxes will refine an item from a specific list of items that is stated on the box description, and refine it safely but randomly from +4 to +7-10. For example, the Labyrinth Refinement Box can be used to +7 to +10 any illusion equipment from the Illusion of Labyrinth.

Additionally, gears related to instances or quests will often have an item that can be bought with currency to upgrade the item to a specific value. For example, Wolf Village (Part of Episode 18), has an npc that will sell you a +7 or +9 Gray Wolf Refinement Box that can be used to upgrade the Wolf Village Armors.  

Renewal also added Safe to Refine Tickets that can be used for almost all gear! Safe to Refine Tickets can be made with Red Hugo in the top left corner of @go Para. These tickets can be created using Exchange Hammers that can be bought from the npc that will get a +X refined gear and exchange it for a X-1 Safe to Refine Ticket. So, if you have a +9 armor you can use an Exchange hammer to get a +8 safe to refine ticket. You can also exchange multiple of the same level Safe to Refine Ticket to get a higher refine level Ticket through Red Hugo. These tickets can go up to +12.  

One thing to keep in mind is that these tickets cannot be used for level 5 weapons and level 2 armors. However, most of those gear have equivalent boxes that can be used (e.g. Glacier Weapon +9 Refinement Cube).

The Refinement boxes and Safe To Refine Tickets work well together. A great way to farm Safe to Refine Tickets is by farming Illusion Dungeons for their Illusion Gear and Refinement boxes and turning those in to get the Safe to Refine Tickets. A popular Illusion for this is Illusion of Underwater Floor 2.  

With this in mind, you should think about which refine level you would like your gear to be. Though it was a thing in Prerenewal to have gear and cards have more effects at different refinements (Antique Firelock Card, Parade Hat, etc.), it is significantly more common in Renewal. Most gear and the majority of cards you will find will have bonuses at specific refinement levels ( Additional X at Refine Level +Y) or at specific intervals (Additional X for each Y Refine Levels) or both!

For example, The Gray Wolf Robe gives a flat Matk + 130. However, it also gives Matk +15 for each 2 Refine Levels and decreases Variable Casting Time by 15% at Refine Level +7. As such, for this armor, you would want to refine it to +8 so you can take advantage of the the Variable Casting Time Reduction at +7 while also having it at an interval of 2 for the Matk.  

Note: Some enchantments give bonuses at specific refine levels as well. However, this will be covered in a later section.

Pre-renewal had enchanting in the form of +1 - +3 stats on specific armors. However, Enchanting in renewal is a lot more powerful. In some cases, a significant portion of the equipment's power comes from the enchantments making a deceptively weak item incredibly strong (e.g. Dim Glacier/Glacier weapons). The list of available enchantments can be found here: https://muhro.eu/wiki/index.php/Category:Enchantment

Enchantment is the process of adding additional bonuses like stats, healing effectiveness, and more to an equipment. This process is done through npcs related to that specific equipment through the use of their applicable currencies similar to how gear can be bought. The wiki page above lists the available enchantments with links to more information on how these can be enchanted.  

Generally, you can add random enchantment for the equipment for a specific amount of currency or add a specific enchantment you would like for a greater amount of that currency. In some cases, you will have to add an enchantment on an equipment and upgrade that enchantment to get a stronger version of it.  

A good way to dip your toes into enchanting is by enchanting your illusion gear with the Illusion Enchanter in Prontera. By now, you should have a decent amount of Illusion Stones and Illusion Gear from leveling in the Illusion Dungeons. These Illusion Stones can be used with the NPC to roll enchants on your weapons, armors, and accessories. Additionally, you will see that Illusion Weapons often have additional lines with extra effects (e.g. +X damage to X Type Monsters). These can be rerolled as well. [[Illusion_Enchantment]]

Some enchantments, like the Gray Wolf Armor mentioned in the previous section, also have special bonuses at specific refinement levels or at specific intervals of refinement. The Gray Wolf Enchantments have extra bonuses at +7, +9, and +11, so take a look at the enchantments when working on refining.  

If you talked with Lucy in the Paradise Equipment room in Eden, you should have the Paradise Shadow Equipment. Shadow Equipment is additional equipment that are equipped in your Costume Equipment for the Armor, Weapon, Shield, Shoes, and Accessories that provide additional benefits but no cosmetic effects.  

You can talk with Lucy to buy Advanced Shadow Gear (230 Eden Coins for whole set) or rent it for 3 days (20 Eden Coins). The regular Paradise Shadow Equipment is already pretty good, but the Advanced Shadow Gear will provide around double the stats with the whole set. Eden Coins can be farmed by doing the level 100+ Eden missions.  

Better Shadow Gear can be found in the Main Office basement (bottom right of the main office) More information on the available Shadow Gear can also be found here: https://muhro.eu/wiki/index.php/Shadow_Gear. The Shadow Gear can give a large amount of benefits like increase in specific skill damage, increased stats, increased movement speed, armor/mr pen, and more! Generally, each piece of the Shadow Gear will need 80x Shadow, 5x MvP Item or 5x Fire Dragon Scale, and 15x Shadowdecon. Shadows are obtained through Shadow Crates which you can get from killing MVPs or by trading with Rayja in the basement for 5 Shadowdecon.  

Generally, the best Shadow Gear will require related Thump Boxes that will require an amount of specific Shadow items at a specific Refine Rate to create one piece of that Shadow Gear. For example, the Almighty Shadow Accessories, which provide +1 All Basic Stats per Refine Level, uses the Status Shadow Thump Box which requires 5 +7 of any of the Power, Vital, Intelligence, Dexterous, and Lucky Shadow gear to create one random piece of the Almighty Shadow Accessories. Thankfully, they can be exchanged for the other piece for 1 shadowdecon and 50k zeny if you get the piece you don't need.  

The Shadow Gear have benefits in the specific combos, but not all combos are all pieces of the shadow gear, so you can mix and match the shadow gear as you'd like (e.g. Full Tempest Armor and Shoes with the Almighty Accessories). One set of Combo Gear I might recommend is the Master Class Combo, which provides strong benefits for any damage dealing class (and will often be BIS for certain classes).  

All Shadow gear including accessories can be upgraded! A  +9 Refine Hammer for Shadow gear can be bought for 150 Shadow and 150 Shadowdecon or they can be refined with the regular refiner.  

Lastly, for those of you interested in upgrading your Shadow Gear, I recommend going through the Endless Tower and Endless Cellar instances as they provide a great way to farm shadow crates!

Now your gear is starting to come along and you have a lot of zeny and don't know what to do with it. Well do I have a great solution for you! More information can be found on the Grade Enhancing Wiki page: https://wiki.muhro.eu/index.php/Grade_Enhancing

Grading is a new mechanic in Renewal that allows you to enhance your equips (from Ungraded -> D -> C -> B -> A) to strengthen your Level 5 Weapons and Level 2 Armors in two ways: increasing the ATK & MATK refine bonus given from refining and providing additional Grade Bonuses that are unique to the specific equipment and/or its enchants. Generally, the Grade Bonus is the biggest bonus, and will provide grades for each increased Grade.

A great example of this is the Moan Of Corruption that gives Matk +5% and SPL +5 at Grade D, 1s Fixed Casting Time Reduction at Grade C, S.Matk +7 at Grade B, and SPL +8 per 2 Refine Levels at Grade A. In the case of the Moan of Corruption, it might not be worthwhile to start using it until you get Grade C.  

Grade Enhancing is one of the most expensive mechanics in Renewal as it requires specific materials for the grading process and a specific refine level, often requiring you to go past the safe refine level and requiring Blacksmith's Blessing to go about it without the risk of destruction. Grading itself also has a chance of success, but there is an option to make sure that it won't get destroyed at the cost of 5x the material. Blessed Etel Dust can be used, but I generally don't use it, as the cost of the required Blacksmith's blessing is often significantly more than the cost of the materials to grade.  

A common and great place to start Grade Enhancing is the Dim Glacier Weapon as it is the BIS weapon for most classes. Due to the cost effectiveness of the Dim Glacier Reinforcement Box, it is significantly easier to get it to the refinement level for the desired enchantment.