Ancient Equipment

Currently there are three types of ancient equipment available typically denoted by rarity color:

• Green

  • Crafted using farmable materials, easy to make but has no bonus stat roll, avoid crafting these unless your brand new making your level 20 gear

• Blue

  • Always comes with one bonus stat roll that's random based on the piece of gear

• Purple

  • Always comes with one bonus stat roll that's random based on a piece of gear

  • Always comes with one PvP stat roll between 2.5% and 7.5%

With recent patches I've broken ancient equipment into three categories:

• Newbie Ancient Equipment

  • Drops from Rift Challenges, with better, augmented versions appearing on higher difficulties

  • Basic equipment can be crafted in Prontera using basic materials farmed from low level monsters

    • Brilliant versions of this gear with augments cannot be crafted and must drop from Rift Challenges

• Wasteland Ancient Equipment

  • Drops from Rift Challenges, with better, augmented versions appearing on higher difficulties

  • Can be crafted in the Wasteland using materials farmed outside of the Wasteland area in Louyang

    • Brilliant versions of this gear with augments can be crafted

• Instanced Ancient Equipment

  • Ponape Museum drops Offhand and Body Armor

  • Lost Isle drops Garment, Footwear, and Accessories

  • Offhand and Body Armor pieces may be crafted weekly from the Haar Clay Workshop in Cloudsea Archipelago once you've unlocked this feature

If you have duplicates or undesirable augments then you can salvage gear at a furnace.  The results for salvaging varies depending on the equipment salvaged:

• Newbie Ancient Equipment gives 1 Fantasy Ember

• Wasteland Ancient Equipment gives 1 Wasteland Ash

• Instanced Offhand and Armor gives 4 Prehistoric Brands, a currency used to select any Offhand or Armor piece of your choice which will roll a random augment

• Instanced Garment, Footwear, and Accessories will give 4 Brand of the Ocean, a currency used to select any Garment, Footwear, or Accessory of your choice which will roll a random augment

You can exchange materials dropped from monsters in the zones surrounding the content where the ancient equipment came from for these repair/refine materials.  If for example, you're working on Wasteland Ancient Equipment, then you need to head to the Wasteland and farm those mobs.  If instanced ancient equipment then head over to Comodo or Royal Hunting Grounds.

The process of enchanting is the same as existing gear.  Talk to the Cat in Geffen and spend 4 mora coins and 20k zeny to roll enchants on this gear.

Enchantments may also be transferred from old equipment to new ancient equipment occupying the same slot for 400 mora coins.  This not only provides a path forward for your old gear, but adds significant value to old gear with great enchants on incompatible gear, such as an Arch 4 enchant on mage armor.  Being able to transfer these enchants into appropriate gear is a fantastic change.

The random attributes can be upgraded using Epic Spirit Crystals which are obtained from the new instance Ponape Secret Realm.  Once you've obtained some you can access this by looking at your equipment and scrolling to the Random Attribute section and clicking on the blue icon to the right of the stat.

This brings up the Random Attributes upgrade window.  Each attempt re-rolls your attribute with a chance to roll the maximum value.  After 20 attempts your next attempt will guarantee a maximum roll so even if you have bad luck there is a pity to guarantee you get the perfect roll.

Blue grade equipment costs 5 Epic Spirit Crystals per attempt but Purple grade equipment costs 10 per attempt so keep this in mind when re-rolling these stats.