Or, to make it easier to find via the forum search:
Enriched Elunium, Enriched Elu, Enriched Oridecon, Enriched Ori, advanced refiner, upgrade rates
Enriched Elunium, Enriched Elu, Enriched Oridecon, Enriched Ori, advanced refiner, upgrade rates
Enriched Elunium, Enriched Elu, Enriched Oridecon, Enriched Ori, advanced refiner, upgrade rates
Enriched Elunium, Enriched Elu, Enriched Oridecon, Enriched Ori, advanced refiner, upgrade rates
For the sake of fairness, I'm going to post the following information here that someone asked in a support ticket, it might be interesting for some of you:
The original question was about if a Whitesmith with job level 70 is better than the advanced refiner:
It depends. In most occasions, the enriched refine NPC will be better, though. You can calculate the rates in the following way:
This is the normal upgrade chance table taken from irowiki.org which is correct:
Upgrade Lv. 1 Lv. 2 Lv. 3 Lv. 4 Armor
+4 -> +5 100% 100% 100% 60% 60%
+5 -> +6 100% 100% 60% 40% 40%
+6 -> +7 100% 60% 50% 40% 40%
+7 -> +8 60% 40% 20% 20% 20%
+8 -> +9 40% 20% 20% 20% 20%
+9 -> +10 20% 20% 20% 10% 10%
In order to calculate the Job Level 70 Whitesmith success rate for a weapon, you simply add 10% to every number. So for example upgrading a level 3 weapon from +5 to +6 would be 70% instead of 60%, so basically, the formula for a Whitesmith Job level 70 success rate is:
R = x + 10
where R is the new success rate, and x is the old one taken from the table.
To calculate the success rate for the advanced refiner, you have to use the following formula:
R = x*(200-x)/100
So for the same weapon upgrade, you'd have a 84% success rate here.
TL;DR: The advanced refiner is always better except for an upgrade for a level 4 weapon from +9 to +10. In that case, a whitesmith has 1% more chance of success (20% compared to 19% of the advanced refiner).
No idea if that even helps, I hope it doesn't count as spam.
