The Asia MMORPG Astellia has published a new blog post about equipment. It also reveals what obstacles you must overcome to get the best equipment. Because the items in Astellia can level up, but can also decline.
How is the equipment system structured? In Astellia, you obtain equipment as drops from enemies, from dungeon chests, or through crafting. However, not every class can equip every piece of equipment and weapon.
Astellia features surprisingly few equipment slots. You can only equip six different items:
- Chest armor
- Weapon
- Earring
- Bracelet
- Necklace
- Ring
All of this equipment can be enhanced with runes and has five different slots for that purpose. However, only offensive runes can be applied to weapons, rings, and earrings. On the chest, bracelets, and necklace, only defensive runes can be applied.
In addition to this classic system, Astellia features two special features:
- Upgrading equipment
- and leveling equipment
This is how you level the equipment: When leveling, the equipment reaches a new level. For example, if you have equipped equipment for level 26, but you have since reached a higher level, you can also level the equipment.
This is how you upgrade the equipment: When upgrading, the values that the equipment gives you increase. Below the maximum level of 50, there are six additional levels for each equipment, and above that even ten.
So to reach the maximum equipment in the end, you must reach level 50 yourself, wear level 50 equipment, and also upgrade this by 10 levels. However, upgrading has its pitfalls.
The randomness can destroy all progress
This is how upgrading works from level 50: Once you have reached maximum level equipment, you can enhance it by 10 levels. However, starting from upgrade level 3, there can be failures when upgrading. The materials will be consumed, but the values of the equipment will not increase.
How can equipment lose levels? Starting from level 7, it can even happen that the weapon loses upgrades on critical failures. The closer you get to upgrade level 10, the higher the chances that you will lose multiple levels during the upgrade.
This is what you need for upgrading: To upgrade equipment, you need Enhancement Stones. You get these by recycling equipment. This can be done easily through the hammer symbol in the inventory.
However, there are different stones for weapons, armors, and accessories, so you need to recycle the right equipment to be able to upgrade it.
What is Astellia? Astellia is an Asia MMORPG from the developers Studio 8. In the West, it is distributed by BrunsOn E&A and is expected to be released in 2019 in German. The game is already very successful in Korea.
As a special feature, the MMORPG features the so-called Astels. These are summons that stand by the player’s side, tank for him, heal him, but can also perform combo attacks together.
When Astellia will be released in the West is still unknown. However, some adjustments will be made for our version of the game:
