Advanced Honing System Guide - Lost Ark Maxroll.gg (2024)

Advanced Honing is a system that increases your character's item level and your power through raw stats. Just like traditional honing, it interacts with the same materials, but it has a different structure. It is not meant to be a significant power increase like Transcendence or Elixirs, instead providing an easier way to increase your item level.

It is important to note that this system has no interactions with traditional honing, which keeps the current levels you have and remains available regardless of Advanced Honing progress.

With the upcoming release of Tier 4, it's been mentioned that this system will still be in place, but it will use Tier 4 materials once the respective gear pieces are obtained. For more information on Season 3 and Tier 4, check out our LOA ON Summer 2024 Summary!

This guide assumes you are already familiar with the basics of traditional honing. If you need to learn about that first, check out our Gear Honing Guide.

Unlocking the System & Materials

These are the materials you will be using when interacting with this system:

• Agris's Scale
  • Used to quench gear, unlocking levels 1 - 10.
  • Acquired directly from the Echidna Kazeros Raid (Normal Mode).
• Alcyone's Eye
  • Used to quench gear, unlocking levels 11 - 20.
  • Acquired directly from the Echidna Kazeros Raid (Hard Mode).
• Honor Shard
• Radiant Honor Leapstone
• Refined Obliteration Stone
• Refined Protection Stone
• Prime Oreha Fusion Material
• Solar Grace
• Solar Blessing
• Solar Protection
• Gold
• Silver

As mentioned before, each gear piece must be quenched using Agris's Scale or Alcyone's Eye before you can hone that item. This process is similar to filling the Honor Shard requirement in traditional honing, with the main difference being that you only need to do it once per 10 honing levels.

• Armors require 12x Agris's Scale or Alcyone's Eye to quench.
• Weapons require 30x Agris's Scale or Alcyone's Eye to quench.
• Alcyone's Eye can be used as a substitute for Agris's Scale at a 1:2 ratio.

Honing Interface & Progression

Unlike traditional honing, this system has a fixed progress bar instead of a varying chance to succeed the enhancement. Once the bar reaches 100 points, the hone is successful. The aim of this change is to greatly reduce the variance between successfully honing within a few attempts and reaching pity. Each successful hone adds 1 item level to that piece, resulting in a maximum of 20 item levels gained from this system.

Each attempt has a chance to increase the progress for that level by 10, 20, or 40 points. This chance can be influenced by using a specific amount of Solar Grace, Solar Blessing, and Solar Protection.

Ancestor's Protection

Every six attempts, your next try will have an additional effect, picked at random. This is represented by the six Protection Orbs in the top right corner of the interface. There are four effects available:

• The progress gained this attempt is multiplied by 5.
• The progress gained this attempt is multiplied by 3.
• Gain an additional 30 progress and restore one Protection Orb.
• Gain an additional 10 progress and no materials will be consumed for the next attempt.
  • You cannot change the amount of Solar materials used during this free attempt, the selection being the same as the enhanced attempt.

Because of how powerful these enhanced effects are, it's recommended to use all available Solar materials on the attempts where they are applied.

Effects

The value for armor pieces is measured in STR/DEX/INT, while for weapons it is measured in Weapon Power. All armor pieces provide defensive stats as well, but only the offensive stats are measured. Here are the effects your character can receive from this system:

Costs & Efficiency

Besides the reduced variance for success, one of the main benefits of this system is the reduced cost, allowing you to reach item level 1630 more easily than traditional honing would. The following costs are just an estimate, and do not include any Solar materials. Your real experience with the system will vary.

REMINDER: Solar materials are very important to this system, and will greatly reduce the costs presented above if used efficiently.

Unlock Order

This depends largely on your current goals for each specific character, and their current item level.

• If your aim is to increase your power, you should focus on the Weapon first, as it provides the most damage. This is recommended for characters above item level 1630.
• If your aim is to increase item level in order to access new content, you should take a more balanced approach, honing all gear equally. This is recommended for characters under item level 1630.

Echidna Raid Rewards

Normal Mode (1620 Item Level)
Gate Progress	Gate 1	Gate 2	Total
Gold Reward	5,000	9,500	14,500
Bonus Loot Cost	2,200	3,400	5,600
Materials	3x Agris's Scale	6x Agris's Scale	9x Agris's Scale
Bonus Loot Materials	3x Agris's Scale	6x Agris's Scale	9x Agris's Scale
Hard Mode (1630 Item Level)
Gate Progress	Gate 1	Gate 2	Total
Gold Reward	6,000	12,500	18,500
Bonus Loot Cost	2,800	4,100	6,900
Materials	3x Alcyone's Eye	6x Alcyone's Eye	9x Alcyone's Eye
Bonus Loot Materials	3x Alcyone's Eye	6x Alcyone's Eye	9x Alcyone's Eye

There is a first clear reward of 10x Agris's Scale.
A chest containing 5x Agris's Scale or 5x Alcyone's Eye is available on auction at the end of Gate 2.

Additionally, Agris's Scale and Alcyone's Eye can also be exchanged at the raid vendor for rewards.

Item		Cost	Requirement	Limit
	Desire Growth Material Chest	10x Agris's Scale
	Desire Growth Material Chest	5x Alcyone's Eye
	Echidna, Master of Desire (Jukebox Song)	15x Alcyone's Eye	Serpent's Tears Achievement (10 clears)	1 per roster
	Mount: Wings of Longing	40x Alcyone's Eye	Serpent's Tears Achievement (10 clears)	1 per roster
	Echidna Emoticon Pack	30x Alcyone's Eye	Serpent's Tears Achievement (10 clears)	1 per roster
	Metallurgy: Welding Compound (Metallurgy: Welding Compound x1)	8x Alcyone's Eye		1 per week
	Metallurgy: Professional Welding (Metallurgy: Professional Welding x1)	4x Alcyone's Eye		1 per week
	Tailoring: Mending Compound (Tailoring: Mending Compound x1)	2x Alcyone's Eye		5 per week
	Tailoring: Professional Mending (Tailoring: Professional Mending x1)	1x Alcyone's Eye		5 per week
	Metallurgy: Professional Welding (Metallurgy: Professional Welding x1)	8x Agris's Scale		1 per week
	Tailoring: Professional Mending (Tailoring: Professional Mending x1)	2x Agris's Scale		5 per week

Summary

• Clear Kazeros Raid: Echidna to obtain Agris's Scale and Alcyone's Eye.
• Visit the [Gear Honing] NPC in any major city.
• Use Agris's Scale and Alcyone's Eye to quench your gear.
• Hone to obtain item levels and stats!

Credits

Written by Raeinor
Reviewed by Perciculum