Advanced Honing System Guide

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.

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

As mentioned before, each gear piece must be tempered using Agris's Scale or Alcaone'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.

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.

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:

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

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:

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.

For a more detailed breakdown, check out our Honing Calculator.

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

Written by Raeinor
Reviewed by Perciculum