Ancient Anvil

Introduction

The Ancient Anvil has been added to Black Desert as a form of an Enhancement Pity System

• After failing an enhancement enough times, the enhancement chance will become guaranteed
• Each time you fail enhancing an item you'll gain Agris Essence which eventually gives you 100% chance
• The amount of Agris Essence you need will depend on the item and its current enhancement level 
• Accessories have a unique way of storing Agris Essence as accessories have the risk of downgrades

 

Enhancement attempts made after Jan 1, 2024, will retroactively factor into the stored Agris Essence amount

 

Using the Ancient Anvil

You won't need to do anything special in order to unlock the Ancient Anvil, more so it's just a feature that's now baked into the standard enhancement system. 

 

Now when you fail enhancement, Agris Essence will stack for the gear at its enhancement level. once you've stacked enough essences, you'll be guaranteed enhancement of that gear and its enhancement level.

 

Agris Essence is basically saved per gear and enhancement level. It's stored individually for accessories while bound to set groups for weapons/defense gear.

 

 

When attempting an enhancement, if you fail, your Agris Essence will increase, as shown in the gif below: 

 

 

 

As you can see from the gif, you will still receive Agris Essence when using Cron Stones so there's no downsides to try and increase your Agris Essence. 

 

Agris Essence isn't an item, it's stored within the enhancement system. Weapons or Armor of the same grouping / type will share stored Agris Essence. 

 

 

From the above you can see that both Awakening style Blackstar weapons have the same amount of Agris Essence despite being technically different weapons. 

 

But all types of Blackstar weapons (Main, Awakening and Sub-weapons) and Blackstar Armor would share this Agris Essence amount. 

 

Once you have enough Agris Essence you can use it for a 100% enhancement chance: 


As mentioned earlier Accessories work a little differently for example a Deboreka Necklace will stores Agris Essence separately from the Deboreka Ring. 

 

Since accessories can downgrade even with Cron Stones, if you fail enhancement and your TET Deboreka drops to TRI Deboreka, if you enhance it back to TET, this won't effect your Agris Essence.

 

You'll still have the same amount of Agris Essence previously stored towards hitting PEN after making it TET again.

 

Item Groupings

Here's a list taken from the patch notes that show which items are grouped together and will share Agris Essence for a guaranteed success. 

 

Below will show also show the different amounts of Agris Essence needed for each item level within the groups

 

[All gear within this group share stored Agris Essences.]
Gear Category	Enhancement Level	Max Storable Agris Essences
- White Grade Weapons   - White Grade Defense Gear - Green Grade Weapons - Green Grade Defense Gear - Green Grade Life Skill Tools - Blue Grade Weapons - Blue Grade Defense Gear - Blue Grade Life Skill Tools - Blue Grade [Combat] Trina Matchlocks & Demolition Axes - Yellow Grade Weapons - Yellow Grade Defense Gear - Yellow Grade Dragon Slayer Weapons - Yellow Grade Katan Weapons - Yellow Grade Sandstorm Weapons - Yellow Grade Cliff's Weapons - Orange Grade Life Skill Tools	7	3
	8	7
	9	8
	10	9
	11	10
	12	13
	13	17
	14	20
	15	5
	PRI (I)	7
	DUO (II)	8
	TRI (III)	12
	TET (IV)	35

 

 

* Green, Blue, and Orange Grade Life Skill Clothes will be enhanceable with Cron Stones in a later update.

 

[Accessories do NOT share stored Agris Essences but store them separately. However, reformed accessories share stored essences with their normal variations.]
Gear Category	Enhancement Level	Max Storable Agris Essences
- Loggia Accessories - Geranoa Accessories - Manos Accessories	0	3
	PRI (I)	5
	DUO (II)	7
	TRI (III)	14
	TET (IV)	40

 

* Loggia, Gernoa, and Manos Accessories will be enhanceable with Cron Stones in a later update.

 

Have you made use of the Ancient Anvil yet? Let us know!

 

 

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