The grading system is the latest method to further strengthen your gears. When an equipment is graded, it will have distinctive features for the level of grade.

Grading serves 4 main purposes:

1. Acquire grade-specific bonuses from an equipment. These bonuses are cumulative.
2. Acquire grade-specific bonuses from a card.
3. Alters enchant tables of enchants.
4. Increase stats gained from refine.

Each grade has a certain percentage bonus compared to an ungraded item. Refer to the Refinement page for exact values.

NPC: Garm (grademk 34, 184)

Talk to the NPC (Option 2) which opens the Grading UI.

Process	Required Refine	Required Materials	Base Success Chance	Blessed Etel Dust (1000337)			Failure Penalty
				Dust needed per 10% Bonus	Dust needed for 100%	Dust returned on fail
No Grade → Grade D	+9	1x Etel Aquamarine (1000325) 100.000 Zeny	+9: 20% +10: 30% +11: 70%	2	+9: 16 +10: 14 +11: 6	+9: 1 +10: 2 +11: 3	Equipment Destroyed
No Grade → Grade D	+9	5x Etel Aquamarine (1000325) 500.000 Zeny	+9: 20% +10: 30% +11: 70%	2	+9: 16 +10: 14 +11: 6	+9: 1 +10: 2 +11: 3	-
Grade D → Grade C	+10	1x Etel Topaz (1000326) 125.000 Zeny	+10: 30% +11: 60%	3	+10: 21 +11: 12	+10: 2 +11: 3	Equipment Destroyed
Grade D → Grade C	+10	5x Etel Topaz (1000326) 625.000 Zeny	+10: 30% +11: 60%	3	+10: 21 +11: 12	+10: 2 +11: 3	-
Grade C → Grade B	+11	1x Etel Amethyst (1000327) 200.000 Zeny	50%	5	25	4	Equipment Destroyed
Grade C → Grade B	+11	5x Etel Amethyst (1000327) 1.000.000 Zeny	50%	5	25	4	-
Grade B → Grade A	+11	2x Etel Amber (1000328) 500.000 Zeny	40%	7	42	5	Equipment Destroyed
Grade B → Grade A	+11	10x Etel Amber (1000328) 2.500.000 Zeny	40%	7	42	5	-

Note: Grading at +16 increases grade chance by an additional 10% and returns 1 more Blessed Etel Dust (1000337) on fail.

• Only Lv 5 Weapons and Lv 2 Armors!

• Yes, when a Grade is successful, refine resets to +0.

• No, grading preserves enchants, cards and line options.

• Maximum of +100.00% success chance can be acquired from Blessed Etel Dust (1000337) .

• Example:

Process	Required Materials	Base Success Chance	Bonus Success Chance	Failure Penalty
No Grade → Grade D	+11 No Grade Equipment 1x Etel Aquamarine (1000325) 100.000 Zeny	70%	10% per 2 Blessed Etel Dust (1000337)	Equipment Destroyed

If you use 6x Blessed Etel Dust (1000337) , you will have 70% Base Success Chance + 30% Bonus Success Chance = 100% Success Chance.

NPC: Garm (grademk 34, 184)

Talk to the NPC (Option 3) to craft grading materials.

Item	Currency Amount
Etel Stone (1000323)	100.000z 5x Etel Dust (1000322)
Blessed Etel Dust (1000337)	100.000z 5x Etel Dust (1000322) 1x Blacksmith's Blessing (6635)
Etel Aquamarine (1000325)	100.000z 3x Etel Stone (1000323) 1x Aquamarine (720)
Etel Topaz (1000326)	200,000z 6x Etel Stone (1000323) 1x Topaz (728)
Etel Amethyst (1000327)	300.000z 10x Etel Stone (1000323) 1x Amethyst (719)
Etel Amber (1000328)	500.000z 15x Etel Stone (1000323) 1x Amber (1000321)

• Etel Dust (1000322) are common drops from Lv 200+ dungeons such as Niflheim Dungeon, Rudus Level 4 and Amicitia. (approximately 2,2 ~ 7,7% drop rate)
• Amethyst (719) , Aquamarine (720) , Pearl (722) , 1carat Diamond (730) , Diamond Ring (2613) , Topaz (728) and Amber (1000321) can be purchased from Morroc Jeweler (morocc 166, 54).