| Don bite my head off over it, Nexon made the | | | | on to use chaos scrolls on these shoes, I could |
| skill, not me. Anyway, this is where it gets | | | | (extreme luck required) get 30 speed on these |
| REALLY interesting. Each item has the potential | | | | shoes.With the Secret Crystals, (once they come |
| for 2 types of modifiers. A stimulator, and gem | | | | out, grrr nexon.) I could be using a Dragon |
| sockets. A stimulator will randomly affect one | | | | Shinebow (lvl 110) at level 107. Awesome no?One |
| property on your item, but adds a 10% chance | | | | thing to take note of, you must gather 10 ores |
| of failure to the creation process. If you have high | | | | of the gem you want, and refine them. Then use |
| DEX, LUK, or INT, you in luck, because you also | | | | your maker skill to refine the gem into a basic |
| have high hands, and this reduces the chance of a | | | | gem. Refine 10 basic gems into an intermediate |
| stimulator causing creation failure.Gem sockets are | | | | gem, and 10 intermediate gems into an advanced |
| the most interesting part about the maker skill. | | | | gem.You do have a small chance to refine into a |
| (IMHO) Gem sockets allow you to take your | | | | higher grade gem, and I believe the percentages |
| item, and add certain gems, increasing a particular | | | | are something like this:1 Gem > 1 Basic 85%1 |
| statistic on the item. The catch is, you can only | | | | Gem > 1 Intermediate 10%1 Gem > 1 |
| socket one of each type of gem per item, and | | | | Advanced 5 Basic > 1 Intermediate 85 Basic |
| your gem sockets are limited by your maker skill | | | | > 9 Basic 10 Basic > 1 Advanced 5 |
| level.Level 1 ?1 SocketsLevel 2 ?2 SocketsLevel 3 | | | | Intermediate > 1 Advanced 90 Intermediate |
| ?3 Sockets There is an avaiable space for a | | | | > 9 Intermediate 10, Power, Wisdom, and Luk, |
| fourth socket, but no items that can currently be | | | | Dark, and Black Crystals have a different set of |
| made can use the fourth slot.Items you can | | | | percentages. Somewhere along the lines of:1 Gem |
| make with Maker level 1 can only use 1 slot, 2 | | | | > 1 Basic 90%1 Gem > 1 Intermediate 9%1 |
| two slots, and 3 3 slots.The gems are as follows: | | | | Gem > 1 Advanced 1 Basic > 1 |
| (Gem, Statistic, Bonus [basic, intermediate, | | | | Intermediate 89 Basic > 9 Basic 10 Basic > |
| advanced] conditions)Diamond, + Weapon Attack | | | | 1 Advanced 1 Intermediate > 1 Advanced 25 |
| (1, 2, 3) Useable on Weapons only.Sapphire, + | | | | Intermediate > 9 Intermediate 75%These |
| Magic Attack (1, 2, 3) Useable on Weapons | | | | percentages ARE affected by your maker skill |
| only.Garnet, + Accuracy, (2, 3, 5) Opal, + Avoid, | | | | level. The percentages I have listed are for level |
| (2, 3, 5)Aquamarine, + Jump, (1, 2, 3)Amethyst, + | | | | 3. The intermediate > advanced percentages |
| Speed, (1, 2, 3)Topaz, + HP, (10, 20, 30)Emerald, | | | | seem to be reversed if you do not have level 3 |
| + MP, (10, 20, 30)Black Crystal, +/- Random, (1, | | | | maker skill. (I failed 8 advanced Dex crystals in a |
| 2, 3) (Atk, M. Atk, Speed, or Jump)Dark Crystal, | | | | row, with maker level 2)There is also speculation |
| +/- Random, (2, 3, 5) (Str, Dex, Int, Luk, | | | | that the percentages are affected by your hands |
| Accuracy, or Avoid)Power Crystal, + STR, (2, 3, | | | | stat. While this is unconfirmed, I believe it is |
| 5)Dex Crystal, + DEX, (2, 3, 5)Wisdom Crystal, + | | | | true.Finally, refining and upgrading gems costs you |
| INT, (2, 3, 5)Luk Crystal, + LUK, (2, 3, 5)Secret | | | | a bundle:110,000 to refine a gem into basic330,000 |
| Crystal, - Level Requirement (1, 2, 3) Currently | | | | to refine basic into intermediate550,000 to refine |
| not available.So it is possible to add 6 attack to | | | | intermediate into advanced.If you can get |
| your clean weapon, (without the use of a | | | | advanced gems, it is SO WORTH IT. You can get |
| stimulator) but you have to be ridiculously | | | | some AMAZING stats on your items, without |
| lucky.Make a weapon, socket an Advanced | | | | blowing money on scrolls.Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, |
| diamond, and an advanced Black Crystal. Hit the | | | | what the heck is "Hands"?Hands is the previously |
| random crystal on attack, and your now rich.This | | | | useless stat that can be found in your detailed |
| also brings up options for chaos scrolling. You can | | | | stat window. (Standard hotkey "s") Hands is |
| take something such as your level 90 shoes, add | | | | calculated by adding your Dex, Int, and Luk |
| a stat that isnę° normally found on it. (example: | | | | togeter. Example: Magician with 40 Int, 8 Luk, and |
| I added an advanced amethyst to my Dark Ades | | | | 4 Dex, will have a hands stat of 52. |
| shoes, I got 8 dex, 5 speed, 5 slot shoes.) If I go | | | | |