Forge

How To Open The Forge

Use the Forge button in the game client's main panel. Its tooltip reads Open Exaltation Forge; select it to open the Forge window.

The window shows eligible equipment from your inventory and containers. Gold may be paid from carried coins and your bank balance. Its active tabs are Tier Up, Rarity Up, Affix, Convert, and History.

Forge Resources

Influenced creatures

Influenced creatures appear with 1–5 influence stacks. More stacks make the creature harder and more rewarding:

Stacks	Health	Attack	Experience	Dust roll
1	1.50x	1.35x	1.10x	1–3
2	1.65x	1.45x	1.20x	2–6
3	1.80x	1.50x	1.30x	3–9
4	1.95x	1.50x	1.40x	4–12
5	2.10x	1.50x	1.50x	5–15

Each eligible killer receives a personal random Dust roll from the stack value up to three times that value. Shared-experience party members receive their own roll. Dust is added only up to each character's current Dust limit.

Fiendish creatures

Fiendish creatures have 15 stacks, 3.60x health, 1.50x attack, and 2.50x experience. A kill grants a personal 15–45 Dust roll and drops 3–7 Slivers into the corpse.

The world can hold up to 500 Influenced creatures and 10 Fiendish creatures at once. A Fiendish creature remains empowered for up to one hour before the mark moves on.

Tier Up

Tier Up raises one eligible item at a time. The maximum item tier is T10. Equipment belongs to Forge Class 1–4; the class and the target tier determine the gold price.

Every attempt costs 100 Dust plus the listed gold. A successful attempt normally adds 1 tier, with a separate 1% chance to gain 2 tiers instead. The result never exceeds T10. The item keeps its rarity, affixes, and custom attributes.

Success, Improve And Protect

Option	Additional cost	Active effect
Base attempt	None	50% base success chance.
Improve	1 Exalted Core	Guarantees the Tier Up attempt in the current server implementation.
Protect	1 Exalted Core	Prevents tier loss if the attempt fails.
Improve + Protect	2 Exalted Cores	Applies both effects.

The client currently displays 65% with Improve selected, but the current server code treats the consumed Improve Core as an automatic success. Event bonuses can also raise the displayed base chance when a Forge bonus weekend is active.

Gold, Dust, and any selected Cores are consumed when the attempt is made. On failure, the item either stays at its current tier or loses one tier according to the table below. Protect changes every listed loss chance to 0%.

Current tier	Tier-loss chance on failure
T0	0%
T1	50%
T2	60%
T3	70%
T4	80%
T5	90%
T6	100%
T7	100%
T8	100%
T9	100%
T10	100%

Tier Gold Costs

All prices below are for the target tier and are charged together with 100 Dust.

Target tier	Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4
T1	25k	60k	100k	160k
T2	100k	180k	280k	400k
T3	250k	450k	650k	800k
T4	650k	900k	1.1m	1.3m
T5	1m	1.35m	1.65m	2m
T6	2.5m	3.4m	4.2m	5m
T7	7.5m	10m	12.5m	15m
T8	25m	34m	42m	50m
T9	80m	110m	135m	160m
T10	150m	200m	250m	300m

Forge Effects

An item's tier activates a Forge effect based on its equipment slot:

Effect	Equipment	What it does
Onslaught	Weapons	Chance to deal an additional hit worth 60% of the triggering damage.
Ruse	Armor	Chance to avoid an incoming attack from another creature.
Momentum	Helmets	Chance during combat to reduce active spell cooldowns by 2 seconds.
Transcendence	Legs	Chance after an aggressive action to become your vocation Avatar for 7 seconds.
Amplification	Boots	Raises the trigger chance of your other Forge effects.

These are the effective chances produced by the active server coefficients:

Tier	Onslaught	Ruse	Momentum	Transcendence	Amplification
T1	0.50%	0.50%	2.00%	0.13%	2.50%
T2	1.05%	1.03%	4.05%	0.27%	5.40%
T3	1.70%	1.62%	6.20%	0.44%	9.10%
T4	2.45%	2.28%	8.45%	0.64%	13.60%
T5	3.30%	3.00%	10.80%	0.86%	18.90%
T6	4.25%	3.78%	13.25%	1.11%	25.00%
T7	5.30%	4.62%	15.80%	1.38%	31.90%
T8	6.45%	5.52%	18.45%	1.68%	39.60%
T9	7.70%	6.48%	21.20%	2.00%	48.10%
T10	9.05%	7.51%	24.05%	2.35%	57.40%

Rarity Up

Rarity Up advances an eligible item one step at a time. Improve adds 15 percentage points and costs 1 additional Exalted Core. A Forge bonus weekend can add another server-wide success bonus.

Upgrade	Base chance	With Improve	Base cost	Improve cost
None → Rare	75%	90%	250k gold	+1 Exalted Core
Rare → Epic	45%	60%	1m gold + 150 Dust + 20 Slivers	+1 Exalted Core
Epic → Legendary	20%	35%	1.5m gold + 150 Dust + 1 Exalted Core	+1 Exalted Core

Every selected resource is consumed when you attempt the upgrade. A failure leaves the item unchanged. A success fills any missing affix slots with random valid affixes.

The Forge rarity path ends at Legendary. Higher rarities may exist through other loot systems, but this tab cannot create them.

Affix

The Affix tab works directly on eligible equipment and offers three actions:

Action	Chance	Cost	Result
Fill missing slots	100%	100 Dust per empty slot	Adds random valid affixes until all rarity slots are filled.
Reroll level I	100%	25 Dust	Replaces the chosen affix and keeps level I.
Reroll level II	100%	50 Dust	Replaces the chosen affix and keeps level II.
Reroll level III	100%	100 Dust	Replaces the chosen affix and keeps level III.
Empower I → II	60%	100 Dust	Raises the selected affix to level II on success.
Empower II → III	35%	250 Dust	Raises the selected affix to level III on success.

A reroll chooses a different affix valid for that item, avoids duplicates, and respects the weapon damage-over-time limit. A failed empowerment consumes the Dust but leaves the affix at its current level. Level III is the maximum.

See Item Affixes for the full affix pool, equipment restrictions, and exact level I–III values.

Convert

Conversion	Result	Requirement
60 Dust	3 Slivers	Enough Dust.
50 Slivers	1 Exalted Core	Enough Slivers.
100 Dust	1 Forge Dust Crystal	Enough Dust and inventory space.
1 Forge Dust Crystal	100 Dust	At least 100 free points below your Dust limit.

A Forge Dust Crystal stores exactly 100 Dust, letting you trade or save it as an item before redeeming it later.

Increasing The Dust Limit

Each upgrade adds 20 to your Dust limit, up to a maximum of 10,000. Its price is your current limit minus 75, never less than zero. The Forge shows the exact Dust cost before confirmation. Characters already at 10,000 cannot increase it further.

History

History lists recorded Tier Up attempts and resource conversion entries, including their results and costs. Rarity Up and Affix outcomes are confirmed immediately by server messages rather than added to this list.

Use History to review recent Forge activity after closing and reopening the window. For every possible affix and its combat values, continue to the Item Affixes catalogue.