Zarhold card MMORPG: item honing up to +20 is live — milestones, the Seal of Steadfastness and the Ascension ritual

The update of November 4 brought honing to Zarhold: level 60 weapons, armor and jewelry can now be upgraded from +1 to +20. Every step adds Power, Health and Hardiness to the item, and +10, +15 and +20 unlock milestone bonuses. — What can be honed — Items that require level 60: weapons (everything in hand and ranged, a shield counts as a weapon), armor and jewelry — neck, rings, trinkets, cloak. Heirloom and turquoise items cannot be honed, nor can the shirt, tabard and bags. A level 60 hero hones: item menu → Hone. — How it works — • Every step has its own scroll. Enchanters make them (Enchanting, skill 300), and all honing recipes are for level 60 heroes. No enchanter of your own? Buy scrolls at the auction or order them at the Order Board. • +1…+9 come with a guarantee: success by the 4th attempt at the latest. A failure at +4…+9 only breaks the item — repair it at a vendor and the pluses stay. • +10…+19 have two paths: with risk (Unstable Runes) or risk-free with the Seal of Steadfastness — 100%. A risky failure overheats the item: cool it down with a Scroll of Restoration. From +16 a failure also leaves a crack. • +20 is reached only through the Ascension ritual: 10% for weapons, 15% for armor and jewelry, one attempt per week. Success is marked on the item forever, and the whole world hears about it. • A failure never destroys the item. — Milestones +10, +15, +20 — Weapons: +10 Keen Edge — +1% Power for each weapon at +10 or higher (up to +3%); +15 Flame Strike — every 4th attack hits 20% harder; +20 Tyrant Breaker — +6% damage to bosses. Armor and jewelry: +10 Fortitude — 7 items give +4% Health, 14 items +7%; +15 Bastion — 14 items give another +7% Health; +20 Undying — once per battle, after a killing blow the hero rises with 20% Health. Honing power and milestones work in battles against creatures — in the lands, dungeons, raids and keys. In PvP honing is appearance only. — Weekly limits and rare reagents — Attempts per week on high steps: +10…+14 — 10, +15…+19 — 5, the Ascension ritual — 1. The reset is on Monday at 03:00 Moscow time. Unstable Runes drop from heroic and mythic bosses and from Mythic+ +7…+10 key chests; Constellation Tears drop from mythic raid finals, mythic world bosses and keys. A Constellation Tear can be traded to a friend or sold. The Seal of Steadfastness recipe is a rare drop from mythic raid finals and mythic world bosses. — Moving your honing — Found a better item? A Scroll of Transference moves the honing to an item of the same slot at the cost of 2 steps (+20 becomes +18) — once a week. — How a honed item looks — The “+N” mark on the item icon grows with the step: from +10 — a golden frame and glow, from +15 — fiery sparks and a strike trail in battle, and at +20 — a blood-red frame, a crimson aura on the hero and a shimmering item name in chat. — Also in this update — • Shop: a new Customization tab — item and hero looks, name color and shimmer. • Group battles: a second tap on an enemy places the Strike Here mark — allied residents attack the marked target. • Guild bank: Sort, stacks of 100, guild auction lots and the treasury log. • Crafting: favourite recipes. — Where to start — Step-by-step guide: your first honing, all chance and step tables and where to get reagents are in the Knowledge Base, and the full breakdown is in the article Item honing in Zarhold: how to upgrade gear to +20. Good luck at the anvil — may your item be the first to shine at +20!