Power Cores
Special items exclusive for level 60+ found in your most bottom-middle slot of your equipment as you can see here;
https://puu.sh/wGL4o/780d890acf.png
these items are different, they are items have durability and once equipped you can see how much durability they have by looking at the bottom UI where there used to be chains on a single slot here;
https://puu.sh/wGLaj/f5dd27eb7c.png
the light blue shows a percentage of the fullness of the core, which is also shown as a number directly on the core, and the light blue line slowly declines with the declining of the durability.
Cores's main purpose is to give additional attack. inferior cores give 1000 extra attack, superior 1250, rare 1500, and legendary - 2000. the difference between the cores is also the maximum durability you get while charged, the rare ones for example, are enough for 2-3 days of playing.
some cores can have additional stats such as bonus for a certain element, dmg reduction, dmg to bosses, etc.
If you go to your skill tab, every skill's description says something about core power. this shows how much durability from your core a single skill will take.
Once you get a new core, it will be locked and will be required to be 'activated' or 'charged' using some pure kritium pieces, about 400 of them. once you run out of durability on a core however, you cannot recharge it, and it has to be replaced. there are several ways to get cores:
- Random drops from level 60-64 dungeons in both keskyu outpost and in xanadu (rated inferior, superior or rare)
- Purchasable for 10 core pieces, core pieces are another random drop from the above dungeons, by the material collection agent in keskyu outpost or xanadu (rated superior or rare, and have random bonuses besides attack)
- Purchasable by a level 6 guild's item shop (rated inferior, superior, rare or legendary (!) ) once per day for contribution points
Note: Core pieces can also be obtained by salvaging used up cores or ones useless to you.
Artifacts
The second 'special' item which is exclusive for level 60 and above, however actually farming them in bulk is only possible from level 65. these items have many different stats and can be combined by artifact fusers found in the same gachapon machine i talked about in the charm fusion, in the second page of crafting inside the gachapon machine. like charms, there is a random chance combining 2 same-level artifacts will yield the next tier artifact. you can also buy artifacts from the auction house for kred.
Artifacts
are enhanceable, even if they say 0/0 when you get them. simply put the artifacts in the enhancer's anvil and enhance. this however costs artifact's whetstones which are only obtainable by salvaging artifacts.
You can get a decent amount of artifacts by simply doing the PVE arena every day, these however are 95% of the time inferior artifacts, so are basically just a way to farm free artifact whetstones.
At level 65 you are able to buy a random artifact rated superior (only!) from the sword marked NPC in starhenge for 5 violet boss souls. these can also be salvaged for artifact whetstones.
note that unlike other types of equipment, these artifacts have a chance to be destroyed and disappear after the third enhancement's success, so consider yourself warned.
my personal artifact of choice:
https://puu.sh/wGLRx/ba08bb05fc.png
Power Cores