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Perfect Elixir Refinement Guide (Latest March 2025) This video is the latest guide on how to refine elixirs in Lost Ark, starting with the basic concepts of elixirs and providing tips and strategies for efficient refining. In particular, it explains the tiers of advice so that you can make the best choices depending on the number of refining chances remaining, and helps you understand through actual refining examples.
Perfect Elixir Refinement Guide (Latest March 2025)
1. What is Elixir?
When you acquire an elixir, four options are already determined, and you can choose one option to add. You will have a total of five options. The probability of each option being alchemized is basically 20%, and upon alchemizing, there is a 40% chance of a great success, adding an additional slot.
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1. What is Elixir?
When you acquire an elixir, four options are already determined, and you can choose one option to add. You will have a total of five options. The probability of each option being alchemized is basically 20%, and upon alchemizing, there is a 40% chance of a great success, adding an additional slot.
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2. Elixir Level and Equipment Imbuement
The elixir reaches a level when the slots with numbers are filled. When the elixir process is complete, seal three options and leave only two options to imbue into equipment.
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3. Elixir Refining Process
One elixir is given ten chances to refine. One chance consists of two steps: selecting Sage's Advice and refining. This process is repeated to fill the number of slots for the elixir options.
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4. Key Principles of Elixir Refining
When selecting advice, only choose those that affect the options you are aiming for. If one 'See Other Advice' remains, use it only when all three pieces of advice do not affect the options you are aiming for. When 4-6 refining chances remain, do not use 'See Other Advice' even if unnecessary advice appears; use it only when 1-2 chances remain.
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5. When 4 or More Refining Chances Remain: Advice Tier Classification (Top Tier)
Adds 30% to all Great Success chances in all remaining refines: Overwhelming #1, top-tier option. Refine four effects simultaneously: Each option has a base 40% Great Success chance, so it's very good. Raise a specific effect from stage 0 to stage 4: Good if it attaches to the desired option; becomes a top-tier option the moment 4 is attached. Raise the stage of the effect you choose from 0 to 4: Advice related to a specific effect can also appear as the selected effect. Raise the highest stage by 3: Very good when it goes well. Increases the Great Success chance of a specific effect by 45% in all remaining refines: Good, but meaningless if that option is not refined. Increase 'See Other Advice' count by 2: Decently good, especially effective in sealing turns with 3 or fewer chances remaining. Increase the effect being refined this time by 4 stages: Good in that it raises it definitively. This refining chance is not consumed: Feels like refining while also seeing other advice.
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6. When 4 or More Refining Chances Remain: Advice Tier Classification (High Tier)
Adds 20% to all Great Success chances in all remaining refines: Good option related to internal stats. Refine three effects simultaneously: Good because the Great Success chance is basically 40%. Raise a specific effect by 3 stages: Disappointing if 0 appears, but a high chance of attaching 1-3. Raise a specific effect by 2 stages with a 75% chance: Disappointing if it fails, but a high probability of stage increase. Raise a specific effect by 3 stages with a 50% chance: Risky, but high potential. Lower the probability of a specific effect being refined by 20% in all remaining refines (similar to sealing): Value increases the earlier it appears. Raise the highest stage effect by 2: Top tier if things are going well. Raise a random effect by 2 stages: Good if it attaches to the desired location, and definitively raises by 2 stages.
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7. When 4 or More Refining Chances Remain: Advice Tier Classification (Mid Tier)
Raise a specific effect by 2 stages: Good if it attaches. Adds 10% to all Great Success chances in all remaining refines: Not very noticeable. Adds 30% to the Great Success chance of the selected effect in all remaining refines: Useless if the option fails to refine. Raise by 4 stages with a 25% chance: Top tier if successful, high risk if it fails. Raise by 2 stages with a 50% chance: Stable version. Raise by 1 stage with a 75% chance: More stable, but lower potential. Refine a specific effect by 2 stages: Helps drive it to the desired option. Raise the probability of a specific effect being refined by 20% in all remaining refines: Good option related to internal stats, but ambiguous. The effect being refined this time goes up by 2 stages: 40% chance of attaching to the desired location. Simultaneous refinement of two: Increases the chance of attaching to the desired location. Highest stage +1: Decent when things are going well. Raise a random effect by 1 stage: Ambiguous, but feels like refining twice.
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8. When 4 or More Refining Chances Remain: Advice Tier Classification (Low Tier, Lowest Tier)
[Low Tier] Raise by 3 stages with a 25% chance: High tier or higher if successful. Adds 15% to the Great Success chance of a specific effect in all remaining refines: Minimal impact. Swap two effects: Can revive a dead elixir, but mainly used to replace unnecessary options. Refine the selected effect: Only refine without selecting advice. Increase the probability of the selected effect being refined by 50%: Worse than refining the selected effect. Move the stage of all effects up/down by one slot: Can revive a dead elixir, but the less you have to choose it, the better. Add one 'See Other Advice': Ambiguous. [Lowest Tier] Raise the lowest stage effect: Raise by 1 or 2. Increase/decrease the probability of a specific effect being refined by 10% in all remaining refines in all remaining refines: No noticeable impact. Redistribute all effects: Never seen it revive a dead elixir. This refine is free/discounted: Not great, elixir refining ends anyway upon reaching level 5.
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9. Advice Selection When 3 or Fewer Refining Chances Remain
Seal the selected one and refine two simultaneously (Top Tier): Very good if you've picked an option related to internal stats. Seal the selected one and raise another effect by 1 stage (High Tier): Decent. Seal the selected one and raise the lowest stage by 1 (Mid Tier): Can lock the desired option. Normal seals (Low Tier): Seal from the options you won't use, starting with the one with the highest refining probability or the lowest stage. Seal something you've refined well (Lowest Tier) It's good to take one or more 'See Other Advice' in the sealing turn to draw special options.
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10. Tips for Utilizing 'See Other Advice'
Recommended to use when 2 refining chances remain, aiming for special options and locking unnecessary options. The reason for not using it when 1 chance remains is that you end up discarding the 'See Other Advice' chance if a special option naturally appears. You can use it when 1 chance remains if you want the best high-roll play.
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11. Preference Difference: Internal Stats vs. Level
Internal Stats: Emphasizes increasing Great Success chance and refining probability to attach Great Success to the desired option. Level: Emphasizes raising the elixir level, such as refining from 0 to 4 stages, refining the desired option, etc. Currently, the Level approach is better. When 7-10 refining chances remain, recommend selecting options related to internal stats; otherwise, select options that raise the level.
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12. Strategies Based on L40 vs. L50 Goals
Based on when options related to internal stats and options that raise the level appear simultaneously, it is more stable to increase the Great Success chance rather than attaching level 3 or 4 with a 25% chance. If aiming for L40: Increase Great Success chance. If aiming for L50: Pray to attach 4 stages with a 25% chance.
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13. Frequently Asked Questions
If the advice world is bad from the start: You can still reach 55 by just proceeding. Move one slot up and down: The level moves by that effect.
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14. Elixir Refining Example
Simultaneous completion of two, attaching Boss Damage, 인정 (acknowledged) if Shared Great Success attaches.
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