alteration stones

[Icedfate]

when using alteration stones to change an enchantment to a different one, I don't understand why only certain "slots" on the item can be altered.

some "slots" just stay locked in and ghosted out and i can't alter them at all. there seems to be no pattern or logic to which slots are locked.

i have one item with 3 slots all unlocked.
another item with 2 slots and the first slot is locked, but the second slot is unlocked.
another items where the second slot is locked while the first slot is unlocked. .

i'm pissed off because i have a sacred wood staff with 3/3 unified on it that i have been enhancing for over a week. i had it at +9 with a +18 magic power on it and i just leveled it to +10 and it got SUR +3 on the second slot.

i thought, well that's pointless, surety on a mage? i'll use an alteration stone to change it to something more useful.

i go in, click the SUR+3 slot, then clicked a meg defense stone and then without really looking, at the confirmation popup, i clicked yes. . only to see my +18 getting replaced with mag def +3. .like WTF?

apparently, because the SUR+3 was "locked" , when i clicked it, nothing happened and the selection stayed on the mag+18 and i didn't notice and when i clicked "Yes" it replaced the mag+18.

now i have a +10 3/3 staff with sur +3 and mag def +3 , good for garbage.


iINB4 someone comes in and says 'that's on you, you should have paid more attention"

what this is really about is that second slot with the SUR +3 on it is "locked". for some reason, i'm allowed to alter the first slot, but i'm not allowed to alter the second slot. WHY?

[リュータ]

You can only alter 1 slot. And its locked into that slot after you alter it. You can only alter that slot.
Just alter it back to surety if you have surety alter stone. You only lost the checkpoint boost.
And you really understand right its on you.
Savor the risk.

[Icedfate]

i don't want to keep the surety on my staff. i wanted to change the surety and keep the magic power, but it didn't let me.

and that still doesn't explain why i was able to change the magic power slot but not the surety slot, even though started off with a green text staff with mag+5 on it and then leveled it to +5 and the mag changed to +13 and then i refinement stoned it to +18 and then leveled it to +10 and the surety slot appeared and i wanted to change the surety slot , but it wouldn't let me.

because I "refined" one slot, doing that locked me out from "altering" the other slot?

I know i can change it back if i farm more gear for another 2 weeks and get another Magic power alteration stone and then use a refinement stone, but still, my staff has permanently surety +3 on it, a useless stat for a mage,

maybe i shouln't have dumped all this resources into a green text staff to get it to +10 only for it to put a useless enchantment on itself.

i guess the color does matter in addition to the stars. if i had held out for a purple 4 star one, it would have showed me all the enchantments first.

[リュータ]

That mean you already alter it once ``that magic slot``. And its locked to that magic slot forever. So you can only alter that slot.
I wouldnt bother much getting perfect blessing on weapon since they are replaceable unlike shield, body armor, glove, helmet, boots, accesory which stay relevant for 2~4 abyss.
Refine won't lock your altering slot. It must be you already alter that slot without realizing it.

[Icedfate]

"refining" counts as "altering"?


okay. .
anyway, i don't appreciate the clunkly , janky and awkward inventory system in this, only to be told it's my fault for not adapting to the crap factor. .

i love farming for loot, but i dread opening the loot, because every time i open 100 junks, i know i'm in for a 3 hours long session to sort through all the new stuff i just pulled.

[リュータ]

Refine won't lock your altering slot. ``It must be you already alter that slot without realizing it.``

[Icedfate]

I'm just wondering how i got that slot to +18 through alteration then, because the stones i get are always jjust +2-4 or +3-5 and then the refinement stones are the same.

there's no way that adds up to +18, unless maybe i took a green staff that had a garbage enchantent and altered it and then leveld it to +5 and then refined it.
and maybe that's what happened, but i don't remembr.

okay then, maybe it doesn't matter anyway, because i'm in act 3 now and can farm better stuff. i shouldn't be wasting resources on steel stuff when i have access to ebonsteel now.