What is spectre refining?

[spaceboitrey]

I keep reading people here referring to spectre refining items before you consume them and it's something I've never heard of or come across in game. Can someone explain it for me? thank you

[Normal Paradox]

It's a golden core skill that use anguish soul gem to upgrade some items, like earth flux.
It make the rank of the item go up, increasing it's potency, for exemple a rank 12 earth flux is double +Max Qi compared to the normal version.

[Winterherz]

Spectre Refining is a skill you can learn when a cultivator reaches Golden Core.
It costs qi (i think it was 30.000 and an anguish soul gem but can fail but you can try again as much as you like (a soul gem sentient has a 100% chance but thats late game)

With this skill you can increase the tier of an item.
This way you can make medicin more effective and artifacts or weapons become stronger.

Beware that you sometimes need to increase the tier of material not the item you use to show effects (e.g. artifacts)

[Razorlight Entertainment]

Don't worry too much about the low chance of refining. I had a 35% chance to succeed and never failed once in 5 refines. I assume it becomes relevant after level 8 or 10, maybe.

[Normal Paradox]

I fail a lot of refining but i think it's because my refiner is "careless" :/
Don't do the same mistake and pick someone with good trait.

[Razorlight Entertainment]

Originally posted by Normal Paradox:

I fail a lot of refining but i think it's because my refiner is "careless" :/
Don't do the same mistake and pick someone with good trait.

Well, that's true. My refiners have maximized Artifact Crafting skills and no negative attributes. Maybe that's why they don't fail.