Gear Improvement - Identifying Gear

So you have your gear, now what? 

One of the easiest ways to improve your gear is by identifying it. Identifying your gear instantly increase your stats. You can get the items used to identify most gear from Shylia Market under Favor/Refine. Scroll of Sages will id gear under level 40. Scroll of Prophet will id gear over 40. You simply need to have the scroll in your bag, right click on the scroll which makes your cursor turn into what looks like a magnifying glass with a pointer on it, then click on the gear that you would like to id.

As you can see in the first pic, the gear is unidentified (yellow circle). Take a look at the orange circles. These show the stats that eventually get affected when this particular piece gets id'd.

As you can see in this lower picture, the gear gained 3 accuracy, which is reflected in the accuracy going from 181 to 184. And the gear gained 121 mana, which is reflected in the overall mana going from 7854 to 7975.

I highly recommend iding the gear before you bind it to your character - especially if you have choices between gear. Then you can see if it would be worth binding, or if you should try selling instead.

If you end up with additional attributes that do not suite you, but the original attributes are good, you can try re-iding your gear. You will need the appropriate re-id scroll and will need to bring everything to Gabriel. I only recommend re-iding if the item will be on your character for a long time (i.e. higher level gear). It does cost real gold to do this, so make sure it is worth it.

Note: I recommend only spending effort on gear that has at least two original attributes. You will always gain another two on blue gear, but having four attributes is obviously better than only three.