Statting an Item

Creating a mana stone is the easy part. Actually creating mana stones for statting an item takes a little thought.
What you need to know before you start is this, I will explain them all:

It takes THREE mana stones to stat an item.
All three mana stones MUST be the same tier.
Any piece of equipment may have ONLY 6 stat names.
A mana stone or piece of equipment can NEVER have the same stat name more than once. All names need to be unique.
The transmutor will ALWAYS take the 6 LOWEST ranking stats possible.


With mana stones, everything works in 3's. You need to make three different mana stones to stat one piece of equipment. Also, they need to all be the same tier. You can make a higher tier stone with 3 lower ranking mana stones. For example, if I put 3 tier 2 mana stones in the transmutor, I will get one tier 3 stone. This goes on to infinity. I've seen a tier 12 stone.

Any one mana stone or piece of equipment can only have 6 stat names. Here's some examples of mana stones with various stat names. The name is on the right, while what that particular stat gives you is listed on the left.


This stone has only one stat name on it.
The name is Stamina X.
This gives you +35 stamina.




This stone has 4 stat names on it.
While you see that the stat name Knowledge shows up twice, you'll notice that it's two different ranks of that name. This makes it two UNIQUE names, Knowledge III and Knowledge IV.






This stone has many stats on it, but only 6 stat names.
Five of the names give 2 stats each, these are known as yellow stats. There are also Orange stats in the game, which gives 3 stats per stat name. These are the ones that drop off bosses in end-game instances. The names that only give one stat are known as green stats. These are the most common, and you will see them on gear when you first start the game.








It's important to remember that you can only have 6 unique names per mana stone, or per piece of equipment. If you try to put more than 6, the transmutor will automatically get rid of the highest ranking stat you have. The high stats are usually what you're trying to put on your gear, so you really don't want that happening.

So, how do you make sure you only have 6 names, and still get the stats you want?
You match fusion stones.

On the previous page I mentioned how you can buy fusion stones with 2 guaranteed stats, and one random stat. Here's where that becomes important.
You can choose from different fusion stones to buy, I chose to buy the ones that give SpiritII, Dark I, and a random stat. I then kept buying them until I had 3 stones with the exact same stats. I ended up buying 14 stones to get the same random stat 3 times. Now I have a bunch saved up, and I won't have to buy too many next time. You can also check the auction house for fusion stones that match the ones you want.



Now I have 3 of this stone. Because they are all identical, there are really only 3 unique statnames over all three of these stones. Identical stat names "cancel each other out",or "overlap", however you want to say it. I now have 3 stat names for a piece of equipment, I have room for 3 more.













I have 3 items, all tier 2, with 1 stat name each. I will be making a mana stone out of each one with the matching fusion stones.

















As you see, each mana stone has the stats Dark I, Stamina I, and Spirit II.








Because they are exactly the same stat name, they will "cancel each other out".






Leaving me with the 3 stat names off the fusion stones, and the 3 stats I've chosen off equipment.






Now I want to put these onto an item, so I need something that's "clean", meaning no stats at all on it.






I have chosen a pair of pants I've crafted with tailoring.





Placed it in the transmutor along with the 3 mana stones, and checked the preview.








Pressed the confirm button, and there we go, a statted pair of pants for my priest.









Now, what if there is already one stat on the piece of equipment I'm going to add stats to?

That's very easy to deal with. There are 5 ways actually. The first way is the easiest.

If you have 1 stat on something, that leaves you room for only 5. In this case, you need to get only 2 good stats to put on it, not 3. You go about making 2 of your manastones the same way with those 2 stats. Then for the third one, you use an item with no stats at all on it, leaving you with a manastone that only has the stats off the fusion stone. All armor and weapon vendors sell items with no stats on them. You only need to make sure you have the correct tier. Tier 3 items can be purchased in Obsidian Stronghold, and in level 50+ areas. 2 stats on something would mean making 2 blanks.

The next way takes a little bit of time and money. Instead of matching a set of fusion stones that have 3 stats on them, match a set that has only 2, or even only 1. This way when you put one stat on each stone, you have 5 statnames total, which will fit on your piece with one already on it. This is also useful for getting more than 3 good stats on a clean piece of equipment. You'll find that sometimes quest rewards, and even drops have 2 stats on them, not 1. This is one way to deal with that. 2 stats on something would mean using only a 1 stat stone.

The next way is to use purified fusion stones (puris). This way, you're starting with a blank fusion stone, and you get only the stats you want, with no junk. You get one stat per manastone this way, or what we call a "clean stat". This is more for higher level equipment, as they cost diamonds or tokens to buy. You also use puris for putting 6 good stats on a piece. Also, if you use a clean piece to make a manastone with a puri, you get a totally blank stone. You can use a blank manastone with two clean stat manastones for your 3 if you already have stats on your gear.

This next one is very time consuming. You have to expect this to sometimes take days, this requires patience. If you have a low level stat on your gear that you want to add stats to, you can try to match the fusion stone to that stat. Just because the stat is already on something doesn't change how the transmutor acts toward it. It will still overlap the matching statnames. This might take many trips to the auction house though. Let's say you have a ring with Spirit II on it. This would be easy, since you can purchase fusion stones with that one already on it. But if you have a belt with Ability IV on it, you still could match stones to it. Players over level 50 start getting access to quests and such that give rewards of fusion stones with III, IV, & V stats on them. There are even better ones out there too. These usually end up on the auction house, so you have to spend lots of time looking through them for the right ones.

And lastly, the most expensive choice, just go to the item shop and buy a cleaner. This will remove all stats on an item for you. They cost a lot of diamonds, and are not available regularly. This is really only recommended for high level instance set gear, and even for the Vahtos set. Of course if you don't mind spending cash on the game, you can clean all your gear and have perfectly statted pieces the easy way.



One last rule, you can always add more later!
If you have some nice higher level clean gear, and you're statting it with clean stats, you don't have to put all 6 on at once. You'll end up with 6 seperate one-stat manastones. You can only do three at a time anyway. If you don't have the charges, or the puris, or even the stats for all 6, just do three. You can always add more to it. All rules still apply, the transmutor doesn't care that there's stats already on the gear, just that there's only 6 of them when you're done.



Tiering an Item


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