With tonight`s maintenance the Item and Armor Upgrading System will be implemented in Asda Story Gold. To upgrade an item you will need to use special Scrolls which may be found in-game as drops, able to be purchased from NPC`s, and as items available for purchase from the item mall. Upgrading an item will increase its capability points as well as give it special graphical effects if it reaches +5 or higher, and with different effects if it is able to be Upgraded beyond that.

The in-game Upgrading Scrolls include those purchased from NPC`s and dropped from monsters. The Scrolls dropped from mobs will increase the Capability Points of an Armor piece or weapon by a greater degree than those able to be purchased from NPC`s, and the success rates of each are likewise different. Each of these in-game scrolls will allow you to attempt to upgrade an in-Asda Story Gold game item or common item mall item a total of (5) times to possibly become a maximum of +5.

Items of higher rarity purchased from the Item Mall however, two sets of which are also being included in the Item Mall with tonight`s maintenance, are able to have more chances to Upgrade them based on their Booster Item rarity (between 6-8 times for Premium Uncommon, Rare, and Hero level items respectively).

Number of possible Upgrade attempts:

- In-game Common, Uncommon, Rare, Hero Armor and Weapons (5)
- Common Premium Items (5)
- Uncommon Premium Items [Booster only] (6)
- Rare Premium Items [Booster only] (7)
- Hero Premium Items [Booster only] (8)
 
If an item fails to upgrade one of the times, there are two ways to reset its number of Upgrade chances. One of which is a complete Upgrade Reset able to be purchased from the NPC Blacksmith Alford in Alpen with in-game Gold. This will reset the item back to 0 upgrades and give you all 5 chances again to Upgrade successfully. The other method is a Partial Reset Scroll item available from the Item Mall and eventually the Exchange Market which is able to remove one of the failed Upgrade chances from an item without losing it`s current level of Upgrade.

Highly Upgraded items will also have specially colored titles listed below, in-game graphical effects based on the item`s original rarity, and three distinct in-game model sizes of the item depending on its level of Upgrade to showcase its power:

+5 - [Elite Item] - White
+6 - [Art] - Yellow
+7 - [Masterpiece] - Pink
+8 - [Extreme] - Light Green