The Conqueror's Armor would have a low success rate even if someone like him, a Master Blacksmith, crafted it.
While there were many auxiliary items in the Divine Realm, their effectiveness decreased as the difficulty of the crafted item increased. When crafting Epic-grade items, most auxiliary items became completely useless, with only a handful still providing some marginal benefit.
He hadn't expected that with just over a 30% success rate, not only did he succeed on the first try, but he'd even triggered the Black Iron Emblem's enhancement effect.
Looking at the enhanced Conqueror's Armor, Shi Feng clicked to inspect it.
Instantly, the system began reading the Conqueror's Armor's data.
System: Black Iron Emblem effect triggered. Attributes enhanced.
System: Conqueror's Armor forged successfully. Blacksmithing proficiency +4. Experience +3,000,000.
Conqueror's Armor Plate Armor Gold-grade Required Level: 50 Required Stats: Strength and Agility must reach 730 Defense: 2,350 Strength +75 Endurance +84 Agility +72 Passive Skill — Life Sacrifice: The lower the wearer's HP, the greater the Strength bonus, up to a maximum of 15% Strength increase and 25% Attack Speed increase.
Skill — Basic Power Battle Array: Requires five or more players equipped with the Conqueror's Armor to activate. Upon activation, Strength increases by 25%, Agility by 15%, Endurance by 15%, Constitution by 10%, and grants Basic Empathy. Stamina and Mana consumption increases by 400%. Consumes one Magic Crystal every five minutes of sustained use.
"The Black Iron Emblem's enhancement effect is truly impressive—not only did the base stats improve, but even the skill effects received a boost. While it still can't compare to Level 50 Dark Gold equipment, it's not far off." Shi Feng felt quite pleased as he examined the Conqueror's Armor's attributes.
In the Divine Realm, Level 50 represented a massive watershed.
Obtaining top-tier equipment was extremely difficult. Even in a hundred-player Level 50 Dungeon, the best equipment one could typically get was a Level 50 Gold-grade set. Level 50 Dark Gold equipment generally only dropped in super-large-scale team Dungeons.
Securing a single piece of Level 50 equipment with near-Dark Gold attributes that also came with a Basic Battle Array meant its per-piece value was only slightly below that of Epic-grade equipment. And if one could assemble five matching pieces, each piece's value would rival that of Epic-grade equipment.
Epic-grade equipment merely had powerful base stats and came with a few strong skills. But a Basic Battle Array could fundamentally elevate a player's combat capability while also boosting base stats and even Constitution—no worse than Epic-grade equipment of the same level. The only drawback was the level cap: Level 50 Dark Gold equipment would typically serve expert players only until around Level 60, while Epic-grade equipment could generally be used well past Level 100.
However, for the current stage, a set of five enhanced Conqueror's Armor pieces would provide greater benefit than five pieces of Epic-grade equipment.
Gazing at the Conqueror's Armor before him, Shi Feng grew even more confident in mass-producing them.
If he could forge a large quantity of Conqueror's Armor and assemble a thousand-man legion, just the thought of it sent his blood racing.
If all thousand were Elite members, they would instantly become an expert legion. If they were expert players, the thousand would immediately rival Transcendent-level masters.
A thousand Transcendent-level masters!