Refined

This article is about the invention perk. For the invention material, see Refined components.

This article is about the invention perk. For the God Wars Dungeon 2 armours, see Refined anima core.

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Refined
Release date								14 March 2016 (Update)
Gizmo type								Tool
Maximum rank
Standard								3
Ancient								4
In-game description
Has a 5% chance per rank of preventing a resource depleting when gathering. However, while mining increases your chance to find geodes by 2% per rank. This perk has an increased chance to activate on level 20 items.

Refined is a perk in Invention that decreases the chance of depleting resources from trees and material caches, and increases the chance of finding a geode from mining rocks. It can be created in tool gizmos. The perk will not activate when gathering from fishing spots.

When activated, the refined perk gives the following game message: Your refined perk prevented the resource from being depleted.

The refined perk has the same effect as the resourceful aura. When used together, they activate separately (i.e. if one saves the tree, the other will not).

Resources

When a successful action is performed while harvesting from a tree or a material cache, the refined perk has a 5% chance per rank to not deplete the resource. The effect can activate multiple times on a resource. When mining a rock, the perk increases the chance to find geodes by 2% per rank. The following resources are affected by Refined.

Woodcutting and Archaeology

Depletion reduction

Rank	Chance (Level 20)
1	5% (5.5%)
2	10% (11%)
3	15% (16.5%)
4	20% (22%)

Trees affected

Trees
Acadia	Achey	Arctic pine	Blisterwood
Bloodwood	Crystal	Eucalyptus	Ivy
Tree (Big Game Hunter)	Tree	Magic	Mahogany
Maple	Oak	Teak	Jungle vines
Willow	Yew

The perk can also activate when chopping roots in the Clan Citadel.

Archaeology spots affected

All material caches benefit from Refined perk.

Mining

Geode chance

Rank	Increase (level 20)
1	2% (2.2%)
2	4% (4.4%)
3	6% (6.6%)
4	8% (8.8%)

Rocks affected

Rocks
Adamantite ore rocks	Banite ore rock	Coal rocks	Concentrated coal rocks
Copper ore rocks	Dark animica rocks	Drakolith rocks	Iron ore rocks
Light animica rocks	Luminite rocks	Mithril ore rocks	Necrite ore rocks
Orichalcite ore rocks	Phasmatite rocks	Runite ore rocks	Tin ore rocks

The perk can also activate when mining in the Clan Citadel. However, in this case it will trigger the effect used for Woodcutting, preventing resource depletion.

Sources

Material		Rarity	Perk ranks with X materials
			Standard gizmo					Ancient gizmo
			1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Refined components	Uncommon	0	1	1	1–2	1–2	0	0	1	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3
	Resilient components	Rare	0	1	1–2	1–2	2–3	0	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–4	2–4	2–4
	Enhancing components	Uncommon	0	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	0	1	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	1–4
	Smooth parts	Common	0	1	1	1–2	1–2	0	0	1	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3

Suggested gizmos

Gizmo layout	Possible perks	Approx costs per attempt
	Refined 3–4 Open in calculator: Ancient tool	5,959,144 9x Resilient 598,996 each Ancient tool gizmo 568,180 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Refined 2–4 (4 is rare) Glow Worm Other possible perks: Hallucinogenic Rapid Pyromaniac Open in calculator: Ancient tool	4,908,192 2x Light 73,520 each 7x Resilient 598,996 each Ancient tool gizmo 568,180 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Chance for Fortune 3, Refined 2 increases with increasing Invention level, 17.67% chance at level 137 Fortune 2–3 Refined 1–2 Open in calculator: Ancient tool	3,186,464 5x Timeworn 44,460 each 4x Resilient 598,996 each Ancient tool gizmo 568,180 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Fortune 2 and Refined 4 are very rare, but Refined 3, Fortune 1 is reasonably possible Refined 2–4 Fortune 1–2 Open in calculator: Ancient tool	4,850,072 7x Resilient 598,996 each 2x Timeworn 44,460 each Ancient tool gizmo 568,180 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Refined 2–3 (3 is rare) Open in calculator: Tool	3,128,711 5x Resilient 598,996 each Tool gizmo 133,731 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Refined 1–2 Other possible perks: Rapid Cheapskate Open in calculator: Tool	252,086 5x Enhancing 23,671 each Tool gizmo 133,731 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 19 April 2021 (Update):
  • Players are no longer able to get infinite bloodwood logs from a bloodwood tree while using certain boosts. This was an unintentional bug, and the tree should now fall down as expected.

• patch 26 May 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where the perks Refined 4, Tinker 4 and Rapid 4 were not activating as often as they should.

• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • Refined perk now increases geode chance when mining.

• patch 2 October 2017 (Update):
  • It's now possible for the Refined perk to trigger on Woodcutting & Mining clan skilling plots. This provides a chance to prevent resource depletion.

• update 14 March 2016 (Update):
  • Added to game.