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Tempering and Repair Kits

Tempering improves a weapon, plate piece, chain piece or shield by one quality grade, up to Superior.

Tempering rule	Requirement
Item rarity	Rare or below
Excluded equipment	Legendary, Aetheric, artifact and Sigil pieces
Equipped items	Must be unequipped
Found equipment	Treated as Standard; can be tempered twice
Materials	Half the recipe’s ingots, rounded up
Rank	Required rank for the metal
Fee	Station fee

For example, a found Ebony Longsword needs 2 Ebony Ingots and Smithing 70. Tempering improves condition and weight while retaining bonuses. It grants crafting XP without a first-time bonus.

A crafted Repair Kit can repair a weapon or armour piece of the same metal once.

Kit	Condition restored	Condition ceiling
Crafted kit below Superior	25%	75%
Superior or Masterwork kit	25%	90%
Looted Field Repair Kit	15%	—

Once any of your characters has smithed, the Fighters Guild can request kits you made and never sold:

Recipe tier	Kits requested
1–3	3
4–5	2
Above 5	1

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