Tempering

The tempering bench in the crafting area at home.

Tempering is a game mechanic in August that allows you to increase the power of your tiered equipment, by sacrificing duplicate copies of a piece of gear.

To tell if a piece of equipment is tiered, examine it, and it will show a level in brackets in the examine text (For example, Diamond legs say "[T95] I feel like I'd be pretty safe in this", indicating the item is tier 95).

How To

In order to temper a piece of gear, head to the Tempering Bench in the crafting area by running south of home, or using the ::afk command in-game.

The tempering interface shown when selecting an item to temper.

Once in the tempering interface, select an item from your inventory, and you'll have the option to temper it, sacrificing a duplicate copy of that item from your inventory to provide a scaling bonus to the offensive and defensive stats provided by the item.

Note: The stat increases of the item won't show on the tooltip when you hover over the item, they will however appear on the stats screen for your character.

Stat Increases

Items can be tempered up to 15 times each. While the Mimic blessing is equipped in the ammo slot, all equipped items are treated as having +1 Temper Level, allowing a maximum effective Temper Level of 16.

Rank	Stat Increase %	Increase %	Items For Level	Total Items	Upgrade Gems Per Level	Total Gems
1	15.00	+15.00	1	1	0	0
2	24.16	+9.16	1	2	0	0
3	30.32	+6.16	1	3	0	0
4	34.95	+4.63	2	5	5,000	5,000
5	38.78	+3.83	2	7	10,000	15,000
6	42.21	+3.43	2	9	15,000	30,000
7	45.43	+3.22	4	13	25,000	55,000
8	48.54	+3.11	4	17	40,000	95,000
9	51.60	+3.06	4	21	65,000	160,000
10	54.63	+3.03	8	29	105,000	265,000
11	57.65	+3.02	8	37	170,000	435,000
12	60.65	+3.00	8	45	275,000	710,000
13	63.66	+3.01	16	61	445,000	1,155,000
14	66.66	+3.00	16	77	720,000	1,875,000
15	69.66	+3.00	16	93	1,165,000	3,040,000
16*	72.66	+3.00	—	—	—	—

*Effective Temper Level 16 is only obtainable while the Mimic blessing is equipped in the ammo slot.