ArcheAge: Combine Stats and Costumes with Brand New Update

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The recently arrived update adds an awesome new feature to ArcheAge, the so-called Costume Synthesis.

"As of the February update, you can be fashionable AND statistically correct! Buy cheap ArcheAge gold Start stacking stats on your costumes with the new Costume Synthesis system," says the official announcement of the new feature. The system seems slightly overcomplicated but basically revolves around: "… statistics aren't actually added to a costume that you own. Instead, you'll need to earn the new Basic Costume, which will then carry all of your stats."

The aforementioned basic costumes can be acquired from various sources, including the Guild Prestige shop and Mirage Isle. These templates come in four versions, Melee, Magic, Healing and Ranged. ArcheAge gold
Upon obtaining a Basic Costume you will then be able to upgrade it to Grand. For this, an infusion of Synthium is required. These can be obtained by grinding Auroria mobs and opening purses or by looting Mistsong Summit mobs and WB-s. Synthium is a combination of 10 Clear Synthium Shards from which you gain a Clear Synthium Stone.

We did not expect anything less complicated from ArcheAge. Every time you upgrade the costumes, Buy ArcheAge gold you will gain an additional statistic value. Costumes gain experience, and by doing so their statistics will increase relatively. Trion adds, "Higher grades of costume will begin requiring crafted versions of Synthium Stones."

The Basic Costume has the ability to have the looks of any existing costume in ArcheAge which is done through fusion. If that's not enough to cause confusion, cheap ArcheAge gold your basic costume will actually get dirty after 30 days and your stats will become inactive as long as you don't wash it using a Synthium Soap that costs 120g and is acquired from the General Merchant, or unsurprisingly, you can buy it from the ArcheAge Store.
All in all, the Costume Synthesis is yet another complicating factor in ArcheAge, but it is still worth checking out. If you still have some question regarding this new system, feel free to ask them in the comments section below.