Equipment

Equipment pieces are special items which can be wielded and worn by the character. There are several different types of equipment, each with a special slot allocated to it on the hero panel which accepts only that type of equipment. Equipment can be dragged and dropped within the hero panel to the corresponding slot to equip it. Alternatively, the player can use the right click menu on a piece of equipment in the inventory. Equipment can only be changed out of combat.

A piece of equipment can be compared with the piece being currently worn by mousing over the new equipment icon in the inventory, when it is looted or on the hero panel. This brings up the information for both pieces of equipment with better item statistics shown in green and worse statistics shown in red.

Equipment can have stats transferred from one item to another through transmutation.

Equipment types

There are several broad categories of equipment.

Armor

There are six slots for armor; head, shoulders, chest, arms, legs, and feet.

Town clothing

There are five slots for town clothing; head, chest, arms, legs, and feet.

Weapon

Depending on the profession of the character there are either one or two main-hand and off-hand weapon slot pairs.

Underwater equipment

There is a slot for a breathing apparatus and one or two slots for aquatic weapons.

Trinket

There are six secondary equipment slots: back, amulet, two accessories, and two rings.

Gathering tool

There are three slots for equipment used to harvest items from the world; harvesting sickle, logging axe, and mining pick.

Attribute bonuses

Armor, weapons, and trinkets confer a bonus to the character's primary and/or secondary attributes. The number and magnitude of these bonuses depend on the level, rarity, and type of the equipment.

With a few exceptions, an item can have one major bonus and two minor bonuses. These bonuses scale with the item's level via a quadratic function.

•  Power,  Precision,  Toughness,  Vitality,  Condition Damage, and  Healing Power can appear as major or minor bonuses on all equipment.
•  Critical Damage only appears as a minor bonus.

A few attributes appear with fixed values, but they still take up one of the major or minor bonus slots.

•  Boon Duration is fixed at 1%, appearing on "Giver's" armor as a minor bonus and on trinkets "of Winter" as a major bonus.
•  Condition Duration is fixed at 10%, appearing only on "Giver's" weapons as a major bonus.
•  Magic Find is fixed between 1% and 5% depending on item level/rarity, and can replace either a major or minor bonus.

The maximum available bonuses on level 80 FExotic equipment are tabulated below. The last column shows how the different item types scale relative to one another, using one-handed weapons as the base. An important feature to note is that two-handed weapons scale as two times one-handed weapons, so the total attribute bonus is the same whether you wield a two-handed weapon or a pair of one-handed weapons.

Type	Major	Minor	CritDmg	Factor
One-handed weapon	90	64	5%	1
Two-handed weapon	179	128	9%	2
Helm	45	32	2%	0.5
Shoulders	34	24	2%	0.375
Coat	101	72	5%	1.125
Gloves	34	24	2%	0.375
Leggings	67	48	3%	0.75
Boots	34	24	2%	0.375
Accessory	56	40	3%	0.625
Amulet	90	64	5%	1
Ring	67	48	3%	0.75
Back	22	16	1%	0.25

See also

• Starting equipment
• Item nomenclature
• Equipment acquisition by stats