Item

An item refers to any object which can physically appear in a character's inventory. The definition can be extended to environmental weapons, objects the player can find in the environment and interact with but cannot keep. this is supported by consumable items that give environmental weapons when used. This broad term therefore encompasses everything the player can carry, wield, wear, create or purchase.

Items can either be soulbound, account bound or not bound at all. Soulbound items may either bind on acquisition or bind on use (equipping the item for the first time).

Some items can be stacked up to 250 per stack, and split by clicking an item holding Alt. Information about an item can also be sent to chat, either by clicking the item while holding Ctrl to send it instantly or Shift to paste item info into a chat box.

Certain items are tied to the structured PvP system, and can only be used there. Likewise, items from regular gameplay cannot be used in structured PvP.

Acquisition

Players can obtain items in a variety of ways:

• Looting slain enemies.
• Opening various chests placed throughout the world.
• Gathering raw materials.
• Opening various container.
• Reward for completing a personal storyline mission.
• Reward for completing dungeons.
• Reward for map completion and world completion.
• Reward for completing completing all Daily or Monthly achievements.
• Purchasing them from a vendor.
• Purchasing them from the Gem Store.
• From other players, received via mail or purchased from Trading Post.

Items can also be combined into a different item by:

• Crafting to combine components into other items.
• Using Mystic Forge to obtain new items.
• Transmuting, to combine two items into a single one.

New characters are provided with starting equipment when they first enter the game. Additionally, Hero's Band pre-purchase item and deluxe edition Golem Banker (consumable) items are sent via mail to any new character created on an eligible account. Miniature Rytlock, Tome of Influence and Chalice of Glory are sent only to the first character created on an eligible account.

Quality

Each item has a quality which indicates the rarity or nature of the base modifications available on the item.

Items that have been transmuted will show "Transmuted" instead of a standard quality designation. The color of the item's name usually matches that of the item used for the base stats during transmutation.

Quality name	Levels available1	Relative stats2
AJunk	N/A	N/A
BBasic	1-80	100%
CFine	1-80	125%
DMasterwork	14-803	135%
ERare	30-80	145%
FExotic	62-80	165%
GAscended	80	175%
HLegendary	80	Special4

¹ Levels shown are for equipment — weapons, armor, and trinkets. Other items, like upgrade components, crafting materials, recipes etc, are often available with lower level requirements.

² Also applies only to equipment and denotes the scaling of weapon strength, defense, and/or attributes between items of the same type and level. Actual numbers will differ slightly due to rounding and there are very small number of exceptions, i.e. items that do not follow the ratio.

³ There are a few craftable masterwork items with levels below 14, but this is generally the lower limit.

⁴ Legendary equipment will always have the same relative stats as the highest quality available for the item type. Currently, the only legendary items available are weapons, and the highest available quality of weapons is exotic, so legendary items have 165% relative stats.

Types

There are several broad types of items:

• Equipment - any item that a character can equip, including:
  • Weapon
  • Armor
  • Trinkets
  • Town clothing
  • Gathering tool - harvesting sickles, logging axes and mining picks of various qualities
• Bag - items that contain your inventory
• Upgrade component - items that can be placed in weapons (sigils), armors (runes), accessories (some jewels) or anything (some jewels, and other upgrade compontents) - these also sometimes serve as a crafting component
  • Sigil
  • Rune
  • Mark, Talisman, Seal, Medallion, Crest
  • Gemstone
  • Jewel
  • Doubloon
• Consumable - items that are consumed (disappear) after being used
  • Container
  • Boost
  • Nourishment
  • Alcohol
  • Salvage Kit
  • Manual
  • Blueprint
  • Recipe
  • Dye
  • Tonic and Hylek Potion
  • PvP finisher
  • Tray
  • Skin
  • Transmutation Stone
  • Items that grant bundle upon using
  • Various other consumable items that aren't tied to any category - like Tome of Influence, Chalice of Glory, Black Lion Key, Instant Repair Canister, Revive Orb Evon Gnashblade's Box o' Fun, Cow Finisher or letters
• Gizmo - items that activate something upon using, but are not consumed by doing this. Some gizmos can be time limited, like Golem Banker
• Miniature - mini-pets that behave similar to gizmos, allowing you to summon a pet that follows you in world
• Crafting material - basic, fine and rare raw materials that can be used for crafting, most of them can be deposited as a collectible to bank
• Ingredient - raw materials used for cooking
• Crafting component - half-product used to create final equipment
• Inscription - used to craft a weapon with specific stats
• Insignia - used to craft an armor with specific stats
• Mystic item - items used only as a crafting ingredient in Mystic Forge
• Trophy - items with no direct use that can be sold for coin, are used to help with Hearts or dynamic events or are exchanged to something else
  • Junk
  • Token
  • Salvage item
  • Event item
  • And items used to complete Hearts

Only some recipes can be stored in inventory.

There are also story items that aren't stored directly in an inventory, but can be seen by accessing the story section in the Hero panel. They serve as a memento items reminding you what you've got during your personal story.

Digital Deluxe Upgrade and Character Slot Expansion upgrades purchased from Gem Store are not items and are not placed in inventory.

Notes

• When a character receives an item of ERare quality or better, they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.

Race	Gender
	Male	Female
Asura	Oo...rare and valuable.	Oh, I know of a good use for this! Statistically speaking, this is rather rare.
Charr		Ahh, the spoils of war!
Human		Sweet, sweet loot. Aah, shiny!
Norn	Sweet, sweet treasure.	I...like it!
Sylvari	That's valuable!

See also

• Environmental weapon
• Item nomenclature