User:Dr ishmael/Feature pack/Equipment

Equipment or gear refers to any item which can be wielded or worn by a character. Equipment is managed through the Equipment tab of the hero panel.

Equipment slots

The equipment screen - Armor view

The equipment screen - Town clothes view

The Equipment tab of the hero panel opens with a "paper doll" model of the character and, to the left, a set of three interface options: Equipment, Wardrobe, and Dyes. Selecting the Equipment option brings up the interface shown in the thumbnail at right:

1. Inventory pane

Shows all equipment and upgrade components currently held in the character's inventory. These items are not equipped.

2. Armor

A slot for each of the six armor types, from top to bottom: helm, shoulders, chest, gloves, leggings, and boots.

3. Weapon sets

Two pairs of main-hand and off-hand weapon slots.^†

4. Attributes

The current value of all the character's attributes.

5. Back item and Trinkets

Six slots for (top row) one back item, two accessories, (bottom) one amulet, and two rings.

6. Tools

Three slots for a harvesting sickle, a logging axe, and a mining pick.

7. Aquatic

A slot for a breathing apparatus and two slots for aquatic weapons.^†

^† Elementalists and engineers only have one terrestrial and one aquatic weapon set.

Using equipment

All characters begin the game with a set of starting equipment. This equipment will need to be replaced as your character progresses through the game, and there are many methods for acquiring new equipment: crafting, loot, purchasing from various merchants, or buying it off of the Trading Post.

Equipment can be equipped or unequipped any time that your character is not in combat, and there are several ways to do so. In all cases, if you equip an item when there is already an item in the same slot, the existing item will be returned to your inventory.

• On the Equipment tab, you can drag and drop items between the inventory pane and their appropriate equipment slot.
• From either the Equipment tab or the inventory, you can double-click an item to equip it as long as it is usable by your character's profession and/or race.
• For items in your inventory, you can right-click on them and select the "Equip" option from the shortcut menu.
• For equipped items, the right-click menu shows options to either unequip the item or to replace it with another item in your inventory.

Equipping a weapon by double-clicking or via the shortcut menu will place them in your currently-wielded weapon set; if you equip a two-handed weapon when you are wielding a main-hand/off-hand set, both main- and off-hand weapons will be returned to your inventory.

Equipping an accessory or ring by double-clicking or via the shortcut menu will first fill any empty slots; if both accessory or ring slots are filled, it will replace the item in the left-hand slot.

Comparing equipment

Anytime that a tooltip is shown for an item your character can equip, a second tooltip will be shown for the corresponding item that your character currently has equipped. This allows for side-by-side comparison of the two items' statistics:

• For accessories and rings, both equipped items will be shown.
• For weapons, the comparison will be against your currently wielded (terrestrial or aquatic) weapon set only. If you are wielding a two-handed weapon, you will not see a comparison for off-hand weapons.

Modifying equipment appearance

Primary articles: Wardrobe, Dye

Armor, weapons, and back items can have different skins applied to them through the Wardrobe interface of the Equipment tab. Armor can be further modified through the Dye interface.

Upgrading equipment

Armor, weapons, trinkets, and back items can be upgraded with special types of items for additional benefits.

Tools and outfits cannot be upgraded; the usage of "equipment" within this section should be understood to omit these types of equipment.

Upgrade slot

Primary article: Upgrade component

All weapons, all armor, and non-Gascended trinkets and back items have at least one standard upgrade slot that can hold an upgrade component; two-handed weapons have two upgrade slots. Some items can be found with an upgrade component already attached.

• Loot items of Dmasterwork-quality or better almost always come with an upgrade; lesser-quality loot items do not.
• Crafted trinkets always have an upgrade.
• Except for a few specialty recipes, crafted armor and weapons do not have upgrades.
• Renown Heart NPCs typically sell both Cfine and Dmasterwork versions of equipment, and in these cases the masterwork version will have an upgrade.
• Dungeon merchants sell armor and weapons with attached upgrades.
• Personal story rewards above a certain level will contain an upgrade.

Applying an upgrade to an item causes it to become soulbound, except for account bound gear, which will remain account bound after upgrading.

Infusion slot

Primary article: Infusion

All Gascended equipment has at least one slot for a specific type of infusion.

• Armor items have one Defensive infusion slot.
• Weapons have one Offensive infusion slot; two-handed weapons have two slots.
• Trinkets and back items have one Defensive, Offensive, or Utility infusion slot.
• Infused equipment (currently only rings and back items) also have one Agony infusion slot.

Only an infusion of the same type can be attached to an infusion slot, with the exception of Omni infusions, which can be attached to any infusion slot except for Agony slots.

Attribute bonuses

See also: Attribute combinations, Equipment acquisition by stats

Armor, weapons, trinkets, and back items confer bonuses to the character's primary and secondary attributes. Most items have one major bonus and up to two minor bonuses; "celestial" items confer a smaller bonus to all attributes. The number and magnitude of these bonuses depend on the level, rarity, and type of the equipment.

A couple attributes appear with fixed values, but they still take up one of the major or minor bonus slots. Both of these are only available on crafted equipment made from snowflakes.

•  Boon Duration is fixed at 1%, appearing on level 20 Snowflake trinkets as the sole bonus and on level 80 Giver's armor and Snowflake trinkets as a minor bonus.
  • Boon Duration also appears on Doubloons, but they are non-standard upgrade components with this as the sole bonus.
•  Condition Duration is fixed at 10%, appearing on all level Giver's weapons as a major bonus.

Level 80 attribute values

This table summarizes the attribute bonuses available on level 80 equipment across all equipment types and rarities for the two standard attribute sets: major/minor and celestial.

• BBasic rarity is not included because no basic-quality trinkets or jewels exist.
  • CFine rarity is included even though there are no fine-quality jewels.
• GAscended rarity jewels do not exist, and ascended trinkets and back items do not have an upgrade slot; instead, the equivalent stats of a theoretical ascended-quality jewel are "baked in" to the item and added to its inherent stats.
  • The inherent and jewel stats do not necessarily match to the same nomenclature. For example, Ralena's Band has inherent stats that match the Dire prefix, but the jewel stats match the Rabid prefix, thus the bonuses are spread among four attributes instead of three.
• Non-utility infusions give a +5 bonus to a single attribute. Since they don't follow the standard major/minor or celestial formats, they don't fit into the table.
  • A total of 14 infusions can be worn at a time (2 on weapons, 6 on armor, 5 on trinkets, and 1 on back item) for a total bonus of +70.
  • However, unless all 14 infusions are the same type of Omni infusion, this bonus must be split between at least two attributes, because weapons can only use Offensive infusions while armor can only use Defensive infusions.
• The table does not account for any bonuses from runes or sigils, since they have a wide variety of possible effects.

Equipment type	Ascended			Exotic			Rare		Masterwork		Fine
	Major	Minor	Celestial	Major	Minor	Celestial	Major	Minor	Major	Minor	Major	Minor
Weapons
One-handed (x2)	94	67	42	90	64	40	79	56	73	52	68	48
Two-handed	188	134	83	179	128	79	158	113	147	105	135	97
Armor
Chest	106	76	47	101	72	45	89	64	82	59	76	54
Legs	71	50	31	67	48	30	59	42	55	39	51	36
Head	47	34	21	45	32	20	40	28	37	26	34	24
Shoulders	35	25	16	34	24	15	30	21	27	20	25	18
Gloves	35	25	16	34	24	15	30	21	27	20	25	18
Boots	35	25	16	34	24	15	30	21	27	20	25	18
Total armor	329	235	147	315	224	140	278	197	255	184	237	168
Trinkets, back item, and upgrade components
Amulet	126	85	54	90	64	40	79	56	73	52	68	48
Ring (x2)	103	68	43	67	48	30	59	42	55	39	51	36
Accessory (x2)	91	60	38	56	40	25	49	35	46	33	43	31
Back item	56	35	22	22	16	10	20	14	18	13	-	-
Jewel (x6)	-	-	-	25	15	11	20	14	18	12	-	-
Total trinkets	570	376	238	508	345	226	435	308	401	295	256	182
All equipment (x2 one-handed weapons)
Grand total	1087	745	469	1003	698	446	871	617	802	583	626	416

Agony Resistance

Primary article: Agony Resistance

Agony Resistance is a special attribute that is only available through infusions and infused equipment.

• A standard Defensive, Offensive, or Omni infusion that normally only grants +5 to a regular attribute can be upgraded in the Mystic Forge to gain an additional +5 Agony Resistance. These upgraded infusions can be attached to any equipment with the appropriate type of infusion slot.
  • Up to 14 upgraded infusions can be worn at a time for a maximum of +70 Agony Resistance from ordinary infusions.
• Ascended rings and back items can be upgraded in the Mystic Forge to an "Infused" version that gains an Agony-type infusion slot, to which an Agony Infusion can be attached.
  • Agony Infusions can be upgraded indefinitely, albeit at an exponential increase in cost, thus there is theoretically no maximum to Agony Resistance.

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