Item Stats

What an item carries

Weapons, shields, helmets, armour, legs, boots, rings and amulets all carry more than the numbers in their name. A piece you find can have:

• An Item Level, which decides how high its attributes can roll.
• A rarity: Common, Rare, Epic or Legendary, which decides how many attributes it has.
• Rolled base stats: its resistances, skills, magic level and speed, somewhere between 1 and the item's maximum.
• Implicits: one to three extra stats rolled when it drops, which can never be changed.
• An upgrade level, refines and gems, which you add yourself. See Refining and Sockets.

Hover over an item to see all of it. Charged and timed rings and amulets, ammunition and anything that stacks never carry an Item Level, rarity or attributes, and neither do the aurelia rings.

Item Level

A dropped item takes its Item Level from the monster that dropped it. Every monster drops inside its own band, so tougher monsters drop higher-level gear. An item's own attack, defence or armour does not raise it.

A Tainted monster drops 3 levels higher than the normal one, and a Corrupted one 7 levels higher.

After the drop, Item Level only goes up in two ways:

The highest Item Level is 400. The Item Level calculator shows how far an item can climb and the highest value every attribute can roll at a given level.

Quest rewards get an Item Level from their chest's own range, are always Common with one attribute, and keep their full listed stats.

Rarity and loot colours

Every item that drops rolls a rarity. The rarer the tier, the more attribute slots it has, all filled the moment it drops:

A tier that drops pays 20 Item Level, while a tier you buy with a Rarity Upgrade pays 25, so a piece built up by hand ends 15 levels above the same piece found Legendary.

Rarity also adds to the item itself, whichever way it came:

• Armour: +1 armour per tier above Common.
• Bows and crossbows: +1% hit chance per tier.
• Wands and rods: +1% to all damage you deal while holding it, spells and runes included, per tier.
• Other weapons: +1 attack per tier, but only for a tier bought at the anvil.

The loot message is coloured so you can read a kill at a glance. The first rule that fits decides the colour:

Rare, Epic and Legendary items glint on the floor. A band of light in the rarity's colour sweeps across the item itself, so a good drop stands out on a crowded tile. Common items do not shine.

Attributes

Each attribute rolls from 1 up to a cap that grows with the Item Level, so the same attribute is worth more on a higher-level item. Which attributes an item can get depends on its slot. A few are rare even where they fit, such as Double Damage, which also needs Item Level 80.

Attributes are the part of an item you can work on: add, remove, swap and reroll them at the anvil. See Refining.

Base rolls

The stats an item is known for, its resistances, skill bonuses, magic level, max health and speed, are rolled once, from 1 up to the item's listed value, so two copies of the same armour can protect quite differently. Armour, attack and defence are never rolled.

• Only monster loot and crafting roll. Items from quest chests, items placed on the map, and charged or timed rings and amulets always carry their full listed value.
• A piece keeps what it rolled for its whole life. Looking at it or wearing it never changes it.
• One-handed and two-handed fighting roll together as one number.
• A few armours list both a distance and a melee bonus: darksteel armour, legs and boots, starsteel legs and boots, and the scale mails. Each piece rolls only one of the two.

Hold Alt while hovering to see each stat's maximum in brackets beside what it rolled, such as "Fire Protection: 3% (8%)". The same works for attributes, where the bracket is the highest that attribute can roll at the item's current Item Level.

Implicits

Implicits are extra stats rolled onto an item when it drops, on top of everything above. They are shown in their own block in the tooltip and as "Implicit:" lines when you look at the item. Nothing can change them: no crystal or refine touches an implicit.

How many you get depends on what you killed:

Some crafting recipes roll implicits too. An implicit never repeats a stat the item already lists.

• Extra Socket gives a weapon sockets from the start, on top of the one per upgrade level, so a +10 weapon can have eleven or twelve.
• On Hit lines deal their damage three times, once every 4 seconds, and every hit tops the timer back up.
• Avoid paralyze can shrug off a monster's paralyze. A player's paralyze rune always lands.
• A Mining implicit on a ring or amulet counts toward your mining level for what you can mine. It does not make the skill train faster.
• Knights only get magic level from a ring, an amulet, or a helmet or armour that gives exactly +1. Any other magic level line reads "(inactive)" for a knight.

Weapons with an effect

Some weapons do more than their damage. Every swing or shot puts a burn, poison or bleed on what you hit, and hitting again tops it back up rather than stacking it.

Weapon	On hit
Plaguestrike longaxe	Earth, 3 × 25
Deathstrike longaxe	Death, 3 × 25
Vorpal blade	Energy, 3 × 25
Serrated cutlass	Bleed, 3 × 25
Viper fang	Earth, 3 × 25
Masakari	Bleed, 3 × 25
Norse axe	Bleed, 3 × 10
Cobra scepter	Earth, 3 × 15
Smoldering wand	Fire, 3 × 15
Smoldering crossbow	Fire, 3 × 25
Jungle bolter	Earth, 3 × 10
Dawn bow	Holy, 3 × 5
Dawnbreaker bow	Bleed, 3 × 5
Fiery bow	Fire, 3 × 5
Mirefang bow	Earth, 9 falling to 3 over 14 ticks
Cinderfang bow	Fire, 11 falling to 5 over 14 ticks

"3 × 25" means 25 damage three times, 4 seconds apart. The two falling ones tick every 2 seconds.

Two weapons fire extra shots instead. Each shot has a 25% chance to loose them:

Blacksteel bolter

One extra bolt

One more bolt into the same target, for a fifth of the shot's damage.

Blacksteel shortbow

Two extra arrows

Two more arrows, each for a tenth of the shot's damage, into other monsters within 3 tiles of your target.

The helmets of the ancients

An ancient gem used on a plain helmet of the ancients in your backpack lets you choose one of four gems to set into it. The gem is spent. Each helmet always carries its full stats, never rolled, and keeps its rarity, upgrades and attributes when its gem changes.

Amethyst

Regeneration

Faster health and mana regeneration, like a life ring.

Emerald

Speed

Speed +30.

Ruby

Protection

5% physical and 1% elemental protection.

Sapphire

Magic level

Magic level +4.

Changed your mind? Gemcutter Ishkar resets the gem for 50,000 gold, paid from your backpack or bank. Ask him to change it, with the helmet in your backpack.

Reading the tooltip

Hover over any item for its tooltip: the name in its rarity's colour, the rarity and Item Level, then its stats, attributes, implicits, refines and gem sockets, each in its own colour.

• Hold Alt to see the highest each base stat and attribute could have rolled.
• Ctrl + Alt + click an item to link it in chat. Anyone who hovers the link sees the item exactly as it was when you shared it. Links last two hours.
• The same tooltip shows on your character page on this website, for the gear you are wearing.