Weapon Mods

Weapon Mods put rare special modifiers on a melee weapon, missile weapon or caster, using two salvage materials that reroll them in different ways. It is the weapon-side counterpart to Equipment Mods.

Overview

A weapon can carry up to four special modifiers, drawn from a single pool of twenty-two. Those four slots are the whole limit - there is no separate allowance for any kind of modifier. You cannot choose which ones you get - both materials reroll, and the appraisal panel tells you afterwards what you ended up with and how strong each roll was.

Specials are separate from the weapon's tinker budget. A weapon still has its ten tinker slots, and an imbue still reserves one of them, but a special costs nothing out of that budget: neither material adds, removes or reforges a tinker any more. Tinkering and weapon mods are two independent things you can do to the same weapon.

Applying either material is a use-on-target action: put the salvage in your pack (not equipped), then use it on the weapon, also in your pack and not equipped. The game asks you to confirm before either salvage is spent, since neither can be undone.

Materials

Material	What it does
Tourmaline	Reroll: throws away every special the weapon holds and draws a completely fresh set - a new count, new modifiers, new strengths. This is the only way to change how many specials a weapon carries. On a weapon with none, it is how you get your first.
Amethyst	Swap: removes one random special and replaces it with one different modifier, leaving the rest of the set alone. The count never changes, so this is the way to fish for one better modifier without risking a set you are happy with. On a weapon holding no specials, it simply adds one.

Neither material touches the weapon's tinkers, its imbue or its slayer. A weapon finished by a Prismatic Drift Stone is sealed against both.

Only melee weapons, missile weapons and casters can carry a special. Shields and ammunition cannot. A weapon with no workmanship cannot hold one either.

Roll intensity

Every special on the appraisal panel carries a bracketed percentage - how strong that particular roll is, against the best that modifier can reach:

Devastation [67%]: +4 critical damage rating

Quickening [83%]: +20% attack speed

100% is a perfect roll. The percentage is what the quality tiers below are scored on, so it is worth reading before you decide whether to reroll.

Quality tiers

Add up the intensity percentages of every special on a weapon. Cross a threshold and the weapon takes on a permanent visible aura, announced in teal when you earn it:

Tier	Total intensity across all specials
Exceptional	300%
Elite	350%
God	375%

With four specials the ceiling is 400%, so Exceptional is an average of 75% per modifier and God is an average of nearly 94% - these are meant to be rare. A reroll that drops the total back below a threshold loses the aura, and you are told when that happens. An aura that has just faded may keep showing until the weapon is next redrawn - relog or re-equip and it will be gone.

The modifiers

All twenty-two special modifiers draw from one pool. A weapon's four special slots are filled from this single list in any combination - nothing is reserved and no group has its own allowance, so a weapon can finish with four combat modifiers, four utility modifiers, or any mix of the two. The only thing that narrows the pool is the weapon itself: a weapon draws only from the modifiers marked for its type.

The Group column is descriptive, not a limit. Property modifiers are written onto the weapon as a rating you can see on the item itself. Combat modifiers change what happens in the moment of combat. Utility modifiers do not add damage; they cover everything around it - costs, regeneration, enchantments, defense.

Five older modifiers - Swift Flight, Life Leech, Mana Leech, Stamina Leech and Overload - were retired when the utility wing arrived. They no longer roll from any pool and no longer do anything; a weapon still carrying one gets nothing from it, and a Tourmaline reroll replaces it from the current catalog.

The values below are the ceiling at a perfect roll on a maximum-workmanship weapon; a typical roll lands lower, and your appraisal panel always shows what it actually rolled. The table sorts, so you can group it by weapon type or by kind of effect.

Modifier	Group	At a perfect roll	Weapon types
Devastation	Property	+6 critical damage rating	Melee, missile, caster
Weak Point	Property	+3 critical chance rating	Melee, missile, caster
Bloodthirst	Property	+6 damage rating	Melee, missile, caster
Shield Bypass	Property	50% of a shield ignored	Melee, missile
Heft	Combat	+22 damage	Melee, missile
Leverage	Combat	+0.3 to the weapon's damage multiplier	Melee only
Tension	Combat	+0.5 to the weapon's damage multiplier	Missile only
Attunement	Combat	+0.28 to the weapon's elemental damage multiplier	Caster only
Focus	Combat	+25% critical chance	Melee, missile, caster
Execution	Combat	+50% critical damage	Melee, missile, caster
Ambush	Combat	+30% damage against a full-health target	Melee, missile, caster
Quickening	Combat	+24% attack speed	Melee, missile
Second Wind	Combat	Restores 12% of your maximum vitals on a killing blow	Melee, missile, caster
Efficiency	Utility	Attacks cost 50% less stamina, or spells 50% less mana	Melee, missile, caster
Recovery	Utility	Your natural health, stamina and mana regeneration is 50% faster	Melee, missile, caster
Mana Well	Utility	A killing blow restores 5 mana to every equipped item that can hold it	Melee, missile, caster
Cleanse	Utility	A killing blow strips one harmful enchantment off you	Melee, missile, caster
Longevity	Utility	Your self-cast buffs last 25% longer	Caster only
Quick Refresh	Utility	Your self-cast buffs cast twice as fast	Caster only
Siphon	Utility	10% chance on hit to steal a beneficial enchantment off the target, at full duration	Melee, missile, caster
Arcane Defender	Utility	Deflects frontal physical blows like a 25-armor shield, with no shield equipped	Caster only
Panic Reload	Utility	+10% attack speed while an enemy stands within 6 meters of you	Missile only

Every weapon class has a deep pool - a caster is no longer short-changed on a four-special reroll.

Getting the salvage

Both materials drop as ordinary salvage, and both are sold by Salvage-Broker Bevan Tolliver in the Marketplace:

Item	Uses	Cost
Sealed Bag of Tourmaline Salvage	One	1 Trade Note
Sealed Bag of Amethyst Salvage	One	1 Trade Note
Sealed Tourmaline Hammer	Ten	10 Trade Notes
Sealed Amethyst Hammer	Ten	10 Trade Notes

Use a sealed bag or hammer in your pack to break the seal. A bag is spent on one application; a hammer holds ten and crumbles to dust when the last one is used. Ten applications for ten notes is the same price per use as buying bags, so the hammer is a convenience rather than a discount.

See also

• Equipment Mods - the armor-side sibling system.
• Serpentine Salvage - rerolls an item's enchantments rather than its modifiers.
• Custom Crafting - all the ways gear can be reworked, in one place.
• Salvage-Broker Bevan Tolliver - sells both materials as sealed bags and as multi-charge hammers.