Equipment Mods

Equipment Mods let a piece of eligible gear carry a small number of rolled bonuses, each tied to a single Class Ability. A modded piece amplifies (or, for a player who never trained that ability, quietly stands in for) the ability its mod is linked to. It is one of the three mechanisms on the Custom Crafting page.

Overview

A mod is applied by using a salvage-bag material on an item sitting in your pack - never while the item is worn. Every application rolls a random strength for the mod, so a perfect roll is intentionally rare, and trading modded gear or spare material is the normal way to close the gap.

Each mod is linked to one Class Ability, spanning the Archer, Rogue, Vanguard, Berserker, Archmage and Void lines. Some mods stand alone, useful even to a player who never trained the linked ability; others are pure machinery, amplifying an ability's own effect and doing nothing without it. Either way, a mod is only worth applying to a player actually built around its ability - which is exactly what keeps modded gear worth trading.

Applying a mod

You need the item in your pack (not equipped) and a full bag of the material. Using the bag on the item consumes it and settles the mod in - the roll always succeeds, there is no wasted material on a bad outcome, only a weak one.

Materials

Two salvage materials do the work, in different ways:

Material	What it does
Tiger Eye	Adds one random mod, at a guaranteed baseline strength, to a plain item that has no gear ratings and no mod yet. This is what sets an item's mod capacity for good.
Obsidian	Convert: destroys every gear rating an item was born with and mints that many mods instead, each rolled independently. Reroll: replaces every mod already on a converted item with fresh rolls.

Tiger Eye is common early but grows scarce at high tiers, which keeps it the everyday commodity material. Obsidian stays available at every tier instead, which is what makes it the one worth chasing once you are converting rated endgame gear.

Both destructive Obsidian actions ask you to confirm first, since converting or rerolling cannot be undone.

Capacity

How many mods a piece of gear can ever carry is fixed the moment you first apply one to it, and is set by how many gear ratings that piece was born with. An item with no ratings at all caps at one mod (via Tiger Eye); a well-rolled rated item can hold several. Capacity never grows afterward - it is locked in at that first application.

Eligible gear

Only armor and clothing (crowns included), cloaks, and jewelry can carry a mod. Jewelry here means neck, wrist and finger pieces and the trinket slot - a tier 8 trinket rolls vitality or healing-boost ratings exactly as a ring or bracelet does, so Obsidian converts one the same way. Weapons, shields and sigils never can: Aetheria carries no gear ratings at all, so a conversion would have nothing to work with. Trying to apply a mod to an equipped item, or to an ineligible slot, is refused outright and nothing is spent.

Stacking

An item never rolls a mod type it already carries. Across separate pieces of equipped gear, though, matching mod types simply add together with no cap of their own - the only real limit on how far a build can push one mod is how much of the right material you can gather and how the dice land.

Available modifiers

There are 27 mods. The tables below list every one.

Reading the tables. The strength shown is the effect at a perfect 100% roll - the ceiling, not what a typical roll gives you. Your item's appraisal panel always shows the value it actually rolled. pp means percentage points, i.e. added directly to a chance or multiplier rather than scaling it. A mod marked Standalone works whether or not you have trained its linked ability; a mod marked Machinery amplifies the ability's own effect and does nothing without it.

Archer

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Deadeye	Deadeye	+2% missile damage	Standalone
Eagle Eye	Eagle Eye	+2% effective missile attack skill	Standalone
Long Draw	Long Draw	+3% missile damage at maximum range	Standalone
Heavy Draw	Heavy Draw	+2% missile damage while Heavy Draw is active	Machinery
Splitshot	Multishot	+2pp extra-arrow damage multiplier	Machinery
Double Volley	Double Volley	+1.5pp volley re-fire chance	Machinery

Rogue

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Venom	Poison Weapon	+2 poison damage per hit	Standalone
Acid Proc	Acid Proc	+2pp acid proc chance	Machinery
Caustic	Acid Proc	+15% acid damage per tick	Machinery
Riposte	Riposte	+10pp counter-strike weapon damage	Machinery
Attack Speed	Attack Speed	+0.5% attack speed	Standalone

Vanguard

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Thorns	Thorns	+1% of shield armor reflected	Standalone
Shield Check	Shield Check	+10pp thorns-on-parry strength	Machinery
Bulwark	Battle Hardened	+1% damage reduction	Standalone

Berserker

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Frenzied Pace	Frenzy	+0.15% attack speed per Frenzy stack	Machinery
Lingering Fury	Frenzy	+3s Frenzy stack window	Machinery
Savage Blows	Savage Blows	+2% melee damage	Standalone
Blood Fury	Blood Fury	+3% melee damage at lowest health	Standalone
Executioner	Executioner	+3% melee damage against badly wounded targets	Standalone
Bloodlust	Bloodlust	+0.5% of melee damage returned as health	Standalone

Archmage

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Overchannel	Overchannel	+2% war magic damage	Standalone
Echo Cast	Echo Cast	+1.5pp recast chance	Machinery
Elemental Rend	Elemental Rend	+2pp vulnerability proc chance	Machinery
Resonance	Spell AoE	+2pp radiated blast damage	Machinery

Void and Summoning

Mod	Linked ability	At a perfect roll	Type
Void Damage	Void Damage	+2% void magic damage	Standalone
Withering	Withering	+2% void damage per tick	Standalone
Empowered Summons	Empowered Summons	+5% summoned pet health, damage and defenses	Standalone

Weak rolls

A few mods produce an effect the game has to round to a whole number - poison damage, an acid tick, reflected damage. Those carry a minimum roll so a bad one is never literally worthless: Venom and Caustic never roll below a quarter strength, and Thorns never below a tenth.

Bloodlust is the deliberate exception. Its healing would round away to nothing on most single hits, so instead of a minimum roll the leftover fraction accumulates across hits until it pays out. Every Bloodlust roll is worth something eventually, however low it landed.

Getting the salvage

Both materials drop as ordinary salvage, and both are also sold outright by Salvage-Broker Bevan Tolliver in the Marketplace for one Trade Note each, as sealed bags. Use a sealed bag in your pack to break the seal and it becomes the matching full bag, already at maximum structure and ready to apply. See Custom Crafting for his full shelf.

See also

• Custom Crafting - all three custom crafting mechanisms and where to buy for them.
• Class Abilities - the abilities equipment mods amplify.
• Salvage-Broker Bevan Tolliver - sells both salvage materials as sealed bags.