Equipment

Every piece of gear in Second Calamity carries a rarity, and the rarity tells you what to expect before you even open the tooltip. Common items roll no modifiers at all; Magic (blue) items carry one or two; Rare (yellow) items carry up to six — three prefixes and three suffixes — pulled from a pool tied to what kind of item it is. Unique (orange) and Notorious (purple) items break the pattern on purpose: their modifiers are fixed rather than rolled, and they exist to hand you a new way to play rather than a bigger number. This chapter walks the gear system from the ground up: how modifiers roll, weapon classes, how gear scales as you level, armor, off-hands, support slots, and accessories. Every base type comes with its full list of bases and every modifier it can roll.

Affixes & Rares

An item's modifiers live in up to six slots — three prefixes and three suffixes. Some modifiers raise two stats at once, and both numbers roll together: a hybrid line that lands near the top of its range on one stat lands near the top on the other as well. Rarity decides how many of the slots are filled.

Each modifier is placed one at a time. First the roll picks a side: when both prefixes and suffixes have room and something left to roll, it's a coin flip, and when only one side does, it takes that side. Then it picks one modifier from that side, weighted — a common modifier has a high weight, a rare one a low weight. A Magic item holds at most one prefix and one suffix; a Rare holds up to three of each.

Some modifiers can't share an item. Two lines from the same family never appear together, so you'll never see two fire resistance lines on one piece, and a combined line blocks the single lines it covers: a fire and ice resistance line keeps the plain fire and plain ice lines off the item. The tables below name every such clash.

Which modifiers an item can roll comes from three lists stacked together. Almost everything can roll from a shared list open to all gear, which holds maximum health, maximum mana and the single-element resistances — your main-hand weapon is the one exception, since a weapon's modifiers are all about the weapon. On top of that, every slot has its own list, so rings roll differently from boots. And what the item is adds a third: its armor type for armor and shields, its category for weapons, or the item itself for off-hands, support items, and accessories. When a modifier sits on more than one of an item's lists, the item uses its highest weight.

Every modifier is a ladder of tiers, and each tier unlocks at its own item level. A dropped item's level comes from the monster that dropped it. An item rolls only from tiers at or below its item level, and every tier it has unlocked competes by weight — a high-level item can still roll a low tier. Within a tier, the value rolls evenly across the range shown.

Aethers that add modifiers roll exactly the same way: an Aether of Sprouting rolls a Magic item's lines, Blooming and Rebirth roll a Rare's, and Budding, Expansion, and Ascension each add one line from the same pool. See Crafting for the full set.

Each base type below lists its bases, then every modifier it can roll, prefixes and suffixes side by side. Armor slots and shields list each of their six armor types on its own, since the type changes what can roll. A row is one modifier family: its affix name, what it does, the item levels its tiers unlock at, its weight, and its chance. Open a family to see its tiers. Tier 1 is the weakest and unlocks first. Weight is relative; chance is that weight divided by the weight of everything else on the same side at the same item level, which is the odds of that modifier each time a roll lands on its side.

The item level box above each table sets the item level: tiers above it drop out and the chances recompute.

Weapons

There are fourteen weapon types, and no job owns any of them. Your abilities don't change when you change weapons, and nothing in your kit is locked behind holding the right thing. What a weapon actually decides is your damage floor, your swing speed, and which modifiers are allowed to roll on it. Weapon choice is itemization, not class.

Two gates stand between you and any given weapon, and your job is neither of them. The first is level: every base carries a level requirement, which is what keeps the sword that dropped off a level 40 monster out of a level 5 character's hands. The second is attributes — heavy weapons want Strength, finesse and ranged weapons want Dexterity, casting weapons want Intelligence. Meet both and you can equip it, whatever you're playing.

That is the entire gate. Nothing checks your class, and there is no separate proficiency to grind before an unfamiliar weapon performs — pick one up and it works at full strength immediately. What stops a Mage from swinging a greatsword is that they have no Strength to spare and their kit does spell damage, not a rule forbidding it. Requirements are re-checked whenever your gear or attributes change, and anything you no longer qualify for stays equipped but goes inert, granting nothing until you qualify again.

Every weapon rolls critical chance and critical damage. Beyond that, a weapon's category decides the rest. Attack weapons roll physical and elemental damage, attack speed, accuracy, double attack, life leech, and Strength or Dexterity. Spell weapons roll spell damage, elemental spell damage, cast speed, mana lines, and Intelligence. The three weapons that are both — sword, mace, and scythe — roll everything from both lists, plus hybrid lines that raise physical and spell damage together, which is why Spellblades and Paladins live on one. Weapons never roll from the shared list, so you won't find health or resistances on a main hand.

A two-handed weapon rolls the same modifiers as its one-handed counterpart. It pays for the second hand with a bigger hit instead.

Sword

Greatsword

Axe

Hammer

Dagger

Fist Weapons

Polearm