PoE Quality Currency

Quality improves the signature stat of an item such as physical damage on weapons and evasion for evasion helmets or adds additional bonuses to skill gems.

Currency that affect quality

Class Currency Increases
Weapons Blacksmith's Whetstone Physical Damage
Armours Armourer's Scrap Armour / Evasion / Energy Shield
Flasks Glassblower's Bauble Life / Mana recovered or increased the buff duration for utility flasks.
Skill gems Gemcutter's Prism Depends on skill gem
Maps Cartographer's Chisel Item Quantity
Strongbox Engineer's Orb, Infused Engineer's Orb Item Quantity
Jewellery Catalysts Depends on catalyst; affects implicit and explicit affixes

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Mechanics

Quality can be applied to most equipment (quivers and jewels are the exceptions), as well as maps and strongboxes. Any item with at least 1% quality will have a Superior prefix when dropped on the ground but not when in the inventory.

Each item type has a currency item associated with it that increases its quality. Quality does not affect the requirements for using an item or the mana cost of skills.

All items are normally capped at 20% quality and each currency that affect quality will improve:

  • normal items by 5%.
  • magic items by 2%.
  • rare and unique items by 1%.

Increasing the quality on weapons and armours also makes crafting sockets and links with Jeweller’s Orbs and Orbs of Fusing easier. Each 1% quality improves the result by 1%. This makes obtaining many sockets and links 20% more likely on 20% quality items.

Quality is normally capped at 20%. However, there are certain crafting methods that can increase quality beyond that, including:

  • Beastcrafting recipe for “Corrupt an item with 30% Quality”
  • A resonator with Perfect Fossil socketed, increasing quality up to 30%
  • Immortal Syndicate safehouse with Hillock stationed (22/24/26/28%)
  • Infused Engineer’s Orb (up to 30%)
  • Tainted Blacksmith’s Whetstone and Tainted Armourer’s Scrap sets a corrupted equipment’s quality to 0-29%

Effect on items

The quality is summed together with other increased stats. For example a piece of armour that naturally gives 100 armour that has +50 to Armour and 90% increased Armour would now, with 20% quality, give (100+50)*(100+90+20)/100=315.

The table below displays what each category of items and which currency that can increase the quality.

Class Currency Increases
Weapons Blacksmith’s Whetstone Physical Damage
Armours Armourer’s Scrap Armour / Evasion / Energy Shield
Flasks Glassblower’s Bauble Life / Mana recovered or increased the buff duration for utility flasks.
Skill gems Gemcutter’s Prism Depends on skill gem
Maps Cartographer’s Chisel Item Quantity
Strongbox Engineer’s Orb, Infused Engineer’s Orb Item Quantity
Jewellery Catalysts Depends on catalyst; affects implicit and explicit affixes

You can obtain equipment from Grand Heists that have an enchantment that changes the effect of quality on the item. A Tempering Orb or Tailoring Orb can add or change this enchantment.

Divination Cards

The Master Artisan The Master Artisan is a divination card. A set of five can be exchanged for a stack of 20 currency items of the same type that are used to improve the quality of an item. The type of currency item is chosen in a weighted random fashion. It is more likely to return common currency items like Armourer’s Scraps than rarer ones like Gemcutter’s Prisms.

Outcome Amount Divination Card Drop Location
20x Quality Currency 5 The Master Artisan The Master Artisan Artisan’s Strongboxes

 

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