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[[File:Items (example of a purple item).jpg|thumb|right|335px|An example of a an {{ItemRarity|Purple }} item . Notice the two intrinsic mods (alpha buildto Inventory Slots and Sprint Speed)listed in white, and the four (due to its rarity tier) additional mods listed in green.]]Items appear to come in six different "qualities". Note this may still change a lot during alphararity tiers, giving them 0-5 [[Treasure Effects|mods]] (plus any intrinsic mods the base item has).

Currently in Alpha, Project: Gorgon's loot mechanics have similarities to ARPGs. There seems to be few "set" items with fixed properties, associated with a specific dungeon or boss. Instead, high tier items have largely random mods that could be anywhere from a "bad roll" to an "amazing item". As can be seen on in the illustration, the properties on higher high tier items can make a dramatic difference to your a character's potential depending which skills you specialize inon ability specialization, from increasing damage output, to or the resilience of your pets, to lowering the cost of your spells, and or even increase your Sprint increasing [[Haste|sprint speed]] !

| style="width:100px;{{ItemColor|0|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| Common || Those are common, basic items.

| style="color:#04c304;{{ItemColor|1|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| <!--green-->Uncommon || One extra power, chosen as appropriate for the difficulty of the monsters.

| style="color:#00e7e7;{{ItemColor|2|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| <!--cyan-->Rare || Two or three extra powers, chosen as appropriate for the difficulty of the monstermodifiers.

| style="color:#ff00ff;{{ItemColor|3|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| Epic Exceptional || Two to four extra powers, with at least one power significantly more potent than lower tiersThree modifiers.

| style="color{{ItemColor|4|Light}}font:#c3b304bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| Epic || Four modifiers.|-| style="{{ItemColor|5|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia,serif;"| Legendary || Three to five extra powersFive modifiers.|-| style="{{ItemColor|5|Light}}font:bold 15px Georgia, serif;"| Mastercrafted or Fortold || Five modifiers with at least one power significantly more potent than lower tiers160 crafting points.

After an items is dropped or crafted one additional mod may be added using [[Augmentation]] (or [[Shamanic Infusion]]) without changing the Rarity. ==Item BonusesAugments==Finding loot in Project: Gorgon is exciting because higher tier items come with the game uses a wide variety of ability enhancing mods"random treasure" system which is more commonly found in ARPG games. The combination of those mods Players can be anywhere from a occasionally strike gold with an amazing, game-balance-destroying item every now and again.<ref name="bad rollblog1" >http://www.eldergame.com/2012/05/gorgon-random-treasure/ Gorgon Random Treasure</ref> For instance, if you’re an [[Unarmed]] fighter, you’ll love gauntlets that make your Punch attack heal you. You punch a lot, so that’s a huge power boost and very noticeable. On the other hand, you may prefer gauntlets that cause your Punch to do extra damage, or that cause your Cobra Strike to stun more reliably. But an "amazing item"pair of gauntlets would do all three things.

'''[[Belt|Lucky Belts attune Augments come in levels. For instance, the randomfirst tier of Health-treasure system to specific skills]]'''Enchantment gives you +5 max health. Be sure to wear the proper belt The next tier gives you +10 health. And so that the loot you find is much more likely to enhance your choice of primary and secondary skillson.

Here are a few examples of such bonusesaugments currently found in alpha:

: Bow &bull; Hammer: Staff &bull; : Sword &bull; Hammer: Beaker: Dagger: Cestus/Katar/Knuckles/Fist: Lute

: Orb &bull; : Orbs tend to have an augment that reduces the Power Cost of abilities up to -25%: Shield: Bow : Of notice, '''Critical Damage %''' that comes with '''Anatomy''' skills appear to work only for Bows.; Armor: Flask: Chest &bull; Headgear &bull; Boots &bull; [[Belt]]Claw: Horn/Ocarina==Item Mechanics== ====How Skill Mods on Items Apply====Skill mods such as "Scintillating Flame restores 20 Power" on an item work as long as the item is equipped, irrelevant if the item's associated skill is currently in use. So for example if the aforementioned mod was on a Bow, but you do not have "Archery" active, the mod still applies if you have Fire Magic in use. <!-- hard to describe! -->: Dirk

====Treasure Generation====; [[Armor]]It': [[Belt]]s far less likely for an item to have more than two skill requirements on it (Sept. 15 2014 Update).: Boots: Chest: Legs: Headgear: Gloves: Neck: Ring: Earring: Navel Gem

==BlogLegacy Information=====Treasure Generation===* "In October 2016, the dev. changed the gear system to make single skill gear legacy. Now gear is two skill gear or one skill with generics."===Lucky Belts===[http://www[Belt|Lucky Belts]] used to attune the random-treasure system to specific skills.eldergameWearing the proper belt made it so that the loot you find was much more likely to enhance your choice of primary and secondary skills.com/2012/05/gorgon This feature was changed in the 2015-random12-06 patch. See the [[Belt]] article for more historical information.==Previous Max Enchanted==It was possible for an item to reach more than 5 treasure/ Gorgon Random Treasureeffects. Crafted gear can be crafted as "max-enchanted". Using the max-enchanted recipe gave the item one extra mod. For example, a second-from-the-top ({{ItemRarity|p}}) tier item which normally has 4 mods would have 5 if max-enchanted. This allowed an item to reach at most 6 modifiers upon being crafted (in the case that it is {{ItemRarity|Legendary}}). [[Augmentation]] (or [[Shamanic Infusion]] ) was then used to reach the upper limit of 7 (May 15looted gear, which can't be max-enchanted, 2012can only reach 6 at most).==References==<references />