Item Enhancement

Enhancement lets a crafter take an already-made weapon or armor and re-forge it with a special material — a colored ingot or special leather — so the finished item gains that material’s bonuses (extra resists, damage, or properties) on top of what it already has. It’s how you turn a plain exceptional piece into a colored, boosted one — but it’s a gamble.

How it works

From the crafting tool’s menu, choose Enhance, target your item, and supply the resource (Enhance.Invoke in Enhance.cs): for example enhance a plate piece with valorite ingots, or leather armor with barbed leather, to add that material’s bonus.

Your success chance is the craft-skill success chance for making that item in that material — so a high-skill crafter enhancing a piece they could easily craft has good odds, while enhancing a high-end item in a rare material is risky.

The three outcomes

The roll (Enhance.CheckResult) lands on one of:

Result	What happens
Success	The item gains the material’s bonuses.
Failure	Enhancement fails — the item is unchanged, but the resources are consumed.
Broken	The worst case — the item is destroyed (item.Delete()).

So only enhance gear you can afford to lose, and prefer exceptional items and a maxed crafter to tilt the odds toward Success. (Some items are flagged so they can’t be enhanced at all.)

Powder of Fortifying

A related crafter consumable: Powder of Fortifying (a Bulk Order Deed reward) raises an item’s maximum durability back up. Since repairing slowly lowers an item’s max durability over its life, powder of fortifying is how you keep a valuable enhanced piece from wearing out — apply it before the max gets too low.

See also

• Weapons and Armor — quality, materials, and durability
• Crafting · Blacksmithy · Tailoring
• Items: resources — the ores and leathers you enhance with
• Bulk Order Deeds — where Powder of Fortifying comes from