Modding Weapons

Just a quick question regarding this...

What is it that makes a weapon, say, Gold? Does it have to have so many perfect mods on it? If so, can I buy a collectors staff, add a perfect hale head and a perfect staff wrapping of fortitude and it will turn gold?

I was just wondering...our of curiosity if you can make a gold item, or if weapons only drop gold...

thanks...

I was wondering the samething I had a Gold Morningstar Axe drop from a chest and it has no mods at all on it ?

Only dropped items can be gold, so perfectly modded collectors items will always be blue.

I think the criteria for a rare item is a greater liklihood of having more and better mods (inherent, prefix and suffix).

a very interesting read about weapons can be found here: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Weapon

everything you need to know about weapons upgrades can be found here: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Weapon_upgrade

and everything you might want to read about weapon modifiers can be found here: http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Weapon_modifier

hope this helps

Wow, that was fast, cheers lads - at least it's cleared that up! Just something I've been wondering for a while!