What do Item Colors Mean?

Nub + 1/2 here and I have a question...

As the title says, what are the characteristics of the different colors. I believe theres only Purple, Yellow and Blue...

Tell me everything you know about each one.

Thanks

I know blue is your kinda standard magic items. Just a step above the fodder stuff. Purple...I just got a very nice purple text staff tonight. Has like 4 or 5 things on it. Unlike most blue ones which have 1-2 stat plusses.

So purple I guess is sorta rare magical. Not sure about yellow.

I guess they each have some complex ingredients to each. Purple and Yellow are definitely better finds/drops (more rare than blue) whereas blue is just a smidge above regular drops when it comes to their magical properties.

Purple and Yellow *unlock* better items for your toon to use and also for your PvP character to use when going to battle.

If memory serves me well, blue is an unidentified/identifies item, purple is a rare drop, yellow means highly salvageable I think.

Er... think Diablo 2-esque.

White: Normal
Blue: Uncommon
Purple: Rare
Yellow: Ultra-Rare

Items are all random, but usually it goes in that order for quality of the properties as well. (Although my first Purple Drop was utter crap. I've had better blues. )

purple is unlockable and gold (yellow) is a rare item

I do appologize for saying you all are wrong, but you are.

White is a normal item.

Blue is a magical item, with common attributes such as;

-Precious (sells for more gold)
-Highly Salvageable (get anywhere from 2-3x ammount of salvage materials)

and other attributes still found on blues, even rune salvaging, Attributes +1 ect

Purple is an *im not sure what to call it* item but always gives somthing to Unlock/Salvage (rune/upgrade mat)

Yellow/Gold Is a Rare item *says "a rare war axe dropped"*

These are generally awsome items, Major runes come from these babys, nice weapons, these are the sought after "gosuness" of Guild wars.

To clarify, are you guys talking about the text color or the actual item's color?

m19

The text color I can see the misinturpritation.. but honestly.. when have you ever seen a purple battle axe? I mean.. come on?

Someone mentioned orange and red items. Is this true? If so where do they fall in the list...

I think orange could be derived from the yellow (misinterpritation of color) differant gamma settings, ect.

But red? No idea. Cannot prove or disprove.

I have seen a red mace, There just pretty uber mainly.

White
Blue
Purple
Yellow
Red
?

Mace? What are the requirements for a mace? Is it considered a type of hammer? I didn't even know there were melee weapons besides hammer/sword/axes

Matt

Okay let us make this even clearer, when looking at an item’s text if the color is: White is common, Blue is an item that is unidentified or has been identified and has magical attributes attached to it. Purple is an item that is highly salvageable meaning it will give you a rune/weapon upgrade component. Yellow is a rare item.

I'd love to see a screenie of a red item.

Yeah, me too. I am really doubting this till a screenie. I don't mean to not believe anyone, but I have only heard rumors so far.

I've heard several different people claim to have seen a red item. I haven't myself, but I believe them at this point.

Gold items aren't that great, I have a gold Truncheon, the damage is like 1 point better than other ones it's level, and it's only mod is 11% chance to increase cast speed, which seems to double cast speed when it goes off.

Here is an example of a purple item if anyone is curious....

BTW when I found it and identified it I got 2 unlock messages....

Item Unlocked: Insightful Staff head
Item Unlocked: Staff Wrapping of Warding

Think i got the picture fixed now, hehe.

BTW...I got that from a chest after we killed the Frost Drake or whatever it was in the cooperative mission in that one south of Yaks or maybe it was the one after that...I cant remember.

Finally, we have proof!!