Upgrades

Upgrades can be crafted or found, and can be applied to equipment. Weapons can hold one upgrade, while armor can hold one of each of three types of upgrades. Each upgrade exists at each Rarity, improving the bonuses given by the upgrade.

Like attribute bonuses, upgrades will add a suffix to the item name of the form +NAME, which always goes after the attribute bonus suffix. Armor upgrade suffixes will be in the order: mechanical, implant, surface.

Upgrades can only be applied to items of equal or greater rarity. That is, you can apply an Obsolete upgrade to a Prototype item, but you cannot apply a Prototype upgrade to an Obsolete item.

Weapon Upgrades

While some weapon upgrades exist for all weapons, many exist only for a subset of weapon types. However, upgrades are universal; that is, a transcendent Cruel upgrade exists as a single item, for example, and can be applied to any weapon meeting the weapon class requirement.

Upgrade		Rarity					One-Handed Weapons						Two-Handed Weapons
Name	Effect	J	O	A	P	T	Pistol	Sword	Knife	Gauntlet	Whip	Shield	Rifle	Pole	Hammer	Rocket Launcher
	X% increased attack speed	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
	X% increased damage	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
	X% increased critical chance	6	7	8	9	10
	X% increased critical damage	6	7	8	9	10
	Convert X% of damage to physical	12	14	16	18	20
	Convert X% of damage to thermal	12	14	16	18	20
	Convert X% of damage to electric	12	14	16	18	20
	Convert X% of damage to corrosive	12	14	16	18	20
	Convert X% of damage to entropic	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased projectile velocity	14	18	22	26	30
	X% increased range	14	18	22	26	30
	X% increased knockback	30	35	40	45	50
	Bleed for X seconds on critical hit	1	1.5	2	2.5	3
	Restore stamina on critical hit	6	7	8	9	10
	X% increased bleed duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased burning duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased cripple duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased shock duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased stun duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased knock down duration	12	14	16	18	20
	X% increased knockback	10	15	20	25	30
	X% increased hit arc	14	18	22	26	30
	X% increased attack speed and reduced damage	14	18	22	26	30
	X% increased damage, cannot critically hit	20	25	30	35	40
	X% reduced damage, 2X% increased critical damage	14	18	22	26	30
	X% reduced attack speed, 0.25 second shock on crit	50	44	38	32	26

Note: increased hit arc applied to a Rocket Launcher will actually increase the aoe of its attacks.

Armor Upgrades

Each piece of armor has three upgrade slots:

• Mechanical: typically related to movement or attacking (physical enhancements)
• Implant: typically related to internal enhancements
• Surface: outer coating of armor, typically defensive

All armor upgrades can be applied to any type of armor, though the upgrade rarity restriction still applies.

Upgrade		Rarity
Name	Effect	J	O	A	P	T
Mechanical
Boosters	Your dodges go X meters further	0.8	1.1	1.4	1.7	2
Stabilizers	Knockdown duration and knockback distance are reduced by X%	13	16	19	22	25
Gravity Suspension	Your dodges last X seconds longer	0.2	0.28	0.36	0.42	0.5
Gravity Motors	X% increased melee damage	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
Trigger Reflex	X% increased attack speed	3	3.5	4	4.5	5
Impetus Machine	Sprinting uses X% less stamina	14	18	22	26	30
Implant
Enchanced Reflexes	X% reduced shocked and stunned durations	8	11	14	17	20
Pain-Killer Dispenser	X% reduced health regeneration delay	20	25	30	35	40
Micro-suturer	X% increased health regeneration	13	16	19	22	25
Organic Stitcher	X% reduced bleeding and crippled durations	8	11	14	17	20
Liquid Cooling	X% decreased burning damage	13	16	19	22	25
Blood Transfusor	X% decreased bonus bleeding damage from movement	35	45	55	65	75
Surface
Capacitors	X% of incoming electric damage is added to your next attack	7	9	11	13	15
Overcharger	X% of incoming thermal damage increases your movement speed by 20% for (X%) seconds	0.4	0.55	0.7	0.85	1
Entropic Uplink	X% of incoming entropic damage recharges your skills by (X%)%	2.6	3.2	3.8	4.4	5
Momentum Transductor	X% of incoming physical damage restores (X%) stamina	4	6.5	7	8.5	10
Regenerative Biopolymers	X% of incoming corrosive damage heals you for (X%)% (heals current and combat max health)	.4	.55	.7	.85	1

The surface upgrades are pretty confusing right now, not sure what the best way to word them is. Entropic Uplink for example: Prototype return is 4.4%. So, if you take 1000 entropic damage, all of your skills will be recharged by 4.4% * 1000 = 44 => 44%

Note that "incoming damage" is calculated as the damage you would have taken with 0 armor. That is, it is the damage of the attack before armor reduction is applied, since this represents the damage incoming to your armor.