Weapon upgrade

Weapon Upgrades are a type of upgrade that improve the characteristics of the weapon they are equipped to. A weapon has an upgrade on it if it has a prefix and/or suffix added to the weapon's name. For instance, if a scimitar has a "Fiery" hilt, thus it would be called a "Fiery Scimitar". If it also had a pommel "of Charrslaying" it would be called a "Fiery Scimitar of Charrslaying". As such, a weapon can contain a maximum of 2 upgrades: one "prefix" and one "suffix".

Obtaining Upgrades
Weapon upgrades may be extracted from weapons that contain them by using an Expert Salvage Kit. As with extracting runes from armor, it is not a certainty that the salvage attempt will be successful. If a weapon has two upgrades (a prefix and a suffix), the salvage attempt will only be able to recover one of them, determined randomly. Prefixed and/or suffixed weapons obtained from Quests and/or Collectors cannot be salvaged to get their upgrades.

Upgrade items can sometimes be recovered from.

Applying Upgrades
Simply double-click the upgrade, and then click on a compatible weapon to equip it (you could not add a staff upgrade component to a hammer). A weapon can only have one upgrade of each type (commonly referred to as prefix/blade/head upgrades and suffix/hilt/wrapping upgrades).