Identify

General
Identifying an item will reveal all of the item's properties. To identify an unidentified item, an Identification Kit (4 gold per use) or a Superior Identification Kit (5 gold per use) is needed. Items that display their value are already identified. Unidentified items may sometimes be referred to as "unid".

Item Value

 * Identifying an item will display (in the items description) how much a merchant will pay for it.


 * Any item that does NOT display its value, can be identified to display its value. This includes: upgrade components that have been salvaged from an item, green items, and items acquired from a collector.


 * To check the unidentified value of an item, go to a merchant (who buys items), click on the sell tab and look at the listed value. As you identify items, the NEW values will be displayed in the merchants window.


 * Most items, even white non-magical ones, will go up in value after being identified, sometimes yielding as much as a 100% increase in value.


 * Identifying white items, that are worth less then 15 gold to a merchant, rarely go up in value more than 1-2 gold. These low value items cost 4-5 gold to identify, while only yielding an extra 1-2 gold.


 * Items with a higher unidentified value have a better chance that the increase will be a larger percentage.

Upgrade Components

 * Identifying an item with a blue, purple, or gold name will reveal any upgrade components it has, such as weapon upgrades (from weapons), runes (from mobs armor), or inscriptions (only available from Nightfall weapons/mob armors, at this point).


 * Upgrade components that are identified are also unlocked for use in PvP play.


 * An item or upgrade component can be sold or given to another player unidentified, so they can unlock any upgrade components that the item contains.


 * The upgrade components on green items are already identified when they drop. No upgrade components will be unlocked by identifying, but the item's value will be displayed.


 * The upgrade components on runes are already identified when bought from a Rune Trader.


 * Make SURE to identify every blue, purple, and gold item you find before it is sold to a merchant. This will unlock any upgrade components that have not been unlocked AND increase the item's value.

Wisdom Title

 * Identifying rare items will increase the total number of rare items identified. This total determines the Wisdom Title level.


 * For each rank of Wisdom (and Treasure Hunter) earned, the chance of an item not being destroyed, when salvaging an upgrade component, is increased by 3 percent (from a base of 50 percent).


 * The bonuses from both titles do stack.

Identification Kit

 * 25 Uses
 * Cost:    ( per Identification)
 * Cost from Discount Merchant:    ( per Identification)
 * Cost: 1 Monastery Credit
 * Cost: 1 Imperial Commendation
 * Cost: 1 Luxon Totem
 * Cost: 1 Equipment Requisition
 * Cost: 1 Battle Commendation
 * Cost: 1 Kournan Coin
 * Cost: 3 Vermin Hides at collector Bae Kwon

Superior Identification Kit

 * 100 Uses
 * Cost:    ( per Identification)
 * Cost from Discount Merchant:    ( per Identification)
 * Cost: 3 Imperial Commendations
 * Cost: 3 Luxon Totems
 * Cost: 3 Equipment Requisitions
 * Cost: 3 Kournan Coins
 * Cost: 3 Ancient Artifacts
 * Cost: 3 Inscribed Secrets