Unique item

General
Unique items ("green" items) are items with set weapon modifiers and upgrades that are randomly dropped after killing specific boss monsters. The majority of Green items possess the highest possible, or the most effective level of Upgrades, with the exception of the Uniques found on Shing Jea Island. Unique items cannot be dyed nor salvaged. All unique items have a normal weapon counterpart. It is apparant that all Unique items that can have a Prefix and Suffix weapon upgrade, have one already applied, for maximum effectiveness. Since many unique items have their own special appearences as well as having max modifiers and upgrades (where applicable), these items are of the most sought after items in the game.

Unique Item Conventions
Unique items...


 * cannot be dyed
 * cannot be salvaged
 * cannot be upgraded
 * can be customized by a weaponsmith

All unique items come with an attribute requirement of 9, with the exception of Shing Jea uniques which have attribute requires of 4 to 6, and Shiro's uniques, which have an attribute requirement of 15.

Acquisition
The only ways to get a unique item is to kill the owner boss and/or trade with another player. When you kill the boss, there is a certain chance that he will drop one (or more) of his unique items. The same item might be dropped more than once at the same time.

The bosses dropping the unique items can only be found in the following areas of the game in Chapter 1:
 * Grenth's Footprint
 * Sorrow's Furnace
 * Ruins of the Tomb of the Primeval Kings
 * Prophet's Path

In the Factions Campaign, many bosses drop Unique Items throughout the continent of Cantha. Additionally, unique items in Factions may be traded from collectors using the Amulet of the Mists awarded to the player at the completion of the last Canthan mission.