Gearing and enhancing it?

Hi there,

I have some questions about PWI's gear system. First off, I come from World of Warcraft, where the system is based on gear colors (and itemlevels). For those that don't know this system: The quality of the item is based on the color of the item, from:

Grey (inferior) > White > Green > Blue > Purple > Orange (Legendary).

Which is pretty easy to follow - generally, the further your item goes to the right side, the better it is (in simple terms).

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Now, I'm a bit confused in how this goes in PWI.

1) Colors? For example, there are the colors. Atm I think it goes like this (please correct me if I'm wrong here):

White > Blue > Purple > Legendary > Twilight (TT/HH)


2) And then there are Stars. If I'm correct, the more stars the item has, the higher the white stats are on the item - Where a 1* item has for example +15 pdef, a 2* item of the same name has higher pdef than the +15, and/or you get some blue stats extra (like +matk/dex/etc)?

But now, how do I measure the quality of two items when I have to factor in these 2 rules? Do I look at the color, or the stars? or both? I'm not sure really.

Sofar I've seen white items with 1*/2*. And I'm not sure if I saw some Blue 2* item when inspecting someone. But do Stars apply to every "color items"? (Meaning, can you get 3* HH/TT/Legendary items etc, or does it only apply to white/blue/purple etc?)

Also, I've seen some white 2* items being better than a blue 1* at my level, so I'm confused how I should be looking at it.


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3) Sockets? From what I've read, weapons can have 2 sockets and armor 4. When crafting items, it is entirely random if your item will get sockets and if it occurs, also random is the number of sockets it will receive.
If your item doesn't get any sockets, you can buy them from the boutique and apply them to your item, but the amount cannot exceed a total of 2 sockets on weapon and 4 on armor, right?

- Which items can be socketted however, can neck/belt/rings/bracers/cloak be socketted, or is it just head/chest/leg/boots?

- Also, is buying them (whether it be Boutique or AH) the only to obtain these, or will you be able to craft/loot them from some bosses/whatever/questrewards aswell?


How to enhance Items?

If i'm correct, there are 2 ways to enhance your items - Refining and Imbuing.

Refining should only be done with endgame gear, which in most cases is TT/HH gear? Doing it on lowerlevel gear (which I mean pre-60 or maybe even pre-80?) is silly, since you'll be replacing that gear with endgame gear later, making it enormously costly during the lower levels? (again, please correct me if I'm wrong).

Also, refining is done with Mirage Celestone, which can only be obtained as quest rewards? (Fragments etc)


On Molds?

If I'm correct, molds are recipes that drop from Bossmobs only? And they only drop in FBs? And how do they work exactly? Are the 1 time use only or can I keep craftiung said item once I've obtained the mold (and I'm of required crafting level ofc)?

I'm still miles away from getting to this point ofcourse, but I've always been a critical person when it comes to creating/leveling/building/gearing chars, hence the wall of text up here.

If anyone could answer some/all of these questions, it would be most appreciated. b:victory