How does tool rarity work?

[eager anchor]

I saw several posts come by that talk about tool rarity, but how does it work? I never encountered it in-game yet and have no clue how much better they are and stuff.

[rotund peak]

I dont now that much either but every time you upgrade your tools or armor (not rings) you have a 10% (?) chance to increase its rarity by one. Common t2 tools have 11 power whereas uncommon have 14. That is roughly a 27% production increase. As I've heard higher rarities will give some bonuses but not as much as common -> uncommon or uncommon -> rare.
Legendary or mythical will most likely be twice as strong as common ones

[eager anchor]

oh nice

[warm gorge]

If you use an increased rarity tool when crafting does that set the baseline rarity? So an uncommon tool when upgraded will not go down to a common upgraded tool? It will stay an uncommon tool or will increase in rarity?

[abstract comet]

Yup! Tools currently can't go down in quality.

[warm gorge]

Excellent. That’s a good design choice.

[weary star]

I was going to ask if the Ferralith tools can get increased rarity but I think I've answered my own question. There is only one output option for the Ferralith tools and weapons, a Common rarity item. While the Pyrelite tools have two possible outputs, Common and Uncommon.

[untold crown]

T1 only has common, it goes right and down only

[weary star]

2 out of 12 of my Pyrelite Tools came out as Uncommon, but I'm 3 out of 3 for Uncommon Pyrelite Weapons.

[nimble sierra]

@weary star In the Dev stream, they said "for it stay common until tier 10, it has to roll 70% 9 times in a row". Or something like that. Means, for Uncommon its a 30% chance. Which is in scope of what i head and tested myself.

[arctic peak]

Thank you for this visual I wasn’t sure how far the quality could go and how early on you could get it

[patent thunder]

in 82 T2 craft in total, I hit uncommon 9 times.

47 out of 82 is the same piece. so it took me 48 craft until i get 1 uncommon once

[untold crown]

your personal luck doesn't really mean much about overall rates

[patent thunder]

yeah, i gave it as personal stat

[untold crown]

ok, as long as you're not claiming that has any bearing on the 30% figure

[patent thunder]

yeah i am not retarted dw

[eager anchor]

I made 5 t2 tools and 1 weapon, weapon was uncommon and 1 tool was uncommon

[unique elbow]

We typically shy away from the "you've lost progress due to bad RNG" design philosophy found in many MMOs

[untold crown]

BDO players blowing up a 1.5bil gp accessory for a 1% chance to get a 15bil gp accessory be like

[abstract comet]

I did consider adding a way to opt into having a chance at blowing up your armor/tool for an increased chance at success through scholar or some other profession when we were setting all of this up at one point. Decided against it really early on 😄

[rotund peak]

So we are not 100% sure that there will be a 30% chance to increase the rarity from uncommon -> rare?
Since I have read somewhere that mythics will be 1:1000 or 1:10000 and with a fixed 30% chance to increase rarity,
mythics will be ~7% at tier 10. Which is way too high imo (please double check the math)

[untold crown]

these are the current (as of the demo right now) rates and probabilities to hit rarities by t10.