Identifications

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Identifications, or IDs, are bonuses found on a variety of items that can boost or hinder the player in various ways. Identifications can affect damage, defense, mobility, XP gain, and more. Major Identification provide even greater changes to gameplay.

The most common source of identifications is from weapons, armor, and accessories. Armor and accessory identifications are applied as long as they are equipped, while weapon identifications are gained as long as you are holding the weapon. You can also obtain identifications through the effects of potions, tomes, and crafted consumables from the Alchemism, Cooking, and Scribing professions.

You can view the identifications you currently have at any time by looking at your Character Info menu.

List of identifications

This is a full list of each available identification in-game, separated by category. For further explanation on identifications marked with a *, see the section below. All identifications can be either positive or negative, though not all identifications have an actual effect if they are negative. For example, negative damage IDs cannot make you deal negative damage, while negative health regen will cause you to lose health over time instead of gaining it.

Skill Points

Name	Format	Effects
Strength	+X	Adds or subtracts a value from your Strength skill point count.
Dexterity	+X	Adds or subtracts a value from your Dexterity skill point count.
Intelligence	+X	Adds or subtracts a value from your Intelligence skill point count.
Defense	+X	Adds or subtracts a value from your Defense skill point count.
Agility	+X	Adds or subtracts a value from your Agility skill point count.

Attack

Name	Format	Effects
Attack Speed*	+X tier	Increases or decreases your weapon's attack speed by an amount of tiers. See this section for more info on attack speed tiers.
Main Attack Damage (Raw)	+X	Adds or subtracts an amount of damage to all main attack damage you deal. The damage affected converts proportionally to the elements on your weapon.
Main Attack Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases your main attack damage by a percentage of your weapon's base damage. Does not affect the Neutral Main Attack Damage ID.
Spell Damage (Raw)	+X	Adds or subtracts an amount of damage to all spell damage you deal. The damage affected converts proportionally to the elements on your weapon. This damage is affected by the ability's spell multiplier. See each class page for more info on each ability's spell multiplier.
Spell Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases your spell damage by a percentage of your weapon's base damage per second. Does not affect the Neutral Spell Damage ID.

Health and Mana

Name	Format	Effects
Health	+X	Changes your base health by a raw number. Also known as Health Bonus, to avoid confusion with the Health stat on armor and accessories.
Raw Health Regen	+X/4s	Changes your health regeneration amount by a raw value. Health regeneration occurs every 4 seconds. Negative values cause you to lose health over time instead of gain it.
Percent Health Regen*	+X%	Changes your Raw Health Regen ID by a percent value. See this section for more information on how this affects regeneration.
Life Steal*	+X/3s	Changes the amount of health you may gain or lose when using your main attack. See this section for more info on the mechanics of life steal.
Mana Regen	+X/5s	Increases or decreases the amount of mana you constantly regenerate.
Mana Steal*	+X/3s	Changes the amount of mana you may gain or lose when using your main attack. See this section for more info on the mechanics of mana steal.

Elemental Damage

Name	Format	Effects
Earth Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases all ✤ Earth damage you deal by a percentage.
Thunder Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases all ✦ Thunder damage you deal by a percentage.
Water Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases all ✽ Water damage you deal by a percentage.
Fire Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases all ✹ Fire damage you deal by a percentage.
Air Damage	+X%	Increases or decreases all ❋ Air damage you deal by a percentage.

Elemental Defense

Name	Format	Effects
Earth Defense	+X%	Increases or decreases your ✤ Earth defense by a percentage.
Thunder Defense	+X%	Increases or decreases your ✦ Thunder defense by a percentage.
Water Defense	+X%	Increases or decreases your ✽ Water defense by a percentage.
Fire Defense	+X%	Increases or decreases your ✹ Fire defense by a percentage.
Air Defense	+X%	Increases or decreases your ❋ Air defense by a percentage.

Passive Damage

Name	Format	Effects
Exploding	+X%	Increases or decreases the chance of an enemy exploding on death, dealing damage to other nearby mobs. Explosion damage is equal to the damage of your main attack.
Poison	+X/3s	Increases or decreases the amount of additional damage over time to an enemy after you damage them. Amount refers to the total damage over 3 seconds.
Thorns*	+X%	Increases or decreases the chance of the attacker taking damage when you take melee damage. See this section for more info on thorns and reflection.
Reflection*	+X%	Increases or decreases the chance of the attacker taking damage when you take spell or ranged projectile damage. See this section for more info on thorns and reflection.

Movement

Name	Format	Effects
Walk Speed	+X%	Changes your base movement speed. This ID has a maximum effect at +400% Walk Speed.
Sprint	+X%	Changes maximum sprint time before the bar is depleted.
Sprint Regen	+X%	Changes regeneration of the sprint bar.
Jump Height	+X	Changes maximum jump height.

XP and Gathering

Name	Format	Effects
Soul Point Regen	+X%	Increases the chance of gaining an extra Soul Point per day. No effect past +100%.
Loot Bonus*	+X%	Increases the chance of finding weapons, armour, ingredients, and more, from mobs and loot chests. See this section for more info on loot bonus and loot quality.
Loot Quality*	+X%	Currently found only on ingredients. Increases the chances of rarer loot from mob and loot chests. See this section for more info on loot bonus and loot quality.
Stealing*	+X%	Increases the chance of mobs dropping an Emerald when hit. See this section for more info on stealing.
XP Bonus	+X%	Increases the amount of XP you gain from mobs and dungeons. Experience from Quests, Discoveries, and Raids is not affected.
Gather XP Bonus	+X%	Currently found only on ingredients. Increases the amount of Gathering XP gained from gathering resources.
Gather Speed	+X%	Currently found only on ingredients. Increases your gathering power when gathering resources.

Spell Cost

Name	Format	Effects
Spell Cost*	-X%	Increases or decreases the mana cost of a specific spell by a percent value.
Raw Spell Cost*	-X	Increases or decreases the mana cost of a specific spell by a raw value.

Identification Notes

Loot Bonus and Quality

Loot bonus increases the quantity of items found from mob drops and loot chests, while loot quality increases the chance of getting rarer items while reducing the rates of getting common items. The mechanics of each are different depending on whether it is loot from a chest or loot from a mob.

On Chests

Loot bonus and loot quality have a soft cap on boosting loot from chests. Loot bonus softcaps at 80% while loot quality softcaps at 40%. This means that past these points, the effectiveness of gaining more loot bonus or loot quality will be greatly diminished.

Each interval of loot bonus becomes less effective the more you have. So, if you have 80% loot bonus, then the total real effectiveness of it on chests would be 50% more loot. If you have 40% loot quality, then the total real effectiveness of it would be 25% better loot.

Loot Bonus	Real Effectiveness on Loot	Total Real Effectiveness
First 20% (1-20%)	20%	20%
Second 20% (21-40%)	15%	35%
Third 20% (41-60%)	10%	45%
Fourth 20% (61-80%)	5%	50%
Every 5% Loot Bonus after 80%	+1%	>50%

Loot Quality	Real Effectiveness on Loot	Total Real Effectiveness
First 10% (1-10%)	10%	10%
Second 10% (11-20%)	7.5%	17.5%
Third 10% (21-30%)	5%	22.5%
Fourth 10% (31-40%)	2.5%	25%
Every 5% Loot Quality after 40%	+0.5%	>25%

On Mobs

On mobs, loot bonus and loot quality do not have softcaps, and they have the same effect on drop rates. 1% of loot bonus gives the same effect as 1% of loot quality. Both increase the drop rate of items from mobs by a percentage, so having 100% loot bonus would mean that items from the mob have double the regular drop chance, 200% for triple the drop chance, and so on.

Thorns and Reflection

Both thorns and reflection deal damage back to enemies that hit you. Thorns activates on melee hits, while reflection activates on projectiles and spells. If the attacker is a mob, it takes 150% of the final damage you took. If the attacker is another player, then they take 50% of the final damage you took.

Neither thorns or reflection decrease the amount of damage you take. The percent value of the ID only represents the chance that it activates upon any given hit. Having more than 100% thorns or reflection has no extra effect.

Mana and Life Steal

These two IDs allow you to gain mana or health when you hit mobs with your main attack. For each mob you hit, you gain a portion of your life and mana steal value. The portion of the value gained depends on your attack speed. Slower attack speeds will gain more health and mana per hit since they attack slower, while faster attack speeds will gain less health and mana per hit, since they can hit faster. However, it all balances out so that no matter your attack speed, you will gain the value of your life and mana steal by constantly attacking a mob for 3 seconds.

Additionally, life and mana steal triggers on weapon powder specials too. Hitting mobs with Quake and Courage's flare will trigger life and mana steal on each mob hit. Chain Lightning will trigger life and mana steal each time it chains to a mob.

Life and mana steal will not trigger when you hit passive mobs.

Portion of Life/Mana Steal Gained Per Hit

Attack Speed	Single Attack	Double Attacks	Triple Attacks	Quintuple Attacks
	Most main attacks	Archer's Double Shots Assassin's Double Slice	Shaman's Main Attack Archer's Triple Shots	Shaman's Hand of the Shaman
Super Fast	7.8%	3.9%	2.6%	1.56%
Very Fast	10.7%	5.35%	3.57%	2.14%
Fast	13.3%	6.65%	4.43%	2.66%
Normal	16.3%	8.15%	5.43%	3.26%
Slow	22.2%	11.1%	7.4%	4.44%
Very Slow	40.2%	20.1%	13.33%	8.04%
Super Slow	65.4%	32.7%	21.8%	13.08%

Spell Cost

Percent spell cost and raw spell cost are groups of four "sub-identifications" each: one for each spell, encoded as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. These are displayed based on the class being played, which might cause some confusion in the cases of weapons; a Spear that reduces the cost of the Bash spell by 1, if viewed by a Mage, will instead show that it reduces the cost of the Mage's Heal (despite the fact that Mages cannot use Spears) because Bash and Heal are both the 1st spell for their respective classes.

The mana cost to cast a spell is calculated in the following steps:

• Base cost: This is determined by the spell, the class and the combat level (see a given class' specific page for these values).
• Intelligence bonus: The base cost is modified based on your total Intelligence stat. This bonus ranges from 0% cost reduction at 0 Intelligence to a maximum of 80.8% reduction at 150 Intelligence.
• The cost is then modified further by your spell cost IDs.
  • Raw spell cost: Raw bonuses and penalties are calculated first, and are relatively straightforward. A -1 bonus will reduce the total cost by 1, a +2 penalty will increase the cost by 2, and so on.
  • Percent spell cost: Finally, percent spell cost bonuses or penalties are applied. Any bonus, even -1%, will reduce the cost by at least 1, while any penalty will increase it by at least 1. Beyond that, the percent thresholds required to modify the final mana cost by a whole point are dependant on the result of the previous step, with higher total costs having lower per-point thresholds. A percent spell cost bonus of -89% is currently the maximum required to reduce the cost of any spell to 1.

The absolute minimum final cost to cast any spell is 1 mana (except in the cases of certain Major IDs; see below).

Also, note that when casting the same spell several times in quick succession, the cost will increase each time, and even with extreme spell cost bonuses (such as when teleporting with Warp) the increasing mana cost will eventually become unsustainable.

Attack Speed Bonus

This ID allows a weapon to attack faster (or slower for negative values).

One tier is equivalent to one step up or down the list of attack speeds. Attack speed is always bound between Super Slow and Super Fast, so a -20 tier attack speed ID would only result in a Super Slow attack speed.

Attack Speed	Hits per Second
Super Fast	4.3
Very Fast	3.1
Fast	2.5
Normal	2.05
Slow	1.5
Very Slow	0.83
Super Slow	0.51

Major Identifications

Major IDs are a type of special identification introduced in the 1.19 Silent Expanse Update. Major IDs are only present on specific items, are not randomly rolled, and provide a wide range of effects that cannot be acquired elsewhere. Because of this, some of these IDs are only available with certain Classes. Major IDs stack with each other (meaning you can have both Hawkeye and Greed at the same time) but don't stack with themselves (meaning having two items with the Greed Major ID won't heal you for 30% of your max HP instead of 15%).

In addition to items, Major IDs can be obtained from Raid Buffs.

ID Name	Effect	Item(s)
Alter Ego	Awakened can be activated after saving 40% less mana, but its duration is reduced by -25%	Apex
Ass Buster	Uppercut reduces enemies' defense by 35% for 1 second.	Bloodbather
Cavalryman	You may cast spells and attack with a 70% damage penalty while on a horse	Galloping Spurs
Cherry Bombs	Your Smoke Bombs explode instantly on contact, and increase their Neutral Damage by +90%	Blossom Haze, Conspirator's Trickpockets
Coagulate	Blood Connection launches you further and higher upon teleporting to a nearby totem	Bloodborne
Dead Weight	Totem's horizontal velocity is greatly increased at the cost of vertical movement	Tremorcaller
Divine Honor	Increases the bonus from Radiance by 5%. Bash deals ✤ -15% per hit	Veritas, Empyreal Emberplate
Entropy	Meteor falls three times faster	Violet-Shift, Lachesism
Escape Route	Frenzy and Time Dilation charge twice as fast, but to a halved maximum	Tachyon
Explosive Impact	Your "Exploding" ID can trigger when hitting mobs with your main attack	Scarlet Veil
Expunge	When using Heal, cast one instant pulse that heals 20% of your max health	Psionic Pretense
Festive Spirit	Plays wintery tunes	Santa Earmuffs
Fission	Explosions from your "Exploding" ID are twice as big and twice as strong	Collapse, Hesperium
Flashfreeze	Ice Snake is instant and freezes for longer at a reduced range	Heat Death, Cold Wave, Impact Winter
Forest's Blessing	Your archer summons have increased movement speed, attack speed, and vision. Bomb Arrow's damage is reduced by ✣ -30%	Briars' Embrace
Freerunner	Double your sprint speed when your sprint bar is under 30%	Panic Attack, Ornithopter
Furious Effigy	Totem effects are twice as fast, but duration is halved	Tachypsychia, Panic Zealot
Gentle Glow	Orphion's Pulse restores more health, with an increased rate to allies and Fluid Healing effectiveness. Health is restored much slower	Pyrrhic Respite
Geocentrism	Aura radiates from you instead of your Totem and can be cast at any time	Narcissist, Gnossis
Gravity Well	Meteor has increased blast radius and pulls enemies instead	Pure
Greed	Picking up emeralds heals you and nearby players for 15% max health	Old Keeper's Ring, The Exploited, The Jingling Jester
Gruesome Knots	Twisted Tether spends twice as much of your Blood Pool to deal triple damage	Pain Cycle
Guardian	20% of damage taken by nearby allies is redirected to you	Guardian
Hawkeye	Condense Arrow Storm into a tight beam. Arrows deal ✣ 10%, ✦ 1%, and ❋ 1%	Deadeye, Nighthawk
Heart of the Pack	Nearby players gain 35% of the health you naturally regen	Ignis
Juggle	Stronger Multihit adds an additional 12 hits. All hits are reduced by ✣ -10%	Roiling Ruckus
Kdkasjdkasd	Chaos Explosion unleashes 5 random spells (out of all spells and upgrades).	Ragnarök
Lightweight	You no longer take fall damage	Steamjet Walkers, Seven-League Boots, Passus Lux, Double Vision
Lunge	Hop's horizontal velocity is greatly increased	Daredevil
Madness	Casts a random spell of your class every 3 seconds	Pandemonium
Magnet	Pulls items within an 8 block radius towards you	Vindicator, Gravity
Overwhelm	Bash will hit +2 times	Overreach
Peaceful Effigy	Your totem will last twice as long	Philosopher, Procrastination
Perfect Recall	Memory Recollection adds 1 extra spell. Increases Chaos Explosion's mana bank requirement to 150	Third Wish
Plague	Poisoned mobs spread their poison to nearby mobs	Plague Staff, Uranium Aegis, Cytotoxic Striders
Rally	Charge heals you by 10% and nearby allies by 15% on impact, but becomes harmless	Infernal Impulse, Rhythm of the Seasons
Reckless Abandon	Increases the damage of Tempest by ✹ 15% and adds one charge. War Scream no longer grants a defence bonus	Anti-Causality
Roving Assassin	Vanish will no longer block mana and health regeneration	Weathered
Saviour's Sacrifice	While under 50% maximum health, nearby allies gain 30% bonus damage and defense	Hero, Eleventh Hour
Snowy Steps	Leaves a trail of snow behind you	Snowtread Boots
Sorcery	30% chance for spells and attacks to cast a second time at no additional cost	Rewind, Time Rift
Soul Eater	Devour and Harvester grant double mana. Decreases maximum marks by 1	Ysengrim, Keeper of Souls
Strings of Fate	Your puppets have a lifetime of 3 seconds, and deal double damage with attacks and explosions	Marionette
Taunt	Mobs within 12 blocks target you upon casting War Scream	Strobelight, Signal Flare
Temblor	Bash gains +1 Area of Effect and is 20% faster	Fissure
Transcendence	30% chance for spells to cost no mana when cast	Nirvana
Wiki Pedis	Windy and Stormy feet are 2x stronger, but only affects you, but also affect mobs around you.	Wulfrum Accelerator
Windsurf	Righting Reflex lasts twice as long and is affected stronger by movement speed	Propeller Hat

Minimum/Maximum Identification Values

Note that the maximum and minimum values shown below are estimated values. The maximum values are also for all current known armour and weapon items, and may change with any new releases.

Identification	Minimum Value	Maximum Value	Minimum Value Item(s)	Maximum Value Item(s)
Strength	-35	+75	Dissociation	Black Abyss
Earth Damage %	-195%	+1,156%	Blade of Purity	The Specialist
Earth Defence	-350	+330	Second Wind	Earth Sanctuary
Earth Main Attack Damage	+2%	+10%	Apex Predator
Earth Spell Damage %	+6%	+46%	Tremorcaller	Decaying Headdress
Raw Earth Spell Damage	+18	+104	Overreach	Decaying Headdress
Dexterity	-100	+100	Black Abyss	Skaxis
Thunder Damage %	-195%	+983%	Blade of Purity	The Specialist
Thunder Defence	-350	+320	Second Wind	Thunder Sanctuary
Thunder Main Attack Damage %	+4%	+20%	Despondence
Raw Thunder Main Attack Damage	+57	+247	Despondence
Thunder Spell Damage %	+5%	+23%	Psionic Pretense
Raw Thunder Spell Damage	+52	+425	Roiling Ruckus	The Nothing
Raw Thunder Damage	-1,300	-700	Expedition's End
Intelligence	-100	+55	Ambivalence	Gravitation Lance
Water Defence	-850	+340	Achilles	Water Sanctuary
Water Damage %	-1,300%	+1,529%	Immolation	The Specialist
Raw Water Spell Damage	+34	+147	Soul Ink
Water Spell Damage %	+6%	+26%	Ancient Waters
Raw Water Damage	+30	+130	Expedition's End
Defence	-99	+50	Phantasmagoria	Immolation & Praesidium
Fire Damage %	-715%	+1,300%	Divzer	The Specialist
Fire Defence	-200	+350	Pandemonium	Fire Sanctuary
Raw Fire Spell Damage	+425		The Nothing
Raw Fire Main Attack Damage	+60	+1,105	Fire Sword Style-2	Cinnamon
Fire Spell Damage %	+7%	+30%	Marionette
Agility	-550	+60	Divzer	Moontower
Air Damage %	-195%	+1,300%	Blade of Purity	The Specialist
Air Defence	-220	+300	Guillotine	Eden-Blessed Guards & Air Sanctuary
Raw Air Spell Damage	+57	+425	Pain Cycle	The Nothing
Raw Air Main Attack Damage	+9	+175	Darting Blur	Spearmint
Air Main Attack Damage %	+6%	+26%	Wind Spine
Air Spell Damage %	+2%	+46%	Bloodborne	Propeller Hat
Raw Elemental Spell Damage	-104	+1,275	Roiling Ruckus	Forest Aconite
Elemental Damage %	+6%	+26%	Aleph Null
Raw Elemental Damage	+80	+235	Prologue	Epilogue
Raw Elemental Main Attack Damage	+4	+18	Overreach
Elemental Spell Damage %	+9%	+38%	Violet-Shift
Elemental Defence %	+10%	+46%	Veritas
Main Attack Damage %	-500%	+195%	Amulet of Rejuvenation	Helm Splitter
Raw Attack Speed	-129 tier	+9 tier	Stinger	Overdrive & Skien's Madness
Raw Main Attack Damage	-32,500	+3,510	King of Hearts	Dawnbreak
Poison	-100,000/3s	+41,600/3s	Amulet of Rejuvenation	Toxoplasmosis
Spell Damage %	-52,000%	+1,268%	Silent Ballet	Overdrive
Mana Steal	-208/3s	+172/3s	Knucklebones	Lunar Spine
Mana Regen	-70/5s	+52/5s	Recharge	Aquarius
Raw Spell Damage	-52,000	+1,521	Silent Ballet	Glissando
Raw Neutral Spell Damage	+53	+231	Violet-Shift
Raw 1st Spell Cost	+72	-520	Lower	Silent Ballet
1st Spell Cost %	+390%	-150%	Shine Suffacator	Royal Hydrangea
Raw 2nd Spell Cost	+20	-520	Blightsaber	Silent Ballet
2nd Spell Cost %	+100%	-130%	Ambivalence	Panic Zealot
Raw 3rd Spell Cost	+12	-520	Third Wish	Silent Ballet
3rd Spell Cost %	+100%	-130%	Ambivalence	Panic Zealot
Raw 4th Spell Cost	+50	-20	Orange Lily	Swimmer Net & Lower
4th Spell Cost %	+100%	-58%	Ambivalence	Arbalest
Health Regen Raw	-858	+760	Rhythm of the Seasons	Guardian
Life Steal	-2,386/3s	+1,850/3s	Knucklebones	Quetzalcoatl
Raw Health	-7,800	+7,800	Cataclysm	Guardian
Health Regen %	-260%	+195%	Warp	Phoenix Wing
Walk Speed	-300%	+234%	Amulet of Rejuvenation	Warp
Sprint Regen	-80%	+416%	Skipjack	Ornithopter
Jump Height	-1	+8	Tremorcaller & Rusted Root	Olympic
Sprint	-150%	+100%	Ornithopter	Skipjack
Loot Bonus	-39%	+200%	Shimmersight	Discoverer
XP Bonus	-32%	+40%	Jester Ring, Jester Bracelet, Jester Necklace	Trench Scourer
Stealing	-6%	+20%	Templar	Galleon & Vandalizer
Bonus Elemental Defence	+2%	+15%	Resplendence	Boundary
Exploding	-650%	+433%	Bonder	Zero
Healing %	+2%	+6%	Bloodborne
Reflection	-100	+433%	Black Abyss	About-Face & Sreggad
Payment Day	+2%	+6%	Payment Day
Soul Point Regen	-195%	+100%	Bete Noire & Inhibitor	Peaceful Rest & Sigil of Existence
Thorns	-100%	+433%	Desperation	About-Face & Sreggad
Weaken Enemy	+2%	+6%	Briars' Embrace