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Equipment bonuses

Equipment bonuses improve a worn item's effects or the character using it. Check the kind of bonus before comparing pieces.

Source	What to compare
Affixes	The bonus type, its rarity range and its shared limit
Socket gems	Gem type, grade and the item's socket capacity
Item enchantment	Added powers and the piece's enchantment capacity
Legendary and Gilded items	Fixed bonuses and special powers

For magical defence, see Resistance Bonuses. For casting, compare Spell cost cut (focus), Casting speed and Spell damage (potency). Clothing bonuses include attributes, skills, standing, warmth and weatherproofing.

Crafting, the item maker and loot provide different bonuses. Disenchanting yields Arcane Essence; it does not extract a bonus to put on another item.

Bonus	Crafting	Item maker	Loot	Other services
Skill bonuses, such as Dodging and Critical Strike	Superior and Masterwork equipment can roll random skill bonuses	Enhances Skill adds +15 to a skill you choose	Can roll random skill bonuses	Reforge can replace another kind of bonus with a random skill bonus
Other ordinary affixes, such as damage, attributes and resistances	Random rolls allowed for the equipment type	Choose from the separate enchantment catalogue; these random affixes cannot be selected directly	Random bonuses allowed for the equipment type	Reforge replaces an eligible bonus with another allowed kind
Weapon techniques, such as Leap Strike	Cannot roll them	Cannot add them	Found on eligible weapons and gauntlets	Hone improves an existing technique; Reforge cannot add or swap one
Legendary powers	Cannot produce Legendary gear	Cannot add these powers	Find the Legendary item	Imprint adds a recorded power to an eligible Rare item, without granting a weapon technique

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