Preview: Rerolling Rarity Bonuses and Supreme Items

The Defiance team have released information on Rerolling Rarity Bonuses and Supreme Items before tomorrows patch.

Source: http://forums.defiance.com/showthread.php?221853-Preview-Rerolling-Rarity-Bonuses-and-Supreme-Items 

Rerolling Rarity Bonuses

Beginning with this update, you will be able to use the Salvage Matrix to alter one of the rarity bonuses on your weapons.

• You can choose which rarity bonus tier you want to change and let the Salvage Matrix randomly alter it to one of the other options available for that tier.
• You can do this as frequently as you want, but once a rarity bonus has been changed, that’s the only tier of bonus that can be changed on that weapon.
• A small lock icon will appear next to the bonus to illustrate that.

All weapons are capable of having their bonuses reroll and the new bonus will respect the type of bonuses that are currently on the weapon.

• Weapons created before the new rarity bonus system came into play in February will continue to receive bonuses from the older system, including the ability to have duplicate bonuses on a weapon.
• Newer weapons will continue to use the newer system, receiving higher bonuses but they are only able to have a single bonus of each type on the weapon.

This works very similarly to upgrading a weapon and receiving a new rarity bonus.

• When rerolling a bonus, any existing bonus types that are already on the weapon and of a higher rarity tier (and thus would be more powerful) are excluded from the possibilities.
• After the new bonus is determined, if there is an existing bonus of the same type at a lower rarity tier, it will be changed to a bonus type that isn’t already on the weapon. 

When rerolling a rarity bonus,

• the Salvage Matrix will not allow the newly chosen bonus to be the same one that is currently already on the weapon and being rerolled.
• Any bonuses that may have been on the weapon previously are fair game.

Using the Salvage Matrix, you can also choose to reset the weapon back to its original state.

• This will return it to the bonuses it had before any changes were made
• and will also reset the rarity tier lock so you can then choose to alter a different rarity bonus tier.

Supreme Items

A new rarity tier is being introduced to Defiance: Supreme, or the gold tier. Supreme tier items are special, rare items first being introduced into top tier expeditions where the bosses have a chance to award them when killed. 

• You can also upgrade legendary weapons to supreme and the Salvage Matrix has gained the ability to upgrade even encrypted legendary items to the supreme tier.
• Unlike normal upgrades, upgrading an encrypted item is not guaranteed.
• The Salvage Matrix will display the chance to upgrade when choosing the upgrade rarity option.
• This chance can be increased using additional Arkforge.

Weapons and shields

• can still only be upgraded a single rarity tier,
• so just as only epic tier items can be upgraded to legendary, only items that began as legendary can be upgraded to supreme.
• An item that is not eligible for the encrypted upgrade because it has already been upgraded previously will display a red encryption icon.

When upgraded to supreme,

• most weapons will gain an additional, random bonus roll in the new supreme rarity tier bonus slot similar to how other rarity upgrades work.
• Special named weapons with fixed stats, though, work a little differently. When these are upgraded, they transform into a version of the weapon that is optimized for supreme rather than legendary. This means most of the rarity bonuses will increase one tier (e.g. the legendary bonus increases and becomes the supreme one) while a new, common bonus is added to the weapon.

All named, fixed-stat supreme weapons use the new rarity bonus system introduced in February.

• You can upgrade old named weapons that were created before that to supreme, but doing so will result in a weapon designed under the updated system.
• To make it easy to determine when this will happen, older named weapons now carry an ‘Mk I’ designator on their name and upgrading them will result in an ‘Mk II’ supreme version of the weapon.

New Threats

With these new options, new threats have arrived in Silicon Valley. Exercise extreme caution, ark hunters, for these lifeforms exhibit alarming parasitic characteristics.