Starfield:Unique Weapon Tiers

Starfield have four Weapon tier levels: Common, Calibrated, Refined and Advanced (in ascending order) Only armor sets go up to Superior tier. The higher the tier, the better the damage of the weapon. Some weapons in Starfield only have three tier levels available or none at all.

How Do Unique Weapons Scale in Starfield?

• Unique weapons in Starfield scale in damage depending on their weapon tier level: Common, Calibrated, Refined or Advanced. Note that superior weapons do not exist, only armor sets can reach superior quality.

• A Unique weapons tier level is not displayed visually: For example, a ‘Advanced Revenant’ will still be called a ‘Revenant’ even though it does more damage than the common version of the Revenant.

• The tier level of a unique weapon depends on your character level but is not guaranteed. For example, at level 60+ you have a higher chance of getting advanced unique weapons, but you can also still get common or calibrated ones too.

• Unique weapons that you can buy from Vendors will have preset tier levels when you start the game. This means that they will all be common tier with the lowest base damage on your first playthrough. However once you enter New Game Plus the weapons will be given a new tier depending on your level. So, if you enter New Game Plus at level 60+ most of these unique weapons will be a higher tier and therefore deal more damage.

• Unique weapons that you find in the environment will be assigned a tier level once you first load the cell that the unique weaon exists in. For example Jake's Hangover Cure is located in The Well of New Atlantis. If you first enter the Well at level 60+, theirs a chance that Jake’s Hangover Cure could spawn with a higher weapon tier level.

• Unique weapons that spawn as quest rewards require some more testing.

• Once you obtain or encounter a unique weapon in Starfield it will be fixed at the tier level it was when you first found it. It will not scale with/to your character level even if you come back later at a higher level. The only way to obtain a higher tier level of a unique weapon after already finding it is to enter new game plus. Beyond NG+ there is currently no in game mechanic to improve a weapons tier level outside of 3rd party mods or console commands.