Starfield:Weapon Rarity

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In Starfield, the weapon and armor sets have different rarity levels like: Rare, Epic, Legendary. Each of these levels comes with several possible special effects listed in the table below.

These effects are randomised when you find the weapon or armor. You can keep reloading to before you picked up or killed an enemy wielding a legendary weapon or armor set until you get the legendary effects that best match your character build. However, uniquely named weapons always have fixed effects that cannot be altered.

The difficulty you play on will increase your chance of obtaining legendary weapons and armor sets by 0.5% on Hard difficulty and 1% on Very Hard difficulty.

• Common - 0 rarity modifiers

• Rare

  - 1 rarity effect

• Epic

  - 2 rarity effects
• Legendary
  - 3 rarity effects

Rarity Effect

Effect Name	Description
Anti-Personnel	10% damage against humans.
Bashing	Deals double damage when gun bashing.
Berserker	Does more damage the less armor one has.
Cornered	Damage increases as health decreases.
Demoralizing	Small chance to demoralize a target.
Disassembler	+20% damage against robots.
Explosive	Randomly switches to explosive rounds.
Extended Magazine	Doubles the base magazine capacity.
Exterminator	+30% damage against aliens.
Frenzy	Small chance to frenzy a target.
Furious	Each consecutive hit deals more damage.
Hitman	Deals double damage when gun bashing.
Incendiary	+15% damage while aiming.
Instigating	Deals double damage to targets with full health.
Lacerate	Randomly applies a bleed effect to the target.
Med Theft	Chance that humans drop extra Med Packs on death.
Poison	Randomly deals poison damage and slows the target.
Radioactive	Randomly deals radioactive damage and demoralizes the target.
Rapid	+25% increase in attack speed.
Shattering	Break through even the strongest armor.
Space-Adept	+30% damage while in space, and -15% damage while on a planet.
Staggering	Small chance to stagger enemies.
Titanium Build	Premium build materials make this weapon light as a feather.