Item Properties

Item Properties are descriptors that outline general information about and benefits bestowed by the various items in the game. With the Age of Shadows expansion, the list of possible properties was modified and greatly increased. Expansions like Stygian Abyss and event items like Epiphany Armor Set added more properties to this list.

Properties

The following properties can be found on items that are looted from other creatures, crafted by using a runic tool or imbued onto items:

Table Key

• Intensity Range - The allowable range on common items for that intensity. Artifacts and other special items may break this rule.
• Type - The method in which the property works.
  • Hit - Activated when an animal, monster, or player is hit.
  • Permanent - Always affects the item, whether the item is equipped or not.
  • Persistent - Activated when the item is equipped.
• Found On - The allowable items the property can be found on. Five categories listed below are armors, jewelry, shields, spellbooks and weapons. Artifacts and other special items may break this rule.

Property Name	Intensity Range	Type	Found On
Cold Resist	1 - 15%	Persistent
Damage Increase	1 - 25/50%	Hit
Defense Chance Increase	1 - 15%	Persistent
Dexterity Bonus	1 - 8	Persistent
Durability	1 - 255	Permanent
Energy Resist	1 - 15%	Persistent
Enhance Potions	5 - 25%	Persistent
Faster Cast Recovery	1 - 3	Persistent
Faster Casting	1	Persistent
Fire Resist	1 - 15%	Persistent
Hit Cold Area	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Energy Area	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Fire Area	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Physical Area	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Poison Area	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Chance Increase	1 - 15%	Persistent
Hit Curse	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Dispel	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Fatigue	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Fireball	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Harm	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Life Leech	2 - 100%	Hit
Hit Lightning	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Lower Attack	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Lower Defense	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Mana Drain	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Mana Leech	2 - 100%	Hit
Hit Point Increase	1 - 5	Persistent
Hit Point Regeneration	1 - 2	Persistent
Property Name	Intensity Range	Type	Found On
Hit Stamina Leech	2 - 50%	Hit
Hit Point Increase	1 - 5	Persistent
Intelligence Bonus	1 - 8	Persistent
Lower Mana Cost	1 - 15%	Persistent
Lower Reagent Cost	1 - 20%	Persistent
Lower Requirements	10 - 100%	Persistent
Luck	1 - 100	Persistent
Mage Armor	-	Persistent
Mage Weapon	(-20) - (-29)	Persistent
Mana Increase	1 - 8	Persistent
Mana Regeneration	1 - 2 (3 sb)	Persistent
Night Sight	-	Persistent
Physical Resist	1 - 15%	Persistent
Poison Resist	1 - 15%	Persistent
Reflect Physical Damage	1 - 15%	Hit
Self Repair	1 - 5	Permanent
Slayer	-	Hit
Skill Bonus	1 - 15	Persistent
Spell Channeling	-	Persistent
Spell Damage Increase	1 - 12%	Persistent
Stamina Increase	1 - 8	Persistent
Stamina Regeneration	1 - 3	Persistent
Strength Bonus	1 - 8	Persistent
Strength Requirement	10 - 95	Permanent
Swing Speed Increase	5 - 30%	Persistent
Use Best Weapon Skill	-	Persistent
Weight	1 - X	Permanent
Property Name	Intensity Range	Type
			Found On

Stygian Abyss Item Properties

Largely restricted to members of the Gargoyle race, the Stygian Abyss expansion included the following properties only to the special Artifacts:

Property Name	Intensity Range	Type	Found On (only on Artifacts)
Blood Drinker	-	Hit
Battle Lust	-	Hit
Casting Focus	2 - 4%	Hit
Damage Eater	5 - 20%	Hit
Reactive Paralyze	-	Hit
Resonance	10 - 20%	Hit
Soul Charge	10 - 20%	Hit
Splintering Weapon	20%	Persistent

Special Item Properties

Property Name	Intensity Range	Type	Description
Artifact Rarity	0 - 12	Permanent	Found on some of the Doom artifacts, event items and all of the stealable artifacts.
Balanced	-	Persistent	Found only on Archery Weapons.
Blessed	-	Permanent	It can be found on almost any item.
Brittle	-	Permanent	Items with this property cannot be fortified. Found on Surge Shield and Mana Phasing Orb.
Cursed	-	Permanent	It can be found on some event items and Power Scrolls.
Damage Modifier	-	Persistent	Found only on quivers.
Elves Only	-	Permanent	Found on most of the items introduced with the Ultima Online: Mondain's Legacy.
Exceptional	-	Permanent	Found on exceptionally crafted items.
Gargoyles Only	-	Permanent	Found on most of the items introduced with the Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss.
Increased Karma Loss	-	Persistent	Found on Cast-Off Zombie Skin, Cloak of Corruption and Ossian Grimoire.
Insured	-	Permanent	Found on insured items.
Lifespan	time varying	Permanent	Found on Peerless keys and some of the quest items.
Locked Down	-	Permanent	Found on items that are locked inside a house.
Locked Down & Secure	-	Permanent	Found on items that are locked and secured.
Lower Ammo Cost	15 - 20	Persistent	Found on Quiver of Infinity and Runed Driftwood Bow.
Mana Burst	1 - 5	Permanent	Found on Epiphany Armor Set pieces.
Mana Phase	-	Permanent	Found only on Mana Phasing Orb.
No-Drop	-	Permanent	Found on some of the quest items.
No-Trade	-	Permanent	Found on some of the quest items.
One-Handed Weapon	-	Permanent	Found on weapons.
Owned By	-	Permanent	Found on talismans or player-blessed items.
Two-Handed Weapon	-	Permanent	Found on weapons.
Velocity	2 - 50%	Persistent	Found on Archery Weapons.
Weight Reduction	-	Permanent	Found on quivers.

Item Properties Pre-AoS

The original item property system lasted for over 5 years and consisted of only 5 item properties. Prior to Ultima Online: Age of Shadows, the item properties were:

• Durability
• Damage Increase
• Newbified
• Battle Tactics Skill Bonus
• Armor Resistance Increase
• Hit Spell

While there were many different types of hit spell, a weapon could only have one, so it is counted here as a single property.

Armor

A piece of armor had up to three properties:

1. Armor Resistance Increase: (Defense, Guardian, Hardening, Fortification and Invulnerability);
2. Durability: (Durable, Substantial, Massive, Fortified and Indestructible);
3. Blessed or Cursed.

Example: "Indestructible Platemail Helm of Invulnerability with Weaken spell"

Weapons

As for weapons there were five properties.

1. Damage Increase (Ruin, Might, Force, Power, and Vanquishing);
2. Weapon Skill Bonus (Accurate, Surpassingly Accurate, Eminently Accurate, Exceedingly Accurate and Supremely Accurate);
3. Durability
4. Slayer; and
5. Hit Spell.

Notes on Original System

• Some spells that were available on weapons prior to the Age of Shadows are not available now, Clumsy, Weaken, Feeblemind, Mana Drain, and Curse.
• An item to note is how little the Damage Increase property affected the weapon damage output under the old system. Vanquishing added only 9 points of damage to the total. If a Heavy Crossbow can do up to 56 points of damage before resistances are taken into account, then the Vanquishing property only increases the crossbow damage output 14% to 65, which is a far cry from the 100% that is possible today.
• Prior to the introduction of runics, the best items could only be acquired by looting monsters.

See Also

• Items