A few noob questions about items/salvaging

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Hey, gang. Just got the game last night and I'm absolutely loving it!
I really like playing the Dwarf ranger, and am having a blast with the shield. I have a few questions, if you guys don't mind.

1. Are there upgrades to the shield/one hander? Do I have to just wait until I randomly get one as loot, or should I upgrade the basic one?
2. Is it a good idea to start salvaging the items I'm not going to use and gather up resources, or just horde the items?
3. Any crafting tips that a beginner should know?

Thanks so much for the information and I hope to see you on those darkened streets, killing legions of rat folk.

[Free Luigi M.]

1. You can upgrade items of a certain color to a better color-tier. You open the forge (shortcut: F) and in the very first panel there is a circle with 5 slots. It is used to fuse 5 items together to create a new, better one. However if you do not have the items you can put in "tokens" (the colored stones). If you want to upgrade a white item to a green version of that same item you will need lots of white tokens, green tokens for a gree items to a blue one, and so on. Except red items. Those are "uniques" and can only be obtained as loot.
To do this just put the item of your choice in one of the five slots, leave the others empty and then press the button below.

2. If you have an useful way to spend those resources (upgrading your item of choice to a better tier), then salvage away. Generally, keep an item of each type at least. Even for characters you do not plan to play. They will eventually be useful. Your bots will have the equipment you give them too.

3. Can't really say. I used to play this game when crafting wasn't even a thing. I like my loot dropped in game. Recently I came back to this game but haven't crafted almost anything since I already had all my stuff.
I would just salvage what you do not need beyond the 1 item per type and then use the tokens to upgrade each one of those items. After you have all orange gear, I would worry about rerolling the traits on the Shrine.

[AsuraTheDrunk]

Item levels go White/Green/Blue/Orange/Red. Every item has one iteration at each level, your ultimate goal is to get the orange version of whatever weapons you want.

Outside of finding higher level gear, the main way to gain upgrade is to use Fuse in the forge, put up to five items on the same level to get one item of the level above. The item you get from fusing is based on what you put into it. Put in 1 shield/hammer and 4 handguns, you'll have 1/5 for the shield but 4/5 of getting handgun, using 5 of the same type obviously gurantees a result. You can fill empty slots with tokens(the main reason to salvage low tier gear) so that you dont need 5 of the same item.

As for general tips, dont be forget to unlock traits on your weapons, they can make a big difference in your combat ability.

[Lord Stuffington]

Most important thing about the forge: If you put up to 5 items in the fuse window, you'll get one new item of the next higher rarity with the item type being choosen at random of what you threw in. That means if you have 5 green shields, you could make a blue shield. Or you have 2 shields and 2 guns, you get 50/50 a better shield or gun. Open slots require upgrade tokens as filling so I'd suggest to focus your intention on 1-3 characters and salave everything from the others. It realy speeds up the whole thing.

Later on, I'd keep at least one weapon of each type for each character.

You probably should keep your beginner weapon and see that you get a new one from the loot table but if you are unlucky, you can still upgrade it. Fusing a weapon to the next rarity by itself, i.e. filling 4 fuse slots with upgrade tokens, gets realy expensive though.

If you don't care what you get for your character, throw in al of your old weapons and you are guaranteed to get one of them back. Just check for the same rarity level.

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Thank you guys for the info!

[Papa Stahl]

Also very important: Fusing is a ♥♥♥♥♥!

As a fairly new player (around lvl 30) im starting to collect orange items. Didnt have something special so far for the Waywatcher so i decided to Fuse 3x 1H-Swords and a 1x Sword+Dagger since i did like both weaponsetups. Since i got greedy and didnt have enough tokens to fuse i threw in 1x doubledaggers...guess what i got ...>.<

[Stainless Steel Rat]

Originally posted by Papa Stahl:

Also very important: Fusing is a ♥♥♥♥♥!

Since i got greedy and didnt have enough tokens to fuse i threw in 1x doubledaggers...guess what i got ...>.<

I am laughing in to my at this! Irony.... We have all been that soldier.

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Originally posted by Papa Stahl:

Also very important: Fusing is a ♥♥♥♥♥!

As a fairly new player (around lvl 30) im starting to collect orange items. Didnt have something special so far for the Waywatcher so i decided to Fuse 3x 1H-Swords and a 1x Sword+Dagger since i did like both weaponsetups. Since i got greedy and didnt have enough tokens to fuse i threw in 1x doubledaggers...guess what i got ...>.<

And here I thought the rats were the biggest thing to fear.