What does Item Quality mean

[AnsonMyPants]

I keep getting items with an item qaulity of 10% - 20% but i dont know what this means. And how do i chose an item with a quality over one that does not?

[Jason Wang Dang ✅]

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Quality

Item quality makes barely any difference on low level weapons/armors. Finding items that has hitpoints, all resistance, and movement speed is more important. You don't really need to worry about item quality until you start getting high level weapons/armors.

However, if the item quality is on a gem, storage and sell to other players later.

[AnsonMyPants]

thank you for the info

[Greetings]

Use google.

[Loco]

Or with gems, save up 40% quality total and sell them for a Gemcutter's Prism.

[Doom]

Item quality boosts the stats of certain items, it is completely irrelevant on low level gear though.

One thing you can do with these items is, collect them until the total amount of quality reaches 40% and then vendor them.

40% weapon quality = blacksmith whetstone
40% armor quality = armor scrap
40% flask quality = glassblower baubble
40% gem quality = gemcutter prism