Common, Master, Magic & Relic. Care to explain ?

[DeGorro82]

I already finish the game once, but still cannot explain what are this colors mean.

I have an armor that had 3 slot rune, but category common (no color). But I also acquire a relic armor (yellow) that had no slot at all, and a Magic armor (yellow) who only had 1 rune slot.

I have 2 same armor and both level are same. 1st armor are common had a better defense value than the 2nd armor who are master/blue color.

I have a Master(Blue) Steel Sword that had 3 enchant status (not rune slot), and on the other side, had a Magic (Yellow) steel sword that only had 1 enchant status.

On other game, these can be learn quite simple, but in TW3, I don't understand their meant at all.

Someone care to explain these ? (no guessing answer, I want a fact answer)

[Whoami]

relic top tier, etc.

[Beyuhz]

It's only supposed to indicate quality or rarity. Relics are meant to be special in some way, where as common or master quality/rarity items have less "special-ness?"

When it really comes down to it though, I think some of the white and blue gear have randomly generated stats for their level which can mean that it becomes much more powerful than relics are when your level is much higher than the best relics.

[Locomotive]

Relic>Master>magic>common. That doesn't mean that master is always stronger than common though, but more rare.