Infinity symbol vs upgrade

[Jordan_Peterson]

So some items have the infinity symbol on it, mostly things that come with your zen ship.
I am curious what difference it makes if you let it that way!?
Cause when I put them in the "upgrading" windows to upgrade them, they turn into XII's.
Does that change them in some sort for the better or worse or not?

[ImperatorPavel]

Mark infinity items stop scaling at Mark 10 or something along those lines iirc.

Upgrading them just makes them mark XII. Some universal consoles cannot be upgraded (all universals used to have the mark infinity symbol by default).

[Jordan_Peterson]

Yeah but thats not my question, isnt it?
Might be a silly question but I want to know if it makes ANY difference it I leave an item with the "infinity" symbol" or turn them into mark XII ?

[ImperatorPavel]

Originally posted by Ramona:

Yeah but thats not my question, isnt it?
Might be a silly question but I want to know if it makes ANY difference it I leave an item with the "infinity" symbol" or turn them into mark XII ?

hmm... fair enough.

The difference upgrading an item would make is dependent on your build of course.

If we look at these two screenshots I just took, I gain roughly 30 damage (and roughly 30 DPS - even though item tooltips are cruddy for telling you what the item actually really does in terms of DPS - but it's the in-game numbers).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244453837

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244453931

Ship I'm using for this doesn't have any tactical consoles equipped, because space magic. But by upgrading from infinity to XII I do gain slightly more damage.

Infinity itself means the item is level-scaling up to mark X. Unfortunate that there's no mark 10 phaser quad cannons to compare them to.

You won't be able to equip a mark infinity Quad Phaser Cannon along with a mark XII Quad Phaser Cannon though.

Does that better answer the question?

[Jordan_Peterson]

Originally posted by =(eGO)= ImperatorPavel:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244453837

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244453931

But by upgrading from infinity to XII I do gain slightly more damage.

Does that better answer the question?

Yes! Now it does!

Thanks

[Maj_Cyric]

Infinity symbol on an item is called an "Tier Infinity" it scales to whatever level the character is up to level 50 and doesn't have Minimum level to use... Once it turns into a Mk level it gets a Minimum level requirement to use..

If it binds to your character it's best to turn it into a Mk XII (used to be Mk X back before level cap was bumped to L65)... If it doesn't and you plan to use it with a low level toon, then it isn't..

[Chris Solomon]

my Epic quads are the bomb.... they have [DMG]x5