rarity What is the best/most useful rare?

[rangerklypf 140]

With a rare bone you can slap on extra 💰 value 💰 instantly onto a tool/weapon with insanely high enchants or create a widely appreciated huge axe for legendary slaying/PvP clout. But what is widely regarded as the best/most effective rare? What about the most valuable rare? This took a stupid amount of time to make while I was grinding a skill I don't really need. I couldn't find a thread anywhere like this. Thanks in advance for any input!

 

Most Useful:

• 👒 Plate helmets for extra face protection vs arrows in PvP or just in general
• ⛵ Boats for shadow passenger movement speed increase, less decay off deed
• 🔥 Forges/Ovens heat up faster and stay lit longer
• ⚔️ Weapons/Armor/Tools, especially tools used often such as pickaxe, hatchet, rake, multi-purpose tools like sickle
• 🔪 Butchering knives to ensure top quality materials from uniques
• 🏰 Guard Tower offers +1 guard per level of rarity up to a total of 6
• 🐴 Horseshoes gain 0.48/0.96/1.44 km/h bonus speed boost per shoe, which can lead to incredible speed with multiple rare shoes
• 🌙 Moonmetal items to drastically increase their already high value and likely reduce damage
   

Least Useful:

• Toolbelts which give an extra slot up to 10 total slots, because a 90ql toolbelt isn't that hard to find anyway and who needs that many slots in one loadout
• 🚙 Non-boat vehicles because most often they are left on-deed permanently, won't decay anyway, no shadow passenger bonus
• 🏹 Arrows or other items that will often break after just a few uses, or become easily lost
• 🏹 Bowstring will lose rarity when attached to a bow

 

Total known effects of rarity, according to the wiki:

• Rare items shimmer with a silver effect, supreme items shimmer with a blue effect, fantastic items shimmer with a gold effect
• 🎽 Armor (+3%/6%/9% damage mitigation + unknown speculated glance bonus)
• ⚔️ Weapons (10%/30%/50% higher critical strike chance than normal, i.e. huge axe has 1% chance normally, rare huge axe has 1.3% chance to critically hit)
• 🛠️ Tools (5x/10x/15x slower enchant decay and imbue power decay, ~10%/19%/??% reduced damage from use, 0.1/0.2/0.3 second faster action timer)
• ⛏️ Gathering tools bestow higher QL materials than your skill would otherwise allow
• ⛵ Boats (1 extra shadow passenger which increases ship speed per level of rarity)
• 🏰 Guard Tower offers +1 guard per level of rarity up to a total of 5
• 🐴 Horseshoes gain 0.48/0.96/1.44 km/h bonus speed boost per shoe, which can lead to incredible speed with multiple rare shoes
• 🔒 Lockpicks grant bonuses to lockpicking chance and reduce break chance
• 🐟 Fishing rods grant better chances to catch unique fish
• 🚔 Traps, War machines do more damage
• 🧰 Locked containers including vehicles are harder to pick
• 🔥 Heating containers like forge, oven, kiln, smelter, etc heat up faster, stay lit longer
• 🔪 Butchering knife increases material yield and quality from butchering corpses
• 🏹 Arrows hit more often and deal more damage
• 🍲 Food provides higher nutrition

 

Speculated effects of rarity:

• 🍳 Cooking containers heat themselves and their contents faster (frying pan, pottery bowl, etc)
• 🐟 Fish are heavier
• 🚙 Large carts move faster
• ⛪ Altars provide a greater domain and somehow affect alignment during sermons
• 🏥 Healing items heal more, like cotton, healing cover, farmer's salve
• 🆘 Signs allow extra characters
• 💎 Gems store more favor
• 🍻 Alcoholic drinks are more potent
• ☀️ Yoyos and puppets succeed more often

 

Rare/Supreme/Fantastic bones provide players with the ability to transfer the bone's rarity to a completed item within the player's inventory. Note that this excludes transferring rarity to items outside your inventory such as forge-like containers, guard towers, colossi, wells/fountains, statues, etc.

 

Have a useless rare like an herb or branch, something that has virtually no use whatsoever? Sacrifice it!
Sacrifice a full weight rare item for 99% food, water, nutrition.

• Sacrificing an item like clay or a log that you used to improve something or create something that didn't use the entire clay/log will NOT grant the sacrifice bonus. The clay/log would have to be 2 kg or 24 kg, or its maximum possible weight.
• Best used AFTER taking a bite of CCFP food so you won't accidentally lose nutrition.
• Requires at least 15 Faith to any god to sacrifice something and an altar to sacrifice the item in.

Supreme/Fantastic items sacrificed at their maximum weight will provide 99% food/nutrition/water and also a very small skillgain tick for a random skill, with fantastic items giving a slightly larger tick.

 

The majority of the statistics came from the Wurmpedia page on rarity functionality, the related "Talk" page, and some information came from my aging, worthless, personal brain databanks.

Edited May 30, 2022 by rangerklypf
added info users posted

[Archaed 2,280]

Imo weapons, horse shoes and armour are the only ones that are truly worth it. 

 

How much time did finding all the emoji take haha 

[rangerklypf 140]

6 minutes ago, Archaed said:

How much time did finding all the emoji take haha 

I had this draft open in a tab for about a week, I got half of it done in a day and refused to just exit out. Now I can rest easy without any browser windows open at all 😛

[Vessel 52]

I feel like rare gathering tools(butchering knife is a gathering tool too) are a must-have for everybody pretty much. Everything else is convenience.

[Skatyna 432]

Horse shoes are easy to spam rare upon creation. Same with weapons (non moonmetal), can spam rare weapon heads on creation. Most useful rares are scale armour pieces (or hide if you never gonna get scale).  You wont be able to spam create them, so using a bone is one of a few ways to get them. Permanent damage mitigation is best imo. Rare moonmetal weapons are nice to have, but pretty useless, as lets be honest - 1% or 1.3% critical damage is the same. Most tools you can also spam create rare, so irrelevant. 

[Zachariah 736]

I hold dear all my rare harvest tools that are rare with full imbues. Like my hatchet and pickaxe. However, my favorite rare item I have is my supreme white drake chest plate. I turned it supreme with a supreme bone I found while digging at a friends deed. Best claim to fame among my alliance friends to this date. 

[Pandalet 1,848]

Note that you can only use a bone on something you can pick up and hold in inventory, so no boats or carts, etc.  It also has to be a finished item.

[Homestead 324]

Great list. Thank you for your work. Much appreciated.

[Sidereal 1,118]

One should never overlook the usefulness and the sheer utility of the rare potato.  Extraordinarily versatile.  🥔

[joedobo 1,187]

Protected loss of imbue power/enchant power.  For me, a supreme is required for an imbued item.

[rangerklypf 140]

On 5/28/2022 at 11:10 AM, Pandalet said:

Note that you can only use a bone on something you can pick up and hold in inventory, so no boats or carts, etc.  It also has to be a finished item.

I did not know this! I will add to the post. 

I had always assumed you could use it on a colossus, guard tower, vehicle, forge, etc