what do the words like artifact, rare, common, etc mean?
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I'd like to know the meaning for every single different one, please.
They're just different rarities used to categorize items around the site.
The FAQ has a breakdown of item rarities - link to items section
Rarities play a big part on site. Some quest-givers will ask for items within a specific rarity range, some shops will have items of specific rarities, etc! Below are all of our rarities and what they mean.</p>
<p>Rarity - Name: Where items can be found/What they are
1-99 - Restocking Rarities: items that restock in the main shops
105 - Special Shop Items: items found in blackheart hollow, token shop, millionaire center, quest shop, recycle shop, etc
110 - Donation Item: items found in monthly collections or donation presents
115 - Melody Item: items given out by Melody during Luminaire
125 - Cash Shop: items found in cash shop boutique, costume trunks, loyalty shop, neela shop, cash shop chance machines, regular cash shop
130 - Redeemable Wig: generally cash shop wigs that you can redeem and customize the colors to be different than the original wig
150 - Special: things that don&;t fit in the other rarities such as newsletter items, seedling items, etc
155 - Currency: wizard tokens, steamwork trinkets, lounge trinkets, candy hearts, etc
160 - Game Prizes: trivia prize, reading drive prize, plot prize, shinwa prize, tiles prize, achievement prize, scrolls, epicon prize, quest prize, achievement prize, hustler prize, game prize, mage prize, alchemy items
165 - Genetech Combos: the result of mixing items in the Genetech Labs
170 - Battle Loot: Loot items specifically from challengers
175 - Holiday: items given out during holidays or in holiday shops such as Libertine Lounge items, floating items during Fireside, etc
195 - Free Gift: items that have been given out at the Free Gift Center
200 - Custom Clothing: user made wearables
300 - Staff Item: these items are only available to staff! Generally items that haven&;t been released yet, are challenger weapons, testing items, etc.
many of these words are de facto meaningless descriptors there to just provide color. The actual distribution of items on-site does not match strictly with rarity number or the FAQ. An obvious way in which rarity number is irrelevant is some items are price supported and are made artificially more rare so that the site can force people to buy things from other users that they otherwise wouldn't buy at some determined-by-the-site sP price.. Knowing what these words exactly mean may be fun to try to guess, but they won't affect you if you ignore them.
The best way to find out for sure if an item is special in some way is to look it up on the fansite SubetaLodge or in the Item Directory Building (if it is there, not all items are)..
For instance this item is r175 a Holiday Item, but it is available from the Millionaire Center which the table above says should have a rarity of 105 Artefact. also available from the MC is r160. r160 has lots of things it is listed that it could be, but Millionaire Center is not one of them. I picked these randomly from the first line of the MC they are not special examples I cooked up.