Chip

This article is about Weapon upgrades. For Artifact upgrades, see Rune. For Weapon upgrade slots, see Socket.

Bio-organic chips are used to upgrade Artifacts. Unlike Runes, they give bonuses that scale with the player's attributes.

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A preview of an epic Execute chip.

Acquisition

Chips can be crafted with Weaponsmithing and exchanged between players.

Attributes

Chips are divided into two categories: Advanced Chips which give higher, unique bonuses; and Standard Chips which give Stat boosts. Socket Bonuses can improve an artifact's stats by using the correct chip.

Advanced Chips

Advanced chips give system-unique bonuses the artifact it's attached to. Every weapon has one advanced chip Socket.
Advanced chips have a limited number of charges. One charge is lost for each use of the advanced chip's bonus. Charges need to be periodically refilled in the inlay panel.
Crafted advanced chips have additional effects if higher-quality advanced chips were used to craft them.

Standard Chips

Standard chips give bonuses to the artifact's stats.
Artifacts have more standard chip sockets if they were crafted using higher-quality artifacts.

Socket Bonuses

See: [[Socket Bonuses]]

Socket Bonuses are applied when a chip's mark (icon) matches the mark in its socket.
Socket bonuses for advanced chips are much greater than the socket bonuses for standard chips.

Marks

See: [[Socket]]

A chip's mark gives a general idea of its effects. If a chip's mark matches the mark of its socket, a Socket Bonus is applied. A chip's icon shows its mark. The mark icons are random and unrelated to the stats they increase.
A gallery of mark icons on chips is below:

• Mark Attack Speed.jpg
• Mark Crossed-Swords.jpg
• Mark Haste.jpg