Prefixes | Starfield Wiki


Starfield Weapons and Armor Prefixes are intricately tied to the game's loot and rarity system, Weapons and Armor when looted can come with different prefixes indicative of their quality and rarity. According to our testing, depending on your character's level, the droprate for better quality items increases. This makes it so that at all levels you may find interesting Equipment with several Perks and rarity while scaling with the game's Enemies. Mods add different prefixes according to their effects too.

Starfield Perk Prefixes

Prefixes related to Perks will come first in an Item's name, but they will only reflect the last perk in the list. Following that template if you find a legendary Weapon it will spawn with three different perks and if the last one is “ Furious” its name will start with that perk. There are three different rarities in Starfield, and each is inherently related to the amount of Perks the weapon possesses.
  • Common - Drops with no Perk
  • Rare - Drops with one Perk
  • Epic - Drops with two Perks
  • Legendary - Drops with Three Perks

Quality Prefixes Starfield

Quality prefixes are the main scaling method in the game, providing damage and stat increases across each increment. This mechanic allows for the player to find new and more powerful versions of the same item at different stages in the game. There are 4 qualities present in the game:

  • Common/ No Prefix
  • Calibrated
  • Refined
  • Advanced

 

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All Prefixes In Starfield

All Perk Prefixes
All Mod Prefixes
All Quality Prefixes

 

Name

Type

Effect

Anti-Personnel

 Weapon Perk +10% Damage against humans.

One Inch Punch 

 Weapon Perk  Gives the bullets shotgun-like spread.
 

Bashing

 Weapon Perk Deals double damage when gun bashing.

Berserker

 Weapon Perk Does more damage the less armor one has

Concussive

 Weapon Perk Small chance to knock down targets

Demoralizing

 		 Weapon Perk Small chance to demoralize a target.

Disassembler

 Weapon Perk +20% damage against Robots.

Elemental

 Weapon Perk Randomly deals Corrosive, Radiation, Poison, and Incendiary damage.

Explosive

 Weapon Perk Randomly switches to explosive rounds

Exterminator

 Weapon Perk +30% Damage against Aliens

Furious

 Weapon Perk Each consecutive hit deals more damage.

Hitman

 Weapon Perk +15% Damage while aiming.

Incendiary

 Weapon Perk Randomly deals incendiary damage.

Instigating

 Weapon Perk Deals double damage to targets with full health.

Lacerate

 Weapon Perk Randomly applies a bleed effect to the target.

Radioactive

 Weapon Perk Randomly deals radioactive damage and demoralizes the target.

Rapid

 Weapon Perk +25% increase in attack speed.

Rapid

 Weapon Perk +25% Increase in attack speed.

Shattering

 Weapon Perk Break through even the strongest armor.

Tesla

 Weapon Perk Round will sometimes emit electricity where they land that damages and slows nearby targets

Cornered

 Weapon Perk Damage increases as health decreases.

Extended Magazine

 Weapon Perk Doubles the base magazine capacity

Frenzy

 Weapon Perk Small chance to frenzy a target.

Handloading

 Weapon Perk Volatile rounds that are designed to pack a bigger punch, but aren't as stable and can fail on occassion.

Poison

 Weapon Perk Randomly deals poison damage and slows the target.

Skip Shot

 Weapon Perk Every fourth shot fires two projectiles at once.

Space-Adept

 Weapon Perk +30% damage while in space, and -15% damage while on a planet.

Titanium Build

 Weapon Perk Premium build materials make this weapon light as a feather

Antiseptic

 Armor Perk +25 Airborne Resistance.

Bolstering

 Armor Perk Grants up to +100 Energy resistance and Physical resistance, the lower your health

Chameleon

 Armor Perk Blend with the environment while sneaking and not moving.

Combat Veteran

 Armor Perk -15% Damage from human enemies

Galvanized

 Armor Perk +25 Corrosive Resistance

Incendiary

 Armor Perk 10% chance to ignite nearby attackers

Leadlined

 Armor Perk +25 Radiation Resistance

Liquid Cooled

 Armor Perk +25 Thermal Resistance

Mechanized

 Armor Perk +40 Carry Capacity

O2 Filter

 Armor Perk -25% Oxygen consumption

Sturdy

 Armor Perk -15% Incoming Melee Damage

Repulsing

 Armor Perk +5% chance to disarm nearby attackers 

Anti-Ballistic

 Armor Perk -15% incoming Physical damage from ranged weapons

Reactive

 Armor Perk +10% chance to stagger nearby attackers

Resource Hauler

 Armor Perk Resources weigh 25% less

 A note about Mod Prefixes, sometimes weapons will ignore the conditions in the table and name them according to some internal logic in the game not currently known.

Name

Condition
 Modified

Has 1–3 Mods.
 Scout

One of the mods is Reflex Sight
 Technophile

Has 4 Mods
Suppressed

One of the mods is a Suppressor
Smugglers

Has 3 Mods.
Converted

Has 4 Mods.
Assassins

Has 4 Mods and one of them is a Suppressor.
Boosted

Has 5 Mods.
Tacticians

Has 5 Mods and one of them is a Tactical Grip or a Tactical Stock
Overcharged

Has 5 Mods and non-ballistics weapon.
Professional

Has 6 Mods and one of them is a Suppressor.
Operator Has 6 Mods
Commander

More than 6 Mods.

Name

Effect

Common

 Standard.

Calibrated

 Better.

Refined

 Even better.

Advanced

 Even more better.

Superior

 Best. Reserved for Pirate Corsair, Ecliptic, Bounty Hunter, and Tracker's Alliance space suits.

 




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