Legendary Upgradable (Mythic)

[Gordrenn Higgler]

If I have Upgradable on a legendary magic item and reaches the end of it's upgrade chain (Cloak of Protection +1 ending at +5 for example), is the upgradeable ability just useless after than ?

It seams like it would only be worth putting on weapons/armor and possibly a Ring of Protection +1-5 (to potentially upgrade to a Ring of Splendid Security)to max out the value of taking the trait as after a certain point it doesn't do anything unless you can add new magic item abilities to upgrade.

[Chemlak]

You are correct. Once you've reached the end of an upgrade (for half the price and a tiny fraction of the time!), upgradable stops doing anything.

I'd be really tempted as a GM to allow Major Artifact Legendary Items with Upgradable to be upgraded by one more step (an extra +1 for weapons, armour, rings of protection, etc, +2 for ability score enhancers) for double the "normal" price. But that's a heck of a house rule.

[CookietheFerret]

Would it work if the item already combined abilities from multiple items before legendary?

Such as if you made a ring with the properties of Ring of Protection (upgrade to Ring of Splendid Security) and Ring of Energy Resistance Cold (upgrade to Ring of the Drake - Frost)

[dharkus]

I think I might rule it in my game that you can add whatever you want to it - so far it's never come up, as everyone has either weapon or armour as their item, which you can pretty much keep adding things to until +10 equivalent

[GM Rednal]

@Cookie: For what it's worth, I've always ruled it that anything better than the original item (whether it's an additional enhancement or equivalent, a new power, et cetera) counts as an upgrade for the item. So if you had a ring, for example, it could give you your usual deflection bonus, but also various elemental resistances, a force shield, and other powers you might want. The fact that players generally want other gear eats up their money and helps stop this from being too abused.

[Shadow_Charlatan]

Cohorts and Companions - Intelligent Item Cohorts has a similar ability to upgrade without having the need of feats but it gives a restriction that the item cannot be more than 25% of the character wealth for the level