Item naming + tiers
A quick reference for staff who paste chest logs, configure war-role loadouts, or wonder why Master's Knight Armor + Elder's Knight Armor show up as the same row in the Pick Checker.
Tier math: base tier + enchant = sum tier
Albion items live at a base tier (T1-T8) with an optional enchant (+1, +2, +3, +4). The on-screen effective tier — what matters for stats — is the sum tier:
sum tier = base tier + enchantSo a T6 Knight Armor +2 has sum tier 8 — identical in combat to a T8 Knight Armor +0. The game renders both as the same item with the same stats.
AO Master's pick list + Pick Checker treat sum tier as canonical for matching:
| Pick list says | Chest log entry | Match? |
|---|---|---|
T8 Knight Armor | T6 Knight Armor +2 (sum=8) | ✅ Match |
T8 Knight Armor | T7 Knight Armor +1 (sum=8) | ✅ Match |
T8 Knight Armor | T8 Knight Armor +0 (sum=8) | ✅ Match |
T8 Knight Armor | T7 Knight Armor +0 (sum=7) | ❌ Under-tier |
Tier badges in the UI
| Sum tier | Badge |
|---|---|
| 1-8 | T1 … T8 |
| 9 | shown as T8 +1 |
| 10 | T8 +2 |
| 11 | T8 +3 |
| 12 | T8 +4 |
The system never shows decimal tiers like T8.1 — sum tiers 9-12 always render with the explicit +enchant suffix.
Tier-quality prefix per locale
Albion's localised item names include a tier-quality prefix that varies by tier (and by locale). In English:
| Sum tier | Prefix |
|---|---|
| 4 | Adept's |
| 5 | Expert's |
| 6 | Master's |
| 7 | Grandmaster's |
| 8 | Elder's |
Other locales have different prefixes (suffixes in some — French / Italian put them after the item name, Japanese wraps them in parentheses, etc.). The Pick Checker strips these markers per-locale before matching so a chest log in any of Albion's 14 supported languages resolves correctly.
14 supported Albion locales + Thai
AO Master supports item-name resolution for the 14 locales Albion officially supports: EN-US, DE-DE, ES-ES, FR-FR, IT-IT, PL-PL, PT-BR, RU-RU, ZH-CN, ZH-TW, JA-JP, KO-KR, ID-ID, TR-TR.
Thai is supported as a 15th UI locale on the AO Master web app, but item names fall back to English in Thai mode because Albion doesn't ship a Thai client.
Internal-name structure
When you see T8_2H_HALBERD@2 in an export, the parts are:
T8— base tier 8.2H_HALBERD— the item family (two-handed halberd).@2— enchant +2 (so sum tier = 8 + 2 = 10).
Most members never see these — they appear in chest log exports, the Pick Checker's "Wrong item" detail row when a resolve fails, or in screenshots of debug views.
Item images
The item icons used throughout AO Master come from Albion's official item-render service. The image URL is computed from the item's name + sum tier + slot, so the same item at different tiers shows different visual variants when applicable.
Cross-links
- Item Price + market data — uses these conventions to fetch silver prices.
- Item mode — Pick Checker — the chest-log paste tool that uses tier matching.
Last reviewed
Distilled from the internal docs/ITEM_NAMING.md design doc on 2026-05-24 against commit ca1b39b2.