History Main / ColorCodedItemTiers

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' has five different tiers for collectibles, materials, and equipment: gray (Common), blue (Rare), green (Unique), yellow (Prime), and orange (Intergalactic). Quality of materials reflect the strength of the enemy (early-game enemies like Grexes mainly drop Common-quality items, while late-game enemies like Seidrs mainly drop Unique-quality items), while the quality of collectibles and ores reflect their rarity. For equipment, quality reflects how many built-in skills they have. Common have none, rare has one, unique has two, and prime has three. Intergalactic-quality gear is exclusive to Skell equipment, and equipment of this tier has higher stats than lower-tier versions.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' ignores the precedent set by ''X'' for a simplified three-tier system: common items are dark gray, rare items are red, and legendary items are gold.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' [[RunningGag ignores the precedent set by]] ''2'', making common items white, rare items yellow, and legendary items purple.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' started color-coding the cards' expansion symbol by rarity with the ''Exodus'' set. Black means Common (or Basic Land), silver means Uncommon, gold means Rare, copper-red means Mythic Rare.

** The first game's division between standard (white) items, enchanted (blue) ones and uniques (gold), may be considered an UrExample. The sequels add the green "set" category, where items from the same set are more powerful when used together, and yellow for a more powerful tier of "randomly enhanced" blue items.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' uses color tiers only for magical enhancements. The tiers are white for mundane items, blue for basic magic items with 1 or 2 bonuses, mauve for 1-bonus-only "rare" magic items, yellow for "legendary" items with up to 2 bonuses, and reddish-brown for items that give a debuff. Nature magic spells get green, and combat magic spells get orange-gold. The ''Legends of Aranna'' expansion adds purple for items imbued with a spell, and a teal-green for Diablo-style set items.

* ''VideoGame/DisneyHeroesBattleMode'' follows the World of Warcraft color scheme pretty closely, organizing all the consumable items into seven tiers based on their rarity: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, and Yellow, in that order. These colors are also applied to the characters themselves, but it's tied to their power level; they ascend to higher tiers the higher you level them up with the right items.