The alignment of your character can have a big impact on the equipment you can use and will find most effective. Equipment can either reject characters with a particular alignment, or an item can simply be intrinsically evil or good by its very nature. Both types of equipment can be useful, but because of these alignment restrictions it is not possible to wear certain items simultaneously.
The five possible alignment flags for items are:

• ANTIGOOD cannot be used by good aligned characters.
• ANTIEVIL cannot be used by evil aligned characters.
• ANTINEUTRAL cannot be used by neutral aligned characters.
• An EVIL flag marks a piece of equipment as evil.
• An GOOD flag marks a piece of equipment as good.

Alignment on items can be seen by identifying them. The identify spell will show you if any of the five alignment flags are present.

The ANTIGOOD, ANTIEVIL, and ANTINEUTRAL flags indicate that the item cannot be worn by a character with that alignment. If you try to wear an item that conflicts with your alignment, the item will zap you and refuse to be equipped.

The GOOD and EVIL flags are the reverse of this, and serve to give your character a good or evil taint without actually changing your alignment. If you wear something flagged EVIL, any ANTIEVIL equipment you're using will zap you and fall off. The same applies with GOOD flagged equipment, which cannot be worn at the same time as ANTIGOOD equipment.

Note that a neutral aligned character can use a large variety of eq, including ANTIGOOD and ANTIEVIL equipment at the same time, so long that character doesn't wear any pieces flagged GOOD or EVIL. Example:

Suppose you are wearing several things that are ANTIGOOD and a few pieces that are ANTIEVIL. If you equip a new item that is flagged ANTIGOOD EVIL, all of your ANTIEVIL equipment will zap you and fall off.

There are two types of level restrictions on equipment: either primary level based (for example requiring your highest level to be 30 or greater), or total level based (for example requiring your total number of levels to be 85 or greater.)

In total, there are four class restriction flags, for the four fundamental classes: MAGE, CLERIC, THIEF, and WARRIOR. These class restriction flags have different effects based on whether an item requires primary or total levels.

Class restrictions are straightforward for primary level equipment: for each restricted class flag, you must be at least that level in the restricted class. On most items, you would only see one restricted class flag, but for some items there may be more than one. Good examples of this are druid class equipment, which is often restricted to both CLERIC and WARRIOR classes.

Example 1:

An item is flagged as level 25 MAGE only. To wear it, your mage class must be at least level 25. A level 30 warrior with a mage class at level 24 could not use the item.

Example 2:

An item is flagged as level 20 CLERIC WARRIOR. To wear it, your cleric and warrior classes must both be at least level 20. A level 30 warrior with a cleric class at level 19 could not use the item.


For total level equipment, the situation is more complicated. The total level requirement is still there, but there are additional per-class requirements as well. Based on the total level requirement, you can figure out the per-class requirement by using the following table:

• Total 10 to 11 requires class level 3
• Total 12 to 14 requires class level 4
• Total 15 to 17 requires class level 5
• Total 18 to 20 requires class level 6
• Total 21 to 23 requires class level 7
• Total 24 to 26 requires class level 8
• Total 27 to 29 requires class level 9
• Total 30 to 32 requires class level 10
• Total 33 to 35 requires class level 11
• Total 36 to 38 requires class level 12
• Total 39 to 41 requires class level 13
• Total 42 to 44 requires class level 14
• Total 45 to 47 requires class level 15
• Total 48 to 50 requires class level 16
• Total 51 to 53 requires class level 17
• Total 54 to 56 requires class level 18
• Total 57 to 59 requires class level 19
• Total 60 to 62 requires class level 20
• Total 63 to 65 requires class level 21
• Total 66 to 68 requires class level 22
• Total 69 to 71 requires class level 23
• Total 72 to 74 requires class level 24
• Total 75 to 77 requires class level 25
• Total 78 to 80 requires class level 26
• Total 81 to 83 requires class level 27
• Total 84 to 86 requires class level 28
• Total 87 to 89 requires class level 29
• Total 90 to 99 requires class level 30
• Total 100 and up requires class level 31

Example 3:

An item is flagged as total level 55, MAGE only. To wear it, you must have at least 55 total levels. Looking at the chart above, your mage class must also be at least level 18. A level 30 warrior with 100 total levels but a mage class at level 17 could not use the item.

Example 4:

An item is flagged as total level 105, THIEF WARRIOR. To wear it, you must have at least 105 total levels. Looking at the chart above, both your thief and warrior classes must also be at least level 31. A level 32 thief/warrior with only 104 total levels could not use the item, and a total level 110 player with only a level 30 thief class could also not use the item.