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Gear enhancements are possible both during and after an item is crafted.^[1]^[2]

There is a combination of systems that take an item to its max potential. Players will need to contribute in a certain number of these systems to reach max. Some of the systems are an either/or situation.^[1] – Kory Rice

Crafting recipes can be enhanced by adding higher rarity or different crafting materials into their selectable crafting slots at crafting stations.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Enchantment scrolls and tempering allow gear to be enhanced post-crafting.^[2]^[6]

The bulk of a weapon's power comes from its crafting recipe and the materials used in its construction.^[7]

The contribution of materials to crafting an item results in advancing the rarity of that item. Now, that doesn't exclude players who don't have the legendary or the higher quality contributed resources from progressing their common item up the rarity tree through enchantments such as scroll enchanting or through tempering the gear. Both of those can affect the quality and the rarity of the gear that you produce, but by contributing the resources during the crafting process you are getting a head start with the higher quality item and now are less dependent on those other avenues to achieve that, which might be again a different vertical space of progression that you don't have as good of access to.^[2] – Steven Sharif

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

Runes/Power stones are a potential methods for enhancing weapons.^[8]^[9]
Enchantment stones are potential rewards for performance over six month PvP seasons. These grant temporary PvP-focused benefits to gear (via a socketing system).^[10]^[11]