Eth Armor Upgrade Bug
Affects Realms and SP/Open
Due to a calculation skip, the ethereal bonus to defense is lost when upgrading
any unique ethereal armor piece (belt, gloves, boots, armor, shield, helm). The
item remains ethereal, but loses all defense bonuses. There is no fix at the
moment.
From GoddessLeela/Leelality:
When a piece of armor is dropped, its defense is calculated in the following
manner:
1) A random number is selected between the min/max base defense for that armor
type.
2) If the armor has ED%, step 1 is ignored and the base defense is instead set
to max+1
3) If the armor is ethereal, multiply the base defense by 1.5
4) ED% is applied as a multiplier on base defense
5) Defense+X is added
... and you have the final, displayed defense rating for armor.
Now, for the bug: when you upgrade unique armor, steps 2 and 3 are skipped when
calculating the new defense.
Many armors which have elite min not much above exceptional max will not benefit
much from the upgrade, and will probably not be worth upgrading at all
considering the rune cost and str/level reqs. *Ethereal* versions of armor are
even less worthy to upgrade, as they lose the 50% bonus and can often end up
with *lower* defense and have higher reqs. Not a good deal. :-
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From Scythetleppo:
If u use the cube formula:
1 Tal Rune + 1 Thul Rune + 1 Perfect Topaz + *Normal* Body Armor = Socketed Body
Armor of same type
Random number of sockets 1-Max.
You will get 50% more def on all ETH armors.
Ethereal bonus is 50% and the bugged Ethereal armor bonus is 100%.
If you found Ethereal boneweave that had 750 defense, this would become 1000
defense.
500 base defense makes 750 defense ethereal, and 1000 defense bugged ethereal
it does work with shields and helms...
1 Ral Rune + 1 Thul Rune + 1 Perfect Sapphire + Normal Helm = Socketed Helm of
same type
1 Tal Rune + 1 Amn Rune + 1 Perfect Ruby + Normal Shield = Socketed Shield of
same type
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Xavier
03 Mar 2011, 03:34
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75KG7ZJ0
Real map hack !!!
Try it by urself it's was
undectable by D2 ..
Anal-Rapist
17 Sep 2010, 12:12
How u add socets to weapons whats the recipe?
mijnotae
21 Jun 2010, 13:11
I have an eth unsocketed armor andcubed a tal,thul , and ptopaz . it has 11 0/0 ed nothing happened . it has a base def of 854. what am I doing wrong ?
gille-1
29 Apr 2010, 19:58
how cane i upgrade mi armor 4 sox ???
Bump
26 Apr 2010, 10:54
The bugged defence added is +50% of the ethereal value. So in your example, the defence added by the formula would be 50% of 750 for a final value of 1125.
victor
07 Apr 2010, 01:16
could you do this with socketing quest in act 5
monkey-nuts
15 Feb 2010, 21:36
How do I up an eth weapon and put sockets in it?
crazy
14 Feb 2010, 04:24
Bobby
11 Feb 2010, 01:11
Hey i have a eth 30s sacred armor n tried the tal thul ptopaz with it n dident work. is this because its already socketed?
it only works on items with NO SOCKETS the recipe ADDS teh Sockets
Bobby
11 Feb 2010, 01:11
Hey i have a eth 30s sacred armor n tried the tal thul ptopaz with it n dident work. is this because its already socketed?
Look again? o.o
23 Jun 2009, 06:15
X, if you read his post carefully you will see that AchieverofGodliness did not in any way imply that someone who uses correct grammar is a nerd. He only clarified that it is not at all insulting to have your grammar criticized by one.
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant
X
09 May 2009, 06:34
AchieverofGodliness - Using correct grammar doesn't make someone a nerd. If anything it shows they can communicate correctly, without making a mockery of themselves. It's sad that this world is full of moronic slavering douches like you.
Niko
07 Mar 2009, 18:07
I have 4os Ap Armor No ETH
how can i up'd the def ?? plz
AchieverofGodliness
16 Jul 2008, 21:40
LOLMORON, does it really matter whether or not he spells it right? The only thing needed is a general idea of what he means. It's not very insulting to have some nerd behind a computer criticize your grammar.
J
08 Jul 2008, 23:06
Does this work with ethereal weapons too? Or only armor pieces?
Bust
23 Jun 2008, 23:47
Do those cube recipes about socketing work?
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