Diablo 2 ethereal items upgrade#
Diablo 2 ethereal items full#

So zodding an item and removing the zod will not repair an ethereal item, as it will revert to exactly the same durability. This glitch was noticed by blizzard, and now when you socket a zod rune, it merely hides the durability and doesn't use it, but keeps it saved in item properties. This causes the 'zod' glitch socketed a zod rune back in 1.09 or before would actually remove the durability stat from an item entirely, and thus when you removed the zod with the 1.10 cube recipe, the item would still no longer have a durability, and stay indestructible. Hence if an item loses its maximum durability somehow, it will stay indestructible. Thus blizzard simply forgot to differentiate for this when rolling a cube recipe, after they implemented it in a patchДЄlso, durability is purely a statistic on an item, and the maximum durability is saved too, not loaded from a table or anything. So theres no way for the game to 'know' that an ethereal item has its +% base defense already added, besides knowing that the item's ethereal flag is on. To add a little the glitch with rerolling armor is because the +% defense granted by the ethereal bonus is not actually an item property like a static +50% that is added on top of other defense sources, but rather, the item is given +50% base defense when it is rolled the actual base defense property itself is increased (other modifiers like +% defense do not increase an items base defense, but rather what you see displayed is calculated via its base defense).

Diablo 2 ethereal items full#

The full Durability of ethereal items seems to obey this formula,

Ethereal items with Charges do not spawn with full Charges and cannot be recharged.Д®thereal items with automatic repair modifiers, 'Repairs 1 Durability in X seconds' or 'Replenishes Quantity' (throwing weapons) should continue to repair or restore themselves, even when broken (depleted to 0).

Ethereal items will not lose Durability when equipped by mercenaries.

Ethereal items are always found with full Durability.

Nonetheless, it evidently modifies several of the base item stats (see below). Strictly speaking, 'Ethereal' is not a modifier it is a type of item flag (similar to 'Superior' or 'Socketed').

Diablo 2 ethereal items upgrade#

You can find the relevant upgrade recipes here. **) An ethereal rare or unique Crystal Sword or Dimensional Blade may be upgraded to an ethereal Phase Blade. Bows, Crossbows, and Phase Blades cannot be ethereal **) they have no Durability.The property, 'ethereal' is found ONLY on the above 4 uniques: Shadow Killer, Ethereal Edge, Ghostflame, and Wraith Flight. Unique items having the property, 'indestruct' (Indestructible) in UniqueItems.txt CANNOT be ethereal, UNLESS they have the additional property, 'ethereal' (Ethereal).Set items never spawning ethereal is believed to be a programming flaw, according to the DiabloWiki.*) Ref: DiabloWiki, only if the item allows that property. There is approximately 5 % chance to acquire the property 'Ethereal' *) With the exception of certain item types and specific uniques, you cannot know if an item is ethereal until you grab it. There is no indication on the name tag when a magic, rare, or unique item is ethereal. Gloves, belts, and boots with a grey name tag are ethereal, since they cannot have sockets. Since normal and Superior ethereal items have a grey name tag similar to socketed items, you cannot tell a socketed helm, chest piece, shield, or weapon from an ethereal one until you pick it up.

The property, 'Ethereal', which causes an item to appear translucent, can spawn on normal, Superior, magic, rare, and unique items that have Durability or Quantity. Ethereal items are found only in the Expansion.