Topic: how do you temper items?

[powlin]

how do you temper items? ive seen some really cool ones and i wanted to now how to do it can someone help me? thank you

[Tophead]

read the readme -.-

One time upgraded Item - Rare Item and 3 correct body parts
Torso + Heart = 15-20% LL
Helm + Brain = 40-60% Faster Cast
Weapon + Jawbone = 2,5 Damage  per Level (Cold, Lightning, Fire)
Amulet + Eye = 15-20% ML
Weapon + Horn = 5 Damage per Level (phys. Dmg)
Shoes + Tail = 40-60 Faster Run
Shield + Flag = 2,5 Damage per Level reflected when hit
Gloves + Fang = 40-60 IAS
Ring + Quill = 50-75% MF + 75%-125 Gold + 5 Light
Belt + Spleen = 5 poison Damage per Level for 2 seconds + prevent monster heal

[webwalker]

The Shield +Flags formula does not work on necro heads (my experience) and I've heard (Drow Elf) it doesn't work on Pally shields either; possible not on Sorc-only shields either.

[powlin]

ok thank you

[phalen]

glad i found this thread - cause i got a question

when u say 'rare' - do u mean the 'unique' items?  what color are these 'rare' items? i'v seen white, blue, green, yellow and that brownish-red of uniques. 

am i missing something?

i went to battle.net to see if they had anything on 'rare' items, but they dont have a listing for 'rare'.

am a bit confused now :S  pls help me?

[LordFrost]

glad i found this thread - cause i got a question

when u say 'rare' - do u mean the 'unique' items?  what color are these 'rare' items? i'v seen white, blue, green, yellow and that brownish-red of uniques. 

am i missing something?

i went to battle.net to see if they had anything on 'rare' items, but they dont have a listing for 'rare'.

am a bit confused now :S  pls help me?

For future reference:
Normal, nonmagical item: White
Normal, nonmagical item (etheral and/or socketed): Grey[/b]
Magic item: Blue[/b]
Rare item: Yellow[/b]
Set Item: Green[/b]
Unique Item: Gold[/b]

Then there are tempered and crafted items with their own colors, but once you're busy making those you sure as heck know why they change the color, since you initiated it.

Basically "Rare" items are nothing but magic items with more than just 2 modifiers.

[phalen]

ok - so i didnt really have the colors wrong - just the type - and i'v been playing d2 since it came out way back in the begining :X  just shows u - u never know enough

its a pity that the yellow items r the rare ones... they dont really have all the nice stats. i got some very nice unique armors that i'd like to temper - i made a mistake with one unique item - a battle stave. i didnt really understand the socketing and to test i used two gems on the item. i got one socket. i tried two more gems.  thats when i realised that u should do it all at once.   i wont make that mistake again i assure u.

thanks!

[LordFrost]

Well the Rare items can in fact achieve modifiers that make most Unique and Set items look inferior.
The rarity of those so called "Ãœber Rares" is ironically really rare, tho.

In Chaos Empire, the main advantage of Rare items is that you can temper them, as well as put runewords into them.
That can not be done with Set/Unique items.

[phalen]

cool well then, i'll keep an eye out for nice 'rare' items

thanks Lord-Frost!