08-04-2003, 09:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2003, 09:10 PM by Crystalion.)
Having Bolts or Arrows in your cube is (still) highly dangerous, as a misclick on the transmute button enables them to transform ***ANY*** other item, even a quest item like the soulstone, via the arrows+arrows=>bolts, bolts+bolts=>arrows recipes.
(edit: to be clear... put *one* stack of arrows or bolts and one of anything else in the cube and hit transmute)
Javalins and Spears are spear class weapons, and the "spear"+arrows=>javalins recipe takes precedence over the above recipe, fyi.
Apart from the extreme danger of having arrows/bolts in your cube (until/if they fix this bug) it is rather cost effective to be using these transforms for a lowbie character (who, fyi, can, v1.10 beta SP at least, be gifted right away with a horderic cube (gift giver then has to go get themselves a new one, of course--big deal)).
Indeed, if you walk up to the act 1 normal Charsi and BUY a spear and arrows, then transform them to javalins, which you then sell to her, you are quite likely to make a net profit.
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v1.10 beta SP I tested all the normal quest weapon drops to see how the cube normal unique=>exceptional works...
Khalims Flail and Will were exempt. The others all turned into unique hand axes (which could then be again transformed from normal to exceptional, aka hatchet). In particular the Malus even lost its nametag and became simply a Gold text "Hand Axe"... if you dropped this and picked it up Charsi would thought bubble for you as if she wanted to talk to you, but upon talking to her, she would *not* take it.
I took screenshots of all these but threw them away because I don't really think they're worth the bandwidth. Still, it might be fun to have a Hammerdin wielding the Gold lettered "Tomahawk" (the graphic for the unique hand axe, btw, is like that of the Gnasher).
(edit: to be clear... put *one* stack of arrows or bolts and one of anything else in the cube and hit transmute)
Javalins and Spears are spear class weapons, and the "spear"+arrows=>javalins recipe takes precedence over the above recipe, fyi.
Apart from the extreme danger of having arrows/bolts in your cube (until/if they fix this bug) it is rather cost effective to be using these transforms for a lowbie character (who, fyi, can, v1.10 beta SP at least, be gifted right away with a horderic cube (gift giver then has to go get themselves a new one, of course--big deal)).
Indeed, if you walk up to the act 1 normal Charsi and BUY a spear and arrows, then transform them to javalins, which you then sell to her, you are quite likely to make a net profit.
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v1.10 beta SP I tested all the normal quest weapon drops to see how the cube normal unique=>exceptional works...
Khalims Flail and Will were exempt. The others all turned into unique hand axes (which could then be again transformed from normal to exceptional, aka hatchet). In particular the Malus even lost its nametag and became simply a Gold text "Hand Axe"... if you dropped this and picked it up Charsi would thought bubble for you as if she wanted to talk to you, but upon talking to her, she would *not* take it.
I took screenshots of all these but threw them away because I don't really think they're worth the bandwidth. Still, it might be fun to have a Hammerdin wielding the Gold lettered "Tomahawk" (the graphic for the unique hand axe, btw, is like that of the Gnasher).
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"Proto-matter... an unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable." -- Saavik, Star Trek III
"Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" -- Kevin, Time Bandits