Just wondering about the class-specific items and auto-mods (and amazon bows).
Isn't it amazon bows can get auto-mods of +1, +2 or +3 to bow skills. So a white stag bow requires only L14 but it can automatically generate so that it has either +1, +2 or +3 to bow skills and still require only L14 to use?
However, I think I've seen white (non-magical) stag bows with +1 or +2 bow skills and require L14. But once it has +3 to bow skills, it'll require L45 to use. Is this true for all amazon bows (ie. a +3 bow skill auto-mod cause the level requirement to jump up to L45 or higher if the bow itself requires >L45)?
I'm curious since I've seen a rondache (paladin shield) with +40% resist all as auto-mod and it only requires L6 (I think that's the lvl req of rondache) to use.
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I extracted the weapons.txt from v1.09 MPQ and studied the table in Excel. I noticed that Grand Matron Bows is listed as having max 6 sockets in that file. But again, I noted from some posts here that there's some bug so that Grand Matron Bows can only have max 5 sockets -- is this true? What other information (specifically # of gem sockets) in the weapons.txt from the MPQ isn't correct?
(while studing the bows in the weapons.txt, I notice this bit of trivia which is easy to remember:
all bows (including amazon bows) that have base weapon speed = 5, can have max sockets = 3.
bows with base wpn spd = -10, max sockets = 4 (only exception is matriarchal bow with 5 max)
bows with base wpn spd = 0, max sockets = 5
bows with base wpn spd = 10, max sockets = 6 (again, exception is: the "bug" of grand matron bow with 5 max?)
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another thing, I read from a link here to the Amazon Basin that they can cube bows (trying to get "cruel" bows) -- and the post was dated Feb 2003 -- so this is pre-v1.10beta. Is it possible to cube magical bows in v1.09? What's the formula (note: disregarding the recipe rare + Soj + skulls which rerolls any rare items)?
Isn't it amazon bows can get auto-mods of +1, +2 or +3 to bow skills. So a white stag bow requires only L14 but it can automatically generate so that it has either +1, +2 or +3 to bow skills and still require only L14 to use?
However, I think I've seen white (non-magical) stag bows with +1 or +2 bow skills and require L14. But once it has +3 to bow skills, it'll require L45 to use. Is this true for all amazon bows (ie. a +3 bow skill auto-mod cause the level requirement to jump up to L45 or higher if the bow itself requires >L45)?
I'm curious since I've seen a rondache (paladin shield) with +40% resist all as auto-mod and it only requires L6 (I think that's the lvl req of rondache) to use.
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I extracted the weapons.txt from v1.09 MPQ and studied the table in Excel. I noticed that Grand Matron Bows is listed as having max 6 sockets in that file. But again, I noted from some posts here that there's some bug so that Grand Matron Bows can only have max 5 sockets -- is this true? What other information (specifically # of gem sockets) in the weapons.txt from the MPQ isn't correct?
(while studing the bows in the weapons.txt, I notice this bit of trivia which is easy to remember:
all bows (including amazon bows) that have base weapon speed = 5, can have max sockets = 3.
bows with base wpn spd = -10, max sockets = 4 (only exception is matriarchal bow with 5 max)
bows with base wpn spd = 0, max sockets = 5
bows with base wpn spd = 10, max sockets = 6 (again, exception is: the "bug" of grand matron bow with 5 max?)
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another thing, I read from a link here to the Amazon Basin that they can cube bows (trying to get "cruel" bows) -- and the post was dated Feb 2003 -- so this is pre-v1.10beta. Is it possible to cube magical bows in v1.09? What's the formula (note: disregarding the recipe rare + Soj + skulls which rerolls any rare items)?