01-11-2004, 02:43 AM
Quote:repair itself
replenish quantity
# of sockets
These are all independent of etherealness.
When an item drops, if it's not a set item and it's not indestructible*, there's a chance it will be ethereal. Vendors never offer ethereal items for sale and you can't get them from gambling*. Cube recipes that create items also never give ethereals, though recipes that change existing items keep the etherealness.
I think that's about it for ethereal item restrictions, though.
* Exceptions to both of these would be the uniques that are always ethereal as part of their unique properties.