01-12-2004, 01:35 AM
It boosts the defense/damage based on what type of item it is. Being ethereal gives an item +50% damage if it is a weapon, or +50% defense if it is armor. Both of these are multiplied, not added, to other modifiers to damage/defense (so an ethereal armor with 100 base defense and 50% enhanced defense would have 225 defense, not 200). So if you make an iron golem out of an ethereal armor, it will have more defense, and likewise with the damage of a weapon.