05-28-2004, 05:54 PM
Quote:1.10 has totally changed everything. I thought chipped gems were the best ones, but a friend told me that if you cubed a sword with 3 flawless instead of 3 chipped, you'd get a higher level affixes. Is this correct?
No.
The chippy recipe gives ilvl 25, while the standard and flawless recipes give ilvl 30. However, this only makes a difference for very low-qlvl items. You're likely going to reroll cruelable weapons only, and for these, the recipes all give the same affix pool.
Quote:edit: I'm looking to make a high-dmg sword and a high def armor for my merc. Are there any recipes which keep the ethereal-mod?
There are recipes that keep etherealness, such as the socketing recipes. However, there are no recipes that keep the etherealness while rerolling an item.