Rare item creation

[adeyke]

so there is a minimum level to each affix?  I'm not getting what the level and maxlevels are in this.
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Almost all affixes have a minimum alvl needed to spawn. Some few affixes also have a maximum alvl.

For example, there are three grand charm resist all prefixes. If the alvl is in the range of 8-13, you can get the one that gives 3-6% resist all. If the alvl is in the range of 14-34, you can get 8-12% resist all. If the alvl is 35 or higher, you can get 13-15% resist all.

A similar thing happens with large charms. At alvl 17-33, you can get 3-5% resist all, while at alvl 34+, you can get 6-8%.

The maximum alvl for these affixes means that if you have a high-alvl charm, you can only get the highest resist all affixes, not the lower ones.

This use of the maximum alvl is also applied the max damage suffixes on grand charms and circlets.

There's another use of the maximum alvl. In earlier versions of the game, there weren't enough low-alvl affixes, so if you had a very low-alvl rare item, it might not be able to get the full 3-6 affixes. To fix this, a set of affixes that required only alvl 1 were added. However, in order to prevent the dillution of the affix pool from these, they gave them a maximum alvl.

Rares would be much better if they made gave more affixes maximum alvls.