Question about cubing cruels

[adeyke]

Yeah, I read that, and got excited about cubing some assasin katars to see what I could get for my Blade Furysin.  (already found an etherial cruel with +3 lightning sentry and +1 blade fury) one of the exceptional or elete claws or talons.  However, when I read my copy of the cube receipies from AS, it indicated that the ilvls were so low (25 & 30) that I doubted that it could make cruels.  So, my question really is, is this AS info garbage, or is the other message wrong?  Dont wanna waste a bunch of gems on an impossibility.

Schuey
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Every affix has a minimum alvl (affix level) required for it to spawn. This alvl is calculated from both the ilvl and the qlvl of the item. The qlvl is a fixed value determined by the base item. All shorts swords are qlvl 1, all unearthed wands are qlvl 86, etc. Because of the different qlvls, different items will have different alvls at the same ilvl. On some weapons, the qlvl is so high that, regardless of how low the ilvl is, it'll always have a sufficient alvl for the cruel affix.

So the AS is correct there. The recipes do give ilvl 25 and 30. However, for some base items, this is still sufficient for cruel.