Had an ethereal Colossus Voulge. Made a low grade Insight for my merc and decided to reroll. Used Cube recipe to remove runeword but it also removed the ethereal status.
Whether or not the ethereal condition of items transmuted with the Horadric Cube will be kept depends on the recipe used. As a general rule, recipes that keep the attributes of the original item, like socketing and upgrading recipes, will also carry the ethereal condition to the results, while recipes that generate a new item with new properties, like rerolling or crafting recipes, likewise, won’t carry the ethereal condition to the results
https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Ethereal_Items
So what you’re saying is the Cube recipe to empty sockets is essentially “rerolling” the items? That doesn’t make sense to me. Emptying the sockets shouldn’t make a new item… its suppose to keep the attributes of the original weapon is it not??
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I don’t really know if that’s a bug or not, that’s all I found about the topic. I also wasn’t aware that this might happen. I rarely re-roll runewords other than Spirit, and then that’s not in an eth base item. Maybe someone else knows more about this.