Dear Game Operator,
I play online mode, have a Damaged reflex bow with +3 Amazon skill, level 20 and got the item from Hell mode.
Then I tried to change the item quality to normal using ELD rune + chip game, but it change the skill of item from +3 to +1 Amazon skills.
I put this item in the shared stash, please have a look.
Thank you so much.
You used this cube recipe:
1 Eld Rune + 1 Chipped Gem + Low Quality Weapon = Normal Quality Weapon of same type
ilvl = 1. That is, regardless of what the ilvl was beforehand, it will be set to 1.
Setting the item level to 1 forced a reroll of the item properties. It became an item you could have purchased in Normal Act 1 or found in Normal Act 1 Blood Moor.
I once used the other recipe of this kind on a damaged monarc into which i had Larzuc punch 4 sockets beforehand:
1 El Rune + 1 Chipped Gem + Low Quality Armor = Normal Quality Armor of same type
ilvl = 1. That is, regardless of what the ilvl was beforehand, it will be set to 1.
Imagine my surprise when the now normal monarc had no more sockets! After checking the possible properties of an ilvl 1 monarc i literally cursed myself for wasting a socket quest.
The thing with ilvl 1 items is that their max possible properties are limited, as in number of possible socket or class based skills / skill levels. That’s the reason why your bow was reduced to +1 bow/xbow skills and my monarc got it’s sockets removed; the max number of sockets on an ilvl 1 shield of any kind is 3, not 4.
FYI: since it became ilvl 1 your bow’s max sockets are now also 3 and not 5 anymore.
Just bare in mind the el+ low gem recepie does have some benefits to it…
for example in order to get dusk shroud or archon plate with 3 sockets one doesn’t have to scour earth and try the socket recepie bazillion of times to get lucky…
no…
it takes only 1 crude/cracked/damaged/ dusk shroud or archon plate, repair it to lower the ilvl to 1 and go to larzuk, and voila decent bases for runewords like enigma or duress
as for the monarch you can only try to scam ppl with it now… but personally i’d never buy a clean unsocketed monarch, there’s no point having 3 sockets on a monarch, so unless someone sockets it with 4 sockets they can go straighten bananas for all i care