Re: 1.07 News, Info and Gossip
That's (yet another) ATMA display issue with 1.07...ethereal weapons with +ED don't get their ED displayed by ATMA...this even happens with
superior Eth weapons that have +ED:
Code:
Superior Cleaver
One-Hand Damage: 15 to 76
Durability: 13 of 13
Required Strength: 58
Required Level: 22
Axe Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x2743860e
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired)
Superior Fuscina
Two-Hand Damage: 30 to 87
Durability: 18 of 18
Required Dexterity: 15
Required Strength: 67
Required Level: 24
Spear Class - Normal Attack Speed
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0x2ae83f98
+1 to Attack Rating
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired)
Note that it does still list the +AR on the Fuscina, just not the +ED...
Both of those axes might get 4sox from Larzuk...good luck!!
Unfortunately, it won't be as godly for your 1.08 Barb as you might think...the reason also causes the 'wrong' damage display in ATMA. You see, Blizzard changed the way Etherealness works in 1.09...prior to that, Etherealness conferred +50% maxED to weapons and +50% EDef to armor, whereas after the change, Etherealness multiplies damage (min and max) or defense by 1.5...ethereal weapons that spawned prior to the change get BOTH bonuses, while armor keeps the defense it spawned with (UNLESS you cube e-bug it). As 1.08 is prior to the change, that axe will only get the original eth bonus...(though it WILL benefit from the improved damage of 1.08+ elite weapons...)
Do note that a MAJOR effect of the difference in the bonuses is that the original +ED bonus will ADD to any +ED affixes(or from superiorness), NOT multiply as the 1.09+ bonus does. (A side effect of this is that eth armor in 1.07/1.08 will spawn with max defense+1 as its base defense, *1.5 for the +50%EDef)
So, the reason that ATMA is displaying the 'wrong' damage is because it is applying the 1.09+ bonus:
Code:
1.07 Berserker Axe: 3 - 64 damage
Non-Eth, 240%ED: 10 - 217 damage (actually 10.2 - 217.6, but D2 floors...)
Eth 243%ED +50%max: 10 - 251 damage (actually 10.29 - 251.52)
with 1.09+ bonus: 15 - 377 damage (actually 15.435 - 377.28)
BTW, forwarded to 1.08, the base damage improves to 24 - 71, so the non-eth one will do 81 -241 damage, the eth one will do 82 - 279 damage, and if forwarded to 1.09+, 123 - 418 damage(!!)
edit: finally got around to uploading image and linking it...
WoRG
? I don't have any other ethereal ed weapons to compare to, either. Also, I can hope to get lucky and 4 socket that thing, right? Would be pretty godly for my 1.08 barb when I make him, you know, to go with that zod I'll find >_>
