Crafting amulet question

[xioxio]

Crafting amulet question

I read somewhere that to be able to get +2 skills your character needs to be L90+ and cube with an amulet with iL85, true? Would that mean I have to use a amulet dropped by a monster in pits? Any monster there? Does the amulet itself have to have a certain required level to be iL85?

EDIT: Oy, have another one on re-rolling magic items. Do both chipped gems and PGems work the same way? I see both of them being used, is one more effective than the other?

- Thanks

 

[Verbatim]

The necessary ilvl is 90 for +2 skills on ammies. At clvl 93, all gambled amulets that are then crafted will be ilvl 90+. When you're clvl 86, you have a 10% chance of gambling an ilvl 90 ammy, by **, you have a 10% chance for a gambled ammy that you craft to reach ilvl 90, only at clvl 95 do you reach the point when all gambled ammies are ilvl 90+.

To use an ilvl 85 ammy from the pits (all ammies from the pits are ilvl 85-**: 85 for norm monsters, 87 for champions, and ** for bosses/minions) and get ilvl 90 as a result, you would have to be clvl 96...so gambling is really the best way for crafting, though, if you're lucky enough to get a magic ammy off of Baal, you'd have a chance at getting a +2 craft from clvl 82...but Baal doesn't drop that many magic ammies, so you're not going to be able to craft in quantity that way.

If you're sure that an ammy from the pits dropped from a boss pack, you could get ilvl 90 if your char is clvl 92, but at that point, 90% of gambled ammies would reach ilvl 90 when crafted, and just one more clvl would get you to 100%, so it's probably not worth it by that point.

Chipped gems can only be used to re-roll magic weapons, and the ilvl of the output is 25, regardless of what the ilvl of the starting item was. With Pgems, you can reroll any magic item (not just weapons), and the ilvl stays the same, so if you re-roll a charm from Baal (mlvl 99), the ilvl will still be 99 on the new charm you get.

 

[hotpanfight]

Good answer

I just wanted to say, that was a GREAT answer, it was a question I was wondering also. A quick follow up, what level to gamble and craft a +1 skills ammy?

 

[Verbatim]

+1 skills requires alvl 36...since affix lvl = ilvl for amulets, that means you'll gamble 100% ammies with the necessary ilvl from clvl 41, and can get the ilvl from crafting with 100% of gambled ammys from clvl 39. Probably not worth it to try crafting from gambles at that clvl, though, since it's easy enough to find an area with monsters that are mlvl 36+ (A2 NM and above have no monsters below mlvl 43, A1 only has a few below 36), and then craft with a clvl 36+ char.

Or, in other words, any character you've spent a couple days on can craft a +1 class or +2 tree ammy (ilvl 40 for +2 tree, so clvl 45 for 100% ilvl gambling or clvl 43 for 100% ilvl gamble + craft). You'll open up more, and mostly better prefixes by using a higher level character, though, so it's probably best to use the highest lvl char you have--don't look to crafting with a low lvl char for making low level req. items, because crafted items get a higher clvl req than similar rares, with a low lvl char, most crafts will come out with a req lvl above your current clvl (since clvl req to wear starts dropping more and more below alvl req to drop, this doesn't happen with high lvl chars).

 

[xioxio]

Thank you for the info. Verbatim, helped alot =)