Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

[iDeving]

Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

I apologize ahead of time if this is the wrong place to ask such questions.

Questions:

1) Do Superior Ethereal Armor or Polearms with "Enhanced Damage" / "Enhanced Defense" exist?

NOTE: I do know that superior eth items can include increased durability, but I have never seen one with enhanced defense / damage.

2) If you find an eth Polearm / Armor, and you socket it using quest (as to grantee highest socket amount) do you lose out on this so called "bug" that re-applys extra damage / defense?

NOTE: I do know that when socketing Eth armor, you MUST use cube recipe to gain "extra" bugged defense, but does this apply to polearms as well? The reason I ask is because someone told me they always use quest to socket eth polearms (because he wanted max sockets), but I think its worth the cube gamble if it gives another base 50% dmg right?

3) Obviously you cannot socket (any) Superior items in cube, so the only reason to use quest socket, is because you have a superior or unique item (or want max) that needs socket. So assuming superior eth items do not exist (other than durability), it would be almost pointless to ever socket Eth items using quest, correct?

NOTE: because you would lose the bugged defense or damage... (dmg only if dmg can be bugged on polearm that is)

4) Amusing that eth polearms with enhanced damage (%15) do exist, could they ever do more damage after being socketed with quest socket?

NOTE: Or will an eth polearm cube socketed (bugged) always do more dmg?

5) Is it possible to find an eth 3 OS Archon Plate with %15 ED? If so, could this be better than finding a regular eth AP and using cube to bug it?

6) Am I right to assume that to have an ED enigma, its armor must have been found, not created? Or are there worthy superior armors that with quest socket will get 3 sockets as max?

7) Amusing eth superior exists, but only support enhanced durability, these would be useless due to their un-bug-ability correct?

Thank you for taking the time to read/answer my somewhat noobish questions!

IMPORTANT: If you chose not answer all questions (which I really would appreciate if you did) please take priority to these 2:

*Do eth polearms get "bugged" when socketed with cube?

*Can eth items have "enhanced damage" or "enhanced defense"? If so, could they do more dmg / have more defense than those which are norm eth bugged?

 

[Luckymofo]

Re: Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

IIRC, eth weaps can have both ed and eh(extra dura) and eth armor can have edef and eh. only the eth armor socket cube recipe can give 50% edef, eth weaps cannot get any kind of ed bug.

 

[krischan]

Re: Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

1. Superior ethereals with %ed or %def do exist. The cube recipe doesn't work with them BTW and not even with cracked items, only with plain nonmagical items, ethereal or not.
2. The bug only comes to effect with the cube recipe for armor.
3. Yes, with respect to nonmagical items, as the recipe only works with them.
4. The quest reward doesn't provide additional bonuses for etherealness, only the recipe is bugged and only with respect to armor.
5. You can find such an armor, but the recipe doesn't work with it, so ethereal armor with %ed is clearly worse than eth armor which got a double eth bonus from the recipe.
6. The quest rewards adds maximum sockets and elite armor has a max of 4 (okok, cracked items have a lower max after fixing it with another recipe, but it can't produce superior items), but the maximum of e.g. a mage plate is 3, so Larzuk will add 3 sockets to a superior one.
7. There is eth gear with %ed/%def, but with respect to armor, see 5.

 

[iDeving]

Re: Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

1. Superior ethereals with %ed or %def do exist. The cube recipe doesn't work with them BTW and not even with cracked items, only with plain nonmagical items, ethereal or not.
2. The bug only comes to effect with the cube recipe for armor.
3. Yes, with respect to nonmagical items, as the recipe only works with them.
4. The quest reward doesn't provide additional bonuses for etherealness, only the recipe is bugged and only with respect to armor.
5. You can find such an armor, but the recipe doesn't work with it, so ethereal armor with %ed is clearly worse than eth armor which got a double eth bonus from the recipe.
6. The quest rewards adds maximum sockets and elite armor has a max of 4 (okok, cracked items have a lower max after fixing it with another recipe, but it can't produce superior items), but the maximum of e.g. a mage plate is 3, so Larzuk will add 3 sockets to a superior one.
7. There is eth gear with %ed/%def, but with respect to armor, see 5.

Thank you so much kind sir!

My conclusion is that non socketed eth items with ED are useless compared to normal non socketed eth items, and that the quest socket is only useful when socketing superior or unique items.

darn, i just bought a perfect infinity with 15 Enhanced Damage non-eth, thinking it would do as much dmg as a norm eth ;P

But it was worth the perfect lightning takedown features ;P

 

[Luckymofo]

Re: Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

krischan pwned me so hard, it's like I wasn't even here lol

 

[krischan]

Re: Superior Ethereal Armor/Polearm Questions

My elaborate reply would boil down to yours, I just needed more words :azn: