I just noticed.

I just noticed that on Ethereal items, aside from the +50% ED on Weapons and +50% Enhanced Defense on armor, that the ethereal property also reduces STR/DEX requirements by 10.

Is this new with patch, or have I simply not paid attention?

Must be new from the patch. I checked it out from that eth mace you have in the marketplace forum and compaired it with http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/ite...e/umaces.shtml

Nice. Too bad I don't have an eth bonehew or my merc could use it...

I believe its a 1.10 feature.

I believe its a 1.10 feature.

Looks like it was a feature from at least 1.09d, as I located a screenshot of an Ethereal Zod'd Hellslayer I took in a PvP game back in 1.09, and it's requirements were 10 less also (179/23, versus usual 189/33). I just never actually noticed that.