Just for peoples' information (kind of old news), if you upgrade an Ethereal Item (Example: Ethereal Shaftstop to Boneweave), the upgrade formula does NOT include the Ethereal property when determining defense.
Example: I found an Ethereal Shaftstop (195%). I upgraded it to a Boneweave, and its defense is merely 1309, when simple math proves otherwise.
Boneweave is 399-505 base defense. Even if it was a minimum that dropped (399), that math shows the defense should be a lot higher.
(399*1.5)*2.95=1765.575
Maximum (and perfect) would be: (505*1.5)*3.2=2424
Now, if you disregard the ethereal property you get the following:
399*2.95=1177.05
My Shaftstop (Boneweave) base DEF appears to be 444. Soooo...
seems to disagree with what we seem to think, the calculation's seem to be a bit different for eth items or so it seems, other than that im not sure exactly y its like that ?_?
EDIT: bug revealed, after reading the source code of the calculator - "seems*" that its a mis-calculation of adding in the extra 1 into the enhanced def % multipler, hence the def is so low
* - intentional by blizzard? who knows? i dont : /
Last edited by blckshdwdragon; 2004-05-14 at 02:03 AM.
I also tried adding in the ethereal propertie's additional 50% ED (222 def) AFTER calculating ED% (Like +Max dmg works now) and it still doesn't add up...
(444*2.95)+222=1531.8
Also, just so you know, 444*2.95=1309.8
The ethereal property is obviously not being factored in.
I would've gotten the same result from a non-ethereal Shaftstop.
I'll likely email Blizzard later regarding that, because my item should be close to 2000 DEF.
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