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Jul 22 2025 08:21pm
Looks like you use numbers.

Small charm ilvl 63 to 79 has alvl 49 which has a better chance to re-roll into a 3/20/20 compared to a Small Charm with ilvl 99. True or False? It is true, but better to have like an ilvl 65 charm just to be sure, reasoning is simple, less Prefixes and Suffixes that appear on higher ilvl items. Magical level means jack, you can only get Magical Small charms unless they have pre set. Now... what is Qlvl again in reference to this Small Charm?

A monster tc drops specific items in LoD, hence people doing Nightmare Andy runs for SoJ's in the day, the ilvl or qlvl you are referring to is based on the Monster Level of Andy and the drop chest from andy... also certain items can NOT drop (your so called Qlvl is what? oh, ilvl)

Now if you are talking about D2:R, I wouldn't know, however the basic areas are the same as LoD, as for new areas and items, those are different and have different drop tables (mdt or Treasure Chests) with selected things that can and can not appear.

Here is an example: Windforce can only be found on one specific ELITE bow, it has a Set amount of modifiers and ONLY those affixes apply to that item, if the Monster Treasure Chest is able to drop the BASE item of a Windforce (say from Hell Baal), its' ilvl is 99, however, RNG chance of it being a Windforce is what %, well the Mlvl is nulled, quality level is nulled, however if the RNG makes it have a Magical Level of RARE, it rolls the affix table to see what prefixes and suffixes apply to it, same for Magical roll prefixes and suffixes, HOWEVER, it will not roll into a Set item because there are no Set items with that Items Base.
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Back to what I stated in a previous post... Does this imply that Imbuing doesn't require character level (clvl) when imbuing ilvl 99 items ... or Diadems (Elite base) with lower ilvls (has nothing to do with qlvl) for the alvl (affixes).

Imbuing is only Rare (yellow) so all modifiers (affixes / prefixes) for that type of item (helm/armor) will only apply. The alvl does play a roll.
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Here is a theory craft that was debunked for crafting & re-rolling (or any cube recipes) ... does the ilvl of the cube make a difference when using cube recipes? ... the answer is No because it is based on the ilvl ot the item(s) used in the cube excluding Runes which don't have an ilvl


Literally EVERYTHING you say is wrong, I don't need to explain anything because anyone jumping in this conversation should know what qlvl and magic_level is, and no, magic level is not if the item is magic, rare, base or anything like that and qlvl is not if the item is normal, excepcional or elite.

Here, the formula to determine alvl, now tell for the 4th time that ilvl is the only thing that matter and be wrong again.

If (ilvl>99) then {ilvl=99}
if (qlvl>ilvl) then {ilvl=qlvl} ;
if (magic_lvl>0) then {alvl=ilvl+magic_lvl}
else
{
if (ilvl<(99-qlvl/2))
then {alvl=ilvl-qlvl/2}
else {alvl=2*ilvl-99}
}
If (alvl>99) then {alvl=99}

just get out, you have no idea of what are you talking about and you can't help here.


So like, imbuing is good?
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Jul 23 2025 11:39pm
So like, imbuing is good?


It can be good, difference is that you can only do it 3 times with one character and then have to create a new character at level 1 and get to hell difficulty when you can just play the game with a level 96 character (+) and either MF (better chances since you can use Magic Find items to increase your chance), Gamble the item by playing the game and collecting up gold and use Cube recipes with high ilvl items during your runs and gambling.

Calculate the time it takes for you to kill champion+ monsters including bosses compared to creating a new character to gain all 3 difficulty (imbue) quests.

Basically it is like the "name" your item quest in A5 ... can only be used 3 times, 1 for each difficulty.

Yup, you can imbue, yup it is good, however the RNG and calculations to get 1 good or great item takes more time than just playing the game... unless you are SP and not online to play the game where you can manipulate your character items and quests by copy/paste method on your PC to repeat and rinse 1 item over 1,000 times (+) ... but dang, all that copy / paste takes time and also file organising.

It is good, but is it worthwhile... think on it.


I will stop reading when you say the first wrong thing



Wrong, that didn't take too long, the alvl of an ilvl79 small charm is 65 and not 49, something that you can calculate yourself with the formula if you knew that the qlvl of a small charm is 28, but you can't since you don't even know still what the qlvl is.

Not gonna bother to read the rest, but it will all be wrong likely, so go away.





Wow ... ilvl 79 = alvl 65 not 49, I got it wrong. Now, the funny thing is, I was talking about what Prefixes & Suffixes that will (WILL) roll on that charm ... yes, you can get a 3/20/20 ... and you can find these charms in Nightmare cows, and then Act 3 Trav +, however if you use a Hell found small charm from Act 4+ you have less chances to re-roll them to a 3/20/20.

Instead of numbers, find out what Prefixes and suffixes that CAN spawn on items with certain ilvls to equal the alvl. Damn, you can find it in Arreat Summit. One way thinking is pitiful when you don't know why Alvl exists.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Jul 23 2025 11:51pm
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Jul 24 2025 05:19am
One way thinking is pitiful when you don't know why Alvl exists.


Don't be stupid, I exactly know how alvl work, unlike you, yes you can get 3/20/20 with alvl49, you will lower your chances of getting 3/20/20 with alvl65 because you open more preffix and suffix, so yeah you were wrong ilvl79 smc don't have the same better chances as ilvl63 smc, you are the one that does not understand how this work, that why you just check arreat summit insted of doing the calculations by yourself, btw arreat summit is in general a nice page, but it's full of mistakes too.

So like, imbuing is good?


It is good, mostly because it let you control the initial ilvl of the item with the imbue but mostly to try to reroll the item later with 6pskulls, trying to get the item directly with imbuing it's prettry ambitious.

It's also very good to try to get staff mods, imbuing add a very big boost to both get 3 staff mods and +3 in each of them the highger your level is, at some point it's almost guarantee that you will get 3 staff mods with +3 in each, it's still unlikely that you will get a godlike item but on a casual level is worth the try to use your high level charas for pelts, orbs or stuff with staffs mods and try to win the lottery with them.

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Jul 24 2025 06:19pm
Don't be stupid, I exactly know how alvl work, unlike you, yes you can get 3/20/20 with alvl49, you will lower your chances of getting 3/20/20 with alvl65 because you open more preffix and suffix, so yeah you were wrong ilvl79 smc don't have the same better chances as ilvl63 smc, you are the one that does not understand how this work, that why you just check arreat summit insted of doing the calculations by yourself, btw arreat summit is in general a nice page, but it's full of mistakes too.


ilvl 65 is what I wrote and alvl 49 is what I wrote:

Small charm ilvl 63 to 79 has alvl 49 which has a better chance to re-roll into a 3/20/20 compared to a Small Charm with ilvl 99.


You are so caught up proving me wrong that you did not read the first line. I responded to your reply because I use character level 49 to 75 in Nightmare cows after being rushed to Hell A5, or I use another character to open NM cows so I can kill the Cow King for Cow King only drops. Online, as for SP I can always open NM cows even killing king.
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Jul 25 2025 03:53am
Small charm ilvl 63 to 79 has alvl 49.


See, you don't know how to tread

ilvl 63 = alvl 49 yes
ilvl 79 = alvl 49 NO

you said both has alvl49, therefore you are wrong, go away.
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Jul 25 2025 04:10pm
See, you don't know how to tread

ilvl 63 = alvl 49 yes
ilvl 79 = alvl 49 NO

you said both has alvl49, therefore you are wrong, go away.


Since you like numbers so much, when a person says how many days are in a Week, Monday to Monday? Do you count Monday twice and get 8 days? No, you get 7 days.

"to" can be read differently.

Outside of the above, I used 79 as a point of reference from memory, I did not go through all the BS you did trying to be correct. I said I was wrong after that post, but again you did not read that, you did not go back to my previous posts because you want to be correct and prove me wrong because you think I am attacking your knowledge,all I am doing is making you go over your work and post it so that readers can see it for themselves.

Thanks for that, you proved both of us correct about Alvl only applying to the ilvl and NOT qlvl which you think is everything when it isn't, just like gambling and re-rolling items or cube recipes ... ilvl determines the alvl of the item and what prefixes and suffixes it can have.

Imbuing is based on what? ilvl of the item which determines the alvl of the item and what prefixes and suffixes apply to that item. The base quality of the item (Normal to and including Elite) BASE only. Character level as stated by others says it can manipulate the prefixes and suffixes. Note: Prefixes and Suffixes does alter the Level Req on those items as well.

Oh, by the way... read is not spelled with a "t"read which you obviously made a typing error, just like me stating 79 instead of 78 or I could have gone lower to 70, it would not matter in the context of my post.
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Jul 25 2025 05:03pm
Thanks for that, you proved both of us correct about Alvl only applying to the ilvl and NOT qlvl which you think is everything when it isn't, just like gambling and re-rolling items or cube recipes ... ilvl determines the alvl of the item and what prefixes and suffixes it can have.


Wroooong again, the alvl is 49 for ilvl63 because the qlvl for small charm is 28, if instead of a small charm this was an amulet, the alvl for ilvl63 would be alvl63, because the qlvl of an amulet is just 1 and BOTH thing matters.

Thereforce imbuing is based on clvl, qlvl and for some items magic_lvl since the first one will determine the ilvl and the other two will affect the final alvl or you can get an item with high enough qlvl or magic_level like a Diadem and don't care about your clvl since even at clvl8 you will be able to unlock all the alvl available (tho, due to other restrictions you may want clvl 22 for sockets reasons)

So yes, qlvl matters, a lot actually, without it you can't know at what clvl you need to imbue.
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Jul 26 2025 12:17am
Wroooong again, the alvl is 49 for ilvl63 because the qlvl for small charm is 28, if instead of a small charm this was an amulet, the alvl for ilvl63 would be alvl63, because the qlvl of an amulet is just 1 and BOTH thing matters.

Thereforce imbuing is based on clvl, qlvl and for some items magic_lvl since the first one will determine the ilvl and the other two will affect the final alvl or you can get an item with high enough qlvl or magic_level like a Diadem and don't care about your clvl since even at clvl8 you will be able to unlock all the alvl available (tho, due to other restrictions you may want clvl 22 for sockets reasons)

So yes, qlvl matters, a lot actually, without it you can't know at what clvl you need to imbue.


I love RNG

EDIT: With all this BS back n forth, the numbers don't matter... you can minimize this n that, but you can not identify the RNG of a Perfect Roll for any item that is imbued for the Item in question and so forth.

Is it worth the time to Imbue items with xlvl this n that shit to get what you want? or is it better to just play the game and find it with ML gear killing monsters.

Got to love RNG baby... your calculations mean jack, and my explanation about your qlvl description is correct... it is BS, unless you are talking about D3 or other principles created for explaining their items and trying to add it to LoD or D2:R (Note: D2:R does have differences with additions, that is it).

ilvl is qlvl... you qlvl is not a thing, it only seems like it is. Interpretation.

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Jul 26 2025 04:22am
I love RNG

EDIT: With all this BS back n forth, the numbers don't matter... you can minimize this n that, but you can not identify the RNG of a Perfect Roll for any item that is imbued for the Item in question and so forth.

Is it worth the time to Imbue items with xlvl this n that shit to get what you want? or is it better to just play the game and find it with ML gear killing monsters.

Got to love RNG baby... your calculations mean jack, and my explanation about your qlvl description is correct... it is BS, unless you are talking about D3 or other principles created for explaining their items and trying to add it to LoD or D2:R (Note: D2:R does have differences with additions, that is it).

ilvl is qlvl... you qlvl is not a thing, it only seems like it is. Interpretation.


Literally gave you the formula the game uses that has qlvl and ilvl on it, what a bunch of text to say "I still know nothing".
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Jul 30 2025 06:41pm
Literally gave you the formula the game uses that has qlvl and ilvl on it, what a bunch of text to say "I still know nothing".


Well your qlvl formula works for you.

Gambling defines the item and not necessarily qlvl... Light Plated boots can become War Boots or War Travelers from gambling, just as long as you are high enough level.

Killing monsters in specific ares and difficulty determines the ilvl of the item, or in the formulas sense, it has a quality level.

How does one know when using Larzuks Socket quest to get 4 sockets only on a Crystal Sword, ensuring that it is not 3, 5 or 6 ... how does your formula tell you the difficulty and best area to where that item can be found? Act 1 Nightmare?, Act 5? It is definitely not Norm Cows, max is 3 sockets. Off hand I forgot, but a rough estimate is like Act2 NM Tombs and A3... been a while.

I don't use formulas, I play the game... well Calculators I use.
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