Rysmurph wrote:Pub wrote:Rysmurph wrote:Does socketting items with runes raise the item's required level BEYOND that of the actual rune's? What am I missing?
MO'd a unique helm up to a required level of 113 (my current level) and began putting resistance runes (Mal, Gul, etc.) in the sockets. To my dismay, this raised the required level to somewhere in the 120's. I don't see anything about this in the rune descriptions, or anywhere. The helm is now unusable, which saddens me
What's happening? I don't have enough gold to keep playing around with oils of disjunction so I figured I'd just ask.
Each rune has a required level. Slap in a 100 req level rune into a socket and the item has the bonus of the rune ontop of a minimum 100 req level.
I see now. For those not in the know: If an item has required lvl 49 and I add 64 lvls via mystic orbs, the new required level is 49 + 64 = 113.
If I add a lvl 51 rune to the item, the new level to wear it is 51 + 64 = 115. So, any rune requiring 49 (the item's base requirement) or less will not change the requirements of the MO'd item.
Lesson: put your runes in your items BEFORE MOing them to the maximum that your current level allows. Oops
There you go! Only time you want to MO before the runes is with properties related to enhanced damage and defense. Naturally gear is capped at 200, but if you mo as close as possible to it and oil of luck it, and then put in jah runes, the jah runes help go above that 200.
