When you are looking for Magic or Rare items. What are the things you need to consider? What affixes can an item get? On what things does it depend? Character level, item level, quality of the item, ...?
I know the most rares worth picking up, but I want to know a way to find out exactly how to see. For example: rare gloves are worth picking up, because they can get 2+ Java and 20% ias. But even here: do I only pick up specific types of gloves: like vampirebone gloves, or do I only pick up elite gloves? How to prove what gloves are worth picking up.
I ve checked out affix calculators, but its getting a bit complicated. They talk about affixlevels, qlevels, tressure classes and so on. I didnt understand it.
1 Answer
All items can have the affixes you want provided that their ilvl is high enough to hold that affix.
In your specific example, the Spearmaiden's affix (a +2 to javelin and spear skills prefix) can appear on Gloves and Spears above an ilvl of 40 regardless of type of glove/spear. Alacrity (a 20% Increased Attack Speed suffix) requires gloves with an ilvl of 43. So what you want to do is be in an area with a minimum lvl of 43 (generally end of a1 nightmare and on) to ensure all the rare gloves in that area has a chance of dropping with those 2 modifiers.
You typically want to pick up all the gloves, but you may not want to wear some of the ones that have high str requirements depending on your build.
Magic items can have at most 1 prefix + 1 suffix, rares can have up to 3 prefixes and 3 suffixes.
One last thing, there are some suffix/prefix mods that can only appear on magic items. For example, a pair of magic gloves can roll with the Lancer's prefix (+3 javelin) instead of +2.
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