Snowclash lvl 20 blizzard

Everywhere I look it says up to lvl 19 blizzard for

Snowclash. Any sane reason this is 20?

From what I have been able to tell, the level ranges of CtC:s depends on the item level, it's not chosen at random within the range. In the past (before

Terror zones), no monster except

Baal was high enough level to be able to drop a

Snowclash with CtC level 20 Blizzard - so level 19 was more or less the effective

Cap and one with level 20 was an elusive and extremely rare find - but with

Terror Zones it's now a more common find. Supposedly anyway.

The same thing would appear to apply to

The Rising Sun as well, where it sometimes drops with CtC level 20

Meteor while the range is "supposed" to be 13-19.

The Rising Sun's

Meteor proc was discussed here: feedback/the-rising-sun-t1536337.html.

There are more items with CtC level ranges than just these two -

Stormrider,

Hellslayer,

Lightsabre and

Boneslayer Blade.

The Amazon Basin article about CtC explains how the level is determined within the range:
https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/ind ... kill_level

Chance to Cast normally specifies a set skill level (slvl), however on certain items the slvl depends on the generating source: it is calculated from the item level (ilvl) and the required level (rlvl) of the skill. [3] The table below specifies the ilvl required for a particular slvl, depending on the rlvl of the skill.

The table on the linked page claims that there's no ilvl threshold to roll a level 20 CtC of a skill that has a required level of 24 (which would be both Blizzard and

Meteor). But it can still can happen, evidently, so I'm guessing the article is either incorrect or missing something.

Okay, I've cleared this up with Pavke, and here's the thing:

The table in the Amazon Basin article is technically correct. Level 19 is supposed to be the maximum level of the Blizard CtC on

Snowclash. The only way to get a level 20 CtC of req level 24 skills is if the monster that drops it is level 100 or above, and there are no monsters above level 99 that can drop these items. Right? Wrong! There are actually 3 monsters that can exceed level 99 when TZ'd -

Griswold,

Radament and

Nihlathak. Apparently, these 3 superuniques have a hidden +3 level bonus, so when you're playing in a TZ96, uniques & bosses are supposed to be level 99, but these 3 will be level 102.

So, this is a new thing that is a side-effect of high level

Terror zones and the fact that some superuniques have an extra hidden level bonus on top of the TZ level modifier.

It wasn't possible in LoD pre-D2R either - except maybe in some older patch; There are "stories" on some old LoD forums claiming that it might have been possible back then but it could also just be hearsay, it's hard to verify. Perhaps it was possible at some point, just not in the later LoD patches.