What Pieces Are Worth Upgrading?

vued wrote: 9 months ago

Knappogue wrote: 9 months ago

98def

Magefist

Crusader Gauntlets go for 9-10

Jah

Holy Moly.
I think I have to open a bottle of whine now.

Mah man! THAT'S what I'm talking about! Congrats dude! Have a sip on my behalf - I've never perfectly upgraded an item.

Knappogue wrote: 9 months ago

Mah man! THAT'S what I'm talking about! Congrats dude! Have a sip on my behalf - I've never perfectly upgraded an item.

Will do!
Thanks for you guidance, I would never have thought that this is so valuable.

Also got a perfect roll of the first up for the 29ed, i.e. 70 def

Battle Gauntlets. Also nice but of course not as valuable.

Congratz Vued !

Nice, Congratz! I think I have one or two 30

Magefist in my mules. Maybe I should consider upgrading them, too. But concerning my luck with cubing, I should let my sons do it...

oOKIWIOo wrote: 9 months ago

Nice, Congratz! I think I have one or two 30

Magefist in my mules. Maybe I should consider upgrading them, too. But concerning my luck with cubing, I should let my sons do it...

You can sell the unupped ones probably more easily. But if you still can self use them upped, I would say: go for it.

You also get kind of 2 shots. If you get a perfect roll after first upping, I'd keep that. There might be chars that don't want the high str. requirements and single upped have already much more def.

If the first roll is not perfect, just do the 2nd one.
With a low roll they won't be valuable but surely useable and for self use still better than unupped ones (assuming you are also using a

Monarch).

P.S.: So far no interest for my perf upped ones. Probably a loooong sale.

vued wrote: 9 months ago

You can sell the unupped ones probably more easily. But if you still can self use them upped, I would say: go for it.

You also get kind of 2 shots. If you get a perfect roll after first upping, I'd keep that. There might be chars that don't want the high str. requirements and single upped have already much more def.

If the first roll is not perfect, just do the 2nd one.
With a low roll they won't be valuable but surely useable and for self use still better than unupped ones (assuming you are also using a

Monarch).

P.S.: So far no interest for my perf upped ones. Probably a loooong sale.

It may take a while because it's a low demand item and only a handful of them get sold per month on Traderie and, from what I can tell, it has never had a recorded sale here. However, you should reliably get 8-10

Jah for them from a PvP player or collector. The value of perfection is exponential.

Separately, another item worth upgrading that hasn't been mentioned so far in this thread is

Bloodfist. I recently traded a

Mal for 20% ED, 83 defense

Bloodfist

Vampirebone Gloves for my own use. However, perfect 20% ED, 88 defense

Bloodfist

Vampirebone Gloves go for 10-15

Jah. A couple of weeks later, I found a 20% ED

Bloodfist, which like a 30% ED

Magefist, also sells for

Lo before upgrades. Had the timing been different, I may have done a double upgrade for self-use, but a

Mal for 83 defense is too good of a value trade.

Zeno-Verona wrote: 25 minutes ago

I hope it is okay that i bump this old topic as i have a couple of relevant questions to ask.

I found a Viperskin +29 all res when doing a countess run one lonely night. Do you think it is worth upgrading? Is it worth the

Ko and

Lem rune if you want to trade it after use?
I have always loved the

Goldstrike Arch bow, back from D2 legacy days. Is it worth it upgrading it to a

Hydra Bow, damage wise? Does anyone know the mathematical equation to figure out the damage improvement from upgrading a

Gothic Bow to a

Hydra Bow?

Like original poster i also find it hard to know what people like and that the market likes.

Personally I would not up a 29All res viper. But if you are SSF and its the only one you found? Sure, upgrade that bad boy.

As for

Goldstrike Arch look at the Enhanced Damage that comes on the bow. A base

Gothic Bow comes with 10-50 Damage. GSA gives 200-250ED giving it a max damage range of 35-175 (assuming you rolled 250ED). Math: [(10*2.5)+10] + [(50*2.5)+50]
Now if you upgrade this to a

Hydra Bow we look at the base damage of that which is 10-68. So if we assume made ED again our we get 35-258. Math: [(10*2.5)+10] + [(68*2.5)+68]
Now as far as upping it? Again, I wouldn't do that unless you REALLY like the bow or you are SSF. A great, I mean really GREAT, budget bow for a physical bowzon is

Witchwild String. Now that bow is worth upgrading and its really cheap.