Worst Ethereal Fails

Hello All,

Ethereals are generally recognised as providing more damage than regular counterparts, and for that ghostly visual.

Ethereal is good for player use assuming you have a repair-replenish mod or a skill (eg Barb throw replenish) that does it.

It’s even a strong choice where it has no way to repair or replenish, but where the item isn’t expected to lose durability during use eg wands and staves for casting purposes.

We know that Mercs are suited to ethereal items as they don't degrade items through use or combat.

My question is this. What have been your worst ethereal drop fails?

Pics optional but welcome. Do share your stories; oh what ethereal horrors have your builds seen in their D2R lives?

Relatively speaking, it probably isn’t that terrible as it happens a lot to everyone, but my very first ever griffon was ethereal. Never found one back in LOD because I think it was ladder only. And I didn’t play ladder then.

In D2R, was saving up to finally trade for one when it dropped and I was ecstatic. Picked it up and bam, ethereal. I still have it, it’s on an act 3 merc lol.

kazehinata wrote: 3 hours ago

Atomicharmony24 wrote: 4 hours ago

Relatively speaking, it probably isn’t that terrible as it happens a lot to everyone, but my very first ever griffon was ethereal. Never found one back in LOD because I think it was ladder only. And I didn’t play ladder then.

In D2R, was saving up to finally trade for one when it dropped and I was ecstatic. Picked it up and bam, ethereal. I still have it, it’s on an act 3 merc lol.

You know what? ME TOO LOL

Ouch. The worst thing about this is that the ethereal quality should have raised the defence, but even with that the defence still isn’t 200+ which means the base roll must have been really low?

i picked up a Eth superior 15ed Thresher
no sockets

:/

Thanks all. I should have added that with helms, at least you can Larzuk and Zod it? Although this would perhaps have been much cheaper pre-ROTW!

crafty mccraft wrote: 2 hours ago

i picked up a Eth superior 15ed Thresher
no sockets

:/

that’s actually one that is fixable with a Larzuk quest? But ofc, having it roll with a valuable number of sockets in the first place would have been better.