Terror zone item “breakpoints”?

Hello all,
Trying to make sure I have a complete and accurate list of Terror zone “breakpoints”. I’ll update this post if I learn anything new.

Character lvl 83 (TZ lvl 85): champion packs and uniques can drop all unique and set items in the game.

Char lvl 85 (TZ 87): All enemies and non-super chests can drop all uniques and sets in the games.

Char lvl 87 (TZ 89): uniques and champion packs can drop 45 life GCs.

Char lvl 88 (Tz 90): Amulets dropped by champions/uniques can be used by the lvl 88 char to craft +2 skill amulets.

Char lvl 89 (TZ 91): all enemies and chests can drop 45 life GCs.

Char lvl 90 (TZ 92): All amulets dropped can be used by the lvl 90 char to craft +2 skill amulets.

Char lvl 91 (TZ 93): terrorized act bosses have dramatically increased odds of dropping TC 85 and 87 items.

Char lvl 94 (TZ 96): max Terror zone level reached.


Is this list more or less complete? Also, when you hit level 91, supposedly terrorized act bosses drop a lot more TC 87 items. But what about NORMAL enemies and champions/uniques? Do you get any more TC. 87 from them as you level up, or once you unlock the possibility of TC 87, does the probability stay fixed? It impacts a grailer/mf hunt a lot if TC87 becomes more and more common as you level up, or if it just stays fixed.

tatarjj wrote: 2 hours ago

(what about chests?).

Normal chests & poppables, yes. Super chests follow their own rules though.

tatarjj wrote: 2 hours ago

(All amulets dropped can be used in crafting by the lvl 89 char to make +2 class skill amulets at this point also, correct?)

No, you need char level 90 (TZ 92) for this due to rounding. When determining the result ilvl of a craft, you take half the char level and half the input ilvl, but both are rounded down before adding, so 89/2 = 44.5, which is rounded to 44, and 91/2 = 45.5 which is rounded to 45, so the total is 89 and that's too low.

ShadowHeart wrote: 2 hours ago

tatarjj wrote: 2 hours ago

(what about chests?).

Normal chests & poppables, yes. Super chests follow their own rules though.

tatarjj wrote: 2 hours ago

(All amulets dropped can be used in crafting by the lvl 89 char to make +2 class skill amulets at this point also, correct?)

No, you need char level 90 (TZ 92) for this due to rounding. When determining the result ilvl of a craft, you take half the char level and half the input ilvl, but both are rounded down before adding, so 89/2 = 44.5, which is rounded to 44, and 91/2 = 45.5 which is rounded to 45, so the total is 89 and that's too low.

Thanks, updated the post. I still really, really want to know if a level 96 terrorized normal monster has any increased chance of dropping TC 87 than a level 87 terrorized normal monster. I’ll try to look it up later if Ican’t find an answer here.

If there’s no loot benefit to pushing Terror zones past level 93, then for some builds (for example, builds which max out all synergies by level 91) it will actually be desirable to Cap your level at 91 via periodic deliberate suicide to prevent monsters from scaling up any further in life/damage.