Recipe: High Quality Rare Item of Same Type

Using

The Stone of Jordan made sense back in the day because they were being mass dupped and Blizz wanted a SoJ sink.

Unless we see mass duping of SoJ again, this recipe probably has no use.

Note: if you do this with an ethereal item, the result will not be ethereal.

Those GG

Eth weapons must be found in the wild.

This recipe is good for rolling GG rare jewels though, a good one can be made at a rate of about 1/50, while GG diadems are much rarer, at a rate of over 1/couple hundred, even in the thousands.

GG rare class specific items are a descent option for this as well.

If you were looking for the absolute best in slot for +skills though magic versions are still superior, with the ability to +3 to a skill tab and +3 on specific skills, compared to the +5 total possible on rares