Why are min / max damage charm levels so high?

Hi!

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but:

+1 max damage prefix on small charm ("jagged") -> level 81
+1-3 max damage AND +10-20 attacking rating prefix on small charm ("fine") -> level 28

Why?!

Are there different kinds of max damage? As in: The "jagged" maxDmg goes initially to the weapon damage and is subsequently enlarged by all other enhanced-damage bonuses, and the "fine" maxDmg is only added after all other bonuses have been applied?

fraggykrueger wrote: 4 weeks ago

Hi!

Maybe I'm overlooking something, but:

+1 max damage prefix on small charm ("jagged") -> level 81
+1-3 max damage AND +10-20 attacking rating prefix on small charm ("fine") -> level 28

Why?!

Are there different kinds of max damage? As in: The "jagged" maxDmg goes initially to the weapon damage and is subsequently enlarged by all other enhanced-damage bonuses, and the "fine" maxDmg is only added after all other bonuses have been applied?

The difference is that one is a prefix and the other one is a suffix. If you want to have both affixes on a charm to get +4 md you need the higher level.

Ok, but why are these levels so high? A "jagged small charm of craftsmanship" would be level 85 and give +2 to max damage (and nothing else), whereas I can get +3 max damage AND 20 attack rating AND an additional suffix from a level 28 "fine"-prefix small charm... this just seems odd. Usually the balances are not that bad in d2r...

vued wrote: 4 weeks ago

The difference is that one is a prefix and the other one is a suffix

No it's not ? Both are prefixes (https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/i ... arms.shtml).

Of craftmanship (lvl 85) is a suffix.

Maybe they added a high level "bad" prefix at lvl 81 to make it less likely to get great combos on lvl 85+?

vued wrote: 4 weeks ago

Of craftmanship (lvl 85) is a suffix.

You're right, but OP was talking about jagged prefix :

fraggykrueger wrote: 4 weeks ago

+1 max damage prefix on small charm ("jagged") -> level 81

vued wrote: 4 weeks ago

Of craftmanship (lvl 85) is a suffix.

Maybe they added a high level "bad" prefix at lvl 81 to make it less likely to get great combos on lvl 85+?

Haha! Nice thought! They're creating crap affixes, to decrease occurrence of good charms. That would be a devilish move, but I could actually see them doing it. Otherwise it would not make sense why a +2 maxdmg charm is lvl 85 and a +3maxdmg/20ar charm -with an open spot for a suffix- is lvl28...

I think, but am not sure, that fine / sharp are prefixes that have been added in later versions of the game, and the are better than their previous counterpart : more effect AND less requirements. The older ones have not disappeared though, hence this weird effect. The suffix +1 one at least allows other values.