D2R 2.4 New Horadric Cube Recipes - How They Upgrade Set Items in Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder Season?

D2R 2.4 New Horadric Cube Recipes - How They Upgrade Set Items in Diablo 2 Resurrected Ladder Season?

2/1/2022 6:09:30 PM

As you know, Diablo 2 Resurrected patch 2.4 brings new recipes for the Horadric Cube. These are dedicated to the improvement of set items. Let's take a look at how it works and the results we can expect.

Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 New Horadric Cube Recipes

There are four new D2R 2.4 cube recipes:

1 Ral + 1 Sol + 1 Perfect Emerald + normal set weapon = Exceptional version of the weapon
1 Lum + 1 Pul + 1 Perfect Emerald + exceptional set weapon = Elite version of the weapon
1 Tal + 1 Shael + 1 Perfect Diamond + normal set armor = Exceptional version of the armor
1 KB + 1 Lem + 1 Perfect Diamond + exceptional set armor = Elite version of the armor

How Does The New Recipes To Upgrade Set Items?

In practice, the improvement concerns exclusively the basic statistics of the item. Don't expect bonuses to be improved, it won't be. Weapon damage can thus be buffaloed, as can the defense of armor pieces.

On the other hand, all bonuses (in blue) will remain the same. An item with 20 points of fire damage will continue to offer 20 points of fire damage, and what it passes in exceptional or elite version.

This improvement is obviously accompanied by an increase in the prerequisites in level, strength and dexterity. As a result, not all improvements are good to take, simply because a not very interesting item will not become great by passing elite, far from it.

Conversely, it becomes very nice when it comes to an set item that is already popular. We are thinking, for example, of the pieces of the Immortal King. This improvement also makes it possible to keep certain items a little longer on characters in the leveling phase. We can also imagine that items that have a specific use, such as those that have Magic Find, will be improved by some players to gain a little defense for example.

Example of Using New Cube Recipes To Upgrade Set Items

Here are two examples with Vidala's Barb bow and Guillaume's Face helmet:

Vidala's Barb

Normal Version

3-18 damage

Dexterity: 50

Strength: 40

Level: 14

Exceptional Version

10-41 damage

Dexterity: 95

Strength: 80