
In that case, always make sure to remove gems from your old item after its rank has been transferred. Gems are also transferred unless the upgrade item is missing one or more sockets. Click Rank Transfer and the rank of the old item is going to be transferred to your upgrade item.
Using a family-specific Reforge Stone guarantees that you will get a bonus from that family.įor Rank Transfer to work you need a Head item of any Rank and another Head Item (usually an item that is an upgrade to you). Reforge Stones allow you to change a chosen Bonus Attribute on an item. You will need a Reforge stone from the Reforge Stone Merchant, and have a Legendary Item Rank 6+ in order to use this service. Reforge adds special bonuses to your Legendary Items from a variety of bonus families. Starting at rank 6, these bonus attributes can be Reforged. If all three bonuses on an item are from the same family, a set bonus is awarded. Bonus attributes are awarded at rank 6, 11, and 16. Rare items have a max rank of 5, but legendary items can reach rank 20. Upgrading improves the basic and bonus attributes of items.
Only rare and legendary items can be upgraded. As your Legendary item goes past Rank 5, the bottleneck to upgrade these becomes Enchanted Dust requirements which can go up to 0/100, 0/150 and so on. Glowing Shards are obtained from salvaging a Legendary Item you don't need.Įnchanted Dust can be obtained from salvaging Magic and Rare Equipment, but a really good source is completing events like the Haunted Carriage in Ashwold Cemetery, and the Ancient Nightmare in Mount Zavain, the Lost Pages of Kulle's Secret Chamber in Zoltun Kulle's Library. Beyond Rank 5, it is common to see an additional material requirement: Glowing Shard. The most common materials used to upgrade Legendary items up to Rank 5 are Scrap Materials and Enchanted Dust. Items can be broken down and used as materials to upgrade your equipment. Salvaging an upgraded item returns all of the upgrade materials used. Materials obtained from Salvage are dependent on the quality of the item. Salvage items to gain Upgrade materials. An additional service Charsi offers after completing the Helliquary questline is to Refine Scoria. As you might remember, canonically the Diablo II player brought to her the Malus - which she uses now in Diablo Immortal to upgrade, reforge, and transfer item ranks. Charsi has special services that no other Blacksmith in each zone has. The Blacksmith in Westmarch is a well-known character from Diablo II Act I.