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To upgrade a rare or unique item in Diablo 2: Resurrected, you have to make a particular Horadric Cube recipe. The recipe varies depending on the item you want to upgrade, but it always involves a Perfect gem, and those don't drop on Normal difficulty except at the Hellforge, where you ever get i. Information technology'south possible for them to drop randomly from Act I on Nightmare onwards, merely highly improbable that early, and so you lot probably won't get your starting time random Perfect gem until yous're quite some way into the game on Nightmare difficulty.

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Upgrading a rare or unique particular leaves its modifiers untouched, but improves the base weapon from Normal to Exceptional, or from Exceptional to Elite. So, its basic stats, such equally damage and defense, will improve. If those basic stats are subject to percentage based modifiers, and then the upgrade tin brand a very large difference indeed.

The recipes for upgrading rare and unique items are every bit follows:

Rare Items (xanthous)

Normal rare armor to Exceptional

  • Normal rare armor
  • Thul rune
  • Ral rune
  • Perfect Amethyst

Normal rare weapon to Exceptional

  • Normal rare weapon
  • Amn rune
  • Ort rune
  • Perfect Sapphire

Exceptional rare armor to Elite

  • Infrequent rare armor
  • Pul rune
  • Ko rune
  • Perfect Amethyst

Exceptional rare weapon to Aristocracy

  • Exceptional rare weapon
  • Um rune
  • Fal rune
  • Perfect Sapphire

Unique Items (gold, which looks more like pale brown)

Normal unique armor to Exceptional

  • Normal unique armor
  • Shael rune
  • Tal rune
  • Perfect Diamond

Normal unique weapon to Infrequent

  • Normal unique weapon
  • Sol rune
  • Ral rune
  • Perfect Emerald

Infrequent unique armor to Elite

  • Exceptional unique armor
  • Lem rune
  • Ko rune
  • Perfect Diamond

Exceptional unique weapon to Aristocracy

  • Infrequent unique weapon
  • Lum rune
  • Pul rune
  • Perfect Emerald