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Vendors usually sell items with an internal level of iLvl = cLvl + 5.
Affix level (aLvl) of items with no magical bonus level (bLvl) is determined via iLvl ≥ aLvl, otherwise it's alvl = max(iLvl, qLvl) + bLvl.
Character level, requirement is determined by max(aLvl, qLvl), thus will use the bigger value of either the highest generated affix or base item's requirement.
So you have
iLvl: internal item level
cLvl: charakter's level
aLvl: affix level
qLvl: 'quality level' of an item, compare item section of Arreat Summit
bLvl: bonus level of some items
| Act | max iLvl | maximum Skill Group |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 3 |
| 2 | 20 | 4 |
| 3 | 28 | 5 |
| 4 | 36 | 5 |
| 5 | 45 | 6 |
In Normal difficulty vendors will sell items up to a fixed iLvl, see table for details.
If iLvl ≥ 25 only magical items will be offered.
This may be of interest to someone strolling around in search for some white or grey runeword blank providing nice staffmods.
Assassin's claws are the only class-specific items the merchants will offer.
Player skills are subdivided into groups, which will affect staffmod generation. The huge table below doesn't list Amazon's skills since they can't spawn as staffmods, Primal Helmets and Pelts, since they aren't offered.
| cLvl | Skill Group | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| cLvl ≤ 6 | 80% | 20% | - | |||
| 7 ≤ cLvl ≤ 13 | 30% | 50% | 20% | - | ||
| 14 ≤ cLvl ≤ 19 | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | - | |
| 20 ≤ cLvl ≤ 31 | - | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | |
| 32 ≤ cLvl ≤ 99 | - | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | |
In 1.09 a bug allowed Elzix to sell druid pelts.
Beyond cLvl20 only magical items will be offered. Exceptions are Akara and Drognan in Normal.
Character's level will restrict vendor's offerings of staffmod items according to table beneath. It also shows why certain skills will exclude each other, they're differing too much. Further Assassin's skills from Groups 1 and 2 can't spawn on claws, since simple claws don't allow staffmod assignment at all and the better ones won't regularly spawn staffmods from both low Groups.
see also:
| Skill Group | Skill | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assassin | Necromancer | Paladin | Sorceress | |||||
| X not available at merchants' | ||||||||
| 1 | Fire Blast X | Amplify Damage | Sacrifice | Fire Bolt | ||||
| Claw Mastery X | Teeth | Smite | Warmth | |||||
| Psychic Hammer X | Bone Armor | Might | Charged Bolt | |||||
| Tiger Strike X | Skeleton Mastery | Prayer | Ice Bolt | |||||
| Dragon Talon X | Raise Skeleton | Resist Fire | Frozen Armor | |||||
| 2 | Shock Web X | Dim Vision | Holy Bolt | Inferno | ||||
| Blade Sentinel X | Weaken | Holy Fire | Static Field | |||||
| Burst of Speed X | Poison Dagger | Thorns | Telekinesis | |||||
| Fists of Fire X | Corpse Explosion | Defiance | Frost Nova | |||||
| Dragon Claw X | Clay Golem | Resist Cold | Ice Blast | |||||
| 3 | Charged Bolt Sentry | Iron Maiden | Zeal | Blaze | ||||
| Wake of Fire Sentry | Terror | Charge | Fire Ball | |||||
| Weapon Block | Bone Wall | Blessed Aim | Nova | |||||
| Cloak of Shadows | Golem Mastery | Cleansing | Lightning | |||||
| Cobra Strike | Raise Skeleton Mage | Resist Lightning | Shiver Armor | |||||
| 4 | Blade Fury | Confuse | Vengeance | Firewall | ||||
| Fade | Life Tap | Blessed Hammer | Enchant | |||||
| Shadow warrior | Poison Explosion | Concentration | Chain Lightning | |||||
| Claws of Thunder | Bone Spear | Holy Freeze | Teleport | |||||
| Dragon Tail | Blood Golem | Vigor | Glacial Spike | |||||
| 5 | Lightning Sentry | Attract | Conversion | Meteor | ||||
| Wake of Inferno Sentry | Decrepify | Holy Shield | Thunderstorm | |||||
| Mind Blast | Bone Prison | Holy Shock | Energy Shield | |||||
| Blades of Ice | Summon Resist | Sanctuary | >Blizzard | |||||
| Dragon Flight | Iron Golem | >Meditation | Chilling Armor | |||||
| 6 | Death Sentry | Lower Resist | Fist of Heavens | Fire Mastery | ||||
| Blade Shield | Poison Nova | Fanaticisma | Hydra | |||||
| Venom | Bone Spirit | Conviction | Lightning Mastery | |||||
| Shadow Master | Fire Golem | Redemption | Frozen Orb | |||||
| Phoenix Strike | Revive | Salvation | Cold Mastery | |||||
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