Does cube upgrade work on rare throwing weapons?

[snuggycat]

Hello everyone. This is my first post on this forum though I've lurked for about 4 years... I need some gurus to answer a question concerning the rare item cube upgrade recipe. I was wondering if the ort + amn + psaphire recipe works to upgrade rare throwing weapons. I found a 441% ed rare war javelin while running meph in hell and can't seem to get this recipe to work on it to upgrade. Perhaps the answer to my question should be self-evident since it hasn't worked for me. But I just wanted to make certain. Thanks for any help clearing this up.

[Stimm]

Its beacuse war javs are the exceptional version , you ll need to use this one:

FAL + UM + PSaphire

[snuggycat]

Thanks Stimm for your quick reply. Not sure I want to burn an UM on this when I can just use titan. I figured if I could upgrade twice the damage would be sick. Now it's not so impressive...

[Stimm]

I think maybe if they were eth and had replenish , could be worth it. What are the other mods on it btw out of morbid curiousity?

[PhatTrumpet]

Awww cummon, it's only an Um rune. :P

441% is 9% off perfect, so it'd take me a lot of will power and poorness to keep from upgrading those babies. They'd be absolutely godly for some sort of throw/melee hybrid Barb.

[snuggycat]

Other mods weren't particularly excellent. They were +1xx to AR and -30% reqs. I'll hang on to them I guess until I'm overflowing in UM runes... Thanks again!

[Stimm]

Wonder what the level requirment would be on those? Id think the throw damage on thos up'd would be pretty sweet.

I agree with PT - Id up them just to see what I could do with em. Could make a nice throw PvP barb if the lvl wasnt too bad.

These are the only times I miss D2. The thrill of making dulers/pkers and the hunt that followed.

[snuggycat]

Throw damage if they were hyperion javelins would be 151-298 by my calculations. They require level 48 right now and since hyperion javelins are level 50, I don't see why they would be higher than level 50?? Which means I'd be pking nm baal runs most likely if I were inclined for such a thing. I suppose I could do normal baal runs but at level 50 seems a bit lame. Never pked anyone though.

[jiansonz]

Throw damage if they were hyperion javelins would be 151-298 by my calculations. They require level 48 right now and since hyperion javelins are level 50, I don't see why they would be higher than level 50

The required level if you upgrade it will be 55.

(You take the highest clvl requirement of the old item and the new base item (48 in this case; Hyperion Javelins only require clvl 40), then add:
* 5 for normal -> exceptional
* 7 for exceptional -> elite
* 12 for normal -> elite)