GC farming question

[MortisSpiritis]

Im trying to farm GC's, in the hope of getting +life skillers. Ive read the charm sticky, and heres where my question comes in:

Ilvl 77
Here two important suffixes become available: Vita and Maiming, both capable of turning any good prefix into a monster of a charm. If you're aiming for the very best, this is where you'll find it. These are the two highest ilvl requiring mods so any charms ilvl 77 and up can get these. To get charms of ilvl 77, the optimal places to search are:
*Act 1 Hell, Countess tower level 3 and cave level 1 (in the cold plains)
*Act 2 Hell, Lost City

In the quest to get a high +life skiller, is it necessary/important to get a charm thats exactly ilvl 77? Why not any GC from higher up areas? like Act 5, Baal, etc?

[skoolbus]

It depends, if you want a skiller to have 41-45 life, you MUST use one from hell baal, nihaltik, or diablo. If you're happy with 36-40 life, any ilvl 77 or above charm will work. It shouldn't matter if it's exactly ilvl 77 or anything above because I don't believe there are any suffixes that require an ilvl above 77 (except of vita with 41-45 life which is ilvl 91 and above). If theorhetically there was an undesirable suffix that required an ilvl of 80 or above, then you would be better off using an ilvl 77, 78, or 79 charm, but since there isn't it doesn't matter!

edit: I'm basing this off the AS, which could very well be wrong (if it is, then using ilvl 77 charms would be best).

[MortisSpiritis]

1 more question on area mob levels. If the 3rd floor of the countess tower is a good place to find ilvl 77 drops, can i assume that the 4th and 5th level also have ilvl 77, or higher drops? Same with the Cat floors near Andy? I know the pits are mlvl 87, but there are alot of CI mobs there :/

[psych]

In the Strategy Compendium (find it on www.diabloii.net) there is a facts & formulae page where you can find the arealevels of areas.

In Hell normal monsters have monsterlvl = arealvl so if those areas have an arealevel of 77 or higher you should be good.

[Aldeth the Foppish Idiot]

I think the point of the initial post was the areas he list were where you had the BEST chance (percent wise) of finding a grand charm. I do not think he was implying that these were the only areas you could get one.

If the 3rd floor of the countess tower is a good place to find ilvl 77 drops, can i assume that the 4th and 5th level also have ilvl 77, or higher drops?

Since there are no additional charm modifiers between 77-91, then to me, it shouldn't matter if you get the charm from a level 77 area or a level 85 area.