Rare vortex shield, 255 durability???

[erzk]

I picked this up, I think it was a drop from one of the venom lord minions at hell baal.

The base defense was 226 (max for vortex supposed to be 225) and a durability of 255!

What went wrong? Is it a bug?

Thanks,
Erzk

[Evrae Altana]

The vortex shield you found has an enhanced defense mod. You see, whenever a piece of armor has +%Enhanced Defense, it's base defense will be max+1. If you identify this rare vortex shield of yours, you'll see it will have +%ED.

As for the durability, your shield is a failed unique. When an item drops, the game decides whether it will be unique, rare, set, etc. Apparently, it picked unique for your vortex shield, but since there are no such thing as a unique vortex shield, the game drops a rare one with 3x durability instead. The durability for a normal vortex shield is 90, so a failed unique vortex would have a durability of 270, which I suppose the game caps at 255.

[erzk]

Thanks for clarifying, too bad it wasn't a Gilded shield =(

[jiansonz]

It would also be a very rarely seen item if you had rolled set quality instead of unique.

[JME]

The durability for a normal vortex shield is 90, so a failed unique vortex would have a durability of 270, which I suppose the game caps at 255.

According to the Arreat Summit, durability is capped by the game at 333 (http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/basics.shtml). It's been wrong before but a number like that I would find strange just to be made up.

[admante]

I dont know... 255 seems prevalent in quite a few games. Any programmers shed light on this?

[LprMan]

According to the Arreat Summit, durability is capped by the game at 333 (http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/basics.shtml). It's been wrong before but a number like that I would find strange just to be made up.

333 = 666/2

Devil themed, like Demon Machine. The only "good" reason I can think of :tongue:

To be honest, I thought durability was capped to 255.

[Lanceor]

255 is the largest integer that can be represented in 1 byte (8 bits, or a sequence of eight 1's and 0's). This is assuming you include 0 as a number. 127 is another number common in programming as one byte could represent the range -127 to 127.