Rare with two affixes? Display bug or what?

[jiansonz]

I found this bow today: clicky. (http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m156/jiansonz/GrimStinger.jpg)

I was surprised at only two affixes. Sometimes that happens, for example when you have one affix from the +AR family, one from the +% ED family and one from the family with both (King´s and such) but I could not see any such things going on with this bow. So I saved it to have a look in ATMA. There it looks like this:

Grim Stinger
Short Battle Bow
Two-Hand Damage: 11 to 13
Required Dexterity: 40
Required Strength: 30
Required Level: 20
Bow Class - Normal Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 38
Fingerprint: 0xcbec32fd
+7 to Dexterity
+6 to Minimum Damage
+2 to Maximum Damage

Short Battle Bows have base damage 5-11, so the +2 max seems to fit. Then how come the +2 max. is not seen in-game?

Has this happened to you? Are there other affixes I should be aware of that may not show up?

[Dodgydave]

Hmm, that's very interesting. I seem to have vague recolections of finding the occasional rare with only two affixes and thinking it was strange at the time. Unfortunately I never took any screenies or checked with ATMA to see if there was a hidden/missing affix like this one has.

[Orphan]

I wonder if having the +6 min which takes the min up to the max is affecting it somehow, although it still appears to determines the final damage fine. I've never had it happen to me though.

[Dodgydave]

Pretty sure I've seen other weapons with +min damage greater than +max damage that have displayed correctly. Not a bad idea though and worth checking out.

[Klapios]

Its probably a display error due to a mod you are using (RWM/RRM)

[jiansonz]

Its probably a display error due to a mod you are using (RWM/RRM)

Nope, I play completely Vanilla (no mods)

[krischan]

Perhaps the bow spawned with +dex, +mindmg and an affix which is in the same group as +maxdmg. The game applied mindmg first which would raise the normal mindmg beyond the max, so the game adds a hidden +maxdmg affix. Because it's in the same group than one of the original affixes, it replaces that affix and only two of them are visible while ATMA displays that hidden affix as well.

That's just an unproven theory, however.

[jiansonz]

Perhaps the bow spawned with +dex, +mindmg and an affix which is in the same group as +maxdmg. The game applied mindmg first which would raise the normal mindmg beyond the max, so the game adds a hidden +maxdmg affix. Because it's in the same group than one of the original affixes, it replaces that affix and only two of them are visible while ATMA displays that hidden affix as well.

That's just an unproven theory, however.

You may have a point, since if you apply +6 min first, it would get 11-11 (like Orphan pointed out). That could have caused the strangeness, maybe forcing the +max up at least by 1. I like your theory.