Cubing Charms ? !

[Hobbs]

Hey everyone

i haven`t played for some time and now i´m not quit sure what to do. I stored tones of p gems and want to cube them. Now my question:

The best GC`s to cube with are from nila, dia and baal right ? ! but is there any difference betwen them ? Is a baal GC better then a dia GC ? Or it just has to be one of them ? (yeah i know it`s working with any GC but i want some 40+ ones ;D )

I also want to know if it is the same with sc`s


And there is a little OT question. Are there still any MF breakpoints ? What`s a good number here for a hammerdin.

Thanks for your help

[mackscynox]

baal gc = dia gc = nith gc

they are all same and have same chance to get 41+ life

[Hobbs]

okay thats what i wanted to know. and what`s about the sc ?

[kestegs]

Yes, same thing for SCs

[krischan]

To be precise, SCs from Diablo cannot have one or two of the highest elemental affixes, but thse affixes are irrelevant because you usually want other ones, like +life, allres etc. Any SC from hell mode can have these interesting affixes, so it's not worth rerolling SCs - you will probably find more of them than 3x3 sets of matching flawless gems.

[Mrjones]

For SC wouldn't just rolling any 60 sc be good if your just looking for 5/20s and 3/20/20s?

[kestegs]

Not a bad idea, but those 451 poison scs are quite valuable. I personally don't think it's worth it to roll a small charm at all.

[Zisi]

For SC wouldn't just rolling any 60 sc be good if your just looking for 5/20s and 3/20/20s?

This is really what I am wondering. I would love to cube some legit 3/xx/life charms or 20/5s (as I have called them). To me they'd be much more valuable and useful for more of my characters, than say a lifer skiller. But then again I've never really used those (too expensive / rare).

I tried rolling some baal scs, but got some useless high level mods a few times (like +1 max damage), so now I am thinking of using a hell cows charm instead (something like ilvl81 or something) to eliminate the super high mods . I guess that would give up the elemental damage ones too as been said.

[Zoi]

Is every charm dropped in say... Ancient Tunnels also identical to D/B/N-charms?

Aren't there affixes that only these SCs of select origin can have the same way there are for GCs? Are these simply not very appealing?

What about LCs?

[Black Lotus]

Rolling scs is very good thing to do, they are easier to sell (like, those plain 20life scs seem to pay off the whole process sometimes).
Also, many unsellable scs are good for self-use (non-perfect life-res charms are always wanted on most classes), and you can use any hell sc for cubing. I used to roll hundreds of pgms a day for scs, that was much more profitable than rolling gcs.
Rolling Baal scs isnt that great, you get a chance of getting one of 4 elemental damage mods, or +1min/max mod but the only one you really want is 175poison. And it is ONLY valuable when comes along with poison suffix, and even then 453psn charms are cheaper than 20/5.