D2R Crafting Lab

Crafting creates a new item. The recipe contributes three or four fixed properties, then the game selects one to four rare-eligible affixes. The original magic modifiers and jewel modifiers are discarded, and an ethereal input produces a non-ethereal craft. Magic-only affixes are excluded. A fixed property can stack with a rare-eligible random affix of the same stat, which is why some crafted totals exceed normal rare-item totals.

Output ilvl is floor(character level ÷ 2) + floor(input ilvl ÷ 2). The base quality level and magic level then convert that output into affix level. Affix level decides which prefixes and suffixes are allowed; a higher value opens more affixes but does not improve the roll inside an affix's listed range.

Gambled magic items range from character level - 5 through character level + 4. Shopped items are normally character level + 5, capped at 99, with Normal-difficulty vendor restrictions. Monster drops use the monster's level. Use an exact item level when the source is known. For gloves, shopping is the precision method; gambling is useful, but never exact.

Random affixes follow rare-item rules: no more than three prefixes or three suffixes, and two affixes from the same group cannot coexist. Crafted required level is the highest random-affix requirement + 10 + 3 per random affix, capped at 98, but it can never be lower than the base item's own requirement. This is why unwanted charged skills can make otherwise ordinary gloves require a very high level.