Solved Request info about the deal with ebug and possibly other less explained changes

As shown in many places all over the Internet, normally on vanilla Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, the ebug (ethereal armor defense bug) happens when you take normal(3) ethereal armor(or shield, or helm) and put it into Horadric Cube along with two appropriate runes and a appropriate perfect gem (Tal + Thul + Perfect Topaz for body armor) and transmute to apply an item socketing recipe which is designed to randomly add from 1 up to 6 sockets to an item. Ethereal armors have their defenses 50% higher, after using the socketing recipe, this ethereal defense bonus happens to be applied again, adding yet another 50% of base defense. For example, body armor of 500 defense would be 750 as ethereal and become 10000 after socketing it.

Now, uniquely on this server, the ebug part of it appears to work very differently and it wasn't listed or explained in the Full List of Custom Features and Recipes.
In server rules I have seen ebug mentioned:
"- Not allowed to abuse bugs (invincible barb is forbidden) or errors in the game, except those who are considered to be part of the game ; example: eth defense bug"
The best info I found was in a post there: http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/eth-bugged-items.525379/#post-739089, however, its far from adequate explanation. More like suggestion to throw things at the wall too see what happens and hope for the best, and the best didn't happen in my case where ~750 defense ethereal Lacquered Plate just rerolled into ~500 defense. Firstly I socketed it with Tal + Thul + Perfect Topaz recipe, which worked for me many years and was disapointed to see the defense remain the same, since after reading rules and game changes in the server, my initial impression led to believe it would work the same as usual. It rolled semi-unfortunate two sockets, on which, after asking around, I worked further by making Smoke runeword (includes +75% Enhanced Defense) and then Hel + Tp scroll unsocketing recipe. As I mentioned, defense just went down to ~500. I've been told it would go up and after socketing-unsocketing repeatedly it would reach ~4000. I've actually been told to roll this with Prudence (Mal+Tir), but then it only puzzles me further. Normally in that case I would open up patch_d2.mpq and see the cubemain.txt for myself to know exactly what works, how and why. This server patch doesn't provide txt versions of the files, which leads me here, to the forum, requesting help, information and, hopefully, at least portion of cubemain.txt, if possible.

 

Yeah, here the ebug is kinda different. You need to write a runeword in the desired armour multiple times in order to bug its defense.
For 3 sock eth armours you need to write Duress a few times and for 4 sock you need Stone. Cheapest options.
Hope that helped abit.

 

So if i wanted a Stone in Etheral Sacred Armor , i have to make and erase the RW how many times?

 

what about 2 sock body armor runewords? helms or shields? i believe some years ago on this server i saw exile with like 32k defense wtf. i imagine, normal eth targe ebuged from like 30 defense into 4000, then upgraded to exceptional and elite version which has about 10 times more defense? i think i also saw back then a templars might which probably became 4000 (+ed) def as exceptional and then much more again when made elite.

Actually I tried asking around and mostly found people who dont even know what ebug is at all.

 

Prudence - Mal Tir(140-170ED), Smoke - Nef Lum(75ED).
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Prudence_Rune_Word
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_Rune_Word

woudlnt smoke be much cheaper way to do it? It also has enhanced defense.

 

Can you still get 5k in stone?

 

Good that it works, the only question is how much times you need to bug it succesfully. Can be anywhere from 1-4 atempts

 

So if I'm making a r/w that doesn't have ED, will I be able to bug an eth armor till it hits max defense, before I craft the r/w I want that doesn't have ED?

 

2-3 times more than with prudence, theoretically. However, I came here to forum for help precisely because it didn't work for me at all.

 

it was never possible

for the eth bug to work u had to have ED , in any incantation of diablo