Corruptions: Difference between revisions

'''Worldstone Shards''' are new items which drop throughout the game and can be used to corrupt equipment and maps. Corruption results include adding sockets (if applicable), adding a corruption modifier as listed below, or turning the item into a random <span class="d2-yellow">rare</span> of the same type. If it becomes a random rare ("bricked") item), it will also gain a corruption modifier as well as remaining ethereal if the original item was ethereal. Corrupted items cannot be corrupted again, but they can be modified by other [[recipes]].

To use a Worldstone Shard, put it into the Horadric Cube with another item and press the Transmute button. For maps, press the button twice.

<span class="d2-white">Regular</span> items (<span class="d2-gray">ethereal</span> or non-<span class="d2-gray">ethereal</span>) cannot gain corruption modifiers, but can gain sockets (up to the maximum amount of sockets for that item) or turn into a random <span class="d2-yellow">rare</span>. Runewords are built in regular items that already have sockets, so they can't behave corruptedcorruption modifiers. Corrupting a regular item is akin to using the [[Recipes#Socketing_Recipes|socketing recipe]] on it, and can even be done with inferior/superior items. If a regular item that cannot gain sockets is corrupted, it will still become a random rare 50% of the time - the other 50% will be effectively unchanged.

[[Maps]] always gain a corruption modifier when corrupted. CorruptionMost corruption modifiers have 3 tiers (one for each map tier) and their ranges are listed in order.

| colspan="2" | Area gains Monster Density only || || 60-80<br>80-100<br>100-120 || ||

| colspan="2" | Area Levelgains increase+1 byZone 1Level || || 15-20<br>20-25<br>25-30 || ||

| colspan="2" | Area gains Monster Rarity only || || || 30-40<br>40-50<br>50-60 ||