LAST EDITED ON 05-26-01 AT 11:40 AM (PDT)

This site has been helpful so maybe i can contribute.
A listed defense rating of 50-150 (I'll use a Grim Shield because that's what I'm dealing with now) means the defense rating will be in that range. It could be 50, 86, 128, or 150 when found. +Defence prefixs work on the max base +1 , therefore a grim shield could be 160 to 300. + Defence prefixes may say +120% defence but they are only adding 20%. Your new defence is 120% of the base defence. + Damage and many other affixes work the same way.

eg. An armor with 10-99 defense has a enhanced defense of 10%.
The resulting defense will ALWAYS be 110.

Holy is up to +100% or 200%, but NOT +200%. (:

The N-1 bug exist in classic D2, but will be fixed in expansion
(and probably also fixed in classic D2 v1.07,
the patch version due with expansion release).

Correct.

The grimshield does not
>have the n-1 bug of
>most items as i have
>seen 300 for holies.

Actually, the n-1 bug has been fixed for all items in the Expansion.

+Defence
>prefixs work on the base
>as found, therefore a holy(...+200%)
>grim shield could be 100
>to 300.

Actually, Holy is only +80-100%. You're right, though: the maximum defense would be 100-300.

+ Defence prefixes
>may say +120% defence but
>they are only adding 20%.

So a Godly Grim Shield with, say, +167% defense would only have 83-250 defense, then? Not from what I've seen.

>Your new defence is 120%
>of the base defence. +
>Damage and many other affixes
>work the same way.

No, no, it's 100% (the base defense) PLUS the added defense from the prefix -- 267% in my example above.

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