Horadric Cube repair and recycling recipes The rule of thumb is that you need 3 of any particular gem to upgrade it to its superior quality: We'll use the Ruby as an example for the recipes below, but rest assured the same holds true for all gems, including skulls. The Horadric Cube can be used to upgrade gems if you find yourself needing better quality. Chipped gems actually become extremely rare outside of Normal difficulty, so keep a good stash as you will need them throughout the game. The final five and rarest of the rune recipes require flawless gems as part of the upgrade:Ĭhipped gems begin dropping in Act 1 Normal, moving all the way up to perfect gems as you progress through the game. Once you need to craft Mal, you will need plain gems: The recipes for crafting the following runes are:įrom Lum and above, flawed gems are required for upgrades:

They can pose severe problems for melee classes- a hit-and-run tactic is not recommended as you might mistakenly tip-off more groups of Hell Bovines.This changes at the point you which to create Amn and anything higher, which requires a chipped gem in order to upgrade to the next rune.

These bipedal cattle wield vicious halberds and will attack you in massive herds, but fortunately, their movement speed is moderately slow. Hell Bovines overrun this relatively small area. Though it is very weak, it does deal 50% more damage to Undead enemies.

Wirt's Leg can be used as a One-Hand weapon.

There you can take the portal back to Tristam and loot the leg from his find Wirt's lifeless body.

If you didn't pick it up from Wirt's corpse the first time around, don't worry, all you have to do is go back to the Cairn Stones in the Stony Field. You can also obtain one from the bookcases in the Jail and Catacomb dungeons in Act I.Ī missable item during The Search for Cain quest in Act I, Wirt's Leg, is located in the upper west area of Tristam.

You can purchase a Tome of Town Portal from one of the Act town's magic vendors.

Note that you can't transmute them in any other part of the game, you must be inside of the Rogue Encampment for the portal to appear.

Doing this will open a red portal back in Rogue Encampment, the starting town in Act I. You can unlock the Secret Cow Level by transmuting a Tome of Town Portal and Wirt's Leg in the Horadric Cube.

The Secret Cow Level, also known as the Moo Moo Farm, is part of an Easter Egg quest included by Blizzard based on Diablo I's old cow level rumors.

You can find a complete step-by-step walkthrough for every quest and boss fights for the standard campaign here.

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