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There are also sweet spots, when good modifiers are available, but before additional modifiers become possible and dilute the odds of getting the good ones you want. If, for instance, the modifier you want on a glove is Alvl 50, and you notice that seven more modifiers become possible on gloves at Alvl 60, you'll have better odds of getting the modifier you want before the [[Qlvlilvl]]s of items exceed 60. See the details on determining Alvl and Qlvl ilvl further down this page.

The odds that item types will upgrade to [[exceptional]] and [[elite]] are more complicated to calculate. They depend on Clvl and [[Ilvlilvl]]. Higher level characters are more likely to get exceptional and elite items, and lower level items are more likely to upgrade to exceptional and elite. The formulas are as follows:

The process of determining which affixes ([[prefix]]es and [[suffix]]es) can occur on a given item in ''[[Diablo II]]'' is very complicated. Check out the [[Item_Generation_Tutorial#Affix_selection|Item Generation Tutorial]] for a full run down. The gist of the process is that items have a quality level an Item Level ([[Qlvlilvl]]) which the game uses to determine which affixes (based on their [[Alvl]]) can possibly appear on that item. From the valid pool of [[modifier]]s (based on item type and Qlvlilvl) it then selects one or more modifiers.

For item drops (by monsters or chests) the item's Qlvl ilvl is determined by the monster's level, or the Ilvl levle of the area in which the chest was found. For gambling, Qlvl ilvl is determined by the level of the character gambling, with some randomness thrown in. ilvl = Clvl = Qlvl +4/-5.This means that the Qlvl ilvl of the item will be somewhere between -5 and +4 the Clvl. Thus, when trying to gamble the Alvl 90 modifier that adds +2 to a character's skills on an amulet, there's a 10% chance of getting a Qlvl ilvl 90 amulet at level 86, a 50% chance at level 90, and a 100% chance at level 95 and above.

[[Circlet]]s add an oddity to this, with their [[mlvl]]. This is a [[magic level]] bonus that makes all types of circlets get higher in Qlvl level affixes than other items gambled by the same character.

Thus, a coronet gambled by a level 70 character would have a Qlvl at an ilvl of 78, 65 - 74 and level thus get bonuses as high as 73 - 82 characters are guaranteed to . To have a guaranteed chance at +2 skills (Alvl 90) when gambling coronets, a character would have to be 87 (87 - 5 + 8 = 90).

This [[ilvl]] calculation affects only the types of base items available to gamble from. It does not factor into the modifiers that can be found on those items, which are also determined largely by a [[Character level|character's level]]. For instance, just because a level 60 [[Sorceress]] has a chance to see a coronet every time the gamble window loads, doesn't mean she can ever get +2 to all skills on a coronet she gambles (she can not, her clvl is much too low).