Cathan's Traps

General Notes

Cathan's Set is a Sorceress set that could be good if using a shield weren't so much more useful than a staff. The set bonuses balance between melee and spell casting, which a low level Sorc without much mana might find useful.

These are the stats for the set in Diablo II Expansion Pack: Lord of Destruction, where there are partial set bonuses and hidden item bonuses.

• The odds of gambing a set item is 1 in 1000.
• Items with Rarity are expressed as a chance out of 1000. Eg 78/1000 would mean that out of every 1000 set items of that base item that drop, 78 of them will be this particular one. This is important for rings and amulets and several other items.
• Item Level: Used in many in-game calculations. Monsters must be of this level to drop the item. All items in Cathan's Traps have an Item Level of 15
• Clvl req is the character level you need to be to be able to wear the item. All items in Cathan's Traps have a Clvl Req of 11.
• Hidden Bonuses usually work in conjunction with other items. For example, if you are wearing a set helm that has a listed hidden bonus as "Wearing 2 Items: +15 Str", it means that if you wear the helm with any other item in the set, the helm will show an additional bonus of +15 Str in green text. These bonuses apply to the individual item only, but most sets will have several items with these properties, so you can quickly find that simply wearing 3 items from a 4 item set will give you several additional magical bonuses. The bonuses stack together, so if you have an item that has bonuses for wearing both 2 and 3 items, if you are wearing 3 items you will receive the bonus for wearing 2 items as well.

Weapon Notes

• Damage Bonus: This determines how you multiply the item damage by your stats to reach the actual damage. Multiply by the listed value per 100 points in that stat (eg if you have 200 points, multiply by 2). All bows are 100 Dex, almost all melee weapons are 100 Str, most throwing weapons are 75/75.
• Weapon Speed: A relative comparison to other weapons of the same type. 0 is the base -10, -20, etc is faster, 10, 20, etc is slower, always in increments of 10.
• Range: Melee only. From 1 (least) to 5 (most) in D2X. Numbers are fixed across item classes: a 3 javelin = a 3 sword = a 3 hammer, etc.

Armor Notes

• Light Armor: No stamina or speed penalties.
• Medium Armor: +5% stamina drain and speed penalty.
• Heavy Armor: +10% stamina drain and speed penalty.

D2X

Item	Item Name	Attributes	Hidden Bonuses
	Cathan's Seal Ring	Rarity: 700/1000 6% Life Stolen per Hit Damage Reduced by 2	Wearing 2 Items: +10 Strength
	Cathan's Sigil Amulet	Rarity: 155.5/1000 Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 6 Fast Hit Recovery	Wearing 2 Items: +50 to Attack Rating Wearing 3 Items: +25% Better Chance of Getting Magical Items
	Cathan's Visage Mask	9-27 Defense 20 Durability 23 Str Required +25% Cold Resist +20 mana	Wearing 2 Items: +2 Defense per Clvl *
	Cathan's Mesh Chain Mail	87-90 Defense 45 Durability 24 Str Required Medium Armor Requirements -50% +15 Defense	Wearing 2 Items: Attacker Takes Damage of 5 Wearing 3 Items: +30% Fire Resist
	Cathan's Rule Battle Staff	6-13 2H Damage 40 Durability Range: 2 0 Weapon Speed Damage Bonus: 100 Str +1 to all Fire skills +10 max Fire damage	Wearing 2 Items: +50 Mana Wearing 3 Items: +10 Resist All

* When wearing another item of this set, the defense of this mask will increase at a rate of 2 defense per Clvl

Set Bonuses

Basically a Sorceress set, as all sets with Staves in them are. Of course no Sorceresses use staves, since having a shield is so much more useful, but let's overlook that for now. There are a lot of nice bonuses from this set, resistance, +mana, -magical damage, but to tie up five items for this is just not worth it.

Set Attributes/Bonus	Item Slots Used	Item Slots Free
Partial Set Bonuses: Wearing 2 Items: +15-20 Fire Damage Wearing 3 Items: +25% Lightning Resist Full Set Bonus: 10% Faster Cast Rate Magic Damage Reduced by 3 +25 Resist All +60 to Attack Rating +20 to Mana	Two-handed Weapon Armor Helm Ring Amulet	Belt Gloves Boots Ring

Diablo II

These are the stats for the set in Diablo II, where there are no partial set bonuses or hidden item bonuses.

Item	Item Name	Attributes	Commentary
	Cathan's Seal Ring	Clvl 11 Required 6% Life Stolen per Hit Damage Reduced by 2	Sometimes used by melee characters, if they find it before a decent life leech ring or Rare ring.
	Cathan's Sigil Amulet	Clvl 11 Required Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 6 Fast Hit Recovery	Not worth wearing. Fast hit recovery on an amulet is not available elsewhere though.
	Cathan's Visage Mask	9-27 Defense 40 Durability 23 Str Required Clvl 11 Required +25% Resist Cold +20 mana	Decent cold resistance and +mana.
	Cathan's Mesh Chain Mail	87-90 Defense 90 Durability 24 Str Required Clvl 11 Required Requirements -50% +15 Defense	Good Defense for early on, and very low requirements to wear.
	Cathan's Rule Battle Staff	6-13 2H Damage 80 Durability Swing Speed Sorc: Fast Clvl 11 Required +1 Fire skills +10 max Fire damage	Mixed bonuses, one for spell-casting and one for melee, which a low level Sorc w/o the mana for full time casting should appreciate.

Set Bonuses

Basically a Sorceress set, as all sets with Staves in them are. Of course no Sorceresses use staves, since having a shield is so much more useful, but let's overlook that for now. There are a lot of nice bonuses from this set, resistance, +mana, -magical damage, but to tie up five items for this is just not worth it.

Set Attributes/Bonus	Item Slots Used	Item Slots Free
6% Life Stolen per Hit +10 max Fire damage +20 mana +1 Fire skills Damage Reduced by 2 Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 6 Fast Hit Recovery 25% to resist cold Full Set Bonus: Fast Cast Rate Magic Damage Reduced by 3 All Resistances 25% +60 to Attack Rating +20 to Mana	Two-handed Weapon Armor Helm Ring Amulet	Belt Gloves Boots Ring