Dirty statting guide for new players – with pictures

Hello everyone!
You’re in Darkzone.. and you’re reading my guide on how to dirty stat items or as some would say ‘make items better with the AT’ 🙂
First of all I would advise you to install the addon called Advanced Auctionhouse, as you will need it to find items on AH, you can download it at http://www.curse.com – make sure you search amongst the RoM addons as that site has many addons for different games.

So let’s get right to it!

There are some simple rules to statting:

1. Stats are defined by their names, not the attribute values they give, so if 2 stats give the exact same bonuses, let’s say 10 stamina, but one is called Stamina, the other is called Physique followed by their rank number (on the right side of the item) they are different stats, so look at the names and not the values! (also, yellow stats give double values, orange ones give triple)
2. An item cannot have more than one stat of the exact same type and rank (you cannot have 2x Stamina II on an item, but you can have Stamina I and Stamina II aswell) – if the exact same stat occurs more than once they cancel out each-other and it only gets added a single time – this is the rule we are going to ‘exploit’ in dirty statting.
3. An item can have up to a maximum of 6 stats on it, if there are more than 6 stats in the arcane transmutor the 6 lowest ones will get chosen.
4. You need 1 fusion stone and 1 item to make a mana stone, and you need 3 mana stones to stat an item!
   … and there are some others that don’t concern us.. yet!

So in order to begin, first we need an ITEM to stat.
Below level 55 (when you can get purple instance drops) the best base item to start with is a WHITE (not bound, can be sold after you don’t use it anymore) CLEAN (has no stats on it, that means we can put 6 on it) and HD (high durability, durability above 102 with the green text in the corner saying power modifier +20%)
Here is how you search for one using advanced auction house, the variables in the filter area (red box) are: $dura – meaning HD, durability above 105 and $zero – meaning it has no stats aka. CLEAN

Okay we got our item, now we need fusion stones 3 of them to be exact since (rule 4) you need 3 mana stones to stat the item you now have.

Here is how we search for fusion stones using advanced auctionhouse, notice the red filter area, I directly typed in the 3 stats I want on my fusion stones,
(if you want to stat using 2 or 1 stat fusion stones, you can type in the stat{s} you want and add $two or $one in any of the other boxes.)
We are going to exploit rule 2, so we need three fusion stones with EXACTLY the same stats on them, that way we have room for 3 other stats that are of higher level (rule 3).

Now that we have 3 identical fusion stones, we need 3 dummy HIGH LEVEL items that have a GOOD stat on them to create mana stones with.
Note that now we want the 3 stats to be DIFFERENT, useful stats so they don’t cancel out each-other like the fusion stones
A common way is to search for either Association jewelry stats or bay jewelry stats since those are cheap and decent for low levels. I’ll ge using association stats so here’s what I type into AH (notice the red area I set a maximum price so I don’t see all the overpriced stuff)
So buy 3 different ones from the list that are useful for your character

Okay now we got everything we need, here are the required items in my bags (3 identical fusion stones, 3 different high level items with stats, clean hd white leather pants):

Now here comes the magic… first we make a MANA STONE from each pair of FUSION STONE + ITEM.
open the arcane transmutor and pull one fusion stone and one high level item into it at a time, check the preview and if it looks good, hit the button

Once you got all 3 mana stones, drag the clean HD item you want to stat AND all 3 mana stones you made into the AT and if you’re happy with the result hit the button!… (ALWAYS CHECK PREVIEW FIRST)

So notice the red colored areas on my image.. those stats are exactly the same so they will only appear ONCE on the finished item. This way there is room on the item for the 3 GOOD stats we added.

Well that’s about it.. hope all you new people got it now and will starting to make your own imba items 🙂

Happy gaming and cheers to all

Mordox

P.S: The AT is like a big bowl.. everything you put in it will have it’s stats fall off into that bowl.. get mixed up.. then reordered based on the internal rank and the 6 lucky lowest will be chosen to be on your final item 🙂