Item level cap rules – a user must be of a certain level to gain full benefit from an item. Here’s the exact formulas in question. (All decimals are rounded down.)

Attributes: Level x 1.5
Skills: (Level / 5) + 1
Resists: (Level / 2) + 1
Hit points: Level x 4
Power: (Level / 2) + 1

Items have 4 slots. The formula for how many points can be imbued into an item is based on two factors:

• The level of the item
• The quality of the item

The formula for the imbue point is:

• mVal = Multiplied Value = gem-bonus multipled with difficulty value.
• gem-bonus = the stat the gem will put on the item
• difficulty values are as follows:

Overcharge = put in gems with together more imbue points then the item has.

It is possible to overchage with 5 points (*levels*). The more points overcharge, the higher the risk for the item and the crafter to explode. It also works the other way, the higher the crafters skill is and the quality of the gems, the higher chance of success.

There are a few exceptions:

On any skill, resistance or power bonus, the first *level* on each gem is 0.5. This is ONLY if the gem only has one *level*. If an item has more than one *level*, that first level is 0 (free). Note that since all calculations round down, this will often result in zero.

So, for an item with +3 Sword, it really counts as a +2 Sword for purposes of calculating the mVal (in this case, 10). To get the most out of the SC, if you’re making a resist or attribute based item, it’s always to your benefit to throw an extra skill level onto the item, since it’s the most expensive of bonuses to imbue.

Every calculation in this formula is rounded down. This can be used to your advantage. As an example – if an item has 4 attribute bonuses, +5 STR, +3 DEX, +3 CON and +3 QUI, it would have an imbue value of 10 + 3 + 3 + 3 (remember, the highest mVal is doubled) for a total of 19, divided by 2. The imbue value would be 9.5. Since that is rounded down, it really has an imbue value of 9. You’ve just squeezed an extra attribute point into that item.

Finally, attribute bonuses gain a bonus in effectiveness of 1.5x off the top. When you pay for a +5 STR item, it actually will appear to the user as a +7 STR item.

Here is an example:

This will make an imbue value of 35 and demands an overchage of 3 points on a level 51 Masterpiece weapon wich has 32 imbue points.

Here is some links to calculators online:

Camelot Herald

Spellcrafting Optimiser