This way, you can gain higher defense and damage, but as the item is getting upgraded, the required stats (Level, Strength, Dexterity) go up as well. This is mostly used on low-level unique items, but sometimes on rare equipment as well. You can upgrade the level of an item - from normal to exceptional, to elite - through the Horadric Cube. In the original Diablo 2, you were able to upgrade runes after #15, Hel, only on ladder, but in Resurrected, these recipes can be used in any mode.Īnd by the way, you need more than 14 trillion El runes to make a Zod rune. After Thul, you need to add a specific gem, and after the #22 rune, Um, you only need two runes and a gem. Up to the #10 run, Thul, you need three of the lower level to make the next one. The highest level is Perfect, and Perfect gems are used in many different ways, so make sure you collect all the gems you see.Īt lower levels (rune levels, not hero levels), runes work the same way as gems. If you have three gems of the same level and type, you can put them in your Cube and upgrade them to a higher level of that gem. This is probably the simplest recipe for the Horadric Cube.

Here, we’ll look into what else you can do with the Cube. Last time, we looked into how to make Crafted Items and the recipes for specific crafts. However, Diablo 2 doesn’t give you any guide to help you. There are many things this magical box can do - from upgrading gems to making new ones or changing their properties.

The Horadric Cube isn’t meant to be just some extra spaces in your inventory that hold items while you farm.

Horadric cube recipes