Any percentage-based affix will not be boosted (such as Attack Speed, bonus % to skills or % Critical Hit Chance/Damage).

You can’t equip more than one item with the same name, even if one is Ancient and the other isn’t.

Set items are also able to roll as both Ancient and Primal Ancient.

The stats on these items will (generally) be tailored to the character class you are playing when the item drops.They are identical to Legendary items except that their base attributes (damage or armor) and all non-percentile affixes roll higher values for both minimum and maximum possible rolls. In general, Ancient and Primal Ancient items are more powerful versions of Legendary items. For those of you who may have taken a break from gathering loot recently, we thought a quick refresher was in order to clear up any confusion about the differences between Legendary, Ancient, and Primal Ancient items. But it doesn’t seem that’s the case for you.Ancient items truly shine in Season 17: so long as you have no Set bonuses equipped, each Ancient you equip will provide you with a massive 750% boost to damage dealt and 4% reduction in damage taken. Then say, ‘I didn’t get any ancients in all this reforges’. That, those people actually get ancients, but when the stats are bad, not what they were looking for, they erase it from the data pool. There is another theory I have with such a bad luck streak, not particularly talking about reforging but other stuff as well. I know it’s superstitious, pseudo nonsense crap, but it makes me feel better and I never had such a bad luck as you in this game or some other ones.

What I consider those bad luck as is that, some stall in the programming code that prevents certain outcome to appear, and changing some variables in the game resets that process/interaction. Simple thing I do is to go to a mystic in Act 5, instead of 1 or 2 I normally play the game at. I’m not really a superstitious guy, but when some streak of bad luck happens (like what you’re experiencing now or when certain property simply won’t show up when enchanting), I try to change something in my environment in game. No, not saying this to insult you, just saying to switch some variables around you. You know what they say about insanity, doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.

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