04-04-2005, 08:44 AM
There are recipes on http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp to tell you how to put certain items in the Horadric Cube and upgrade the item. From Normal to Exceptional to Elite, there are three types of armor for each graphic. For example- Leather armor upgrades to serpentskin armor, which upgrades to wyrmhide. For upgrading an exceptional (serpentskin) armor unique to the elite armor, put a Lem rune and a Ko rune and a perfect Diamond in the Horadric Cube with the armor and transmute it. It comes out as the upgraded version of the armor- a higher strength requirement, but higher defence and the same unique item modifiers.