I have an interesting / potentially devastating story.
I was running through Hell Act II with a wizard (I’m a WD). We played for a bit, killed a boss or something, and we’re back in town.
Out of nowhere he says “do you want this?” and drops a rare helm on the ground. It happened to be a pretty big upgrade so I took it and said “Thanks man!”. I felt obligated to return the favor, so I was looking through my inventory and saw that I had a lvl 50-54 orb. Without looking too closely at it I dropped it and said ‘here take this’. I don’t know anything about Wizards in terms of their special stat bonuses or anything particularly valuable to them in terms of off-hand affixes.
So he picked it up and after a few seconds said “thanks, I can use this orb when I hit 60
”. So then I wondered wtf could that orb possibly have that is not valuable now that would be valuable at 60. So then after that I said “wait did I just give you something worth a million gold or something?”… to which he responded with…. Silence. I’ve never had more than $200k gold. I tried a few more times to inquire about the item I had just given him, to no avail. He stopped responding to me completely.
Now, I don’t blame this guy for my ignorance. I probably would have done the same thing in his position. Maybe I would’ve given him back a chunk of gold depending on the item’s value. But I’m wondering what the hell I could’ve given him. I THINK it had some kind of “+6” or around +6 to some wizard specific stat or ability.
It could also have been just magic find. I honestly don’t remember. But his sudden refusal to no longer respond is what has caused my suspicion. BTW it was a blue. Could've been rare too I guess
What do you guys think I gave him?