Same ring - different stats?

[gotmilk0112]

How'd this happen? They're both "Emperor's Seal of the Whale", but one of them has +1 spirit and stamina.

[Robotron]

"of the" items have stat variance.

[Shmooglavoue]

This is just a guess, since I'm honestly not sure, but I think it's got to do with the randomizing algorithm for the "of the" items. Probably, somewhere in there, there's a calculation that has the stats measured for the item level, and in this one's particular case it would've landed on something like "stat=10.5" with the computer having a random chance of rounding it up or down.

Don't take my word for it though, I'm just guessing. I haven't rooted around the game files, nor do I have much programming knowledge, so anyone with more in-depth knowledge on this feel free to correct me.

[dji200]

Just like green items with random stats they may differ, usually by 1 stat.

For example lets take green level 41, "Gossamers Gloves of the Whale" (spirit + stamina)
It comes with 9-10 stamina + 9-10 sprit. So it could be:

[9sta]+[10spi]
[10sta]+[9spi]
[9sta]+[9spi]
[10sta]+[10spi]

This should be true for most items with random stats.