Purple Modifier goes from 50% to 75%; Oh, rly?

Well here is the problem: I dropped a q10 nice looking staff, too bad it was purple but still....it had a +10 Energy and HSR 20%...and when I identified it, it also had a perfect inscription? So, wtf? I thought purple items could not have perfect modifiers? Bug or what? Here is the screenshot:



P.s: I did drop it 1 week after gw:en release or so.

P.p.s: you could think that I did put the perfect inscription, but I really had no reason to do so. Furthermore I cannot modifie bonuses like +Energy and HSR %, as everybody know so...w00t?

I think the fact that it's not max damage is the reason it's purple. (Max for a staff is 11-22)

I've seen a lot of oddball 'purples' - but, the other day I got a 'blue' FDS, req9, max damage. The only reason I can see that it was blue was because it had a "+12% while health is above 50%" inscription! Put a +30 Fortitude and a 15^50 on it and it's a "perfect" blue. (I sold it on Guru auction, so someone probably did just that. )

+5^50 is not a Gold mod. Just like +5 defense isn't a Gold mod even though it's max.

well the problem is not the inscription for real, but the modifiers. I did not even look at staff damage, but maybe the 50-75% went on dmg instead of other ones. Anyone can confirm?

Armor +x (while Health is over 50%) only has two values, +4 and +5, so 50-75% just rounds to the upper value. On blues it'll be +4, while on purples and golds it'll be +5. That's noted on the wiki somewhere. Other mods like that are Energy +x (while Health is over 50%) and Received physical damage -x (while in a Stance/enchanted).

ive had many max dmg purple staves with HSR 20% .. .nothing new, just rarer to get on purples, and yeh +5^50 isnt a gold mod, even though its max.

I swear I once saw a +4^50 energy inscription....dunno if it was removed from game or what.

It was from a blue.

who said purples couldnt have perfect inscriptions? From what you showed its just an inscribable staff....so I see no reason it cant be purple (and some of the reasoning behind the color has been mentioned, not max and it really only has the inscription, and the mod etc).
I have had many gold weapons that werent max either but were gold -------
And golds usually have 2 things on them like a mod and inscription, a staff head and wrapping, etc....while purples may have 2, only one being a good one. blues usually one or two bad ones (though I have gotten lots of good inscriptions from blue weapons that I put on golds to make them almost perfects.......)

Well one thing is for sure, that staff is really actually pretty prefect. Despite that it is not max damage, casters never really use the damage part of their weapon. IMO purples are golds since the inscriptions have been removed. They can replicate and be exactly what golds are, but cheaper. Good find dude!