Could someone explain to me how celestial enchantments can screw up your stats. I only have two in green now if I just plain remove them which kind of messes with why I bought them. With them all on I have either power in red or combat advantage in red depending on where I put them.
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It's a tad more complicated than that with the increased "combined rating" on the upgraded enchants, but essentially that is what happened.
The higher the item level, the lower the stat percentage in general, regardless if it is enchantment or gear or whatever.
All stat is compensated by combined rating which is lower than item level.
Individual stat is increased by specific stat.
Lets use Celestial garnet as example, it has item level 1800 and 1620 combined rating and +2700 power.
Comparing with NO enchantment in a slot to having a Celestial garnet in the slot.
your item level is increased by 1800.
All stat is increased by 1620.
Power is increased for additional 2700.
Rating contribution is 50% - X% / 1000 in which X is "item level - stat" or 0 if it is negative.
Using the above example, for all stat (except Power), X will be greater (since item level increase > combined rating increase).
Hence, by default, your rating contribution for all stat (except power) will be decreased.
In a nutshell, the 1800 - 1620 difference (180) is: to take 180 from 14 other stats to give 2700 to Power.
Long time ago, I already told you more than once that having more item level with useless stat is bad.
In short, whenever you increase your item level, you will ALWAYS lower the rating contribution for most of your stat and hopefully that is not the stat that you care about.
A stat that shows red is a lot higher than item level, so more points are being wasted.
So... green is better than red, but green is not "good".
If you don't want to waste any rating points, keep the values just under the total item level.