Etherealization is a term coined by Buckminster Fuller in 1938, in reference to the trend of physical nature towards informational abstraction. In the U.S. postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ... The Nature Conservancy - a charitable organization devoted to preserving natural diversity worldwide English Nature UK government organization devoted to preserving natural diversity in the UK Nature Detectives An online research and education project for under 18s in the UK A Guide to Nature and Wildlife Conservation Categories: | ...
Since then, the term acquired a number of other meanings, similar in general flavor.
In CORBA, it denotes the act of destroying the association between a CORBA object and its servant, after which the object continues to virtually exist, but cannot process any requests. The opposite action is incarnation. In computing, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard for software componentry, created and controlled by the Object Management Group (OMG). ... Servant (CORBA) - the invocation target, containing methods for handling the remote method invocations. ...
See also: virtualization. In computing, virtualization is the process of presenting a logical grouping or subset of computing resources so that they can be accessed in ways that give benefits over the original configuration. ...
Certainly this cannot surprise fans of ethereal gothic, considering that the music and its artists which comprise this genre tend to sound as if they were indeed reaching towards that upper world.
Ethereal Gothic as a sub-genre is really a hyper-inflation of the traditional gothic rock sound, as it were, into an actual literal interpretation of what the word gothic means to the man on the street.
As aggressive as ethereal can be, songs like Sanctus and Es La Perdicion challenge us to accept the growl in their chant.
Armor can be usable indefinitely with Ethereal on it, depending on how often your character gets hit, and the added Defense can help, but very few characters select their armor based on it adding higher defense, and the ones that do are the ones who need higher defense, I.E. they are getting hit a lot.
Ethereal Items now calculate the 50% defense or damage increase on the base item, and that is then modified by any mods on the item.
Ethereal weapons are very good for mercs, and if you find some nice ethereal unique armor or helm, you can use it until it's down to 1 durability, then put it on your merc where it will remain useful indefinitely.