An ort rune together with the item you want to repair in the horadic cube is the recipe to repair an item. However if you place for example a teleport staff with 18 charges of 48 maximum in the cube the charges are not restored. Is this not part of the repair proces of a magic item ?
Ort Rune + Chipped Gem will repair the weapon and restore the charges.
Ah ok thx i didn ’ t know this recipe
If you want to crawl in an official wiki about anything in the game, recipes etc. from original D2, search for “classic battlenet diablo2”.