Something was nagging at me on that option to remove the Mage Armor property and have it not take up any imbuing weight. Looking back at my earlier screen shots, it seemed like there should have been a much higher success chance for putting LRC on the samurai platemail mempo with Mage Armor property on it. So, I had my "moneybags" character spend the 250k gold to take the Mage Armor property off that crafted mempo to see what it would do to the imbuing process. Of course it made a big difference, which leads me to think that the publish notes are NOT accurate in saying that Mage Armor no longer has an imbuing weight. I understand it still taking up one of the 5 properties, but it seems to be still counting against you for imbuing weight too....
Sorry I'm so slow on the uptake on this one. And maybe this particular piece was wacky because it was crafted with Mage Armor on it. Unfortunately, I just don't have the gold on Origin to horse around with taking useless pieces of armor to the mage shop and dropping 250k each time to knock off or add Mage Armor property just to see how this turned out on Origin.
I'm hoping Kyronix or Bleak can clarify what it means when the publish notes say that the Mage Armor property "has an imbuing weight of zero." Maybe I'm just looking at this all wrong.
Okay, more screen shots.
Step 1: Imbuing gump when you take an exceptionally crafted samurai platemail mempo with Mage Armor property on it and pick the LRC option (an arbitrary choice just to see the piece's weight).
Step 2: Having Ms. Moneybags ask the mage guildmaster to remove the Mage Armor property.
Step 3: Looking at the imbuing gump again to see the effect of removing the Mage Armor property.
I'm thinking that in step 1, what I should have seen instead of a 161% chance to imbue 1% LRC as a second property was a 290.4% chance to put it on as a second property (the same chance I had to put on 1% LRC on the same piece with no Mage Armor on it at all).
Does this make sense? Or am I just thoroughly confused now???