My experience is that their usefulness is debatable (I have +5 carto glasses).Are they useful? And can they be changed to gargoyle use? Tyvm in advance.
Hmmmm, is this true? I remember reading that the +5 from glasses does not push it beyond the max. I wonder if something changed.Also when you have glasses that push you over the cap the radius increases for when you are digging up the chest.
UOguide is written by anyone who wants to add stuff to it and historically has misinformation or wrong data.uoguide says it is taking you over the cap:
" The glasses have +1 to +5 Cartography skill and will go over the skill cap. (Functionality similar to Mining Gloves.)"
I also think I remember Kronix posting something on the official forum along the lines of the glasses working like the mining gloves because they use the same code or so, which might be the source of the claim on uoguide.
I couldn't find the blurb from Kyronix (it might be on the official forums) but luck for chest loot isn't checked until you pick the lock so technically you could go around with your +5 carto glasses to dig up chests with improved chance at getting better quality chest (ie gold) and then once you kill all the monsters; swap over to your luck head piece (Visage if you wanted to use that) and you would be getting the best of both worlds.Luck plays a role in treasure chest loot.
that means:
1. Don’t use a gargoyle, since their potential/max luck is heavily nerfed.
2. The map glasses can be imbued with 100 luck, but can’t be enhanced To 140 luck.
the new fortune visage helm, can be enhanced from 250 to 290 luck. That could well be a better choice than map maker glasses. (?)