new items on the UO store..

[claudia-fjp]

I think you mean helpful, it is certainly not required.

No I meant what I said, unless they drastically increased the success chance of enhancing and I missed it?

Crafting 100's of blanks for the right resists, getting the proper reforge, powdering it to max durability, imbuing it, then enhancing. A forged tool is the difference between doing it once or doing it over and over until you don't break one. I wouldn't call that merely helpful.

To enhance a luck piece to max you can't do it at all without the Forged tool, the failure rate for a piece with 140 luck or more is 100%.

 

[Woodsman]

They should offer bless deeds in the online store. If they need cash, there you go.

 

[aoLOLita]

Please let us know if the new tokens allow us to raise any skill to 90, and how many skills. If I remember right, the Advanced tokens allowed 3 skills at 85 and 2 at 70 - no?

If this allows 5 skills at 90, I will buy it just to raise skills like Discord (add +30 jewels for 120) and long drawn out skills like Poisoning.

 

[GarthGrey]

And another thread gets derailed, and the real issue ignored....sigh.

 

[Ezekiel Zane]

I think you mean helpful, it is certainly not required.

Well, you aren't required to make the absolutely best piece of gear you can make either. You could just be satisfied with average right? If you want to though, to make the best piece you can, then you must enhance it after it's been imbued up to it's maximum. This means the item has a 100% chance to break most of the time. That's why the Forged Metal of Artifacts is a must-have for any serious suit building.

 

[Poo]

I don't consider it an addiction. I like to think of it as a hobby that has me by the balls!

 

[Poo]

So think on this.

U start on a new shard. You pick up one of those new advance tokens. U also pick up one of those pet bonding pots.

U start, eat token, pick 90 in taming , lore, vet, magic, disco. You then buy up music to 30 and spend a hour to get music to GM.

U think slip into Luna or hire a imbued to make u a suit and a ring and watch with taming, lore and vet.

Then it's off to New Mag to the pet vender. Pick up a greater dragon, use the potion on him.

You now a new player, a hour out of the egg as they would say and you are a fully operational disco tamer.

Makes events on other shards look a little nicer, eh?

 

[Picus of Napa]

Really a 90 skill guy can be made in one day, it's easy if you know what to do.

 

[Reth]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

 

[BeaIank]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

No. I worked 9 of them during the last 12 months.
It went from being oh so fun to a boring grind.

 

[DJAd]

The Scroll of Valiant Commendation would of been addition to the store.

 

[Petra Fyde]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

No, far from it. Some people enjoy the journey. I'm one of them.

 

[Frarc]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

Nope, all my characters are always trained from scratch.

 

[Aeon]

Meh the tokens seem nice. I hope there are enough people that buy them to resell them for uo gold. I'm only paying for my subscription, I like to keep purchases for game items...to in game currency.

 

[Sally MacLennane]

Buy it in game. I was actually pretty excited about the token for a character I wanted to make but hadn't had time.

I purchased the token, received an order confirmation, and never received an actual "order." (And no, the code listed in the confirmation doesn't work.) So far I've spent two hours on the phone with various and sundry "support" folks who have all told me they cannot fix it, cannot get me a functional code, and cannot refund my money. Awesome.

 

[Storm]

Nope, all my characters are always trained from scratch.

mine also

 

[Uriah Heep]

I'm too ummm, Thrifty, yeah, that's it, to buy skills

 

[LordDrago]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

All my characters are worked from scratch. I have completed 1 (keep switching others as time goes, and taming is taking forever as I do not play to train, but train as i play)
Just started a gargoyle Mystic/Bard

 

[Joey Porter]

2 and 3 are very nice.

I hope they keep adding items like this.

 

[MalagAste]

Nope I train up most all my characters myself.

 

[Woodsman]

I'm too ummm, Thrifty, yeah, that's it, to buy skills

Heh. My problem is that I would change my mind after spending the money and adding the skills and be upset with myself.

 

[Sean]

No I meant what I said, unless they drastically increased the success chance of enhancing and I missed it?

Crafting 100's of blanks for the right resists, getting the proper reforge, powdering it to max durability, imbuing it, then enhancing. A forged tool is the difference between doing it once or doing it over and over until you don't break one. I wouldn't call that merely helpful.

To enhance a luck piece to max you can't do it at all without the Forged tool, the failure rate for a piece with 140 luck or more is 100%.

Still doesn't make it required or impossible to make the item.

 

[Ludes]

No, far from it. Some people enjoy the journey. I'm one of them.

Me too...
About the garden beds I got mine from the theme pack way back ago...

If you like gardening it's the way to go and I think 6.50 apiece ain't so bad really..
If you don't want three just be patient and they'll be available in singles for around 10 mill soon...

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

Still doesn't make it required or impossible to make the item.

For a max piece, with say luck as in the post you responded to, yes a 100% fail rate would indeed make the forged tool required to craft an otherwise impossible item...

 

[Petra Fyde]

That's strange Terry and I both have suits with 140 luck, but I've never bought the forged tool.
Leather and spined leather are easy to come by, chaga mushrooms are easy to come by the only other thing needed is patience.

 

[Martyna Zmuir]

That's strange Terry and I both have suits with 140 luck, but I've never bought the forged tool.
Leather and spined leather are easy to come by, chaga mushrooms are easy to come by the only other thing needed is patience.

This is enhancing after imbuing to make uber armor/weapons, please don't insult our intelligence by pretending not to know this. Since every Artificer worth a relic frag imbues to max intensity (~500), virtually every item someone would then try to enhance would come within two or three decimal places of a 100% failure rate. Aside from reforging, enhancing is how crafters go past the standard intensity and item mod caps. (thus many pieces of my sampire's armor exceeds 600 intensity)

Unless you're a billionaire, you aren't going to risk millions on the off chance you hit the .001% jackpot and succeed. In comes the forged metal tool and non-reforged uber items.

 

[Petra Fyde]

Apologies, being only a mediocre player I don't need uber kit and I do my luck kit the easy way. Imbue luck, enhance, then add the other mods.

 

[Gorbs]

That's strange Terry and I both have suits with 140 luck, but I've never bought the forged tool.
Leather and spined leather are easy to come by, chaga mushrooms are easy to come by the only other thing needed is patience.

If you have a 150 luck piece, without the forged metal tool there is a 0% chance to succeed when enhancing that piece with a material that would add 40 luck.

 

[NuSair]

Am I the only one actually working up a character from scratch? They couldn't pay me to take the free skill points.

I used one of the adv character tokens for my 3rd crafting character.

 

[Sean]

For a max piece, with say luck as in the post you responded to, yes a 100% fail rate would indeed make the forged tool required to craft an otherwise impossible item...

So, to clarify, you're saying it's 100% impossible to make the item, and you know that for a fact?

 

[Tanivar]

So, to clarify, you're saying it's 100% impossible to make the item, and you know that for a fact?

Is there any evidence to the contrary?

I've played Crafters since this weekend in 2000 with one three year break mixed in. I've never had anything with excellent numbers not be destroyed by enhancing except for a luck suit I made I bought the tool for.

A chance of succeeding may exist, but it must make that fabled snowball in Hades chances of surviving seem like a sure thing.

 

[Ender76]

So, to clarify, you're saying it's 100% impossible to make the item, and you know that for a fact?

Yes, it will break 100% of the time. Any leather piece over 146 luck pre-enhancing will fail