Loot

[Merth]

i think the hardest thing for me returning is the difference in loot now. Is there a guide somewhere that explains levels of loot. For instance im seeing lesser magic item, minor magic, greater magic, minor artifact etc do these things have significant meaning or is it still depend in stats, resists etc? And what about brittle, splinter etc? Very confusing...has anyone made a guide?

 

[TB Cookie [W]]

Random Magic Item Generation System - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia


and because I like Mariah at www.uo.com, I went to the effort of finding their list.

Magic Item Properties – Ultima Online

I think Mariah does a great job - I personally do have issues finding stuff on their Wiki.
I am not so used to the Index function, find it hard to use.
I've mentioned this to her before, I'm not saying anything unknown.

 

[Merth]

Random Magic Item Generation System - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia


and because I like Mariah at www.uo.com, I went to the effort of finding their list.

Magic Item Properties – Ultima Online

I think Mariah does a great job - I personally do have issues finding stuff on their Wiki.
I am not so used to the Index function, find it hard to use.
I've mentioned this to her before, I'm not saying anything unknown.

Thanks! It feels like you need to be an expert just to determine whats worth keeping.

 

[Uvtha]

Thanks! It feels like you need to be an expert just to determine whats worth keeping.

It's not too hard to get a hold of really once you recognize what the good mods are for mage/not mage. Generally though, most items below artifact level, and almost all weapons (unless you are looking for pvp weapons) are just unravvel fodder.

 

[Fridgster]

Single over capped moded pieces can be of value (such as a ring with only ssi 10)

 

[Merth]

It's not too hard to get a hold of really once you recognize what the good mods are for mage/not mage. Generally though, most items below artifact level, and almost all weapons (unless you are looking for pvp weapons) are just unravvel fodder.

are the unravel ingredients random or same for each type of item?

 

[Merth]

would this be considered good?

 

[MalagAste]

are the unravel ingredients random or same for each type of item?

The stuff you get from unraveling is dependent on the level of your imbuer, whether that imbuer is a gargoyle or not what forge you use... and how high the item is in terms of it's weight (not physical weight but the weight of the stats and bonuses and resists and all on the item)..... The higher the weight the more likely you are to get relic fragments and the more of them you get when you unravel it.

 

[Acid Rain]

I posted in this thread in regards to item properties for some gear you may find useful.

Determining valuable armor or weapons vs trash?

 

[Shiranui Renn]

would this be considered good?

No.

 

[Theo_GL]

View attachment 87497 would this be considered good?

Here is the main issue : Its Antique. Which means it wears out fast... like really fast. You will need to repair it 10x faster than your normal items and even faster if you are a melee character.

Second all of those mods are ones you can easily imbue. I can make you a non-antique version of that in about 5 minutes.

For loot you want a desired combo of mods (lots of spell casting mods, or for melee characters HCI and DCI and SSI) and you'd like it to have more mods than you can imbue or overcapped mods.

Examples :

You cannot imubue SSI on Rings or braces. So if you need that mod - loot is the only way to go.
HCI and DCI can be imbued up to 15% each. Loot can spawn with up to 20% HCI and 20% DCI on ring/brace. Find a ring with 20% of both and probably sell for a plat or more if it has good fighting mods and/or SSI on it.

Most weapons are junk as loot. The exception is good Splintering weapons (20%).
The rest of the weapons dont have the mods you want so you are better to imbue.

For armor - be looking again for overcapped mods and many of them. Some of the artifact loot is a bit crazy. You cannot craft things that good. See the picture for a couple of items in this nature.

Legs : This is brittle so it can't be enhanced with special metal for more mods - but it already has boosted Physical, Fire, Cold, POison and energy resist along with 5 other mods. Two of which you can't imbue - Intelligence and Mana regen. I'm not saying this is an over the top piece - but can be one component to a very good mage suit. You'd want higher LMC and LRC if you could get it but that is a high resist piece that would allow you to craft lower resist pieces around it that have the other mods very high. That piece could be maybe 100k or 200k worth.

Tribal mask - 6 mods plus 3 resist mods - thats 9 mods. YOu can only imbue 5. The mana increase of 10 is max and more than you and imbue (8). The intellegence you can't imbue. LMC and LRC is max imbuable (although loot can go up to 25% lrc and 10% lmc). Another item thats probably 200 or 300k to the right person.

 

[Uvtha]

are the unravel ingredients random or same for each type of item?

It depends on the item. The higher the overall property level the better the unravel result.

 

[Fridgster]

Here is the main issue : Its Antique. Which means it wears out fast... like really fast. You will need to repair it 10x faster than your normal items and even faster if you are a melee character.

Second all of those mods are ones you can easily imbue. I can make you a non-antique version of that in about 5 minutes.

For loot you want a desired combo of mods (lots of spell casting mods, or for melee characters HCI and DCI and SSI) and you'd like it to have more mods than you can imbue or overcapped mods.

Examples :

You cannot imubue SSI on Rings or braces. So if you need that mod - loot is the only way to go.
HCI and DCI can be imbued up to 15% each. Loot can spawn with up to 20% HCI and 20% DCI on ring/brace. Find a ring with 20% of both and probably sell for a plat or more if it has good fighting mods and/or SSI on it.

Most weapons are junk as loot. The exception is good Splintering weapons (20%).
The rest of the weapons dont have the mods you want so you are better to imbue.

For armor - be looking again for overcapped mods and many of them. Some of the artifact loot is a bit crazy. You cannot craft things that good. See the picture for a couple of items in this nature.

Legs : This is brittle so it can't be enhanced with special metal for more mods - but it already has boosted Physical, Fire, Cold, POison and energy resist along with 5 other mods. Two of which you can't imbue - Intelligence and Mana regen. I'm not saying this is an over the top piece - but can be one component to a very good mage suit. You'd want higher LMC and LRC if you could get it but that is a high resist piece that would allow you to craft lower resist pieces around it that have the other mods very high. That piece could be maybe 100k or 200k worth.

Tribal mask - 6 mods plus 3 resist mods - thats 9 mods. YOu can only imbue 5. The mana increase of 10 is max and more than you and imbue (8). The intellegence you can't imbue. LMC and LRC is max imbuable (although loot can go up to 25% lrc and 10% lmc). Another item thats probably 200 or 300k to the right person.

Great writeup! Though I am pretty sure you can enhance brittle pieces. Just can't pof them....