Discussion: exceptional resists bonus

[Silverbird]

Since there was just a discussion about somewhere else ...

* An exceptionally made piece of Armor will gain a +15 point bonus that is distributed randomly among the base properties of that item. For example, an exceptionally made plate tunic could have +3 applied to Physical, +4 to Fire, and +4 to each Cold and Poison. Or, and this would be extremely rare, all 15 could be added to Physical, making it quite a valuable piece of armor. Exceptionally crafted Weapons get a 35% Damage Increase bonus.

* Exceptional armor crafted with a runic hammer will gain a +6 bonus, whereas exceptionally-crafted weapons will gain a 20% bonus to damage.

(Footnotes from Base Properties | Mythic Entertainment | Ultima Online)

Funny thing ... I know that the UOherald is out of date for some stuff. But while except runic crafted weapons are getting the 35% di bonus, the reduced +6 bonus to resists on armour parts still applys.

I want to put this into discussion becourse the different resist bonuses are not mentioned anywhere else. Or at least, I couldnt find:
- Exceptional - UOGuide, the Ultima Online encyclopedia
- UO Stratics *New* | Items: Base Properties (footnotes)

The question is now, if someone should correct the infos at uoguide and stratics or if we should claim it to be a bug that should be fixed soon. (You know, usually software developers are really good in fixing what was never broken. Thought there is a little risk becourse they could decide that 6 bonus resist is the correct value and not 15.)
I tried to nail those values down within the publish notes, but all i found, was that it was pub 19, which changed the exceptional bonuses.

 

[Shelleybean]

Wow, this stuff is way over my head! So what is it that is wrong? Are runic crafted armor pieces not getting the 6 point bonus?

 

[Barry Gibb]

I don't understand what you are asking.

Exceptional Bonus for Runic crafted armor is +6, where as non-runic is +15. The information about the weapon bonus is screwy though. I have never crafted an exceptional weapon with less than 35% DI with a runic.

Stayin Alive,

BG

 

[Silverbird]

The point is, that I have met/heard of players, who dont know that runic crafted armour parts are not getting the +15 exceptional bonus but instead the old +6 bonus.

 

[Barry Gibb]

To my knowledge, runic armor has always had the +6 bonus (never the +15 bonus, like non-runic armor). Runic armor is not supposed to get the +15 bonus.

Stayin Alive,

BG

 

[Basara]

The +20% bonus was the amount before the change to +35%.

In other words, someone forgot to update the footnotes.

There was also a time where the Exceptional bonus ADDED TO the runic value, for a very short time in early AoS, if I remember correctly.

That (which ended fairly quickly), or having +20% as the runic base (to make getting runic DI less of a booby prize) was something that never made it out of internal testing.