[Imbuing] Imbuing armor... VERY confused.

[Gellor]

As the title states, I'm VERY confused on imbuing armor. First, I am NOT SA upgraded so I can not just run to test center to try it out.

My confusion mainly stems from the resists on armor. Basically, at what point does an armor's resist become a mod?

Let us use a specific example:
Lets say I'm starting with GM made leather gloves. This gives a base resist of
2,4,3,3,3. Let's say I'm GM arms lore. So that throws 5% more in.

If I adjust any of the resists, does it count as a mod?

 

[Taylor]

As the title states, I'm VERY confused on imbuing armor. First, I am NOT SA upgraded so I can not just run to test center to try it out.

My confusion mainly stems from the resists on armor. Basically, at what point does an armor's resist become a mod?

Let us use a specific example:
Lets say I'm starting with GM made leather gloves. This gives a base resist of
2,4,3,3,3. Let's say I'm GM arms lore. So that throws 5% more in.

If I adjust any of the resists, does it count as a mod?

If you imbue a resist higher, that counts as a mod and contributes to the total weight of the item.

 

[Gellor]

Hmm... makes sense.

So I guess the related question would be, how much can I bump a single resist?

 

[Storm]

generaly you can take them up to 18! some peaces like your example you could take fire up to 19 you can also enhance them for even more bonus

 

[Picus of Napa]

Best is to craft a couple pieces where you have the resist you want maxed to be lowest.

IE: if you want 18 Fire then try to make a piece that starts with 3 or 4 fire and imbue it up. Reason being that the other resist points will have falled on one of the other 4 resist spots and you have maxed out your item.

If you don't need it to be medable and you really want to max out a item make it from wood and enhance it. I've made some silly items for my sampire:
Arms HPI 5, SPI 8, MPI8, HPR2 10 23 16 13 11
Gorget HPI 5, SPI 8, MPI8, HPR2 16 24 5 18 10
Gloves HPI 5, SPI 8, MPI8, Damage increase 10, 14 13 17 22 7