No it would not (as per my understanding of imbuing).
I agree this would be interesting to find out. Base normal leather piece is 15 total resists. GM Armslore would add 5 and being exceptional (non-runic used) adds another 15. So regular leather exceptional crafted pieces have 35 resists.
, brings me to my real question. If jewelry is going to be unbreakable (thanks Sarphus), then can necklaces be imbued (why not ?). Presumablly the tradeoff would be the leather gorget will have 15 more total resists, but it will have durability while the necklace would not.But at some point, you have to count resists as mods. Suppose I make barb runic kit armor and get resists only mods? Granted this will be somewhat rare but it would not be uncommon to have 70-80 resists, no other mods as a starting point. Then I can add 5 extra mods to that? That would be insane. If you say no, how do you know if I have GM arms lore or if I just got excellent rolls on my runic? Again, at some levels, you can not distinguish between excellent horned runic vs mediocre barbed runic creatioins. How can you decide how many mods to allow to imbue?
You can only imbue properties that normally appear on an item. So if you can imbue rings and bracelets then those are the only two items that can have skill + properties. My guess is that you can choose +15 in a specific skill if you can imbue jewelry.
This is true based on current mod properties, but hopefully they address all the +skill items imbalances before SA comes out. The thought of +150 useful skills on a ring/brace set is mind boggling. If SA will include the ease of equip/unequip that KR already has, addressing the +skill items imbalances should also be a priority.
You can, but the devs have stated that they plan to tweak how +skill items work.
But an additional problem with that example is that bard effects persist even if I take off the jewels. So disco/provoke with the jewel set on, then switch to my +magery/eval/fc/fcr set. I am pretty sure there are other exploitable combos as well.
I would assume it would... DI added from exceptional crafting does, so I would assume Mage Armor would too.
not sure if this has been addressed further, but i'd like to know what kind of impact this will have on training, should it be allowed.
If they do that, and I hope that they will, then they need to take a close look at Bard templates and figure out a better way to make them work without the use of jewelry. I used to love playing my bards and I'll bet I have got six inches of dust on all of them now.
Another question about specific armour types. With the samurai armour GM stuff is all meant to have the mage armour property I think? How will this effect imbuing? Will it count as one of the 5 or not?
One thing I see with a 720 jewel cap would be all skill jewels are essentially useless once you hit your total skill cap. Basically junk within the first 24 hours of play.
I see a lot of soulstones in the super crafter's future. As such, I don't think Imbuing having a trade-related bonus is going to force or limit such crafters all that much.
Simply adding a system similar to the one in WoW allowing Artificers (or craftsmen in general) to perform their specialties for others without people having to get involved with a risky trade of their good items would go a long way towards adding back a lot of the 'communal' aspect that UO has lost in the last several years.
I'd much rather the skill + mod wasn't allowed to be configurable, better still left out of the equation altogether. There's a huge difference between the random spawning stuff and fully configurable skill stats on items. The devs really need to realise this and see that just adding a skill cap isn't enough of a fix. I wouldn't plan to be around if items like the above start popping up.
Actually, I think the effects of cutsom +skill items is relevant here, because it's an itemization issue and this is an itemization system.I'd much rather the skill + mod wasn't allowed to be configurable, better still left out of the equation altogether. There's a huge difference between the random spawning stuff and fully configurable skill stats on items. The devs really need to realise this and see that just adding a skill cap isn't enough of a fix. I wouldn't plan to be around if items like the above start popping up.
But this isn't a discussion about skill + items so I'll butt out now
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Which is it? Are there quite a few, or are they few and far between?
This will have little to no impact on training. You can start with 50 imbuing and you can only gain up to 25 from unraveling.
I don't think it will matter much in the long run.
I know it was posted by MrTact for Publish 42, but it appears the UHAll posts from that time are now gone. I remember it being designed to reduce effective intensity for fast weapons, so low base weapons speed and high ssi weapons were nerfed and slow weapons were buffed as far as leeches are concerned. Publish 42 is when we started seeing the displayed leeches go over 50. Archery weapons had a further reduction of their effective leeching as well.
No. Damage type does not count as a mod for imbuing.
I don't know how rounding will be handled. It will probably round the precentage to the nearest integer.
I read where it says we wont be able to IMBUE damage types onto a weapon. I'm asking if they will count towards unraveling.
My understanding is that damage types do not count toward unraveling. I am almost certain that Leurocian directly answered that question saying that damage type doesn't count as a mod for unraveling. The only uncertainty I have is that the response was given a long time ago and I don't remember exactly what it was.
As far as I know, there isn't an official date yet. I saw some online distributor had listed SA as early 2009, but I think they were just guessing too.
I'm going to try to "rules lawyer" my way through this question.
As I understand it, yes.
You can't take mods off an existing piece of gear and put them on another. When you unravel, you get resources, not mods.
I have to disagree, here. The Arms Lore Bonus spreads up to 5 points of random resistances over the armor piece, and if the extra 5% DI from the "Arms Lore Bonus" counts as a mod, then the extra resistances have to count as a mod (or mods; up to 5, I assume) as well.Sarphus said:
. A +80 ASH shouldn't be treated like a PvP template ;D.I think imbuing will be effected by skill because:Cowgoesmoo said:
Sarphus says no, but I think...maybe?In Flames said:
If physical is the base, whatever the physical is (say 20 physical 80 poison) should be deducted from 100% to find the intensity, so an item with 80% poison and 20% phys should have a 80% mod intensity, I would think, and a 60/40 elemental split should be 100% intensity.It should
.A quick and dirty formula is Weapon Base Max Leech=100/(4/Weapon Speed)
I hope so
. Annoying when the wood doesn't tag.Good question, although, it would rock to have a wedding ring with 3/1 on it! I'll never forget how pissed I was once AOS came out, and I realized, I would have to take off my wedding ring in the pursuit of modded rings :/. Haha good thing the wife played UO too, and understood ;D.
Hopefully, it will follow a similar ruleset like the one I imagined for GM non-runic armor :/.
Well, Sarphus noted what you can recycle, I would note what you can enhance. If you can't enhance the item (it will say the item is "made of special materials") then you probably won't be able to imbue it, either.Farsight said:
The base of a hat is 24, but I believe a GM crafted hat is something like 42? I forget...but, this question is sort of like the GM non-runic question, and the old magic armor question; if the mods are counted, then you won't be able to do anything with the hat but add more resistances.Fink said:
Actually, Leurocian said that damage type doesn't count as a mod. I think the reasoning is that if it did, you would basically have to exclude physical as a damage type when counting mods, whihc would be kinda squirrely. Of course, everything Leurocian said about imbuing so far bears the disclaimer that it is subject to change.Sarphus says no, but I think...maybe?
Stand-alone, I believe. In fact it supports Mysticism (much like eval-int does magery, I expect?) so it could be on an adventurer template.
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