Depending on the bow and it's speed, it can also knock down the max of the HML severely when imbued and also when enhanced with Ash for SSI.Depending on what bow, you can either just craft it and imbue, or craft, reforge for the HML then imbue the rest, and finally enhance.
Try this site, I find it to be immensely helpful when planning anything imbued.Just started my bow fletcher too. Does enhancing with 10% SSI effect HML the same way as if I was imbuing?
So if I want a composite bow like this: 50 DI, 35 SSI, 48 HML, 36 HSL, Demon Slayer. Do I reforge HML, then imbue to 25 SSI, then enhance or do I skip enhancing entirely?
For champ spawns, does hit area work on bows? Also, is magical short bow still the best bow for champ spawns? Lightning arrow seems weak considering it doesn't apply the slayer dmg modifier according to uoguide.
Lightning Arrow - UOGuide, the Ultima Online Encyclopedia
Yes I know HML and HLL value changes with SSI for those cases. Still doesn't answer how to make a 50 DI, 35 SSI, 48 HML, 36 HSL, Demon Slayer composite bow. I'll just make it on test center...HML & HLL have two values - the actual weight, and the displayed value, which is a function of the SSI present combined with the weight.
So, adding SSI to an item (or changing its value), be it runic crafting, imbuing, reforging, or spawning as loot, changes the displayed value.
It doesn't actually change the property weight.
My opinion, and I'm not sure I'm right, but that unless you get extremely lucky to reforge the total item, you'll never get that exact bow, SSI enhancement will always lower the HML.Yes I know HML and HLL value changes with SSI for those cases. Still doesn't answer how to make a 50 DI, 35 SSI, 48 HML, 36 HSL, Demon Slayer composite bow. I'll just make it on test center...
It is that simple. It is for sure done with an Ash tool. The problem with using an Ash tool to reforge the bow, vs a copper tool for doing the same for a sword, is that with a copper tool, when you land the overcapped HML, you'll almost never get a 2nd property. When you land the overcapped HML with an Ash tool (or bronze if you were so inclined to use with smithy) you're guaranteed to get a 2nd property.
This means that you're likely to get some bows that are overcapped in HML, and also have HFat or Hit Mana Drain, or some HLL ... all of which make them junk.
I'd wager heavily that this bow was reforged to have the overcapped HML and also some amount of HSL. Then imbue, then enhance.
Also, remember that when enhancing, using a Forged Metal of the Artifacts is an absolute requirement. Given that a tool costs $10 for 10 charges, and gold is currently selling for .15 per million, that means that just the enhancement on this bow is worth ~7M.
I'd say 23M is pretty darn reasonable actually, given how much of a pain in the arse the runic fletching tools are to get relative to copper hammers...
I'll just leave this here...Thanks for digging on this Tabin -- basically the information I required!
Also found this:
2. Reforge them with an ash runic tools (of vampire suffix, 3 charges per try)
Just curious which reforge I use during step 2?