Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Experimentation Woes
Hey all,
For some reason I keep hitting this weird barrier. I'm an armorsmith grinding out Padded Armor for xp (which I also sell on the bazaar for 3k), and I've been experiencing something kinda weird. When I've crafted but before experimentation, the armor has 20% kinetic (crappy I know, but I just use any old ingredients). If I experiment, even if I succeed, the kinetic goes down. Now here's the really weird part. If I do nothing (i.e. just let it build without experimentation) the finished product will still lose three or four percent kinetic resist.
Am I doing something wrong?
Haven't had what you are saying happen, but I've had the reverse. I calculated out that a piece of composite I was making should be 47% and when experimented on it was 43%. I was mad, but when done crafting it came out with 48%. FYI, it was my first attempt at using Krayt scales in armor. They were only like 8-9% but let me figure out how they get used. Maybe you are using rancor hides or some such thing and they just work strange incrafting armor?
I noticed this myself last night. I was making composite and crit failed my special resist experimentation... and it RAISED the resists by 2 percent. This stayed right till the end of the armor making process even after experimenting on the normal effectiveness etc.
Something is hosed I feel, but not totally so. Most of it works.
I find that doing experimentation on normal effectiveness and durability I get good effects...
-Hyssthi
what happens is you probably added layers to it, or the resist is acting like a layer for some reason. either a special piece you inserted such as krayt scale or something, or an actual layer would do this. Composite will base the layer's protection as base + layer. thus, your initial combine will give you 20% kinetic, with say 13% base. well, if you're layer is only good for 4%, then your kinetic will drop to 17% upon creation or experimentation.
next time this happens, try experimenting a few into base, then one into ham. when you do base, it should lower the kinetic, and then when you do ham it should raise the kineitc to it's proper place (base + layer)
Message Edited by raz1337 on 06-19-2004 09:12 PM