Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Layer Help
I have read, re-read, printed out and read, and re-read the stickies.
I am using resources with Oq/Sr of 930+ on both stats and this is the best layer I have made so far with 12pts.
8% kin 4% base 14/14/14 386Integrity.
What am I doing wrong?
The guide says I need to hit 10%Kin in order to craft 80% Kin Comp??
Any help or tips would be appreciated.
So when I put these layers into a segment, I bring only the base up first, then HAM? Leave specials to the final combine?
Or should I destroy this layer schematic and make a new one ?
Sorry for sounding stupid, but it is a hard profession...i have been fooling around crafting things for a couple of weeks, and am trying to get going, hehe.
densinwahl wrote:
Ok,
So when I put these layers into a segment, I bring only the base up first, then HAM? Leave specials to the final combine?
Or should I destroy this layer schematic and make a new one ?
Sorry for sounding stupid, but it is a hard profession...i have been fooling around crafting things for a couple of weeks, and am trying to get going, hehe.
I'm still pretty new to this AS thing myself, so if a real master could correct any mistakes, that'd be appreciated 
Assuming you are trying to make 80% Kinetic with a high base resist (which, from the stats of your initial layer, seems likely), you should just focus on the base resist all the time. 8% kinetic on the layers should be massive overkill for getting 80% Kin, if your base is high enough. I think my low-HAM kinetic layers are 7% Kin, 2% base, and I still get 80% Kinetic on the finished piece, with only 62% base. Just max out the quality on the segments, then put the rest into durability (as you describe).
When you craft the armour piece itself, max out the quality again, then put remaining points into durability. You MUST do the quality first - it seems that the kinetic resist is worked out the first time you experiment on durability. So, if you do the durability before the quality, you get your kinetic resists from the segmentsadded to your unexperimented base. If you do the quality first, you get the kinetic resists added to the improved base, and should easily hit 80%.
The more experienced smiths should be able to give you more specific advice, if you list your stats for the segments and the final armour pieces that you're producing. Or have you held off making some actual pieces, because you're worried the stats aren't good enough? If that's the case, just make a few segments, then make some gloves (only one segment needed, so no need for factory runs) and see what stats you get.
rgrocott wrote:
densinwahl wrote:
Ok,
So when I put these layers into a segment, I bring only the base up first, then HAM? Leave specials to the final combine?
Or should I destroy this layer schematic and make a new one ?
Sorry for sounding stupid, but it is a hard profession...i have been fooling around crafting things for a couple of weeks, and am trying to get going, hehe.I'm still pretty new to this AS thing myself, so if a real master could correct any mistakes, that'd be appreciated
Assuming you are trying to make 80% Kinetic with a high base resist (which, from the stats of your initial layer, seems likely), you should just focus on the base resist all the time. 8% kinetic on the layers should be massive overkill for getting 80% Kin, if your base is high enough. I think my low-HAM kinetic layers are 7% Kin, 2% base, and I still get 80% Kinetic on the finished piece, with only 62% base. Just max out the quality on the segments, then put the rest into durability (as you describe).
When you craft the armour piece itself, max out the quality again, then put remaining points into durability. You MUST do the quality first - it seems that the kinetic resist is worked out the first time you experiment on durability. So, if you do the durability before the quality, you get your kinetic resists from the segments added to your unexperimented base. If you do the quality first, you get the kinetic resists added to the improved base, and should easily hit 80%.
The more experienced smiths should be able to give you more specific advice, if you list your stats for the segments and the final armour pieces that you're producing. Or have you held off making some actual pieces, because you're worried the stats aren't good enough? If that's the case, just make a few segments, then make some gloves (only one segment needed, so no need for factory runs) and see what stats you get.
I think that nails it pretty good!
A very easy way to think of it is that if your base gets to 68% the 12%kinetic from the layers (with those resources you should have 4% kinetic at the start) gets added to that to get you to the 80% kinetic you want.