Crafting Magic Armor loophole?

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  1. sasquatch

    sasquatch Member

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    I have noticed that you can turn +1 magical armor into +3 armor for free.

    How do you do this you ask?

    Simple.

    1) Take already found magical armor/shields.
    2) Give to your wizard/cleric/druid (item must not be equipped by the crafter)
    3) Select the item in the craft magic armor/weapons window
    4) Notice that in the right hand side window - you see +1/+2/+3 all in gray
    5) Save (and possibly rename) your new +3 armor/shield with no xp or gold cost to you

    I've noticed that this only happens on found magic armor and shields, not weapons, and not on masterwork armor/shields.

    No idea if this has always been the case, or if this is new.

    Have noticed it on several parties.

    Anyone else see this?
     
  2. Lord Plothos

    Lord Plothos Established Member

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    Yeah, most of us know about this already. In fact, it's in my item crafting guide at gamefaqs. But thanks for the heads up anyway.
     
  3. sasquatch

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    :eek:mg: Doh! :eek:mg:

    A day late and a dollar short.
     
  4. Scorched_Earth

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    Now that you mention magic armor, I gave some of my armor spell resistance 13 but over the character it appears as if they have spell resistance[0]. Is this a common bug? Half my characters are walking around with this crap...
     
  5. Lord Plothos

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    Heh, this too is in my faq. :wave:

    The spell resistance and silent moves enhancements don't seem to work. As far as I know, nobody has fixed this, but then I haven't played a lot of the newer mods. Unless somebody's addressed the issue, they're bugged, so don't use them.

    PS: Always seemed like it'd be possible to fix the resistance thing at least, especially since Moebius was able to add diamond soul to high-level monks.
     
  6. Scorched_Earth

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    Damn, I should take a look at that faq then...for my next run at least, I'm almost done with this game. Guess I'll console in all the xp and gold I wasted..
     
  7. PharaunMizzrym

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    Yeah, the SR on Armor doesn't work, but Silent Moves seem to be fine and working.
     
  8. Lord Plothos

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    SM doesn't work for me. I've only got patch 2 and temple.zip, though, so maybe somebody has fixed this: in the co8 or liv mod or something.
     
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