Forge Ring Feat Won't Work

Okay, after messing around a bit, here's what I've discovered.

I opened up the .mes file and swapped "flaming burst" with "shocking burst" in the list. The result was cold damage from the flaming burst weapon and fire damage from the shocking burst weapon. I was going to swap icy burst with unholy when I realized something: while it says it's doing "negative energy", it's doing 1d6 versus evil creatures, whereas if it were unholy it should only do 2d6 versus good. On top of that, my paladin isn't getting any negative levels, and anyway the DMG doesn't say unholy weapons do "negative" anything (except negative levels). They do 2d6 "additional" damage, which is why holy weapons are listed as whatever damage type the weapon is (slashing, bludgeoning, or piercing). So, it can't be that icy burst makes the weapon unholy. I leafed through the DMG and couldn't find anything about negative energy damage for weapons. Is it possible the effect was simply labelled wrong? I'll check this by giving somebody resistance to electricity and see what happens.

Also, another glitch in the game: according to the DMG, as I read it, a burst weapon does elemental damage as normal and then does ADDITIONAL burst damage on top of that when it scores a crit. In ToEE, it just does 1d6 OR 1d10 (2d10 for x3), which isn't all that much better (only worth it for x3 weapons). Another weird thing is the damage from flaming and flaming burst stack even when not critical, which they really shouldn't. The fire from the burst weapon is just because it functions as a flaming weapon, so making it a flaming weapon is redundant, it seems to me. Anyway, I'll get back about that electricity check.

 

None of the protection from energy spells helped against the icy burst's negative energy effect. Weird thing happened this time, though. I added flaming and shocking bursts after icy and they did nothing, even against a character with no equipment at all and no active spells. It was like they didn't exist! WTF!!!! :wtf:

 

Aargh. It just won't work for me. My wizard has Forge Ring, I used the file you posted Allyx, but the Forge Ring option doesn't show up. Well, it seems to work for some of you, so there must be a solution ...

 

Nope, they're hurt too.

 

Doesn't change anything for me ... except that Craft Magic Arms & Armor is now labelled Craft Staff. Forge Ring still doesn't show up. Maybe I should try to reinstall the game and only apply Patch 2, not 3.

 

I'm wondering: My wizard has taken every single crafting feat available, and then Forge Ring. Maybe there's a limit to how many crafting feats the game can display on the radial menu. Does your wizard have all the the feats as well, Allyx?

 

Alright, I just reinstalled ToEE, applied all the patches, started a new game, levelled up my wiz to level 12 using the console, and finally got the Craft Staff option. The strange thing is, the files I have installed now are exaxtly the same that I had already installed earlier. Oh, well. Wonders never cease.

Allyx: Got your e-mail, many thanks.