ANNOUNCE NEWS #1339
Date: 6/14/2009 at 23:42
From: Roark Libertas
To : Everyone
Subj: Forging Update

The temper skill has been updated. Please see the AB help file for
details. Also, the forging artifact hammer will let you use power
reservs or a powerstone instead of a steel commodity for this change.
The artifact also can only be used by the owner now.

Penned by My hand on the 21st of Kiani, in the year 238 CE.

Huzzah.

Someone post the AB, please.

But what does it mean? *curious* Do you now get to make stats the way you want?

Moar information from forgers please!

All it means is that forgers can bump up stats on knight weaponry (weapons/plate) now. No kata/shields though.

Also, the mallet lets us use powerstones/power instead of steel to bump up stats.

So you can just forge a weapon once then change its stats to whatever you want?

And I've been corrected! I realize now a statement I'd made to Roark was vague, and he took it the wrong way, and therein my confusion. Woops.

So long as you're willing to provide steel/power, yeah. This means people can finally use those designs which need like 700 kephera to make a kephera shell hammer or something now.

Also about kata:

ab forging temper
FORGING - TEMPER

Syntaxes: TEMPER PRECISION|SPEED|DAMAGE UP|DOWN
TEMPER UP|DOWN

This will raise or reduce the specified statistic of the weapon or armor by one point. You can do this to warrior weapons or to plate armour only. Increasing a stat costs 1 steel commodity. Decreasing a stat may sometimes reduce the useful lifespan of the item. Every stat has a minimum below which it cannot be reduced. There are also maximums, explained below.
* Plate armour: 100 for each stat. 180 for the combined stats.
* Warrior one-handed weapons: 180 for damage, 235 for precision, and 280 for speed. Max weapon score is 480 for master weapons, 384 for standard weapons.
* Warrior two-handed weapons: 360 for damage, 517 for precision, and 280 for speed. Max weapon score is 480 for master weapons, 384 for standard weapons.

Note: A weapon's score is the sum of all stats for one-handed weapons. For two-handed weapons, divide the damage in half and the precision by 2.2, then add those values to the speed.


So, that means helm forging will still be a pain?

Odd, why doesn't this apply to chain armor and others?

I believe it goes to helms as well, or should at least. Helms are, after all, plate.

Not sure how I should feel about this, I'm so conflicted!

Roark said he forgot helms, he'll do it tomorrow or something.

And no one cares about chain and other armour, obviously.

Has anyone tried tempering an allready artifacted weapon? Is it allowed? what happens if you go over 463?

You should be able to temper artifacts yes, and you can't go over 463.

Why were kata weapon forgings not fixed?

Something to do with a cost:effect ratio discrepancy and something about knowing that Kata weapons would be looked at specially? Not exactly sure, but we asked!

Already brought up, they're considering/discussing it, but it is "harder to balance" since there is much less variation on kata weapons.

Some ideas were making it something like 3x the cost, since you can forge 5-10x to get in the right ballpark and then just toss a few more steel to make it perfect.

Daddy like.