I believe it's based on lessons sunk into it, if it works the same way as Jewelry.

Yes. Shears also have a significant impact.

To ask specific questions about artefact customization, is it issue me or emailing artefacts@lusternia.com?

And if I can ask here, customization is with bound credits, yes? And how flexible is the "don't change the basic type of thing" rule?

E-mail for artifact customization.

I think the "don't change the basic type" is probably the most inflexible rule the game has.

New change to greatshields. What did it actually affect (or mean by 'resistance')?

Seeming as greatshields are supposedly for warriors only (ab - "Greatshields Such shields can only be successfully wielded by warriors."), all it prevented was abuse and didn't affect warriors.

That description really needs updating. Also needs numbercrunching (if possible) on if greatshields are equal to normal shields for non-warriors now or still better.

Thanks you both. What about arts affecting it? Myth or truth?

Do weddingbands add to prestige?

Can the daggers and knives in FORGING BLADES be used to proc blademaster affs?

I'm going to say no, since FORGING BLADES is one huge category including axes, which would have to behave the same way as the rest of FORGING BLADES.

I'm not seeing it having huge impacts in the long run since enough people tend to have the artifact shield rune anyways, which is only rarely beaten by specced cutting greatshields.

Having said that, this is how I understand that it works:

A shield adds cutting/blunt resistance and wounding resistance equal to its stats on the hand wielding it, then half of that amount to head, chest, and gut. So if you have, say, 70/70 robes and a 40/40 shield, then you effectively have 110/110 on your wielding hand and 90/90 on your head, gut, and chest. This assumes you have the trueshield skill in combat.

Now, let's just consider head resistance. I think the average stats of the next shield down tend to be 30/30 (considering similar effort in reforging as with greatshields). So that would be 85/85 on the head. A 40% reduction of 20+ would result in a boost of 12/12 from the greatshield, effectively giving you 82/82 instead. So the lower grade shield would be -slightly- better.

However, I haven't really played around with the other shields since there's never been much reason to, so I don't actually know what average stats they tend to churn out. My guess is that it won't be really worthwhile to change shield types immediately and this will work out more nicely for those who don't like the imagery of running around with a tower shield and would be just as happy with a buckler (or spending fewer comms getting a new shield).

Alright, thanks for explaining that. One question regarding that, wouldn't the head get slightly more resistances from the raised hood?

What is this bit:

It offers the following defences:
Physical cutting: 19
Physical blunt: 25
It is not being used to its maximum potential.
It is in perfect condition.
A shield has no poisons or magical effects on it.

Looked around with weapon probe, when wielded, said that. Never quite encountered that before, and I've had TrueShield for awhile now.

Could it be it's not fully forged?

As an enemy of Hallifax is it possible to find out the library catalogue number for a book in the Hallifax library? Assume that no Hallis are willing to help with this, for whatever reason. Also assume that the book is a publically available prestige winner. If so, how can I do so? If not, is it ethical to make an alt and look it up?

No clue! I've never dabbled around in Forging personally.

All the prestige winners are in the World Library, aren't they?

Yes but the catalog numbers are different. That said, I can't see any reason why someone would need the catalog number of a book in a specific library.


I'd guess it refers to this:

If you're writing a paper about the cultural impact of a specific book on a specific country or countries (in this case, the effect of Orti's "On Chaos and Order" on Hallifax-Gaudiguchian relationships) it is helpful to cite the correct catalogue number for the libraries involved.