Are you just getting the first line about strength/durability or are there a couple other lines?

If there are less then 10 services on an item, you'll get a message about it not being weighted/padded. This threw me off the first time I checked my plate I started working on, but if you look at the brackets below it'll tell you the number of services:

>asse my plate
You assess the plate for structural weaknesses and strengths.

Careful examination indicates the red steel plate has a base strength of 99 and a base durability of 590. You also determine the current integrity of the red steel plate to be at 100.0%.

Examining the plate closely, it looks like it is not padded against critical blows.

[Some blood red steel plate has a combat effectiveness rating of 0 points of Critical padding and a 70.0% chance to have a combat effectiveness rating of 1. It has 7 of 10 services towards the next full rank of combat effectiveness.]

Roundtime: 24 sec.

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

I do NOT get the [] information. I have 202 ranks of polearms.

>> Do weapons give the same messaging as armor?

I can't speak to the "less than 10 services" messaging but general weapon and armor messaging appear to be the same:

[A barbaric mithril greataxe has a combat effectiveness rating of 5 points of Critical weighting and a 50.0% chance to have a combat effectiveness rating of 6. It has 10 of 20 services towards the next full rank of combat effectiveness.]

[A suit of finely forged dwarven platemail has a combat effectiveness rating of 10 points of Critical padding. It has 0 of 30 services towards the next full rank of combat effectiveness.]

-- Robert

From the pitch of the vibration you determine that the purpose of the shield is as a shield.

BUGITEM your spear in game and maybe put in an ASSIST. That's usually the best way to get GM attention for things like this.


Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.