According to the wiki, being "on an earthnode or in a workshop provides a bonus to enchanting". My question is about the "or" part. If a room is a workshop and an earthnode, are the bonuses cumulative or does only the higher (being a workshop, I assume) apply? Or are all workshops also earthnodes making my question not really make sense to start with?

Thanks!

>According to the wiki, being "on an earthnode or in a workshop provides a bonus to enchanting". My question is about the "or" part. If a room is a workshop and an earthnode, are the bonuses cumulative or does only the higher (being a workshop, I assume) apply? Or are all workshops also earthnodes making my question not really make sense to start with?

I'm not sure about the cumulative part. I'm guessing no, i.e. a regular node is worth +50 and a workshop is worth +75. Those are also random numbers I made up.

Bottom line though, do your enchants in a workshop if you want to maximize the bonus. All workshops are nodes, so you'll never get a better bonus on a regular node than you will in a workshop.

~ Methais

>>additional (enchanting) value to making the property's earth node the same room as the workshop.

Restating. . . all workshops are earthnodes.

Doug

>>The sorcerer guild workshops were installed without that capability.

Were? Or are? I think they were 'corrected' to grant bonuses sometime recently, no?

Should take a wizard with you, they can tell. ;) And if it is, but it isn't (earthnode / mana regen) that might be a bug that should be corrected.

[Wizard Guild, Workshop]

Obvious exits: northeast, southeast

>sense

You study your surroundings and use your keen knowledge of the arcane. It quickly becomes evident that this room is a strong magical workshop.

You sense a convergence in the flows of essence and gather that this place must be a natural earthnode.

You sense the distinct harmonies of a mana pool and detect an exceptional accumulation of mana.

(full on node mana generation)

[House Arcane, Dagmar's Workshop]

You notice a shimmering crystal ball resting on a pedestal in the center of the room and a heavy oak door.

Obvious exits: none

>sense

You study your surroundings and use your keen knowledge of the arcane. It quickly becomes evident that this room is not a magical workshop.

You sense a convergence in the flows of essence and gather that this place must be a natural earthnode.

You sense the distinct harmonies of a mana pool and detect an incredible accumulation of mana.

(full on node mana generation)

[Icemule Trace, Town Center]

You notice the usual shenanigans.

Also here: The usual hoodlums.

Obvious paths: north, east, south, west

>sense

You study your surroundings and use your keen knowledge of the arcane. It quickly becomes evident that this area is not a magical workshop.

You sense a convergence in the flows of essence and gather that this place must be a natural earthnode.

You do not detect the distinct harmonies of a mana pool.

NB: I realize there are no absolutes and possibly always exceptions, but everywhere I go, and everywhere I look, including old mana pool locations (questionable) and private workshops, this is what I experience. I think sorcerers should pretty much have some form of earthnode or planar nexus or something!

Doug

>>I guess the $1100 private properties are built in the same manner.

Well, it will be interesting to see, I guess.

Doug

Thanks for the follow-up, WHIGHTCNIGHT!

And good call, V!

And we know (or think we know) that earth nodes are +40 to an enchant attempt, public workshops (guilds / houses) are +100. I wonder just how good the private workshop will be. :)

Doug

Doug

And we know (or think we know) that earth nodes are +40 to an enchant attempt, public workshops (guilds / houses) are +100. I wonder just how good the private workshop will be. :)

Private workshops are twice as effective as public workshops, but only the owner of that workshop receives any bonus from it. Your number for guild/house works is incorrect.

PROPHETQ

Which brings me back to my other question then - do bonuses stack or are, as the wiki is worded, does only one or the other apply.

They do not stack.

GameMaster Estild

>>Your number for guild/house works is incorrect.

Good to know, thanks Estild!

Doug

>> Wizard Guild Workshop +100

While I didn't test 'public workshops', this is the value I was able to confirm for the wizard guild workshop on multiple tests well.

-- Robert

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Mark

Are you saying that the +100 wizard guild workshop bonus is incorrect?

Robert

While I didn't test 'public workshops', this is the value I was able to confirm for the wizard guild workshop on multiple tests well.

I assume you're both comparing the difference from a non-node to a guild workshop. If you compare the number to a node vs. a guild workshop, you should be able to get the determine the actual number. This is really getting into semantics, but being on a node doesn't provide a bonus, instead it actually prevents a penalty (for not being on a node). Not a huge issue, but if you do incorporate the non-penalty into the guild workshop bonus, it also needs to be incorporated into the public and private workshop bonuses. But when I said the private workshop bonus is twice as effective as the public workshop bonus, I was not including the negation of the non-node penalty.

GameMaster Estild