I'm having some difficulty in tickling information about enhancives out of critter and treasure dropped items. Is there a special song that's needed? For instance, I sat my 37th level bard down last night with about 20 weapons found over the last few months and sang to them all using modified versions of the loresong Carabele had posted back in December of 2007. I was readily able to get all the usual info, but not one of the weapons showed any enhancives and yet quite a few of their values were high.

As an example this ornate aged imflass fist-scythe.

The first thing that strikes you about the fist-scythe is the weight, which is about 2 pounds. In your best estimation, it's worth about 45,000 silvers. You can also tell that there is some type of metal in the structure of the aged imflass fist-scythe.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the aged imflass fist-scythe in your hand...

It has a bonus of +12 from a normal fist-scythe, and the way it vibrates in tune with your voice tells you that it requires skill in brawling to use effectively. It also has some type of special ability, but you can't tell what yet.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the aged imflass fist-scythe in your hand...

The harmonics generated tell you that the fist-scythe has been infused with a corrosive substance.

But the last verse just told me I learned nothing new about the fist-scythe.

Could it be that it is just worth 45K without enhancives?

I know loresinging is a bit of a mystery, and you can't share too much on the forums, but could someone email me any help they might be able to give if it's not allowed to be posted here?

I don't think I've seen an enhancive with a value under 100K, either. Not everything at that value is enhancive, but under it, it's not very likely in my experience.

Others?

Doug

>I don't think I've seen an enhancive with a value under 100K, either.
Doug

Plenty.


-farmer

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That's just what we want, criss-crossing furrows all over the town streets from someone wandering through with their animated plow super buddy.

-Strath

>>So are you saying that it's not the loresinging but the lack of enhancives in my items that's failing? If there were changes to stats and/or skills that would show up along with the mention of corrosive substance?

Yes. Short, simple and sweet, yes. This is exactly what occurs. You get the enhancive info jointly with the info about the weapons other properties, like enchant, flares and weighting.

~Galenok

Also, concerning enhancive jewelry. It is usually always enhancive if the jewelry appraises for 25k or more at the pawnshop. So whenever I find random jewelry in the treasure system I'll go appraise it at the pawnshop and if it is under 25k I go and sell it to the gemshop.


-Adam

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"You guys took all the pretty places." ~Anonymous

Odd, that's exactly out of line with what I've directly experienced. I've had plenty of items that got me scrips or banknotes, and were not enhancive. And when enchancive, they're not that low. Even +10 enhancive weapons go well above 100K.

In fact, I've only ever found one enhancive at 100K. And that was a circlet, and a darn nice one at that.

I'll keep my eye out for some, though -- probably all I'll find, now.

Doug