Shattered Kingdoms

Duh

I'd much prefer to have to wait to skin things and have it work when I can than the way it works now. I'm holding out hope that it's going to get tweaked - the failure rate is WAY too high right now, at least for certain materials.

It's pretty much as stated in the update. You have a chance to skin different materials at lower levels than used to be required. But the chance to skin powerful materials are always lower than they used to be. Getting 1 mithril skin per mithril beast killed is definitely not a sure thing anymore. That was the goal and I think the change fills it.

Yeah, but having a GM scout fail to skin a mithril corpse five times in a row is a bit much, don't you think? Especially so when the mithril corpses in question aren't exactly easy to get.

That does sound like some pretty bad luck to me. The chances are bad, but not so bad as to warrant 1 in 5 without really bad rolls from you.

At GM he should be able to skin them without that 'increased chance of failure at lower levels' as mithril skins are champ, correct? He shouldn't be receiving any penalty to skin them.

Also at GM I would hope skin is at least at 'superb'

Skin failure chance is just different now. Before there was almost no chance of failure at all. Now there is, it is signficant, and it is based on how good the skin is going to be. Therefore your chance of getting mithril skins is always going to be bad now, because it among the best skins.

Oh okay, I thought the only change was to trying to skin things higher level than you, thanks for clarifying.

For wanting to slow down combat, I would thinking reducing high level skins would speed it up. Harder to get good skins and good enchanted ones for lighter armor classes, most of which dont stand up as it is with mercs or barbs.

The change to the skin was good. It's ridiculous when you see people who die every day, or more, and every time you see them they're in a full suit of skins. There is more than enough mithril in the game as is, even without the skin skill. It shouldn't be that easy to go get 50 pieces of mithril, especially when that mithril is the highest quality.