Shattered Kingdoms

There are no items with innate AP enchants but one of my chars has a full suit with AP added on it.

The question is if you managed it in the first days or not. I had some easier enchanting in first days.

Sorry, got my suit enchanted a week ago... so yeah, first few days.

No, there have been no tweaks related to probabilities of success. Only two changes have gone in for enchant/consecrate, which I hadn't gotten around to announcing yet:
- If you blow up a container, the contents will spill out instead of disappearing.
- If you specify the wrong spell for the object (ex: enchant item on a piece of armor), the game will assume you wanted the spell that would work (ex: enchant armor) and cast that one for you instead.

That is awesome!!!!!!!!! You spoil us, you really do.

So, I can just alias a single "enchant" thingie and let the code be done with it. Nice!

whoa

what!

True. But it only helps so much. If you specify the wrong bonus type for that type of object the spell is still going to fail.

There were so many changes that happened over a period of many months on the enchantment code branch, that I had forgotten some of this stuff. My code update description did not reflect all the changes to berserk and frenzy. Some of them came in at the 4/23/2012 Code Update which is around when I originally wrote most of it, but the parts that had to do with the changes to the affect system had to wait until now.

I will go ahead and paraphrase here all the changes since then:

- Mastered berserk always succeeds if pulse racing
- Allow retry for fury even if already berserking
- Bug fix for berserk not applying spell penalties
- Removed penalty to MP while berserking
- Add +MR/+MP to berserk based on MR training
- Added major penalty to dodge while berserking

- Removed penalty to MP while frenzying
- Added major penalty to dodge while frenzying
- Frenzy wimped to have lower bonuses than berserk

Basically, berserk now does what the help file always erroneously claimed - it helps barbarians shrug off magical attacks while making them easier to physically hit due to their lack of caution. How it helps depends on whether you invested any training into MR. If you do, you get a MR bonus. Otherwise you get a MP bonus.

And the frenzy bonuses were lowered so that they are not as good as berserk, plus it doesn't give the magical protection. A spell that can be cast on anyone is no longer as good as a unique class ability.

Dulrik says, "Hey Edoras, here is a bag of dicks, I hope you choke on it."