Questions about Underfoot Plate Armor

[gilraam_thrakka]

I am getting to the point where I am looking at trying to make some Underfoot Plate for myself to replace some of my aging equipment. I know I have some skilling up to do before I can reasonably expect to succeed in making some. However, I have a couple questions.

1) At what skill level do you believe I would have a realistic chance at succeeding in making myself some armor (Currently 194 skill plus geerlok)? Keep in mind that I consider a reasonable chance to be 20-33% chance at success for self equiping purposes. I know I can probably buy it cheaper, but I am just stubborn that way.

2) Have any of you heard whether or not VI has any plans to fix Underfoot Plate Gauntlets and Boots? I noticed that they have the exact same stats in both the imbued and non-imbued form.

[Zhorn]

Last time I had a go at the math........

_Modified_ Skill and Chance (note that it can't be less than 5%).
200 5%
210 5%
220 10.5%
230 20.5%
240 30.5%
252 42.5%

That was based around reports of a 42%-ish percent chance at max effective skill (252 or 240+geerlok).

See the post http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3788 for more detail.

Note that those numbers could be out as I dont know if any one has pinned down the trival for BD armor.

Pretty disheartening til you get a high skill but you can get real lucky.....
And BD's are getting cheaper....!

EDIT: Come to think of it, maybe it was a 40% (4/10) reported average chance of success at max effective skill /shrug. I HATE MATHS!

Zhorn Spirtwalker
Barb Smith(199) on The Tribunal

[Zopharr]

Radodverge on Quellious started getting "acceptable" (about one in six ro so) results on Underfoot starting around 227 + Geerlock if I recall correctly. So 225 + Geerlock may be a good level to start trying to make your own armor. Maybe lower depending on your supply of blue diamonds and dwarven tempers.

[Gorgin]

I started around 215 and got about a 1/4-1/5 success rate, for some reason as I've skilled up(240 now) my success rate has gone from the 1-4 to like 1/7 so it seems like just pure luck to me somedays.

[wombat]

hmm

My experience was dont start below 220 plus geerlock unless you have very deep pockets. I got VERY lucky and made an Underfoot bracer first attempt at 221 and had to kill a lot of HG to pay for the next success afterwards.

Above 225 things started to improve until I had a horror stretch of 16 fails on the Underfoot Greaves. Fortunately I had just sold some very expensive Underfoot to a well heeled player and my inventory survived!

I make armour mainly for myself and guild but sell to order to fund my
habit :roll:

Its hoped that the new Trades changes after LOY will fix those bloody annoying imbued peices that are the same as unimbued!!!! GRR!!