Smithing Trophy in Ammo Slot?

[Chilao]

Well, the good news is NO MORE Shadowscream component farming!

While playing around with the trophy, equipping it in the various slots and seeing the effects, I noticed of course that the Ammo slot does NOT enable the increased stats that the hammer carries.

Which got me to thinking. Has anyone actually verified that the +5% to Smithing enhancement ACTUALLY APPLIES when the hammer is equipped in the Ammo slot?

Now, THAT would be a cruel hoax!

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

Stats, including skill mods, arent applied from the ammo slot.

[Shalteth]

What about +% bait for fishing?

[KyrosKrane]

What about +% bait for fishing?

I asked the same question earlier in this thread:

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5171&highlight=

No reply. I'm not sure we can get a meaningful one because there's simply not enough info on fishing available.

Most tradeskills have a very definite "success" or "fail" per combine -- you either get the end product or you lose the components. There is no middle ground.

With fishing, though, you have multiple possible outcomes:

- You catch nothing.
- You get the "You caught, something..." message and some trash item.
- You get the "You caught Rusty Dagger!" message and some trash item (a dagger, in this case).
- You catch Fresh Fish.
- You catch a zone-specific fish.

Which of these counts as a success and which as a failure? Even if we classify the last three cases as successes (based on the premise that the upbeat message indicates a good thing, rusty daggers not withstanding), how do we differentiate between the two types of failures? Until we nail this definition down, I don't see how we can get meaningful tests for the effect of fishing modifiers.

[Shalteth]

For any meaningful tests you'd have to do a lot of combines in tackle boxes. That way you do get a definite success/fail.