Crafting armor and weapons

Superag1 · Post by **Superag1** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:36 am

What's the trick to crafting armor? Bought the right mold for making red dragon half plate, had the scales, added some ingots, used the hammer on the keep anvil, but nothing happened. Craft armor level is 16.... did I not use the right type / number of ingots (or does that matter)?

Thanks in advance.......

rmholroyd · Post by **rmholroyd** » Mon May 21, 2007 2:33 pm

Red dragon armor

I've had the same problem... see my post on crafting problems. Probably need three red dragon hides, no ingots, half-plate mold. Works with three umber hulk hides.

Superag1 · Post by **Superag1** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:02 pm

Thanks for the reply

.... Anyway, I did a search of the forums on "crafting problems" and your user name.... and nothing came up. Any idea where the "recipes" are for crafting armor? The Guidebook certainly wasn't much help.....

rmholroyd · Post by **rmholroyd** » Tue May 22, 2007 6:33 am

Crafting receipies

They're a little hard to find in the guide, but what it does is list every book and thus the formulas in them. I cut and pasted that to a document on my system so that I could refer to them.

As you go thru the game you also find most of them and could copy them upon Examining each one.

Superag1 · Post by **Superag1** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:35 am

crafting ad nauseum

Thanks..... actually I have written down the recipes from the books (lets me sell the books afterward!) I was referring to the "recipes" for armor -- as in your example of 3 umberhulk hides to form that armor. How did you find out that it takes 3 hides, and does that number apply to all such armor crafting?

Cyrinn · Post by **Cyrinn** » Tue May 22, 2007 4:43 pm

Yeah, it takes 3 red dragon hides to make the armor. Unfortunately, it seems difficult to locate all 3 that are in the game.

You need a craft armor rank of at least 25 for it, so 16 is not high enough anyway.

GoldDragon · Post by **GoldDragon** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:08 pm

[url="http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=511016&forum=110"]This link should help you find the recipes that you wish.[/url]

Made by someone with entirely TOO much time on his hands....

It leads to the Spoilers section of the Official forums.

Cyrinn · Post by **Cyrinn** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:21 pm

That is a useful list, but it does not give you "recipes" for creature armor. There is actually a more detailed version floating around the bioware forum in MS Word form that is nice to have.

I haven't tried, but you could probably search and find a recipe list that includes the recipes for the creature armors, shields, etc.

rmholroyd · Post by **rmholroyd** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:17 am

Salamander hide (possible spoiler)

I discovered that 3 salamander hides and the studded leather armor mold makes some armor that is 15 R for fire and is +1 overall. Not that useful, unfortunately.

The umber hulk half-plate seems to be the best I can do with creature armor. Using two of them to make a heavy shield is pretty nice, though. You can't make a light shield out of it.

GoldDragon · Post by **GoldDragon** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:32 pm

By examining the Mold, you can find out what it takes to craft the armor.

For example, it takes three pieces of Red Dragon Hides to make Red Dragon Scale Mail, or whatever other armor that Hides can make.

EDIT: And a HECK of a lot of Craft Armor skill.... Something like 23 or so....

Cyrinn · Post by **Cyrinn** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:05 pm

Cyrinn wrote:Yeah, it takes 3 red dragon hides to make the armor. Unfortunately, it seems difficult to locate all 3 that are in the game.

You need a craft armor rank of at least 25 for it, so 16 is not high enough anyway.

Heh, 25