Dweomercraft

Dweomercraft

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Dweomercraft, formerly called Enchantment, is a way to customize existing items. Various properties can be added ranging from skill bonuses to weight reductions.

Introduction

Dweomercraft is done using an Dweomercraft Pool (a fixture created with Smithing) or any crafting station of a trade your character has trade points invested into. There are also several basins around the server in typical locations for crafts, magic or religion. Place the item you want to enhance into the basin and close the container. You will be presented with a series of options in dialogue.

Dweomercrafting costs gold per try that is based on the power of the item and enhancement being added. This gold starts out low but can get very high as the power of items increase.

There is also a chance of failure on each enhancement. Items start out at 95% chance of success and range down to 5% chance of success. This is based on the power of the item and the enhancement being added. Some powers or enhancements cost much more than others. Failing this chance means the item is destroyed along with the gold used. Failing an item with only a 5% chance of success also results in an XP penalty of 1/10 the gold used.

Because the chance of adding new properties quickly becomes 5%, adding properties to existing items is rarely done. Instead, dweomercrafters purchase or create several unenchanted items and use the basin to risk the low creation chance. Some items may require 50 attempts or even more to successfully create, costing hundreds of thousands of gold in the process. This serves as a soft limit on the power of equipment.

Dweomercraft Tiers

Note: The runic changes do NOT affect runes that were applied BEFORE 06/13/2021 change went live. Make sure you pay attention to the percentage chance that is shown by the dweomercrafting dialogue before hitting OK.

Dweomercraft skill is measured in three Tiers which are gained by taking certain classes and feats. Maximum Dweomercraft Tier is level dependent.

The bonuses for each Tier are the following:

Tier	Add Skill Bonus	Add to Crafted Runic Items	Add to Naturally Runic Items	Gold Used	Required Level
1	+1	100% Chance on tier 1 runes	33% Chance	Slight Reduction	0
2	+2	100% Chance on tier 2 runes	66% Chance	Moderate Reduction	12
3	+2	100% Chance on tier 3 runes	100% Chance	Significant Reduction	21

• Dweomercrafting Tiers are classified as either Magic or Mundane, depending on how they were attained. Magic and Mundane Tiers are separate and do not stack.
• Naturally Runic Items: Items that have the runic property when dropped or as a crafted property when the item is created.
• Crafted Runic Items: Items that have had a Crafted Rune added to the item.

Magic Dweomercrafting

One Magic Tier is gained for each of the following:

• 12 levels of Cleric/Healer, Druid, Elementalist, Favored Soul, Hemomancer, Shaman, Shadow Mage, Warlock, Sorcerer and Wizard (not Spellsword).
  • Having 24 levels of these classes adds a second Tier.
• 21 levels of Bard, Hexblade, Paladin, Ranger and Spellsword.
  • Having 28 levels of these classes adds a second Tier.
  • Dirgesinger is treated as Bard for the purpose of dweomercraft tiers.
• Scribe Scroll, Brew Potion or Craft Wand feats.
• Skill Focus or Epic Skill Focus feats in Craft Mastery.
• Improved DweomercraftIng feat.
• Forge Domain (Cleric)

Palemaster, Harper and Zhentarim levels are added to their primary class. For example, Bard PMs get tiers from bard levels not Wizard levels.

Mundane Dweomercrafting

One Mundane Tier is gained for each of the following:

• Skill Focus or Epic Skill Focus feats in Craft Mastery.
• +1 Tier each time the total skill ranks invested in Craft Mastery reach 10, 20, and 30. Hard skill only, this means it excludes Craft Mastery added through equipment
• Improved Dweomercrafting feat.
• Forge Domain (Cleric)

You can see which tier your character is by using the -date console command in the chat box.

Examples:

• A Druid at level 24 has 24 primary caster levels, so qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier II (magic). If the Druid also took Brew Potion that would qualify them for Tier III (magic).
• A Wizard at level 24 has 24 primary caster levels, and also got Scribe Scroll automatically at level 1, so qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier III (magic).
• A Fighter (or other mundane character) with three feats (Skill Focus: Craft Mastery, Epic Skill Focus: Craft Mastery and Improved Dweomercraft) qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier III (magic & mundane).
• A Cleric 10/Druid 14 has 24 total primary caster levels, so qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier II (magic).
• A Ranger 20/Bard 8 has 28 total hybrid caster levels, so qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier II (magic). Picking up one Crafting Feat (say, Craft Wand or Skill Focus: Craft Mastery) would grant that character Tier III (magic).
• A character with Skill Focus: Craft Mastery and Epic Skill Focus: Craft Mastery qualifies for Dweomercrafting Tier II (magic & mundane).
• A Druid 10/Bard 20 has 10 primary caster levels and 20 hybrid caster levels, so does not qualify for any Dweomercrafting Tiers.

Godsaves

Characters may sometimes have their deity intervene to make a failed Dweomercraft succeed. This is an intentionally obscured game mechanic and the intervention is not guaranteed:

• Godsave Boons on enchanting and crafting have been revised to be less RNG-intensive, and are now based solely on your current piety. The chance of a godsave is also now equal to your piety.
• The cooldown of a godsave presumably is 1 in game day, meaning 144 real life minutes. This is according to Xerah, who said "let's just accept that 1 per day is the right number" and that was before the time change. However, others have said the cooldown is 12 real life hours, and there have been reports of godsaves happening 30 minutes after another on the same server and the same account, without a reset.
• Godsave cooldown timers work separately on each of the three servers. For example, if you have triggered the godsave on the Cities & Planes server, you will still be able to receive your godsave on the other servers, provided it was not already on cooldown there.

Runic Items

Items with Runes attached allow Dweomercrafters to increase their chance to add another property. This chance only works once on the next enhancement attempted. For Tier 3 Dweomercrafters this chance is 100%. See the above chart for the percentages.

Most runes are called Arcane and can be worked with by any crafter. This includes crafted runes that can be manually applied to items. Some runes, though, are in specific languages and only apply their bonus to Dweomercrafters who are fluent in that language.

When placing a rune on an item the placer can choose the rune language by having the language active when the rune is applied. In addition to the possible found languages listed below, Jotun, Roushoum, and Xanalress can now be used as the basis for player-applied runes. (Note that randomly-generated runic loot still won't use these three languages.)

Items that are found already Runed have an increased chance of being in specific languages instead of Arcane. These languages from common to rare are: Elven, Dwarven, Draconic, Infernal, Abyssal, Celestial.

Runic Scripts

Runes on items are now described by their script rather than the language used when making them.

• Inscribing with Dwarven, Gnome, Giant, etc -> results in Dethek rune.
• Inscribing with Abyssal or Infernal -> results in Infernal rune.

Full list:

THORASS: Common, Undercommon
FIENDISH: Abyssal, Infernal, Gnoll
CELESTIAL: Celestial
IOKHARIC: Draconic, Auran, Ignan
DETHEK: Dwarven, Gnome, Goblin, Orcish, Giant, Terran
ESPRUAR: Elven, Halfling, Xanalress, Sylvan, Aquan
IMASKARI: Roushoum
DRUIDIC: Druidic

Names and Ownership

Items are considered "owned" by their creator or the last character to add a property with Dweomercrafting. "Owned" items can be renamed and have their description changed at no cost or chance of failure by using the basin or appropriate crafting workstation. To take ownership of an item in this way, it is common to add a low-cost enhancement such as 20% weight reduction. This still comes with a chance of failure, though, which will destroy the item. Most found items will need to be enhanced in this way for their name to be changed.

Items may also be edited in this way by having the owner add a name in [] brackets. Factions can be set to own items using the faction name in {} brackets. Partial names work, too. Adding [all] to the name will allow anyone to edit it in this way.

Tips

• It is best to leave the more expensive enchantments for the end. If the value of the item was greater from the start, all the following enchantments onto that item would have a lower chance of success.

• There are various combinations and possibilities that a master enchanter could come up with for what a final item looks like, without falling down to 5% in their last attribute. An all-time favorite is +2 Skill, +2 Skill, +2 Skill, +2 Skill, +1 Ability, +1 Ability, in this order.

• The Enchantment Basin will only work with one item or stack of items in at a time. Players will otherwise get a message notifying them if there is more than one.

• Item properties of the same 'type' may not stack. For example, it is possible to put +1 strength and +1 dexterity on an item without issue. It is not possible to put a Level 1 spell slot (wizard) and a Level 2 spell slot (wizard) on the same item, however.

• Appraise and Heal skill bonuses cannot be added as items properties through enchantment.

Potential Enhancements

A full and specific list of enhancements is found by placing the item in a basin. Specific items may allow specific enhancements.

Type	Options
Ability Bonus	+1 to Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis or Cha. Note: multiple bonuses of the same ability on the same item do not stack.
AC Bonus	+1 to Armor Class. The type depends on the item: Boots give Dodge, Amulets give Natural, Armor/clothes gives Armor, Shield gives Shield, and all other items give Deflection.
Enhancement Bonus	+1 to weapons only.
Weight Reduction	10% or 20% reduction. 100 pound items with 20% reduction weigh 20 pounds, and with 10% reduction they weigh 10 pounds.
Bonus Spell Slot	Bonus Level 0, 1, 2, or 3 Spell for all classes. Bonuses to classes without spells are possible but useless.
Damage Bonus	+1 or +1d4 Damage Bonus in Acid, Cold, Divine, Electric, Fire, Negative, Positive or Sonic types.
Damage Immunity	5% Damage Immunity to Acid, Cold, Divine, Electric, Fire, Negative, Positive or Sonic types.
Damage Resistance	5/1 Damage Resistance to Acid, Cold, Divine, Electric, Fire, Negative, Positive or Sonic types.
Darkvision
Enhanced Container: Reduced Weight	Note: There are no containers currently on the server making this unusable. The closest to these are the Bags, but not even these may be enchanted with Dweomercraft.
Spell Resistance	10 Spell Resistance
Saving Throw Bonus	Improved Saving Throws: +1 to Universal, Acid, Cold, Death, Disease, Divine, Electric, Fear, Fire, Mind Affecting, Poison, Negative Energy, Positive Energy, or Sonic.
Skill Bonus	Skill Bonus: +1 or +2 to all skills except Appraise, Climb and Heal. See the Tier table above for how to add +2 skills.