Crafting Alchemy Enchant Armor not applying XP properly

1/25/2018 6:06 AM
Title: Crafting Alchemy Enchant Armor not applying XP properly
Reproduction Rate: High
Blocker? No
Details:
Alchemy enchanting in Crossroads, House Gold Ornate Greenhouse
Benefactor Expert Alchemy Station, Gold engraved morter
Levels: Alchemy 89, Enchant 69, Enchant Weapon 1, Enchant Armor 33-35
XP Pool 551,407 (and less as testing continued)
When enchantment level set to raise(others locked) xp applies at a rate of approximately 2100 per enchant
When enchant armor level set to raise (others locked) xp applies at a rate of approximately 22-32.
Item enchanted: augmented chain boots (iron or copper)

QA Shut down as I was trying to gather more data.

Steps to Reproduce: Craft augmented chain boots then enchant with the specifications above while monitoring XP Pool

Recording available for reference after editing if requested.

Detailed Steps:
Gather IGG and COTOS for several days,
Spend hours finding materials at player vendors
Spend hours refining materials (the new batch stuff helps but please make wire coils large batches and use swiftness)
Spend hours finding materials for Warlock chain, Craft a warlock chain to gain ~900K xp
Refine more materials.
Craft 400 augmented chain boots, Starting with copper then moving to Iron
- Craft boots and place in 100 boot bags as they are made
- Of the successful crafts, document exceptional percentage of each 100 boot lot.
- Note: the exceptional percentage for augmented chain boots Irons were higher than the copper.
Start Enchanting
- Configure Stream Recording
- Enchant each boot
- Note: this is a good time that the system pulls items from bags before pulling from root inventory.
- Complete 100 boot enchants, Place in marked bag (98 successes), place on floor,
- Raising Enchantment to level to open Enchant Armor
- Go buy skill Enchant Armor, Set to raising
- Lock Enchant skill, maintaining
- Get 2nd bag of 100 boots into inventory
- Enchant 2nd lot of 100 boots, enchant armor raising slower than expected.
- Move 2nd lot to Marked bag on floor (94 successes)
- Go get more gold ore and refine (Novia market is almost empty by now)
- Get More mandrake
- Get 3rd Bag of 100 boots
- Enchant each boot, Monitoring xp application of armor enchant (only 20-30 xp applied from pool per enchant?)

QA Shut down in the middle of this test. I thought I had a couple more hours. The last two evenings I had to assist my mother with an infected computer the last two nights.

The Goal was to get 100 items at 2nd enchant to test the 3rd enchant percentage, which is rumored to be bugged; only a mass test will prove one way or the other.

Please review the previous suggestion to make these types of tests possible.

Suggestion: QA Crafting Refined Materials Vendor
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...-qa-crafting-refined-materials-vendor.107666/


User Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8) System RAM: 32714
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU RAM: 8085
SotA.EarlyAccess.QA.Win.64.622.Date.01.23.18
Area: POT_forest_metropolis_02_template/Crossroads
Area Display Name: Crossroads
Loc: (59.7, 39.9, -365.8)
Debug: UE9UX2ZvcmVzdF9tZXRyb3BvbGlzXzAyX3RlbXBsYXRlfENyb3Nzcm9hZHN8KDU5LjY5MywgMzkuOTM1LCAtMzY1LjgxMyl8KDAsIDAuNzA3LCAwLCAwLjcwNyl8MTAwLjUxMTh8MzAuNzU2Njl8MS45NDY4NDg=

 

I believe this is actually intended, the enchantment subskills pull from your pool a LOT more slowly and as a result are significantly more expensive to raise in terms of gold ingots. When it was first implemented this was remarked upon and as it hasn't changed since, I'm assuming it is deliberate.

 

If this is running as intended, I'd like to know for sure. It would eliminate the drive to raise XP pool to extremely high levels before doing any enchanting.

I updated the original post with the detailed procedures of the test and intentions, ultimately I failed to get the mass test of 3rd enchant because too little time available on the QA server.