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  • [evilhack] Question on dragon scaled armor and its secondary intrinsic

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 23 11:50:40 2024
    Just killed a sea dragon and want to get the dragon scales intrinsics,
    both, the primary and the secondary intrinsic. I have
    - a set of sea dragon scales
    - a blessed +2 mithril dwarvish chain mail

    Reading the Wiki I'm not quite sure what to do to get both intrinsics
    from the dragon scales. It says (besides other unrelated information):
    a) "Reading enchant armor while wearing body armor under scales
    hardens the scales and fuses them together, causing that
    armor to gain +5 AC and confer the matching primary extrinsic."
    b) "Dragon-scaled body armor cannot be wished for. It must be
    crafted."
    c) "Dragon scales having secondary extrinsics [...] – all dragon
    scales have a secondary extrinsic effect when fused with
    regular body armor and turned into dragon-scaled armor."

    (a) mentions only the _primary_ intrinsic; what about the second?
    (b) speaks of "_crafted_" which doesn't sound like using magic to get
    it; does that maybe refer to a #forge'ing process?
    (c) speaks again of "fused"; with the first quoted point it seems to
    imply reading a magical scroll of enchant armor. Is that correct?

    So will I get both intrinsics by reading a scroll of enchant armor
    while wearing the two pieces of armor I listed above?

    Or is some other process (like forging) necessary?

    Thanks for insights and clarifications.

    Janis

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  • From Ron Nazarov@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Tue May 21 02:06:47 2024
    Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> writes:

    Just killed a sea dragon and want to get the dragon scales intrinsics,
    both, the primary and the secondary intrinsic. I have
    - a set of sea dragon scales
    - a blessed +2 mithril dwarvish chain mail

    [...]

    So will I get both intrinsics by reading a scroll of enchant armor
    while wearing the two pieces of armor I listed above?

    Yes. Wearing just scales as a cloak will only confer the primary
    intrinsic, but wearing dragon-scaled armor (which is created by reading
    a scroll of enchant armor on the dragon scales while also wearing armor) confers both.

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