Hello,

Just a couple of questions really about runic hammers, I am thinking of investing quiet alot of gold in valorite ingots and a runic hammer of some kind... i know I have little chance in affording valorite or verite runic hammers but I was wondering if the runic hammers worked in the same way as ingots? what i mean by this is, if i make my plate mail out of gold it has luck 40, i think.. and if i use a runic hammer on it like shadow as i have a few of them i seem to make more higher luck gains... so if i were to buy a golden runic hammer and make platemail from valorite would there be a higher chance of getting luck increases as i am using the golden hammer, which i don't want, i want resists and some special combo's like lmc or things like this....

what is a good runic hammer to invest in? and is valorite ingots the best for resists?

sorry to sound noobish i just don't want to invest my money in the wrong way....

thanks, :shocked:

Well, what my hopes are, with the new race coming to UO (probably dwarves) They may fix the blacksmithing skill. As it is now, runics are a bit broken, but you may want to just pick up whatever runic you can on the chance that they fix it. Just my two cents.

The type of hammer only affects the strengh on the mods that are being applied and also the number of mods.

So a higher type of hammer give more mods with higher % etc on them.

And if ya doing armour, go with Barbed kits since blacksmithing sucks on armours.

Armours = Tailors
Weapons = Smiths

Thats the general rule.

And yes.. atleast Gold hammer or else you will not get any weapon you will find "fun" ...

I usually only buy gold hammers, but I have got some semi-decent stuff from bronze hammers. I usually make war forks, kryss's. I have gotten quite a few excellent items from the gold hammers. Also, dont waste your gold on buying ingots. Work up a miner. I did that, as my first character, and gmed it in no time. You will find the work to be more rewarding if you go and get the supplies yourself. But I do agree, armor-tailor, weapons-smith. Its the only way to go. You can get better garbage off of monster loot than you get with a hammer making armor...

I used to burn thru DC and Shadow hammers with DC ingots making daggers for my fencer. They would always be exceptional for the 35% DI, they always had increased Durability from the DC ingots, they used very little ingots, and I just hoped for Slayers.

Got quite a few too...all gone when I put my acct on pause. The only wep I had left when i reactivated was my Nights Kiss that he had on him...

ok thanks for all the great advice, I think i will try some tailor runics for my armour then

(and buy some runic hammers just incase )