Another Newby Q? How to make good magic items?

[RAF]

Thanks for the reply on the Sea question, Zurai...

Another question...I can make Trinket magic items at the beginning of the game, but as the game goes on, I never seem to be presented with the ability to make better ones (Lesser magic and above)...What am I missing? I have my mages or pretender try to make them at a lab, but only get the lowest level stuff?

BTW, this is a really superior game, can't put it down (considering it's 2:20 AM local, that's not a surprise, I guess)....

Thanks for the help!

Raf

[Teraswaerto]

Research Construction.

[Gateway103]

To build an artifact, you need 4 ingredients.

1. A Lab in the province where the item forgerer resides.

2. Required level of Construction research. Every 2 level of Con. gives you access to more powerful artifacts.

3. Path level requirement of artifact. Your mage must exceed the path requirement to construct them. e.g. The Pocket Ship needs a mage with 3 Nature & 2 Astral to make it. An exception is the case when the Global Enchantment Forge of Ancient is active for your nation, then all your mage are considered 1 level higher in all path when comes to forging only. You can increase the actual path level of your mages by artifacts as well as empowering through gems.

4. Gem/Blood Slave requirement. I.e. the raw materials.

For more information on various possible artifacts and their construction requirements, get Zen's Magic Item Quick Reference v2.8, obtainable at, among other places, Arryn's.

Arryn's Site
http://www.bl23c.com/arryn/

File section
http://www.bl23c.com/arryn/files.htm

MIQR direct link
http://www.bl23c.com/arryn/downloads/MIpdfv2_8.pdf

Hope this helps.

-Gateway103

[ March 06, 2004, 08:45: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gateway103:
{snip} obtainable at, among other places, Arryn's. {snip}<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I just want to say that I had no shameless involvement in the previous post's endorsement of my site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Gateway103]

Originally posted by Arryn:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Gateway103:
{snip} obtainable at, among other places, Arryn's. {snip}<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I just want to say that I had no shameless involvement in the previous post's endorsement of my site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">LOL, indeed you do not. (cues conspiracy music) ^_^

-Gateway103