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ULTIMA ONLINE: AGE OF SHADOWS
ITEMS: MATERIAL BONUSES
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These are the bonuses that are added to a piece of armor's or weapon's base properties, whether you create it from the special material, or enhance it with the special material.

ORE TYPE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Armor
Dull Copper
Shadow
Copper
Bronze
Golden
Agapite
Verite
Valorite
Physical Resist
6
2
1
3
1
2
3
4
Fire Resist
 
1
1
 
1
3
3
 
Cold Resist
 
 
 
5
2
2
2
3
Poison Resist
 
 
5
1
 
2
3
3
Energy Resist
 
5
2
1
2
2
1
3
Durability
50
100
 
 
 
 
 
50
Luck
 
 
 
 
40
 
 
 
Gold Increase
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lower Requirements
20
 
 
 
30
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Weapons
Dull Copper
Shadow
Copper
Bronze
Golden
Agapite
Verite
Valorite
Physical Damage
Always Takes Remaining Damage % From Physical
Fire Damage
 
 
 
40%
 
 
 
10%
Cold Damage
 
20%
 
 
 
30%
 
20%
Poison Damage
 
 
10%
 
 
 
40%
10%
Energy Damage
 
 
20%
 
 
20%
20%
20%
Durability
100
50
 
 
 
 
 
 
Luck
 
 
 
 
40
 
 
 
Gold Increase
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lower Requirements
50
 
 
 
50
 
 
 

LEATHER TYPE
Armor
Spined
Horned
Barbed
Physical Resist
5
2
2
Fire Resist
 
3
1
Cold Resist
 
2
2
Poison Resist
 
2
3
Energy Resist
 
2
4
Luck
40
 
 

DRAGON SCALE
Armor
Red
Yellow
Black
Green
White
Blue
Physical Resist
 
-3
10
 
-3
 
Fire Resist
10
 
 
-3
 
 
Cold Resist
-3
 
 
 
10
 
Poison Resist
 
 
 
10
 
-3
Energy Resist
 
 
-3
 
 
10
Luck Increase
 
20
 
 
 
 

Enhancing an item would be wasted on plain armor or weapons, as you could gain the same bonuses from just crafting the item out of the material itself. You want to save enhancing for the magic items you find as loot, so that you could potentially make something even more powerful from something you find that's only mediocre.

But remember, enhancing items is risky business, especially if the item already has magical properties. The more property bonuses you try to force into an object, the more likely you'll fail. For instance, Valorite adds a bonus to 5 properties, whereas Dull Copper only adds to 3. So, it would be easier for you to successfully enhance an item with Dull Copper than it would be to enhance it with Valorite.

This also applies to increasing a property value that already exists on a magic item. For instance, if you have a piece of armor with 15% physical resistance and you try to enhance it with Dull Copper, which adds 6% to physical resistance, your chance of failing is quite high. Alternately, enhancing a piece of armor that only had 5% physical resistance on it, instead of 15%, would be substantially easier.

Example: Crafting a Verite Ring Mail Tunic.

Let's say you want to craft a Verite Ring Mail Tunic for your warrior friend. In order to calculate the properties of the finished item, we add the properties of the base item (a Ring Mail Tunic) with the properties of the special material used (Verite Ingots).

 
Physical
Fire
Cold
Poison
Energy
Ring Mail Tunic
3
3
1
5
3
+
Verite Ingots
3
3
2
3
1
=
Verite Ring Mail Tunic
6
6
3
8
4


Example: Crafting an Agapite Katana

The bonuses that are applied to a weapon from crafting it out of colored ore is actually taken from the base physical damage of that weapon and applied as an elemental bonus. The totals of all elemental properties on a weapon must add up to 100%. For instance, let's say you want to craft an Agapite Katana. In order to calculate the properties of the finished item, we subtract the elemental bonuses from the base physical property of the item (a plain katana), and then apply them to the appropriate elemental columns based on the material use (Agapite ingots).

 
Physical
Fire
Cold
Poison
Energy
Normal Katana
100%
0
0
0
0
+
Agapite ingots
0
0
30%
0
20%
=
Agapite Katana
50%
0
30%
0
20%