About armormaking.

Rullh · Post by **Rullh** » Fri May 09, 2003 6:52 am

I would like to state my mind of discontent with the armormaking skill.

The skill itself is a good one, and fun to meddle with until you get to the point where large hides are needed.
How come brown bears and grizzlys are nearly extinct in dasaria? Or is there some hunting grounds I do not know of?

I hunt in the sarangrave flats, and the forest of daris. Today I hunted for about an hour. Ended up with about 8 pelts, ruined three of them and got one skill point to armorcrafting out of the whole thing. After a while, this became very demotivating, and i simply couldn't bare to wait for the bears to respawn. Am I doing something wrong? Or would it be a good idea to include more brown and grizzly bears, or shorten their respawn time.
Deer however is overcrowding the land.
I would surely like to see more bear, perhaps something in between of the current bear population, and the deer population.

All who agree say aye, all who disagree say nay.

Sincerely butch.

Dava · Post by **Dava** » Fri May 09, 2003 11:43 am

I agree with you Butch.

I've recently started Armouring and have come across the same problem. I know where the bears are but the competition for them is fierce.

OOC; my other character Elric has found tailoring a relatively quick trade to learn due the abundance of dyes and deer (you can progress along way in tailoring without hardly touching a bear pelt). I think it will take alot longer to build up armouring than tailoring............is this intended? I'm certainly not asking for it to be easy, but the amount of Brown bears in Dasaria certainly makes armouring frustrating.

Denthar Thunderhammer.
'the ole' dwarf'

Holly · Post by **Holly** » Fri May 09, 2003 1:20 pm

I have never seen a Grizzly...

DeathMaster666 · Post by **DeathMaster666** » Fri May 09, 2003 3:59 pm

I'm not sure about this, but are polar bears large pelts? If so, there are usually 4 in the tree-cave and another 4 in the shadow forest.

Rullh · Post by **Rullh** » Sun May 11, 2003 3:51 am

Polar bears give a large white pelt I think, and those are used for making bags if I'm not mistaking.
Only brown bears give Large cured leather Hides I think.

Butch

DeathMaster666 · Post by **DeathMaster666** » Sun May 11, 2003 3:42 pm

Well, I didn't know the difference. I am not an experienced tailor. Sorry bout that.

Loswaith · Post by **Loswaith** » Sun May 11, 2003 7:30 pm

Vvulfen:
Aye the brown bears are rare, but my advice be work your taning kill till the large hides become easy ((green)) using some o' the other types o' black and white pelts... It will make your life a whole lot easier...

If your working with your tanning, wait till you need to use Black bear pelts, lately I have no' seen them much... and there be only about 4 of them.

At least with the grizzlies you can often get 2 cloths ((hides)) from the one bear.