Lightening Notes vs. Merchant Lightening

[Stanley Burrell]

Hey, I was wondering about the notes that take one pound off of an item (got some armor accessories I want to use a bunch on.)

I'm wondering if this will somehow interfere with Merchant lightening, because I believe (that said Merchant lightening) takes a percentage off of the weight of a given item – and not a clear cut number like the one pound notes. So if I use lightening notes, will I then (after I can't use anymore) have to have a merchant do the final touching up of lightening?

[kutter]

I started some objects with notes then had a merchant finish it up, that is not an issue.

You are correct in the percentage, as I understand it. Every item has a max light base weight, irregardless of material and getting to that max light base weight will effect how much weight comes off each time ie. glaes plate will lose more per merchant lightening than say imflass plate, but both should be the same at max light. That is at least how it was explained to me. And, both should take the same number of times to be lightened by a merchant to get to that point so there will be a larger reduction each time for heavier objects, with that diminishing as you get closer to max light. I saw this with a glaes naginata, it started at 13 pounds and is now at I think 4 or 5.

I hope that made sense and is in fact how it actually works, if not I apologize in advance, but that is how a merchant explained it to me, sort of.

[Ardwen]

The main reason people like notes is you can lighten things you can't hand to merchants ICE ages, mechanically odd etc items can not be handed too merchants, these notes and deepening notes made a LOT of old items viable again.

[Stanley Burrell]

Ah, got it, thanks.

[Kupak]

I thought if you used notes to lighten as much as possible, you can't lighten more with the merchant... or can you?

[Roblar]

You can't. Once an item analyzes as "as light as it can get." (regardless of how it gets there notes/merchant), it is done.

There is no epic lightening like there is for deepening.

[Kupak]

Didn't they have epic lightening at some point that went even lower? I distinctly remember seeing a 1/300 backpack, which is how I assume it got to the 1 lb mark.

[Ardwen]

No, there are things like knapsacks that are/were one pound. Just deepen them to max then get a merchant that goes beyond max standard.

[Roblar]

Didn't they have epic lightening at some point that went even lower?


One person or two. Auction.

Hoy would know, think he won.

[Kupak]

I've actually checked every store in the game recently for fun and the lowest backworn (with notes) goes down to 2 lb. What are those 1 lb knapsacks?

[Ardwen]

look for formerly sold items, like the so called drama cloaks, there are LOTS of old things in lockers that defy current norms and all logic.