Hi! I'm having a hard time forging a perfect steel spear

[LizardClan1]

Hi!

I'm having some difficulty forging a perfect steel spear, which a friend wants to enchant to 4x.

I've mastered crafting and polearms completely (500 ranks of each). Here are my current stats as a level 24 dwarven warrior:


Strength (STR): 82 (26) ... 110 (40)
Constitution (CON): 82 (31) ... 82 (31)
Dexterity (DEX): 94 (22) ... 94 (22)
Agility (AGI): 95 (17) ... 95 (17)
Discipline (DIS): 78 (24) ... 88 (29)
Aura (AUR): 75 (2) ... 75 (2)
Logic (LOG): 82 (21) ... 82 (21)
Intuition (INT): 52 (1) ... 52 (1)
Wisdom (WIS): 60 (5) ... 60 (5)
Influence (INF): 48 (-11) ... 48 (-11)

Thanks for any recommendations!
/LiardClan1/

[Taernath]

Your stats, race, and profession play a role, but it's essentially just luck. You need a perfect head, perfect shaft, and a perfect vise attempt. Stockpiling perfect heads and shafts, then doing a bunch of vise attempts while using Gift of Eonak would be your best bet.

[drumpel]

70 seconds a vise attempt.

Gift of Eonake is 15 minutes. So, 900 seconds / 70 per vise = 12 vise attempts before your gift wears off

I tend to craft out 12 best heads and 12 best handles, then I toss up a Gift of Eonake and vise away. Usually I end up with at least 2 perfect weapons, but that's not always the case. Be prepared to come away with zero perfects or if you're extremely lucky like my last vise session, I walked away with 6 perfect weapons (2 mauls, 3 falchions and 1 dagger). Out of my last 4 Gift of Eonakes I used over the past 3 months:

I got 1 perfect on the first.
I got 0 perfects on the second.
I got 2 perfects on the third.
I got 6 perfects on the fourth.

Plug away at it, it may take some time. And I do this with my dark elf wizard.

[Mobius1]

My advice is to search playershops for enhancives. +Dis enhancives are usually pretty cheap. Get a +40 set if you can, for the vise.

[kutter]

Mobius and drumpel both gave good advice. What you need to remember as well is that it is a numbers game. There is about a 5% chance to craft a best piece. And once you have two best pieces, there is about a 5% chance which goes up to apparently 8%, didn't know that till recently, if you use a perfect hammer, which you should be, of combining them to make a perfect weapon. So if you do the math it is 20 pieces each to get one best and about 15.5 combinations to get a perfect. Now, that does not take into account age, profession, stats, etc. The simple answer is, forging is a grind, you just have to make a bunch and hope for the best and hedge your bets some like they said.

I still occasionally forge for people, but there is not much demand and to be honest, had I known then what I know now, I doubt I would have ever done it. It is too easy to just buy a perfect.