which is temporary

[crb]

The harmonics generated tell you that the greathelm serves to reduce the severity of inflicted wounds. The magical harmonics reveal that the head and neck are better protected when wearing the mithglin greathelm.

The greathelm resonates with your voice, revealing some details of its temporary enhancement:
The greathelm's enhancement will degrade when the wearer is struck in combat.
It should be able to withstand an incredible amount of uses before its enhancement has completely degraded away.
When its enhancement has degraded away, the item will simply return to normal.

As your song penetrates the mithglin greathelm, you determine that it is slightly resistant to crushing attacks.


Not a bad helm, decent for OTF where constructs like to crush heads.

But what, is, temporary?

Is the padding temporary, or is the resistance temporary? Or both?

[Kitsun]

My money is on the padding being temp. I don't think I've seen any treasure gen'd temp resistance items.

[thefarmer]

My money is on the padding being temp. I don't think I've seen any treasure gen'd temp resistance items.

Agree

[BriarFox]

I have seen temp resistant items, but it's still more likely it's the padding. However, it's easy to find out. Have any warrior assess the helm, and they can tell you if the padding is permanent or temporary.

[Stanley Burrell]

I had robes (light leather), lol, like this: It means the level of padding itself will decrease after a few hits to the noggin/neck (since it's visored.) Meaning after X amounts of reactive damage reduction from crush attacks; that the helm will give you messaging saying it has reduced the force of a crush attack, and that the padding level will drop.

What's really weird is that I had some merchant do degrading padding on my fully-unlocked Xylum robes, which assessed at decent, at first, and then after a few smacks, assessed at somewhat: The temp padding crumbled away when it was at somewhat and I had taken more hits, because that's how many blows were calculated into the added degrading padding itself -- Yet your helm is already on the lowest end of the scale as far as padding goes (slightly) so it's weird, because you probably have more charges (with incredible amount) for overall "padding," yet the padding itself would wear away to degradation mechanics, I imagine, before the lumpsum of the padding would.

You get a message-specific notifier when the level of padding itself degrades; but still has some padding left, too, so if you see that, have it assessed + loresong again, it could be on the higher end of slightly (+2) and could drop to +1 slightly when it degrades.

Not sure, see what happens.

[crb]

I have seen temp resistant items, but it's still more likely it's the padding. However, it's easy to find out. Have any warrior assess the helm, and they can tell you if the padding is permanent or temporary.

warrior who told me the padding level said he couldn't tell if it was perm or temp.

[BriarFox]

He probably doesn't understand the messaging. If it's temp, it will say it's temp. If it's perm, it'll just say it's padded. Thus, I'd guess that the resistance is the temp one.

[Stanley Burrell]

Just wear armor that covers your head and have a Warrior with rank 5 crush protection add masterwork fittings. It's a far more renewable resource than degradable padding.

[crb]

Do you know any warriors who do rank 5 crush? By the way?

[Stanley Burrell]

Do you know any warriors who do rank 5 crush? By the way?

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