Priming for crafting -what stays and what goes

[kittikatgurl]

When you prime an item for crafting what effects stay and what go?


Metal properties on either weapons or armor remain (note metalline is not a metal property):






Race restrictions on an item go:



Guild slots remain and bound and attuned status remains, but any alchemical rituals go:

[TheDearLeader]

...Huh.

Some things I didn't think about when looking at items.

Metal properties stay - of course, we knew that.

Perma-damage stays - this is actually pretty lame.

Durability and Hardness change to base - this is terribly lame, when coupled with the above.

Good find, Lainith. Now I'm tempted to take an item with more than 1/2 of it's Durability eroded due to Perma-damage and disjoining it, just to see what would happen. Does it become erased from existence? Instantly 0 Durability, therefore unusable without an addy ritual?

Have you bug reported it? It may or may not be a bug, but they'll (hopefully) know faster if it isn't WAI.

[kittikatgurl]

Hmm... thats an interesting point. Have to look into that further.

[TheDearLeader]

I decided to research further into that particular query.

Intentionally damaged an item down to the point where permadamage exceeded what a non-magical version of the item would have for maximum durability. See below.



Then, "primed" the item for crafting by using the Dust of Disjunction. See below.



As I hypothesized above, this essentially "Destroyed" the item - it is unusable in its current form.

Of course, I couldn't just leave this alone. Instead, I had to craft it back up with something. Crafting with +2 Enhancement Bonus, then added Evil Outsider Bane, as seen in both pictures below.



So, crafting it back upwards made it a usable item again, although obviously not a very good one. The massive amount of perma-damage makes it undesirable.

Also, I tested this on items without permanent damage. They would start with 0 durability, but could be repaired back up to full. This worked on Stone of Change Bound, and not Stone of Change Bound, items.