'Passive' procs on off-hand (e.g. life shield or vengeful)

[Devachan]

I didn't know whether to put this in the Crafting forum or here. Please let me know if I should move this thread into crafting.

The question is about effects applied to shield or off-hand weapon during cannith crafting-- specifically those that come into effect when the wielder is hit in battle. Examples that come to mind are Lifeshield and Vengeful.

Let's take Vengeful as the example: When its wielder is hit in battle, this weapon has a 10% chance to cause him/her to enter Rage. Thus on a main hand weapon it will cause rage 10% of the time. The question is whether the percentage is still 10% when applied to an off-hand weapon or to a shield.

If a wielder has no TWF feats an off-hand weapon procs 20% of the time. Does this imply that rage will only occur 2% of the time if Vengeful it is on an off-hand weapon? What is the percentage for a shield?

Obviously I am hoping that the percentage remains at 10% and is not adjusted downwards to reflect it is on equipment held in the off-hand.

Finally, as a second question, how does one maximise Life Shield using the two different recipes in Cannith Crafting:
Recipe 1: Life Shield, which can be applied to: Heavy Armor, Medium Armor, Light Armor, Clothing, Docent, Off Hand Weapon/Shield; and
Recipe 2: Life Shield (weapon), which can be applied to Main Hand Weapon, Off Hand Weapon/Shield.

Accordingly, the scenarios could be shown as:

A. Life Shield on Heavy Armour (Recipe 1) and a Shield (Recipe 1)
B. Life Shield on Heavy Armour (Recipe 1) and a Shield (Recipe 2)
C. Life Shield on Main Hand Weapon (Recipe 2) and an Off-Hand Weapon (Recipe 2)
D. Life Shield on Main Hand Weapon (Recipe 2) and an Off-Hand Weapon (Recipe 1)


Do any of these produce double the % chance for lifeshield to be invoked? Do any produce double the amount of temp hit points?

[t0r012]

when hit effects aren't changed by TWF feats or anything like that main hand off hand doesn;t matter. if you get hit there is x% chance it processes period. if you have 2 items they both get rolls but the effects do not stack, one over writes the other.

you example life shield @ 10% would mean 1 out of every 10 hits you get the lifeshield.
if you had 2 life shield items on or in hand each hit would roll for the 1 in 10 chance. but if a lifeshield effect is active the second would just overlay the original resetting the timer. so if both went off on the same hit on you one would trigger first , then the other would overlay that one.

[Devachan]

That's great, I really appreciate the help.

cheers.