Magic aptitude questions

Shouldn't magic items tell you what MA is
required to get full effectiveness out of
the item? Right now (In the demo) they
only say what effectiveness you have at
your current MA. Also, you can't see
the effectiveness of an item wielded by
an NPC follower. I may have no idea
how much MA is needed to power up an
item that I am giving to a follower,
because my MA is high enough to get 100%.
Also, what about special abilities on
items like the axe of strength? When do
you get the +1 to STR and CON? at 1%? 50%?

 

Thats strange because I always get the magik sword from the doc and give it to virgil, I checked on him and it told me he had 76 effectiveness

And I don't think they should, because a sword is a sword even if its magikal, if its fully powered you'll know and get the full damage

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Jureel_Krix on 2001-05-25 10:16 ]</font>

 

I am not positive, but I believe when I
hover over an item than an NPC has equiped,
It tells me when effectiveness I (The PC)
would have with the item, not the NPCs.
That is why I wanted to know the level
at which an item is fully effective in
the first place. (So I can give low
MA people like Virgil low powered items)

 

Um well as a techie I should have gotten a 0. Not a 76

Because I had no apptitude for magik, therefore i also would have a critical failure chance, but I didn't

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Jureel_Krix on 2001-05-25 12:09 ]</font>

 

Well, I have used a few dwarven techs and they usualy get 0 effect from magical items as well as not getting much effect from spells.
But then They usualy started out with 40 tech aptitude and quickly got more.

 

So you belive that with a MA of 5 on the
Tech side, all magic items stop functioning?

 

No, that's not right. It's the difference that counts, I'm pretty sure of that.

 

Jureel:

I double checked, and the effectivness of
a magic Item is as if the PC were using it,
not the NPC. This is the case even when
the NPC has the item in-hand. Also, even
with a MA of 5 on the tech side, the
effectiveness of the sword is 20%. And
with a MA of 44 on the Tech side, it still
doesn't say that there is any modifier to
my critical failure chance. I just hope
it is fixed in the final game, or the
first patch.

 

Well that is strange because my guy was all the way tech, his aptitude was horribly tech no chance for magik to do anyhting to him

and I still got the 76...

Hrrm