- Valorite Ore is hardest to find, Iron Ore the easiest. A miner with a high mining skill is more likely to find a colored ore vein than less skilled miner.
- When a miner reaches the minimum required mining skill he gets about 25% of the ore in color. This goes up to about 50% or even more a few skill points later.
- Over all a miner digs the same amount of ore on all spots, he only gets more or less colored depending on his skill.
- Once a miner discovers a vein of colored ore, that color ore will always spawn at that spot.
- Mining colored ore seems to improve skill a little faster than normal iron ore.
- Smelting colored ore into ingots improves mining skill much faster than doing normal iron ore.
- If a smith has the minimum skill requirement for a color, the success on smithing seems the same, even on exceptional quality plate chests.
- Only armour and shields can be made in color, not weapons.
- NPC Smiths will not buy colored ingots, NPC provisioners do.
- Tinkering works the same on normal and colored ingots, the result is the same.
- As most newbie smiths have a lower smithing than mining skill they will often want to sell or x-change the easy colors, so the supply up to gold or agapite should be pretty good.
- As very few players were able (on Test Center) to advance their mining skill beyond 94, verite and valorite will be real rare, however smelting the medium skill colors should get their mining skill going again, so this will probably balance out soon.
- Smithing colors advances your smithing skill at a normal rate.
Thanks to Dymos, GM-Smith of the Cove's Merchants and Craftsmen (CMC) on Chesapeake for most of the information on colored ore and ingots.
Thanks to Elowyn of Moonglow for pictures of the different colored armor sets. |
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