Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Repair skill doesn't work...

Hi,
I know lots of people have asked this before but none of the previous advice seems to work for me (I have patch 1.34 installed).

My warrior has repair skill at level 1 and I don't have much gold so would prefer to repair items myself. My shield is dur 2/4 and is glowing orange for repair, but I can't seem to do it.

I select the repair skill, then right click so that the cursor becomes the hammer and anvil. But when I left click on the shield I hear a "chink" noise and then the cursor goes back to normal. But my shield is still dur 2/4.
I have tried repairing the shield with it in my inventory, on my arm, and also on the ground but nothing seems to make any difference.
On the odd occasion, the hammer and anvil cursor remains for a while after clicking on the shield, but it goes on forever...

Any ideas?

Think of math and fractions here.
5/5 = 1 right.
So 1/5th will only repair one fifth of any damage on an item.
This repair always starts from ZERO.
The reason why nothing is happening for you is because your shield is not damaged enough to be repaired by 1/5th repair skill.
Remember, repair starts at ZERO and you have 50% or 1/2 of your shield left that is not damaged so 1/5th being less than 1/2 will not do anything for you.

Does that make sense?

Tsel

Thanks for that. Does this mean that with skill level 1, I cannot repair anything with max dur ability 4 or less?

You know, I’m not quite sure about that.
But I bet Raze has the definite answer on this.
He should be along sometime today.

Tsel

With repair lvl 1, you repair up to 60% of your item. 60% of 4 = 2,4 but the game doesn't work with decimals so, it's just 2/4

With lvl 2, you can repair up to 70%. 70% of 4 = 2,8 so it is still just 2/4

With lvl 3, you can repair up to 80%. 80% of 4 = 3,2 so it will become 3/4

With lvl 4, you can repair up to 90%. 90% of 4 = 3,6 so it is still 3/4

With lvl 5, you repair full 100%, so it becomes 4/4

Does that make sense?

Thank you titto.
I'm going to make a mental note of those percentiles.
Since I'd much rather work with percentiles than fractions any day. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Tsel

Cheers! Makes a lot more sense now.