>>How bout an ability or skill that MUs, or at least MM and WM have, that combine md with app to tell more about cambrinth(and other magic items) like how much mana max the item will hold, and maybe seperate uses from focus so that NMUs can see it too

Good idea. Instead of a separate skill/ability, I could see it being an extension to the Appraisal skill with a skill check against MD thrown in. Even an NMU, with enough Appraisal, could tell how much mana a cambrinth item could hold. Skill with MD would simply lower the Appraisal need to get that information.

Illauron

"Good idea. Instead of a separate skill/ability, I could see it being an extension to the Appraisal skill with a skill check against MD thrown in. Even an NMU, with enough Appraisal, could tell how much mana a cambrinth item could hold. Skill with MD would simply lower the Appraisal need to get that information."

How would the appraisal skill be able to tell how much mana cambrinth holds? Unless I suppose the amount of mana cambrinth holds is simply a matter of the size of the cambrinth but I am not sure how a NMU would even be able to judge what "1" mana is.

Frankly the devices skill is so limited in use right now that MD alone should be able to easily check on mana that can be held by cambrinth. Not that even this would be particularly useful.

Along the same lines- MD should be more useful in identifying odd ball magic items and characteristics of them. Sure it works fine for runes and wands, but there are the oddball ones where all that can be determined is some hazy amount of holy mana or something. Give MD some more use by allowing it to properly identiy things at higher levels.

Flavius

>>How would the appraisal skill be able to tell how much mana cambrinth holds? Unless I suppose the amount of mana cambrinth holds is simply a matter of the size of the cambrinth but I am not sure how a NMU would even be able to judge what "1" mana is.

I was making an assumption that, yes, the amount of mana that a cambrinth item holds is related to the mass of the cambrinth. If this is incorrect then the idea falls apart.

Anywho...an NMU with enough Appraisal skill could tell how much cambrinth mass is there and then infer, based on his/her discussions with magic-users, how many 'streams' of mana could be contained within it.

I suppose that this capability among NMU's would lean most heavily in favor of Traders, but you have to admit that traders do need some love anyway. Besides, if NoobMage is interested in buying a cambrinth armband off of JaneTrader's market table, shouldn't JaneTrader be able to tell NoobMage how much mana it will hold before he buys it?

Illauron