i crafted and imbued some bone arms up to near max weight (493/500) and used a medium grade wash of hardening. here is what i got
so, in theory, you could have a full, non-medable suit, with 75 DCI max but you would have max resists of 40 across the board.
to use one of the new items, you have to buy 20 of the corresponding materials from the appropriate shops (Malleable Alloy for Blacksmiths, Leather braids for tailor, and solvent flasks for carpenters) which are not terribly expensive (50 gp each or 1k gp for all 20)
Now one thing i find kind of interesting is that you apparently need to be in a specific shop to get the best chances of getting the extra modifier, which it tells you when you first try to use it, mine said i needed to be in " A stitch in time in Occolo" for best chances, i tried it again with a different piece of armor and it sent me to trinsic that time. You can, apparently, use more than 1 wash on an item but if you try to select the same resist then nothing will happen from that.
there are 5 levels of crafting item
Invulnerability - Applies four modifications with a chance to apply five modifications.
Fortification - Applies three modifications with a chance to apply four modifications.
Hardening - Applies two modifications with a chance to apply three modifications.
Protection - Applies one modification with a chance to apply two modifications.
Defense - Applies one modification.
I can confirm that regular SOS's can give you up to hardening and Champ spawns can give up to Invulnerability.
all and all I am not impressed with this new system, reducing my max resists or DCI to raise the other isn"t really worth it. If it were possible to put all of the resist bonuses into 1 (so you could get a 100% resist to a single type) then i could see some uses for PvM.
if y'all have any questions, just let me know
