Appraisal skill

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Appraisal can tell you the value of your items, the stats on your equipment, and skills of your opponent and much more.

Use

APPRAISE will give you an assessment of something's abilities.

Appraisal, at least for comparing creatures, is based on base skills rather than factoring Agility. However, it does take your current STANCE settings into account.

When comparing armor, it will give an assessment of the armor's overall hindrances, as well as how hindering it is with everything your are currently wearing after factoring in the relevant armor skill.

Training

There are two ways to train this skill. The first way is to appraise items. The quickest way to learn is to appraise something very valuable that has many parts, like a full gem pouch or a really nice bundle. If you can't do this, the next best option is to appraise all of your inventory, the more valuable, the better.

The second way to learn is to appraise critters. One can appraise a beast multiple times without regard for a delay between appraisals to quickly learn the ability. Besides being a good way to gain appraisal experience, this is a good habit to develop. It's useful to know in advance how a critter's skill compares to yours.

Traders get a bonus to Appraisal.

Appraisal Values

Weapons

Damage Min Value Max Value Balance/Power Min Value Max Value
None 0.0 0.0 Not Suited 0.0 0.0
Poor 1.0 9.9 Dismally 1.0 19.9
Low 10.0 19.9 Poorly 20.0 39.9
Fair 20.0 29.9 Fairly 40.0 59.9
Moderate 30.0 39.9 Reasonably 60.0 79.9
Heavy 40.0 54.9 Well 80.0 99.9
Great 55.0 69.9 Excellently 100.0 119.9
Severe 70.0 84.9 Superbly 120.0 139.9
Bone-Crushing 85.0 94.9 Incredibly 140.0 159.9
Devastating 95.0 99.9 Unbelievably 160.0 ?
God-like 100 ?

Armor & Shield

The Hindrance system is slated for rewrite with armor changes. Values are current range to work hindrance to lowest value.

  • 4/15/09 - Minimally hindered is now within the range of Insignificant. Unhindered truly means unhindered by your armor.
Protection Absorption Hindrance Min Ranks Max Ranks
None None Unhindered 0 4
Poor Poor Insignificant 5 9
Low Low Lightly 10 19
Fair Fair Fairly 20 29
Moderate Moderate Somewhat 30 39
Good Good Moderate 40 49
High High Very 50 59
Great Great Highly 60 69
Impressive Extreme Greatly 70 79
Tremendous Extreme Extremely 80 90
Incredible Incredible Overwhelming 90 99
God-like God-like Insanely 100 ?

Creature

  • In order from low threat to high threat

Difficulty

Difficulty Difference
completely beneath
wipe the floor with
tear to shreds
you'd kill quickly
harmless
very easy
well beneath
simple
easy
relatively easy
definitely less skilled
worthy Perfectly at range ??
something in your skill range
solid
difficult
rather difficult
definitely difficult
very difficult
truly skilled
well above
couldn't hope to hurt
master that's well beyond
mythical being

Statistics

Strength Min Difference Max Difference Agility / Reflex Min Difference Max Difference
Great deal less -30 ?
Significantly -25 -29
Quite a bit less -20 -24
Definitely less -15 -19
Rather less ? -14
Somewhat less -10 -6
Not quite -5 -1
About as 0 0
A little more 1 5
Somewhat more 6 10
Definitely more 11 15
Quite a bit more 16 20
Significantly more 21 25
Great deal more 30 ?

Condition

  • Dead or horrible injury to perfect health
Health Injury
Dead ?

"Minor Wound" with bleeding injury "Major Wound" occured with badly bleeding injury.