Armor Pen T4 Blacksmith (Edgesmith) thrall doesn't work on Axes

Conan Exiles PC Discussion
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Game mode: Online official
Type of issue: Bug maybe?
Server type: PvE-Conflict
Region: EU

I believe the new Armor Pen T4 Blacksmith increases armor pen by a percentage, not by a flat amount. This makes it useless on Axes because they have 0% armor pen and 0% x anything = 0% (I went to groundschool :slight_smile:).

Maybe this is intended, but it’s most likely an oversight.

Steps:

  1. Craft an Axe with a T4 Armor Pen Blacksmith (Edgesmith) thrall.
  2. Armor Pen is still 0%.
  3. Your thrall is fired for lazyness at work.
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Axes have no armour pen, this works like you expect them to have none.

See stream for explanation (see timestamp ?t=1272):

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Makes sense! So far I really don’t see the point in using an Edgesmith then, it feels like Bladesmiths are so powerful.

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True, maybe we’ll see some balancing changes in the future
Some weapons are clearly winners in tems of power, let’s wait for the next combat update 2.2 :slight_smile:

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If you knew how hard it is to code a game, and how ambitious Conan Exiles already is for a dev team that small, maybe you would be more indulgent towards them and welcome every free change gratefully

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is it just me or do the t4 blackmiths and carpenters not make the correct level of gear? Annoying shard says base dmg is 53, and t4 armorer only make a 56 dmg one. The flawless version pre patch was 60 dmg.

For the carpenter, we have the pen one and the star metal bow base dmg is 20, the one the t4 made was 20 and 9 pen (no extra)

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The edge smith seems to not work whatsoever right now too, star metal great sword came out 23 pen which i think is the base pen.

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To be fair I think Armor Pen is very situational, but is very strong in PVP and will be weaker in PVE from what i’ve experienced so far

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It doesnt seem to add anywhere near 60% pen on any item, its maybe 10% looking at the weapons crafter by different names, so gain 1-2 pen and lose 3 dmg every time.

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You’re absolutely correct, it multiplies the armor pen you already have on the weapon. It means that for axes, since the armor pen is 0, crafting axes with the armor pen T4 thrall is useless so you wanna use the damage/durability T4 thrall instead :slight_smile:

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Jep. We tested this for the wiki and I explicitly mention the correlation between existing armor pen and the bonus. Which makes the Edgesmith somewhat weak in my opinion. :confused: