Forensic Evaluation

Summary

• Players can harvest Leather using a Skinning Knife and have a chance to carve colored leather from corpses
• Players will always receive their bonuses to Damage and Barding skill from the Forensic Eval skill even if they have not Skinned Creatures recently
• Players can use Forensic Evaluation or a Skinning Knife and target themselves or the ground nearby to activate "Smart Harvest" which will carve all "grey" notoriety corpses within 2 tiles
• Carving a creature corpse will automatically open the corpse for the player
• You can use Forensic Evaluation on yourself in order to harvest the closest body
• Players have a chance to carve colored leather from corpses and all leather colors are possible on any creature, provided the player meets the material's skill requirements
• All creatures are carvable for leather and meat, and have a chance of special cooking ingredients, scaled based on the player's Forensic Evaluation skill

Details

• Using the Forensic Eval Skill or Skinning Knives to carve a corpse or SmartHarvest nearby corpses is not restricted by Global Skill Cooldowns, and instead the Forensic Eval skill has its own unique cooldown of 0.5 seconds (i.e players using Stealth/Hiding will not be required to wait 10 seconds to carve corpses)
• The amount of leather and meat when carving corpses is (50% + (150% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100)) of the base amount for the creature
• The chance for a player to harvest colored leather instead of regular leather is (7.5% * (1 + Tool Bonus))
• Paragons and Boss creatures will always have colored leather instead of regular leather
• The skill also provides the following bonus to spell and melee damage in PvM: (25% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100)) and PvP: (10% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100))

Harvesting Colored Leather

Material	Skill	Chance
Leather	0	82%
Dullhide	65	30%
Shadowhide	70	21%
Copperhide	75	16%
Bronzehide	80	12%
Goldenhide	85	9%
Rosehide	90	6%
Verehide	95	4%
Valehide	99	2%
Avarhide	110	1%

Colored Skinning Knives

Players using exceptional and colored material Skinning Knives will receive a Tool Bonus to their chance of harvesting colored leather as follows (with all applicable bonuses stacking):

Material	Tool Bonus
Exceptional	0.04
Mastercrafted	0.04
Dull Copper	0.02
Shadow	0.04
Copper	0.06
Bronze	0.08
Gold	0.10
Agapite	0.12
Verite	0.14
Valorite	0.16
Avarite	0.18

Skinning Maps

• When using Skinning Maps, search radius is increased by (100% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))

Buffs

• The Forensic Evaluation Slayer bonus has been reduced to 3 hours (previously was 12 hours) Patch Notes 20191003
• There will no longer be a damage bonus message when using the Forensic Eval skill
• Players will no longer have a Buff Icon for the Forensic Eval skill (since its bonus is always active)

PvM Bonus

• Forensic Evaluation grants bonus spell and melee damage (including archery) against creatures. The maximum is 30%. Formula: (25% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100))
• When attacking a creature, add Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Evaluation Bonus damage per swing.
• The maximum Effective Barding skill bonus that can be achieved is 12. Formula: (10 * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100))

PvP Bonus

• Forensic Evaluation grants bonus spell and melee damage (including archery) against players. The maximum is 12%. Formula: (10% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100))
• When attacking a player, add Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Evaluation Bonus damage per swing.

Hamstring

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Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-100	Skinning mobs
100-120	Skinning mobs