Forensic Evaluation

Summary

Players can harvest Leather using a Skinning Knife and have a chance to carve colored leather from corpses. When a player carves a creature's corpse, they will gain a melee and spell damage bonus, and barding skill bonus as well.

• 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
• Using the Forensic Eval Skill or Skinning Knives to carve a corpse or SmartHarvest nearby corpses will no longer be restricted by Global Skill Cooldowns, and instead the Forensic Eval skill have 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)
• 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
• 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

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.

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