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, for the next 12 hours

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  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
• 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 Eval skill
• The amount of leather and meat when carving corpses is (50% + (150% * (Forensic Skill / 100)) of the base amount for the creature
• The chance for a player to harvest colored leather instead of regular leather is (4% * (1 + Tool Bonus))
• You can use it on yourself in order to harvest the closest body.

Harvesting Colored Leather

Regular Leather Requires 0 Forensic Eval Skill 82% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Dullhide Leather Requires 65 Forensic Eval Skill 30% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Shadowhide Leather Requires 70 Forensic Eval Skill 21% Chance when harvesting colored leather
Copperhide Leather Requires 75 Forensic Eval Skill 16% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Bronzehide Leather Requires 80 Forensic Eval Skill  12% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Goldenhide Leather Requires 85 Forensic Eval Skill  9% Chance when harvesting colored leather
Rosehide Leather Requires 90 Forensic Eval Skill  6% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Verehide Leather Requires 95 Forensic Eval Skill 4% Chance when harvesting colored leather	Valehide Leather Requires 99 Forensic Eval Skill 2% Chance when harvesting colored leather
Avarhide Leather Requires 110 Forensic Eval Skill  1% Chance when harvesting colored leather

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):

• Exceptional Quality Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.04
• Master Crafted Tool Bonus: 0.04
• Dull Copper Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.02
• Shadow Iron Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.04
• Copper Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.06
• Bronze Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.08
• Gold Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.10
• Agapite Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.12
• Verite Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.14
• Valorite Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.16
• Avarite Skinning Knife Tool Bonus: 0.18

Skinning Maps

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

PvM Bonus

• The maximum Forensic Eval damage bonus that can be achieved against creatures is 30%. Formula: (25% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))
• The maximum barding skills bonus that can be achieved is 12%. Formula: (10% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))

PvP Bonus

• The maximum Forensic Eval damage bonus that can be achieved against other players is 12%. Formula: (10% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))

Hamstring

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