Forensic Evaluation

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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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