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
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):
When using Skinning Maps, search radius is increased by (100% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))
Buffs
The Forensic Eval Slayer bonus has been reduced to 3 hours (previously was 12 hours) Patch Notes 20191003
PvM Bonus
The maximum Forensic Eval melee damage bonus (including archery) that can be achieved against creatures is 30%. Formula: (25% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100))
When attacking a creature, add Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Eval Bonus damage per swing.
The maximum Forensic Eval spell 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 melee damage bonus that can be achieved against other players is 12%. Formula: (25% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100)) * 40%
When attacking a player, add Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Eval Bonus damage per swing.
The maximum Forensic Eval spell damage bonus that can be achieved against other players is 12%. Formula: (25% * (Forensic Eval Skill / 100)) * 40%