1. Download the program,
if you don't have it yet. Do not forget to download the VCL libraries
too. You will need it to run the program.
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2. Install the program, and then
run it.
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3. First thing you want to do is
fill up the the Char Info
section. In this example, I want to customize stats for my paladin,
Jenna. Above it, is the Display section. I prefer using the Distance to Cap because it
allows me to see whether I have exceeded the maximum allowed on a
particular stat.
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4. The next thing you want to
fill up is the Jewelry
section. A lot of people keep forgetting to do this, thus, a lot of them
unecessarily add stats to skills when they already reached the maximum
cap. So yes, this means you have to get the information of your cloak,
jewel, neck, belt, left ring, right ring, right wrist, and left wrist
items. You can try clicking on LOAD
ITEM first to see if your specific item is in the database
already but I seriously doubt it. Click on Drop since the item is usually
a drop not Player Made.
Put the information in for the item and then click on SAVE ITEM for future use.
Perhaps, you might use it again when you create another character. Take
notice of the STATS
section too above. As you can see, as you put the bonuses for the items,
some of the stats are going down. In my example, Jenna is wearing a
Goblin-forged Chain of Health, a neck item. It has +9 Strength and +24
Hits. Under the Stats section, STR was 30 earlier but since I am using
an item with +9 to it, it took away that amount from your total alloted
STR. Even the Hits was 80 before I added 24 to it. When you are
done putting the rest of the items, click on the Armor/Weapons section.
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| 5. Ok, here's where the fun (and
sometimes the headache) begins. What you need to do next is to check out
the quality of each armor piece you have. The higher the quality, the
more stats you can put into it. Just remember too that no matter how
skilled an armorer/tailor is, they are still capable of producing low
level quality items. Trust me on that. If you specifically asked them
for 99% quality items, be sure to fork a lot more gold for it. It might
take them a few tries in making your armor to get the quality you want.
But when you're a low level and don't earn much, be happy with that 96%
or even 94% quality piece you have. Besides, you're lucky to find an
armorer at all! Let's continue. Jenna's chest piece is of 99% qual. It
is also 40 AF. So i clicked on the ... next to Item Level, put 40
and made sure that the Armor button is selected, and then I hit OK. The
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| 5. From here, notice that above
Overcharge, there's a 0/11 number. These are the Imbue Points. Each
skill,stats, hits, etc you add to an armor have their own imbue points.
The second number, 11 in this example, is the maximum imbue points you
can put on the armor. As a good rule of thumb, your total imbue points
(the first number) should not exceed the maximum imbue points. But later
on, you'll find out that some spellcrafters can do an overcharge. An
overcharge is where the total imbue points is more than the max imbue
pts. Most Spellcrafters can do up to 3 overcharge (OC) pts. Anything
more than that will make the item explode. Since, Jenna is a paladin, I
want her to do more damage so I need to add more to her STR. I click on
the Type and select STAT, selected Strength and put in 7 for the amount.
I gave her Dexterity also since it will help with her parrying. I
finally added Chants and Slash resistance. All of these gave me a total
of 11 imbue points. I can actually go 10+ STR and will have 2pt OC if I
want to. When you are satisfied, go to the next armor piece and add
stats all over again. It gets easy when you get used to it. Remember, do
not put bonuses in areas you do not need. Doesn't make sense to have
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6. Here's my completed stats. I
actually had armor, sword, and shield that needed to be SCd. As
you can see, I went a little bit overboard with my STR, CON, DEX, and
HITS, but that's ok. It might even out later on during my higher levels.
I even added +4 Chants, +5 Slash, 3+ Shield, 2+ Parry. Oh make sure you
do add resists. It will help a lot. Now, time to look at the cost. The
cost is the base amount a spellcrafter spent for the ingredients to make
those SC jewels for your bonuses. The Price is usually the cost plus the
markup percentage. The Est, i think, is the price plus the cost of your
armor.
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7. Next step is to save your
file. When you do, it will create a file with your character's name on
it plus the level plus the class. This is your SCC file. Send this file
then to your local SCer. Jenna's file is called Jenna-20-Paladin.scc.
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8. If you have any questions,
comments, feel free to email
me.
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