strenght bug question

[F1R3STR1D3R]

It kinda works like this:

Let's say you have a character with 25 str. You need 30 to wear a breast plate. Your breast plate has 5 str on it. You put on a +5 str boots. You can now wear the breast plate. You put the breast plate on. The plate gives +5 str. You take off the boots. Since your armor provides +5 str, you can still wear the armor since your str will still be 30.

The only problem here is if you die, you will start at 25 str again, this time without the +5 str from boots, therefore you will be unable to equip your armor.

But when you enter a new game, that breast plate should be red but equipped?
That's what happened to me.

 

[sonikki_]

But when you enter a new game, that breast plate should be red but equipped?
That's what happened to me.

Yea thats what happened to me too, but after getting toch and re-equipping all with 30 str amulet and crushflange(15str), they started working again. Still dont quite know how it works, but it has only worked with enigma for me.

 

[krischan]

If an item gets red while it's equipped, you won't benefit from it at all. You can't teleport, you won't get +2 to skills, you don't get the armor bonus etc.

Your question was: Can I equip that Enigma if I don't have enough str, but if I could if I had its str bonus, without using temp gear for boosting str ? The answer is: No.

 

[sonikki_]

This propably has been asked a number of times, but could someone tell me how to get my paladins enigma on, so that i dont have to re equip it with +str items in each game?

no it wasnt. read carefully.

 

[krischan]

That's what I wrote. If it isn't, I don't really understand what you want. Perhaps you should ask your questions more carefully then, so people like me can better understand it.

You can't exploit the str bug without temp str boosting gear. You really, really, really can't. Your screenshot displays the armor being equipped which you did by exploiting the str bug and later putting of that temp gear. If you now click on the armor, so it's on the mouse cursor, you won't be able to equip it again. You will need temp str boosting gear to be able to do that. The same will happen if you die and want to pick up your corpse. There is no way around it.

 

[sonikki_]

My question was.. ONCE i have equipped it with temp gear... HOW to get it to stay on without using temp gear EACH game i join. i dont have to take it off if i play. duh. and dont need to loot my own corpse as i play hc.

 

[krischan]

Re-equip in each game ? You mean, you leave a game with your Enigma being equipped and not showing a red background, by exploiting the str bug. Then you enter a new game and it becomes unequipped or shows a red background ? I never heard of that and it shouldn't happen, i.e. you shouldn't have to re-equip it each time you enter a new game. However, perhaps the bug got partially fixed with the 1.11b patch, resulting in the behaviour you mentioned.

I'm quite sure about that because I accidentally took advantage of the strength bug when I exchanged gear of my current zealot while leveling him , but the gear never got unequipped or had a red background in a new game. He couldn't pick up all equipment from his corpse, of course - that's why I noticed it al all. However, that might have been before the 1.11b patch (but it was definitely after the 1.11 patch).

 

[sonikki_]

Re-equip in each game ? You mean, you leave a game with your Enigma being equipped and not showing a red background, by exploiting the str bug. Then you enter a new game and it becomes unequipped or shows a red background ? I never heard of that and it shouldn't happen, i.e. you shouldn't have to re-equip it each time you enter a new game. However, perhaps the bug got partially fixed with the 1.11b patch, resulting in the behaviour you mentioned.

I'm quite sure about that because I accidentally took advantage of the strength bug when I exchanged gear of my current zealot while leveling him , but the gear never got unequipped or had a red background in a new game. He couldn't pick up all equipment from his corpse, of course - that's why I noticed it al all. However, that might have been before the 1.11b patch (but it was definitely after the 1.11 patch).

yes thats exactly what i mean. it was like that in the previous patch too. and as i have explained, somehow the +20 stat torch fixed that problem. Enigmas huge str bonus and the fact that its strenght per lvl has something to do with it.