can't seem to add enchantments

[onomastikon]

Oddly enough, I can enchant a "fine scepter" with the "damaging 2" enchantment -- I have the ingredients, cash, and other requirements met, and enough anvil space open. But I cannot do the same thing with a hunting bow. I see the message in red "enchanting requirements not met", which is obviously false.
What am I not understanding?

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by onomastikon:

Oddly enough, I can enchant a "fine scepter" with the "damaging 2" enchantment

Are you sure about that?

An ordinary weapon can only have a single quality enchantment, and that one can only be upgraded, not downgraded. "Damaging 2" would be a downgrade of "Fine".

[onomastikon]

I am positive that I own a weapon with the predicate "fine" and that I can instill the "damaging 2" attribute to it. But I cannot duplicate this with any other item.
I assumed that I can ADD the predicate "damaging" or "accurate" to the quality, e.g. fine or exceptional etc. You are saying that I can only have one or the other? If that is so, then this one item seems to be bugged, that I can add it, and it explains why I cannot add the others.
It would be good, then, if the error message read "you already have a quality enchantment" instead of "you lack the necessary requirements". That seems more like a bug than anything else.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Show a screenshot of the weapon on the enchanting screen then. It will say "Quality (1/1)" for a Fine Hunting Bow, and that means "Fine" quality enchantment is applied, and you can only upgrade that enchantment, not downgrade it and not add a second one either.

[Du-Vu]

Was going to ask if you met the level requirement.

Damaging is part of the same chain as Fine and whatnot. Kind of confusing, and a bit of a trap option given limited resources and weapons to enchant, but it's there.

^ I didn't really use them, but if it's Fine, you could still go up to Accurate / Damaging 2, couldn't you? Accurate / Damaging 1 would be greyed out, but it's Exceptional that's next after 2?

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

"Fine" gives the same effect as "Accurate 1" and "Damaging 1" at the same time, but since an ordinary weapon can only get a single quality enchantment, you may only replace "Fine" with a better enchantment an enchantment that uses the same or higher number of enchantment slots (anvils).

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

"Fine" gives the same effect as "Accurate 1" and "Damaging 1" at the same time, but since an ordinary weapon can only get a single quality enchantment, you may only replace "Fine" with a better enchantment.

Play again some time. You can replace Fine with either accurate 2 or damaging 2. At least, you can in my game. I don't doubt it was different in another version, though, but in the version I have, it can be done.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Okay "Fine", "Accurate 2" and "Damaging 2" are listed as requiring two enchantment points each, so if they can be replaced with eachother in any order, that would mean the quality enchanting rules would be more lax - but a downgrade to an enchantment that uses less enchantment points is not possible.

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Pillars_of_Eternity_enchantments#Quality

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

Okay "Fine", "Accurate 2" and "Damaging 2" are listed as requiring two enchantment points each, so if they can be replaced with eachother in any order, that would mean the quality enchanting rules would be more lax - but a downgrade to an enchantment that uses less enchantment points is not possible.

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Pillars_of_Eternity_enchantments#Quality

Yeah, actually, while you can replace Fine with Accurate 2 or Damaging 2, I don't think you can replace Damaging 2 or Accurate 2 with Fine, even though they have the same amount of enchantment points. You have to go to the next level up.

I agree that we really need to see screen shots of what OP is talking about, though.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

"Fine", "Accurate 2" and "Damaging 2" can be replaced with eachother in any order.

The highlighting/coloring is clear about which type of enchantment can be applied.

Just to complete the test results.

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

"Fine", "Accurate 2" and "Damaging 2" can be replaced with eachother in any order.

Hmmm, okay, I'll have to go in-game and check that out at some point, then.

Wait, am I misunderstanding something? In your first post it looks like you're saying that players can't go from Fine to Accurate/Damaging 2, and now it looks like you're saying the the opposite.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by LHGreen:

Wait, am I misunderstanding something? In your first post it looks like you're saying that players can't go from Fine to Accurate/Damaging 2,

That was because initially I only remembered that quality enchantments could upgrade eachother, not replace eachother (if using the same number of anvils = enchantment points).

Originally posted by LHGreen:

and now it looks like you're saying the the opposite.

Sure, since your correction in post #6, I've contributed the testing as to confirm how it works actually. I have edited post #5 to avoid the confusion. Better?

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

Originally posted by LHGreen:

Wait, am I misunderstanding something? In your first post it looks like you're saying that players can't go from Fine to Accurate/Damaging 2,

That was because initially I only remembered that quality enchantments could upgrade eachother, not replace eachother (if using the same number of anvils = enchantment points).

Originally posted by LHGreen:

and now it looks like you're saying the the opposite.

Sure, since your correction in post #6, I've contributed the testing as to confirm how it works actually. I have edited post #5 to avoid the confusion. Better?

Lol, oh, okay. Yeah, better.