sharpening a sword and repairing my shoes

[MacSuibhne]

Sharpening a sword with a mouse is tricky and I would suspect esp. if the mouse has no scroll wheel. After mt tutorial with Peschak on pickpocketing...which went reasonably enough with a trackball...I though perhaps I was home free with the trackball. But even though I have a scroll ring, it was the trickiest yet. Can't afford to practice that, though.

My shoes are pretty bad so I bought a cobbler's repair kit although I haven't had a chance to try it. I've looked all over to find another pair--these are noble's shoes so presumable not very sturdy. I have looked for a cobbler in Sassau and another town but haven't come across one. Next session I am gonna give the repair kit a try. Otherwise I'll soon be barefoot

I may have to have a maid who is also a blacksmith come in and take care of my stuff.

[DargonBlak]

Sharpening weapons is completely broken imo - but it's free. I usually end up making it worse, so i just use weapon repair kits.

Shoe kits are always needed.

The better your maintenance skill, the more effective your repair (more improvement with less drop in repair kit viability).

For some reason - i mostly buy/use minor (small?) kits.

[MacSuibhne]

Thanks for the reply.

IRL, I am a shoe/bootmaker--bespoke footwear at high skill level and high prices. But I've never tried to repair medieval shoes--turnshoe construction and no heels (I do like the authenticity of that last bit in this game)

How do you increase your maintenance skills?

[❤ FL☰☰K⬤]

Cobbler's have a special icon on the map, although if you haven't discovered their location it probably won't be marked yet. In Sasau, the cobbler is, if I'm not mistaken, just past the small church in the town square going towards the quarry. That one I'm not so certain of though, so, the one I am sure of is the one at Rattay, near the Western gate, neighboring the tavern.

And different boots require different repairs. Regular shoes might need a cobbler or cobbling kit, but chauses require an armorsmith or armor kit, and each of them require their master's repairs if their durability goes below 50 or 60 or something. As soon as you can, just stock up on as many repairs kits and you can reasonably afford, leave 'em in your saddlebags until you need them, and your maintenance skill will skyrocket overnight.

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

It's funny because I exclusively used the grindstone to level up my maintenance and I found it much more worthwhile (at least upto 15 maintenance in a few days).

From what I can tell the amount of damage repaired is what decides the skills xp gain and at earlier levels your ability to repair things with kits is miniscule. Probably won't be able to repair anything below 90 at the start. So I simply collected every sword and axe type weapon after a battle and go literally grind that skill up. You're repairing something from 40% durability to 100% of course it will give you tons of exp. Sharpening the booty from Nest of Vipers quest, I got 3 levels of maintenance just from that.

I grew up in a village and we had used a sort of pedalling device to sharpen our farming tools and knives. And the mechanics that were translated to this game are true to boot. It was cathartic and fun for me to relive my childhood since I kinda know which angle to hold the blade to get it done.

[Aemon Bane]

I have no trouble with M&K, takes alittle practice and sometimes the blade randomly twists but I use grindstone to get all bladed weapons to 100 before selling them.

Edit: should note I have an optical mouse with a scroll wheel

[❤ FL☰☰K⬤]

Good tip to repair looted weapons. I never thought of that because weapon weight-to-groschen ratio is usually so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that I never even loot them. I was planning on starting a new all-debuff hardcore run yesterday so this is a very good idea to keep in mind.

[MacSuibhne]

Messaggio originale di "volume 0" in console:

Cobbler's have a special icon on the map, although if you haven't discovered their location it probably won't be marked yet. In Sasau, the cobbler is, if I'm not mistaken, just past the small church in the town square going towards the quarry. That one I'm not so certain of though, so, the one I am sure of is the one at Rattay, near the Western gate, neighboring the tavern.

And different boots require different repairs. Regular shoes might need a cobbler or cobbling kit, but chauses require an armorsmith or armor kit, and each of them require their master's repairs if their durability goes below 50 or 60 or something. As soon as you can, just stock up on as many repairs kits and you can reasonably afford, leave 'em in your saddlebags until you need them, and your maintenance skill will skyrocket overnight.

Well, I visit all the "?" sites when I'm in a town. Haven't run across a cobbler. I was wondering where Henry could buy a pair of shoes or boots.

Of course in the 15th century, cobblers and (cordwainers) would have been two different occupations and not really kindly disposed to each other. Guilds kept it that way. So a cobbler probably wouldn't have sold shoes unless they were used. Not sure if this game is that historically authentic. The Czech word of shoemaker would probably have been some variation of "obuvnik" and for cobbler "svec"...again underscoring the distinction.

I guess like every thing else in the game sharpening is a skill that must be practice. I do think it would be better if there were a bar or something that indicated whether the blade was being damaged or sharpened. [sigh]

[MacSuibhne]

Messaggio originale di udUbdaWgz:

smoke = bad
sparks = good
no more sparks = stop

How long does it take to re-sharpen a blade from say 43 to 49> I was at it for some time (longer than it would take to pick a lock) ...mostly with no sparks and never with any smoke...and I when I checked the blade was only at 49. In fact i wasn't sure it hadn't gone down much less even that small amount.

Is there a cobbler to repair or someone selling boots, in Sassau?

[Triple G]

There´s a visual indicator for the weapons, but i don´t know how to describe it other than damaged weapons look damaged - and repaired weapons look more clean. I usually use the stone till i run out of stamina - but that´s perhaps too long. I prefer the repair kits - repair my shoes from time to time - and the rest after each fight. This is usually enough to get level 20 in that skill relatively fast - and then You can repair everything down to 60% on Your own. Initially it´s 80% i guess - so every skill point 1% more.

There´s a cobbler in Sassau - let´s say near the church. Actually i´m unsure - but i think those in Rattay and in Sassau are the only cobblers in the game.

[abundancebomb]

Messaggio originale di MacSuibhne:

Messaggio originale di udUbdaWgz:

smoke = bad
sparks = good
no more sparks = stop

How long does it take to re-sharpen a blade from say 43 to 49> I was at it for some time (longer than it would take to pick a lock) ...mostly with no sparks and never with any smoke...and I when I checked the blade was only at 49. In fact i wasn't sure it hadn't gone down much less even that small amount.

Is there a cobbler to repair or someone selling boots, in Sassau?

The sparks indicate that you are repairing it correctly, that's the sweet spot when it sparks. Last night I repaired a sword from about 40~ up to 100 in around 30 seconds to 1 minute. Each 'section' of the blade only takes a few seconds to get perfect if you're hitting it right - you can visually see it become sharp, so you can figure out which sections of the blade still need attention. On that note make sure you do the whole blade and not just one section, you will need to adjust the positioning up/down as you work sideways along the blade. And you don't need to pummel the sharpening wheel around at full tit to run out of stamina, you can just hit the space bar every second or so to keep it at a good speed.

43 to 49 would take literally one second so something else must have been amiss.

[abundancebomb]

Also if you ♥♥♥♥ up the blade and make it even worse you can always make it better again... I do that all the time lol.