Exploiting Good Looks

When Bioware released the 1.69 upgrade, they included a ton of new stuff. Included was armor and robes. Bioware did not add any of these new items to the crafting menu. So I did.

Among this new wardrobe was what I call a 'surcoat' that is used to protect expensive armor from sunlight damage. Bioware did this in a two-part method:
Part 1) The top, chain mail or plate mail only.
Part 2) The lower skirt.

This is suppose to be a one-piece cover that slips or drapes over. Quite often the surcoats were colored to show which House or Kingdom the soldier was representing.

For the 1.69 upgrade I built a new crafting system from the ground up. Yes it looks and feels like the old one, but it's new. I included all the new armor and robe parts. In this, I chose to only allow the bottom to be used if you already had chosen the top.

The 1.69 upgrade also included the ability to change body parts, tattoos, colors, heads and such. Although crude and unfinished, the ADHD Tattoo Girl was born. She can even make your torso look like armor.

If you craft your cloth armor to have a bare chest, then your new Tattoo will show and take on the color of your armor. This can allow a Monk to look as if he is wearing full plate.

Using the normal method of crafting, you can't get a Surcoat while wearing cloth armor. My toon, Qwildurn Bluemoon, found a way around this. She looks like she is wearing a mix of chain mail and scale mail and a surcoat. And can cast Bard spells without arcane failure. She is wearing cloth.

How she did this is kind of complicated, but I will explain.

1) She bought a Dye Kit in Dozo.
2) She bought a new Chain Mail armor.
3) She crafted the chain mail to look like she wanted it, parts, color and surcoat.
4) She used the dye kit to store the color and armor parts.
5) She went to see the Tattoo Girl and made her chest (torso) look like the armor type she wanted. She used a surcoat over chain.
6) She put her cloth armor on and made the chest (torso) look naked.
7) She used the dye kit to restore her armor color and parts.

Now she looks like she is wearing chain mail with a surcoat and can cast without arcane failure. She could do this to look like full plate as well.

I should point out: If you can't wear chain mail or plate mail, you probably can't do this. With the help of a friend, you should be able to get it done.