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The Virtuoso's Suit

ZamotZamot Posts: 55
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The description for this says Improves Active Bards mastery bonus x2.  Now I have tried and my buffs still remain the same both displayed and on my pet.  Does this only work for a certain mastery or is this suite broken?  By the way I am using it with the peace mastery.  
Thanks

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  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,854
    edited May 2019
    I found what I could. You wont like it: http://www.uoguide.com/Virtuoso%27s_Armor_Set

    @Mariah ; not much on UO wiki

    Did you double click it to activate it? can only activate 1 piece at a time.

    Looks like you get a 10% Bonus for 1 min and a 15 min or 30 min cooldown.

    I think the X2 is the non mastery skills are 5% and the mastery one is 10%. But you can only use the mastery skill...

    Try activating it and be ready to test it.

    Maybe you can activate a different armor piece every 5 mins.
    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • ZamotZamot Posts: 55
    I found that on UOGUIDE,
    I did double clicked the hat while wearing all four pieces.  First tried with the Mastery (Peace) active, displayed buffs did not go up. I checked my pet also and the regens didnt go up.  I then waited 15 minutes and tried again with the mastery not activated.  I then activated and it did not increase the regens.  You can activate the second piece once the first piece quits.  Just doesnt do anything with the peace mastery.  I do not have any of the others to test with.  I think it stayed active for 1 minute.  So if it worked you could use it for 4 minutes and then wait for 11 minutes and start all over again.  The time for each piece is kept separate or so it seems.  I could be wrong on some of the times but I am doing this from memory and I am tired.  Thanks for the response.  I will go to test center and see if I can figure out how this works tomorrow.  If a developer wants to chime in and save me some time that would be great.  I tried searching the UO site but no information to be found on this suit.
  • ZamotZamot Posts: 55
    upon further reading I found this on stratics 
    https://stratics.com/threads/virtuosos-set.266920/  So it works not like I thought.  Seems weird.  But OK. 
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,854
    I'm just speculating:

    So lets say you have the Peace mastery activated. You click a piece and for 1 minute you have a 10% higher chance to Peace a Mob.  During that minute you also have a 5% higher chance to Discord or Provoke a Mob.

    Do you have to wear the armor piece or does it work in your backpack?

    I guess it would be used on a Boss fight.  Most are difficult to Discord. So you get a 10% higher chance for 1 minute to discord the Mob.




    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • ZamotZamot Posts: 55
    You must wear the item. 
    So the way I am reading this.  If I have discord as my mastery I get a 10% bonus chance to discord without the Virtuoso's item.  If I activate the item I then get double 20% chance to discord.  If Peace is my mastery and I use discord I get a 5% increase chance to discord and if the item is active I get a 10% chance to discord.  I got that information from a comment in the above linked thread. Which I pasted below.

    Bard Mastery Bonus is an item property found on the Virtuoso's set. Bards with any mastery gain a 5% bonus to their success chance when using any bard skills and a 10% bonus when using the skill of their mastery focus. When active this property doubles the bard mastery bonus to a 10% bonus when using any bard skill and a 20% bonus when using the bard mastery focus skill.

    This is making my head hurt.  But it is clear as mud now.  
  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,854
    Nice Job.  It sounds good to me.  Ill see what piece I can wear without ruining my template.

    What % increase do I get with just 1 piece.
    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
  • poppspopps Posts: 4,013
    Pawain said:
    Nice Job.  It sounds good to me.  Ill see what piece I can wear without ruining my template.

    What % increase do I get with just 1 piece.
    I am not 100% positive, but I "suspect", as I understand it usually happens with these kind of suits, that either one wears the "entire" suit, all pieces, and gets the bonus related, or 1 piece won't do much help....
  • ZamotZamot Posts: 55
    Can use only 1 piece but your cool down timer will be 30 minutes instead of 15minutes.  I just tried and that seemed to be the only difference I saw.  Since you cant see the other percentages I cant answer that part but can only assume.

  • PawainPawain Posts: 9,854
    Cool worth a try to Discord a difficult boss.
    Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
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