Notes[]

All recipes below may be applied to standard or already enchanted pieces of torso armor. That is, a full plate +5 can be further enchanted with the recipes below.
Tests on the latest version show that these recipes work on shields as well.

Armor[]

Fortified Armor: Immunity to critical hits and sneak attack[]

Requires: Caster level 13, Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat

Any armor
Glowing Power Essence
Radiant Earth Essence
Blue diamond

Cast banishment on a magic workbench containing the above

Armor of Arrow Deflection: Grants Deflect Arrows as a bonus feat[]

Requires: Caster level 5, Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat

Any armor
Faint Power Essence
Weak Air Essence
Jacinth

Cast mage armor on a magic workbench containing the above

Invulnerable Armor: Damage reduction 10/magic[]

Requires: Caster level 18, Craft Magic Arms and Armor feat

Any armor
Radiant Power Essence (The book "Deflections and Dispellings" states Radiant Fire Essence, but that recipe will be invalid.)
Blue diamond

Cast stoneskin on a magic workbench containing the above

In D&D 3.5, damage reduction is written as <Reduction Amount>/<What kind of attack overcomes it>. So DR 10/magic means a damage reduction of 10 unless the attack is magical in nature. So physical, and non-magical elemental damage should be reduced, while even a +1 magic weapon will overcome it. (See D&D 3.5 PH, Page 307.)

Note that this recipe will NEVER work. There are two problems here: The in-game recipe is wrong, as stated above. However, this is not problematic, as the proper recipe is listed above. The real problem is that the hard-coded ItemPropertyDamageReduction function used to add the Damage Reduction property is bugged and does not add any item property to the enchanted item. There is absolutely no way to add the damage reduction property through scripting, until the hard-coded function is fixed, and since this game is very old, it will probably never be fixed. The game tries to use the following code to add the damage reduction property:

IPSafeAddItemProperty(oTarget, ItemPropertyDamageReduction(10, 8, 0, 1), 0.0f, X2_IP_ADDPROP_POLICY_IGNORE_EXISTING,TRUE,TRUE);//oTarget=oItem; check ginc_crafting.NSS

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this scripting command, the problem lies on the engine side, not in the script. So unofficial modding is not possible, as the community does not have access to the game source code. Only Atari and Obsidian can fix this bug.

Note that the Robes of the Old Order and Vestments of Faith sold by various merchants in the OC are broken in exactly the same way - these items are lacking the DamageReduction property as well.

The only way to add damage reduction to items is by altering items DIRECTLY through the toolset. Modders should be aware that there are two damage reduction properties that can be applied to items, either through scripting or through the toolset, one of which is deprecated and will never appear in the game (see Vestments of Faith above). The newer ItemPropertyDamageReduction works if applied directly to items in the toolset, but not through scripts. Modders who wish to simulate the DamageReduction property by applying the DamageResistance property to items through scripting should be aware that DamageResistance:Physical is broken as well and can only be realized as DamageResistance:Bludgeoning/Piercing/Slashing.