Forging Observations

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
I think the cheapest would be a 97.5% reduction: FotA, Black Priest/Smith wielding the Hammer of the Forge Lord at a 20% construction site like Steel Ovens:
FotA: 50% base cost
HotFL: 50%
Black Priest: 25%
Site: 20%

A Nataraja with Dwarven Hammer + HotFL would be the same as a Smith/Black Priest with HotFL, since the Nataraja loses the inherent 25% but gains it back by wielding the dwarven hammer.

It seems (from aldiss' tests) that there is a minimum of 10% of the base cost, so that getting 87.5% reduction as I do with my Forge/Hammer/MasterSmith is close to the absolute minimum (80-cost item for 10 instead of 8).

Hmm... what would you forge to fight Ermor in the sea? Assume access to large amounts of gems, and almost maxed out research (good summons would help, too, but I'm rather poor on water gems).