UO Second Age

I had a couple questions about repairing and what not. I looked up on stratics that even if you are a GM smith there is a less than 1% chance of the item still being destroyed, does that apply here as well?

Also I remember a couple months ago that the arms lore skill wasn't really working, does it work efficiently now? It seemed like when I use to do it everything just said it looked unused and I know that couldn't be possible.

I got around 80 smithing so it says the chance the item is destroyed if I repair is like 2-4% or something. Sometimes I get confused with uo stratics though because I don't know exactly what applies to this era technically or not.

So just any kind of feedback on any of this would be greatly appreciated, also if anyone could tell me their experience of any items they repaired actually breaking. I am hesitant to repair anything because I am new to the blacksmithing skill and I don't want to start destroying some vanqs or something.

Again thanks for reading and appreciate any good feedback on this.

Yes, I thought the arms lore saying it was perfect even though clearly used was weird.

Items have an amount of HPs (see the Weapons guide). When you successfully repair an item, it's max HPs gets reduced by 1 or 2 depending on skill, and it's current HPs goes to 100% of that number.

As for destroying... I've never seen a weapon get destroyed by a GM smith, though I tend to repair long before Arms Lore tells me it's absolutely necessary.

At the lowest Arms Lore level, weapons are only doing 50% of their normal, full-HP damage.