UO Stratics - Items with Special Abilities

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Weapons, Armor and Items with Special Abilities
Name	Description
Arcane Gem	Found as loot on Controllers. Tailors can use an Arcane Gem on exceptional quality items to make Arcane clothing. Arcane Gems can be used to recharge Arcane Clothing that has run out of charges.
Bola	With 4 bola balls , 3 pieces of leather and 61.0 minimum in Tinkering, you can make a working bola which can only be used once to dismount someone from his mount. Cannot be used while you are mounted or have your spellbook equiped. Bola balls can be found on Orc Bombers and Savages. Failing to make the item will result in a loss of leather, never the actual balls.
Clockwork Assembly	One of the required items to create a Golem. Comes as loot on Iron Golems.
Evil Orc Helm	Found as loot on Orc Lords. When equipped the wearer suffers some Karma loss. Strength is increased with 10 points (even if this would raise Str over 100). Either Dex or Int loses 10 points (depending on which of the two is the highest). When the helm is removed the stats return to normal. The Karma loss is permanent.
Gargoyle's Pick Axe	Gargoyles and Stone Gargoyles sometimes carry "a gargoyle's pick axe", that says "a large pick axe of ore extraction" when IDed. These pickaxes extract the double amount of ore before they break. These pick axes promote a colored ore vein to the next higher level. A bronze vein will give gold ore, a verite vein will give valorite and so on. This only works on colored ore veins and does not permanently change the type of vein. There is a possibility that an Ore Elemental will spawn. Miners beware, these monsters are extremely tough.
Glacial Staff	Glacial Staffs are found as loot on Giant Ice Serpents. At first the staff will say it is "a magical staff" but once it has been identified it will say "a glacial staff. charges: 25". Every staff gives the owner access to two out of three effects. The type of effects one has access to are determined at random when the Ice Serpent and staff spawn. The following effects are known: Ice Ball - Des Corp Del. Does about 10-15 damage to the target. Ice Strike - In Corp Del. Drains all your mana in one go and does damage depending on the mana consumed. Paralyze - An Ex Del. Will temporary freeze your opponent. To find out which effects a staff holds you should use the Arms Lore skill on it. To use the staff, first set it's mode by speaking the words of power out loud, then 'use' the weapon which will give you a targeting cursor that you can use to pick the target with.
Orcish Bow	These bows come as loot on Orc Scouts. They appear to do double damage of normal bows on humanoids. This includes Brigands.
Orcish Mask	Orc masks come as loot on Orc Mages and Savages. While wearing this mask, orcs will not attack you. They do not protect you from Ettins though. They are not 'newbiefied,' but like regular orc masks they can be 'blessed' with a clothing bless deed. When you attack an Orc, or steal from an Orc, or allow your pet to do damage to an Orc (all while wearing the mask), the mask will explode and you will receive damage from the explosion. You may still attack another player wearing an Orc mask and not risk it exploding. Everytime you put on the orcish mask, you lose some karma.
Power Crystal	One of the required items to create a Golem. Comes as loot on Iron Golems.
Savage Kin Paint	Combining flour with a tribal berry will create savage kin paint. You must have an 80.0 skill in Cooking to do so. Note that the tribal berry is not edible, so you need not worry about mistakenly double-clicking on them. You can apply savage kin paint to your skin to get the same looks as a savage. A pot of paint can only be used once. The paint will stay on for one week of play time, providing you don't die. When you die, the paint stays on the corpse's skin. An oilcloth can be used to wipe the paint off. In the 2D client your skin will be grey, in the 3D client your skin will show the typical savage markings. Tribal berries can be found as loot on savages. Applying the paint will make you lose some karma. When you are painted, savages will not attack you. If you attack a savage while painted, the paint will burn off, doing about 50 points of damage. You cannot wear a mask of orcish kin when you are painted, so you will have to take sides in the savage vs. orcs war. You can, however, wear an evil orc helm while painted. Bug: Make sure you are not carrying any honey when you make the paint. The paint will combine with the honey and thus be detroyed.
Savage Mask	A tribal mask worn by some Savages. Unlike the regular tribal masks, these weigh in at 2 stones rather than 4. There are 29 new hues available. The red mask in the bottom right corner is the 'old' red tribal mask.
Tribal Spear	Comes as loot on Savage Riders. There's only a small chance that the spear will not break upon looting it from the Savage's corpse. The spear acts as a regular spear and it's damage lies somewhere between that of a spear of force and a spear of power.
Virtue Weapons	Various Monsters carry a so called Weapon of Virtue