The Forensic Evaluation skill allows players to harvest leather and meat from creatures while providing damage and barding bonuses. It also enables Smart Harvest, which efficiently carves all nearby corpses.
- Players can harvest leather using a Skinning Knife, with a chance to obtain colored leather.
- Forensic Evaluation grants damage and barding bonuses, even if the player has not recently skinned a creature.
- Using Forensic Evaluation or a Skinning Knife on oneself or the ground activates Smart Harvest, which carves all gray notoriety corpses within 2 tiles.
- Carving a creature's corpse will automatically open it.
- Players can use Forensic Evaluation on themselves to harvest the closest body.
- All creatures provide leather, meat, and special cooking ingredients, with yields scaling based on the player's Forensic Evaluation skill.
Details
- Carving corpses with Forensic Evaluation or Skinning Knives is not restricted by the Global Skill Cooldown. Instead, it has its own 0.5-second cooldown.
- The amount of leather and meat obtained when carving is:
50% + (150% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100)) of the creature's base amount.
- Chance to harvest colored leather instead of regular leather:
7.5% * (1 + Tool Bonus).
- Paragon and Boss creatures will always yield colored leather.
- Forensic Evaluation provides:
* PvM bonus:25% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100)increased spell and melee damage. * PvP bonus:10% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100)increased spell and melee damage.
Harvesting Colored Leather
| Material | Skill | Chance |
|---|---|---|
 Leather |
0 | 82% |
 Dullhide |
65 | 30% |
 Shadowhide |
70 | 21% |
 Copperhide |
75 | 16% |
 Bronzehide |
80 | 12% |
 Goldenhide |
85 | 9% |
 Rosehide |
90 | 6% |
 Verehide |
95 | 4% |
 Valehide |
99 | 2% |
 Avarhide |
110 | 1% |
Colored Skinning Knives
Exceptional and colored Skinning Knives provide a Tool Bonus to the chance of harvesting colored leather:
| Material | Tool Bonus |
|---|---|
 Exceptional |
0.04 |
Mastercrafted |
0.04 |
 Dull Copper |
0.02 |
 Shadow |
0.04 |
 Copper |
0.06 |
 Bronze |
0.08 |
 Gold |
0.10 |
 Agapite |
0.12 |
 Verite |
0.14 |
 Valorite |
0.16 |
 Avarite |
0.18 |
Skinning Maps
- Using a Skinning Map increases search radius by:
100% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100).
Buffs
- The Forensic Evaluation Slayer bonus lasts 3 hours (previously 12 hours).
- The damage bonus message from Forensic Evaluation has been removed.
- Players no longer have a Buff Icon for Forensic Evaluation, as its effect is always active.
PvM Bonus
- Increased spell and melee damage (including archery) against creatures:
25% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100) (maximum 30%).
- Additional damage per melee swing:
Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Evaluation Bonus.
- Maximum Effective Barding Skill Bonus that can be achieved:
10 * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100) (maximum 12).
PvP Bonus
- Increased spell and melee damage (including archery) against players:
10% * (Forensic Evaluation Skill / 100) (maximum 12%).
- Additional damage per melee swing:
Base Weapon Damage * Current Forensic Evaluation Bonus.
Hamstring
Visit the Hamstring page for more details.
Training
| Skill | Activity |
|---|---|
| 0-50 | Train from NPC |
| 50-100 | Skin creatures |
| 100-120 | Skin creatures |