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I have a question about creating exactly the items I want. As a quick clarification, however, this is NOT a question about loot that has been generated already. Alright, now that that's out of the way, here we go.
In the upgrading magic items, or more specifically, reverse engineering items for qualities not listed separately. The example that brought this question to mind was the Belt of Hurling (lesser). Said belt grants a +2 bonus to strength, and the ability to use Strength to hit with thrown weapons instead of Dexterity.
According to the wondrous item creation rules we know that adding a secondary effect to a wondrous item costs the effect's base price, and 50% of the cheaper effect's base price as a sort of stacking penalty.
The above belt has a retail price of 14,000 gold, and we know from the wondrous item creation rules that an enhancement bonus to an attribute is 4,000 gold. To find the stacking penalty we determine which one is less in price, and I'll spare you the math on that, but it's the strength bonus.
With that we know then that the Hurling part of the item should cost 8,000 gold. Now my question, which took this long to get to is: in PFS games, can we reverse engineer items like this to get just the parts out of it that we actually want?
In any other game setting it'd be a trivial question because so much of crafting is just swept under the rug anyway. But, with PFS a massive amount of restrictions have been levied on play with regards to the rules, and I want to make I'm in compliance.