MI Crafting: Bracers of Armor, AMoF, Cloaks of Resistance, etc.

[Ruggs]

I'm putting together another chart, and have been compiling a list of exceptions.

So far:

Bracers of Armor: Crafter's level must be at least 2x the bonus.
Amulet of Mighty Fists: Crafter's level must be at least 3x the bonus.
Cloak of Resistance: Crafter's level must be at least 3x the bonus.

The bracers stand out as a 2x. Is this intentional? For normal armor or shields, the PRD states that its CL is three times its enhancement bonus. I'm assuming this applies for purposes of MI crafting DC, also.

Also, any other exceptions you're aware of? By exceptions, I mean: wondrous items whose crafting DC doesn't have a static entry, but instead scales in some way, similar to the above examples.

[KainPen]

It think it is as bracers are weaker then armor. bracers +4 = 1 chain shirt but bracers +5 cl 10 = chain shirt +1 cl 3 for armor bonus only. They are vastly weaker then enchanted armor but higher total caster level they give you no max dex or armor check pen. also bracers of armor can go beondy the normal +5 max of normal armor to +8. thus the caster levels would be 16 for bracers and 15 for armor.

[Orfamay Quest]

Ruggs wrote:

I'm putting together another chart, and have been compiling a list of exceptions.

So far:

Bracers of Armor: Crafter's level must be at least 2x the bonus.
Amulet of Mighty Fists: Crafter's level must be at least 3x the bonus.
Cloak of Resistance: Crafter's level must be at least 3x the bonus.

The bracers stand out as a 2x. Is this intentional? For normal armor or shields, the PRD states that its CL is three times its enhancement bonus. I'm assuming this applies for purposes of MI crafting DC, also.

The armor bonus of Bracers of Armor must scale against the non-magical armor bonus given by wearing a metal tuxedo. If the crafter's level needed to be 3x the bonus, you'd need to be 24th level to make +8 Bracers of Armor.

I don't think that anything in the game gets +8 enhancement bonuses, so those cap out at 15th level.

So I believe it's both intentional and appropriate.

[Ruggs]

Thank you both!