Hi All,
I have taken the Craft Magic Weapons & Armour feat and thought I knew how to calculate the cost to create a Mithral Chain Shirt +1. However Hero Lab is showing the item costs less than what I though.
From what I've read in the PRD on http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/magicItems/magicItemCreation.html, a Mithral Chain Shirt would cost 1100 GP to purchase. Then enchanting it with my feat with +1 enhancement would cost me 500 GP. So the total cost to me should be 1600 GP.
In Hero Lab, when I go into the section of "Magic, Custom & Masterwork Armour", create a new custom / magic armour, choose Chain Shirt, Mithral, +1, its cost and value is 2100 GP. Now for calculating the crafted cost, Hero Lab doesn't have ability to have just the enchantment crafted but the mithral chain shirt purchased at full price. So to check my calculations I'm just going along with the scenario that I'm crafting both. However when I check the box "Crafted", it reduces the cost to from 2100g to 533 GP, 3 SP, 3 CP.
That doesn't make sense to me as the crafted cost of the +1 armour enchantment should be 1/2 and the base armour 1/3. So I would expect hero lab to show the crafted cost of 500 GP + 366 GP, 6 SP, 7 CP, totalling 866 GP, 6 SP, 7 CP. So it seems to me that hero lab is off on its calculations at ~533 GP or I've got something wrong in mine at ~866 GP.
So am I wrong in thinking that purchasing a Mithral Chain Shirt +1 should have a value of 100 GP + 1000 GP + 1000 GP = 2100 GP and a crafted cost of ((100 + 1000) / 3) + (1000 / 2) = ~866 GP?
Sounds good, thank you for clarifying.