tinker gloves question

[Daemos]

how exactly does it work? there's a door that requires one living tool without the gloves and when i put it on, it's still asking for one living tool (i have 9 mechanics without the gloves and 11 with) do those two points just not make a difference and if not, how many?

[Student of Trinity]

The number of tools it takes to do something usually seems to change only in bigger steps of Mechanics skill than two. So the gloves may put you over the line to do it with one less tool, or may not, depending on how close to the line you were without the gloves. It's always worth a try.

 

Some tasks don't use varying numbers of tools; you just either do it, or don't (mines, mainly). Some give you a possibility to succeed safely, succeed with an explosion, or fail (power crystals). In all cases, tinker's gloves are worth bringing along and putting on just before you try whatever it is. In fact by the end of the game I'm usually carrying around a small wardrobe of special Mech-boosting gear in my backpack, which all together raises my Mech by about 5. I walk up to a door or something feeling like the old animated Hercules. "I will just put on my ring." And my gloves, and my cloak, and my shield, and my tunic.

[Quiconque]

I think the number of tools needed is based on the proportional difference between object strength and mechanics skill. Trying to open a weak door with mechanics 1 vs mechanics 2 will often have a difference of multiple living tools.

[Daemos]

gotcha. will definitely keep those gloves then.especially if there's more mech. gear to go with it...