Bear cape 0% chance?

[camgillies]

So Im a little confused. When I go to guild a bear cape with metal buttons, it says theres a 0% chance. Why is this if bear capes are supposedly 0-32%?

[Redlaw]

thats a 0% chance for another slot.

[Ysh]

Equipment will have X-Y% on stat. Gild item will have A-B% on stat.
Can put gild item in equipment to get bonus, 100% chance for this.
You will maybe get another slot in equipment for second gild.
This will having between X*A% and Y*B% chance for happening.
The true chance between XA% and YB% will be determined by your skill.
Only skill with icon matching between both gild item and equipment item will affect true chances (means icon next to percent, not icon for bonus type. For trinket this is survival and not dexterity and not farming).
No matches = XA% always.
More matches + high skills in those matches means getting closer to YB% chance.
Before you do this, you will see actual chance for adding.

Buttons are sewing icon. Bear cape is not sewing (strength I think?). There is no matching, so your skill cannot help. So you get lowest chance, 0*X% = 0%.

[camgillies]

Equipment will have X-Y% on stat. Gild item will have A-B% on stat.
Can put gild item in equipment to get bonus, 100% chance for this.
You will maybe get another slot in equipment for second gild.
This will having between X*A% and Y*B% chance for happening.
The true chance between XA% and YB% will be determined by your skill.
Only skill with icon matching between both gild item and equipment item will affect true chances (means icon next to percent, not icon for bonus type. For trinket this is survival and not dexterity and not farming).
No matches = XA% always.
More matches + high skills in those matches means getting closer to YB% chance.
Before you do this, you will see actual chance for adding.

Buttons are sewing icon. Bear cape is not sewing (strength I think?). There is no matching, so your skill cannot help. So you get lowest chance, 0*X% = 0%.

Metal buttons are sweing? It says they are smithing and unarmed. I mistakenly thought the icon was str. But where are you getting metal buttons are sewing. And if you know. What item should I guild onto a bear cape for str and a high chance at a new slot?

[Ysh]

Equipment will have X-Y% on stat. Gild item will have A-B% on stat.
Can put gild item in equipment to get bonus, 100% chance for this.
You will maybe get another slot in equipment for second gild.
This will having between X*A% and Y*B% chance for happening.
The true chance between XA% and YB% will be determined by your skill.
Only skill with icon matching between both gild item and equipment item will affect true chances (means icon next to percent, not icon for bonus type. For trinket this is survival and not dexterity and not farming).
No matches = XA% always.
More matches + high skills in those matches means getting closer to YB% chance.
Before you do this, you will see actual chance for adding.

Buttons are sewing icon. Bear cape is not sewing (strength I think?). There is no matching, so your skill cannot help. So you get lowest chance, 0*X% = 0%.

Metal buttons are sweing? It says they are smithing and unarmed. I mistakenly thought the icon was str. But where are you getting metal buttons are sewing. And if you know. What item should I guild onto a bear cape for str and a high chance at a new slot?

The icon by the chance is what matters for extra slots. This is sewing for the metal button. The smithing and UA are the bonus it gives. This is not mattering for extra slot.
You will want icon which matches bear cape icon for higher chance. So I think probably bear tooth if the bear cape is strength icon.

[camgillies]

Ohhh. okay. Thanks for the help!

[tweinst]

If the gilding and item have a matching affinity, then the percentage chance is scaled between the product of the low% and high% on the item and gilding. The scaling is based on your skill in whatever the affinity is, but it's not exactly clear yet how the scaling works. Our first guess was SQRT(skill/330) but we know that's not quite correct.

If there's no matching affinity, then you get the product of the low%s. For the bear cloak, the low% is 0, so the product is 0%. If you want to get an additional slot, you will need to match either strength or survival, which gives you several possibilities.