Sphere success rate changed?

[Dzspdref]

I am farming Exoray Molds in CN to synth into spheres, and after this last "update" when cards were added, my success rate has dropped dramatically.
I averaged 2 out of 3 successful synthesis attempts previous to update; now I am getting less that 1 out of 6.
That's a major drop from ~66% to under ~16%.
Anyone else notice this drastic change? Seems SE doesn't WANT us legal non-botting players to make the shields now?
Or at least made it nearly over 4x harder to farm/make spheres?
Please fix this !!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Dzspdref]

Note: After 15 attempts, had 13 fail/breaks, 1 NQ induration sphere, 1 HQ1 induration sphere.
Before "card addition" update: I would usually average 8+ spheres per stack of 12 crystals.

[VoiceMemo]

I did notice a higher than normal break rate for exoray molds as well, but it could have been moonphase. I will continue testing.

[Sirmarki]

I did notice a higher than normal break rate for exoray molds as well, but it could have been moonphase. I will continue testing.

Didn't SE state that moonphase/direction/day has no bearing on crafting? Only moonphase is a factor when fishing.

[VoiceMemo]

Didn't SE state that moonphase/direction/day has no bearing on crafting? Only moonphase is a factor when fishing.

They did say it yes BUT they also didn't say that they will tell the truth. It's not like they were under oath so it could have been misinformation.

In the original Japanese text response, the way I translate, it is responding open ended.

Along the lines of maybe it does, or maybe it doesn't.

In Japanese it was どっちなの!?

which I would translate it as "which was it now?....."

they did repost でません as the official answer which is a definitive "it does not" but why was the 1st one どっちなの!?. Because of this I still follow moon/direction. But much like luck you do what you believe and what works for you. If you choose not to believe they affect so be it.

[Nyarlko]

They did say it yes BUT they also didn't say that they will tell the truth. It's not like they were under oath so it could have been misinformation.

In the original Japanese text response, the way I translate, it is responding open ended.

Along the lines of maybe it does, or maybe it doesn't.

In Japanese it was どっちなの!?

which I would translate it as "which was it now?....."

they did repost でません as the official answer which is a definitive "it does not" but why was the 1st one どっちなの!?. Because of this I still follow moon/direction. But much like luck you do what you believe and what works for you. If you choose not to believe they affect so be it.

The first response was only a joke, (about how passionate some people can be when it comes to their personal superstitions perhaps.) ^^;; They did clarify it to an absolute "no" later, just to make sure that those who didn't get the joke still got the answer.

You are welcome to believe whatever you want to, but the answer is a definite and asbsolute "no", so please do not try to convince others that there is even the slightest possibility that it's anything but.

[Dzspdref]

Just to help: I did it more than once with different moon phases, all to same results.
I did attempts during 50% (increasing), then 98% (decreasing), and finally at 5% (decreasing).
All results came out near exactly the same, even though I remember moon phases were meant to help with crafting (0+% = more HQ, ~50% = more failure, 95+% more skill-ups), but not anything for desynthesis attempts, which is the cases here.

[Sirmarki]

I still follow moon/direction

Ha. So do I actually, even though I read it doesn't have a baring. I guess old habits never die.

I do find it interesting though that the RoE relating to crafting (The anniversary ROE, "Jinx") specifically states Lightsday. Maybe that means something :D

[Dzspdref]

Ha. So do I actually, even though I read it doesn't have a baring. I guess old habits never die.

I do find it interesting though that the RoE relating to crafting (The anniversary ROE, "Jinx") specifically states Lightsday. Maybe that means something :D

"Back in the day...."
.
Lightsday was meant for that higher rate of success and skill-up gains.
Darksday was meant for higher rate of HQ results and more critical failures.
.
I even remember reading somewhere that equipping an elemental staff of the appropriate element (Pluto's, Earth, Jupiter's, etc...) also helped too, but having Woodworking, AND having all those staves in HQ, I saw no difference from them. But days of week AND moon phases AND which way you faced ALL seemed to matter for my results. I mean GEO has that "Cardinal" thing, so I guess it cannot hurt for crafting. Always seemed to work for me; i.e. I made 3 Voodoo (Rao+1) gears in 4 minutes during a 0% New Moon on Darksday facing North while crafting. Took me a LOONG time to make my 4th & 5th piece, and THAT happened again on a Darksday at 2% on first few attempts.
... go figure :P

[VoiceMemo]

Besides the main problem is not the desynth rate it is THE CHEATERS. The ones that bot farm the items to synth into spheres is the underlying cause of all this.

[VoiceMemo]

Anyone working on shield and want to trade spheres PST to me, I have a bit of excess maybe can help each other out.

[Dzspdref]

I think you & I are the only two working on the WW shields atm Voicememo. I know about 12+ WW's that told me they were stopping at the Lv.3 and not bothering with last tier.

[VoiceMemo]

Well if you have extra and want to trade let me kwow

[VoiceMemo]

Really no one else has spheres they want to trade other than Danallen? Is everyone else that is working on T4 shield botting or buying spheres they lack from AH?(likely sold by botters)

[Nyarlko]

Really no one else has spheres they want to trade other than Danallen? Is everyone else that is working on T4 shield botting or buying spheres they lack from AH?(likely sold by botters)

Or they are like me, and stalled out on 4th stage due to the inherent gil costs associated with the process. :(

[Dzspdref]

At the moment I have two "recipes" (for lack of a better word), for using spheres in the Synthesis Focuser II right now - one is light-based, other is dark-based.
Just trying to figure out more recipes using some of the ones I don't use much but have stockpiled up in it atm.
When I am 'satisfied' (again for lack of a better word) with a few good recipes I have found, I will easily just donate to you and Nyarlko any I don't want anymore.
... because there is no way in Heck-ables I am going to attempt a 2nd shield to stage 4.

[VoiceMemo]

I use 1 6 step for light and 1 for dark, I tried to maximize sphere use I only have 1 overlap on dark which uses reverberation. I figured this would be the most efficient use of spheres.