The Grand Crafting Adjustment Thread

[Louispv]

Just to give people a simple example of "what it's like to craft with a Shaper's Shawl":

That's not shawl, you'd skill up just as quickly without it. Synthesis skill ups get rarer the higher the level the synth. I got alchemy from 1-40 in a couple hours, but then it took leather 80 or so synths to get one+0.1 at 80.

Though like I said, just a couple saved synths, even an imperceptable +1% increase, breaks even for you at higher levels.

[Rustic]

That's not shawl, you'd skill up just as quickly without it. Synthesis skill ups get rarer the higher the level the synth. I got alchemy from 1-40 in a couple hours, but then it took leather 80 or so synths to get one+0.1 at 80.

Though like I said, just a couple saved synths, even an imperceptable +1% increase, breaks even for you at higher levels.

I've done +4/+5 cap skillups before. Even in the high 20's, you don't get that constant stream of skillups. At that point, he was literally 100% on skillups for every single successful synthesis. Normally, it's more like 50-65% or so. Heck, for an example from when I was doing Alchemy.

Cap 29 item. started at 21 skill with Adv. Imagery for an effective 24 skill.

21-22 took 20 synths. Two of these were .2 gains. Six were .1 gains. Five were failures.
22-23 took 15 synths. Again, 2 were .2, six were .1 gains. Four were failures.
23-24 took -thirty- synths. One was .2, eight were .1 gains. Nine were failures.

Total synths from 21-24: 65 crystals. 18 failures, five .2 gains, twenty .1 gains. Compare that to the ram leather + shawl pic above.