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It feels to me like they dont reflect what they say. Almost every time I would have a 99% chance to gain item, it seems like always would fail once. Or at a 75% chance would fail like 4 times in a row, just seems weird to me. And it seems consistently like this, not just here or there. Any thoughts?
The percentage might seem off.. but the more you gather (haven't tested with crafting) the more the percentage reflect the actual outcome. For example when gathering i get average HQ for ~100 nodes at around 20%. And usually i actually get around ~20 HQ items and 80 normal... of course sometimes it varies a bit...
Ofc i also feel frustrated when i have something like 50% HQ in mining and i don't get a single HQ from 5 attempts....
Had three 98% fail in a row, had four 83% fail in a row. I honestly feel like they're using a Round-Down somewhere.
The 98% were HQ Percentage in Culinarian. (I completed the synthesis, but the product came out NQ, three times in a row, with 98% HQ all three times.)
83% were gathering attempts on Botanist. I've noticed huge discrepancies while on my botanist. I keep thinking I want to write down the % and whether it failed or succeded for like a week or two to find out what the % actually turns out to be. But then I realize.. Im just trying to get to 50 and I'm not going to waste time fiddling with pencil and paper.
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Also, here's a brief post on someone who also talks about the RNG a little bit. Granted, he hasn't reach 50.
http://www.keenandgraev.com/2013/08/...ffxiv-crafting