How important is appraisal to you crafters?

Just curious because I'm just starting crafting (rank 5 cook) and I'm looking at this and thinking the risk for going bold bold bold isn't as rewarding as the SP reward you get for going standard most the time - atleast with standard you give yourself a better chance of succeeding the synthesis and getting the SP whereas with bold you risk losing quite a bit of durability and losing the synth and SP...on the other hand if you manage to raise your appraisal to a high number is the risk worth *that* reward? Jesus Christ I'm glad I'm not a public speaker cuz looking over this paragraph again I barely understand what I'm even asking buuut I'm sure you guys get the gist of it :P :D

Not at all
it gives you a chance for slightly better material rewards(and you usualy get repair mats) but thats about it

When you are doing Levequests, it is to your advantage to synth a higher quality item. The higher the quality of items you create whilst on Leves, gives you better rewards when you complete the Leve.

Notice, you will get a nutority grade after each item you create. This will go higher each item and is dependant on the quality (if not broken) of the items you make. On a note from that, if you use up ALL the supplies they give you, you will get a better grade. With Leves, you might as well use all they give you to complete the leve, plus the spares they give

Kimiko x

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Originally Posted by chime85

When you are doing Levequests, it is to your advantage to synth a higher quality item. The higher the quality of items you create whilst on Leves, gives you better rewards when you complete the Leve.

Notice, you will get a nutority grade after each item you create. This will go higher each item and is dependant on the quality (if not broken) of the items you make. On a note from that, if you use up ALL the supplies they give you, you will get a better grade. With Leves, you might as well use all they give you to complete the leve, plus the spares they give

Kimiko x

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Yea, sorry I may not have been clear, I know this is the case but I guess my question is: for you, what is more rewarding, the SP gain per synth or the reward you get from higher appraisals - and is the risk worth it? IMO, so far, I much prefer the SP gain and ignore the high appraisal because the rewards just aren't worth it.

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Originally Posted by Mack

Yea, sorry I may not have been clear, I know this is the case but I guess my question is: for you, what is more rewarding, the SP gain per synth or the reward you get from higher appraisals - and is the risk worth it? IMO, so far, I much prefer the SP gain and ignore the high appraisal because the rewards just aren't worth it.

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AAhhh i see! Well in that case, I would often risk the higher grade. However, sometimes with rank levels dont always allow me to do that. Although I would risk it, I wouldn't stupidly risk it, if that makes sense? lol

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Originally Posted by Mack

Yea, sorry I may not have been clear, I know this is the case but I guess my question is: for you, what is more rewarding, the SP gain per synth or the reward you get from higher appraisals - and is the risk worth it? IMO, so far, I much prefer the SP gain and ignore the high appraisal because the rewards just aren't worth it.

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considering the only reward for more appraisal is repair mats

SP all the way, there is no alternative

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Originally Posted by TheVedis

considering the only reward for more appraisal is repair mats

SP all the way, there is no alternative

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This is true for any level craft leve? I'm only doing the baby ones still.

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Originally Posted by Mack

This is true for any level craft leve? I'm only doing the baby ones still.

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for the most part yes

weaving youll get fent
LW gives you spetches
smithing gives nuggets(which may have a use at least)
alchemy gives you silex(usualy)

and so on


personaly, unless the synth is lower then you and you are doing it for marks only...then yeah get some extra appraisal but not worth it on stuff your doing for sp cuz you usualy dont got alot of room to work with durability wise

OK I'll keep that in mind, thanks, I was leaning towards SP anyway.

Before all the nerfs to crafting quality I would aim to get my appraisal as high as possible because there is a point (nearly unreachable now) where it's very much worth it. But now I don't even bother, just standard spam because even like ~50 higher appraisal won't be very noticable, if at all.

You get slightly more SP, but your SP/time likely goes down because you spend a lot more time trying to get the highest quality possible. In my opinion, it's just not worth it anymore.