Why did this fail to achieve HQ?

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It seems almost certain to not produce HQ item for some reason. I had used up my pool of electrum, farmed up some more and craft again. So it has to be more than just an unlucky streak.

Also for gods sake what year is this? Why are there still forum that does not allow image upload?

your screenshot and post is lacking in information. (also use the /img tag to insert an image).

what order are you using your skills? what level are you? what is your gear like?

83% chance of HQ is just that - a chance of HQ. It is not guaranteed to HQ.

Get enough of them and odds are many more will be HQ than NQ, but there is no accumulation of chance. Each time you do the crafting, it is its own separate RNG call. So yes, you can “fail” at 99% and you can “succeed” at 1%.

RNG is a bitch. How many ingots did you craft and how many turned out HQ? Fortunately crafting is so easy these days that getting HQ intermediate products is not required.

It's RNG. Unless you get it to 100%, there's no guarantee you're going to get HQ.

One thing people need to keep in mind. Random number generators aren't truly random. If bad seeds are used, results may not fall in line with what's stated while the bad seed is active. It's more annoyance than anything else in a game like this, where there's usually another chance to get the result desired, but it can be very frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

One thing people need to keep in mind. Random number generators aren't truly random. If bad seeds are used, results may not fall in line with what's stated while the bad seed is active. It's more annoyance than anything else in a game like this, where there's usually another chance to get the result desired, but it can be very frustrating.

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On the other hand the human mind tries very hard to see order in chaos. If a coin comes up heads five times in a row, a human will think "this is not random" even though there's a roughly 3% chance of that sequence occurring randomly. Out of all possible sequences, a significant portion is perceived as "non-random".

In fact games probably shouldn't aim for true randomness. Instead they should tweak their RNG output to preserve the expected odds and the satisfaction of beating the odds, but avoid overly long streaks of bad luck. It does require some care to prevent exploiting the system though.

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Originally Posted by Voca

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It seems almost certain to not produce HQ item for some reason. I had used up my pool of electrum, farmed up some more and craft again. So it has to be more than just an unlucky streak.

Also for gods sake what year is this? Why are there still forum that does not allow image upload?

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Unless you get to 100% you're going to have that RNG, and sometimes it'll bite you. Repeatedly. Now, if your rotation was SUPPOSED to get 100% and didn't, you may have hit byregot's on a poor or something. But if this is your average best for your rotation you may need to add a HQ mat or two in order to bump it up to 100% quality for that HQ craft.

Thanks guys.
I was a quite upset over these consecutive results that I hate to accept it as bad streak. When I was leveling all my craft, 80+% usually means HQ in the earlier levels.
Now I am even afraid to complete a synth on 80%. In fact I just failed to achieve HQ on a 92% shield. Just a very unlucky day.
It is very disheartening to go out there and farm for the mats for hours just to come back and fail.
Crafting is fun in this game, so I enjoy despite failing the HQ. But gathering is not.

Failing to HQ leveling gear is not the end of the world. They usually don't sell too well anyway. Or if it was for your own use, you'll outgrow it soon enough. You are still missing some important abilities, so just focus on the leveling now and worry about 100% HQ later.

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Originally Posted by Voca

Thanks guys.
I was a quite upset over these consecutive results that I hate to accept it as bad streak. When I was leveling all my craft, 80+% usually means HQ in the earlier levels.
Now I am even afraid to complete a synth on 80%. In fact I just failed to achieve HQ on a 92% shield. Just a very unlucky day.
It is very disheartening to go out there and farm for the mats for hours just to come back and fail.
Crafting is fun in this game, so I enjoy despite failing the HQ. But gathering is not.

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As long as an item is produced, you haven't failed. Not everything needs to be HQ. Even NQ items will sell to players who don't want to pay HQ prices.

I was around level 23, or so, when I tried to produce my very first HQ item.

The best that I could do was 83%, and wouldn't you know, I produced an NQ item.

Still, I continued practicing, and improving my crafting gear, such that now I can often get 100% using and NQ mats.

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Originally Posted by Voca

https://ibb.co/tzx0Ysr

It seems almost certain to not produce HQ item for some reason. I had used up my pool of electrum, farmed up some more and craft again. So it has to be more than just an unlucky streak.

Also for gods sake what year is this? Why are there still forum that does not allow image upload?

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Because the devs are in love with bad RNG mechanics.

First rule of crafting: Anything below 100% may as well be treated as 0%.

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Originally Posted by FirstnameLastname

First rule of crafting: Anything below 100% may as well be treated as 0%.

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Good rule. Since this thread I have failed 90+% a few times.

i crafted facet robe once, 97% and became normal quality, it sucked.

I have even failed to gather a item when said 100% rate. I have even failed to hq a item at 99%. I once went though over 100 materia when said 35% chance to socket. The rng sucks on this game.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

I have even failed to gather a item when said 100% rate. I have even failed to hq a item at 99%. I once went though over 100 materia when said 35% chance to socket. The rng sucks on this game.

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Recently while overmelding I had back to back first trys at 10 & 7%. I still blew up a lot of meteria that day.

Means nothing.