Crafting ... please save my sanity!

[CharlieXenn]

Crafting's fine, but you're bad at it. Use Wait.

I know how to craft but the point was that nearly every synth shouldn't be destabilising in the first place! It's flawed. Sometimes, having to hit wait like 7 times with the durability you lose you may as well just continue and blow the thing up!

@ Eruantien: I never Hasty Hands something higher than me but have had plenty of low rank recipes lose half their durability, all it takes is a couple of fails (which I usually get!) and KABOOM!! I guess I'm just sh*t out of luck XD

[Medura]

Maybe I'm just unlucky, I've got all the crafting gear i could find and it's all repaired, I just use standard synthesis and wait cuz I dont really care about the quality since it doesnt effect exp much, it's just too luck based imo, needs to be more skill based. Why does the synth become more unstable when I use the wait command? It shouldn't make the orb go from yellow to flashing. It's just too luck based. And thats my crafting rant.

flashing isnt more unstable than yellow though, its just that it change compastibilithy type, but stabilithy also becomes higher.

yellow = bold / careful, this is an easier synth, but failing it makers it more unstable
red = anything, it gives great quality results, but it is a big chance for it blowing
white = standard, it fails almost never if youre in the right level range
flashing = rapid, a bit harder synth, success makes the orb more stable

in othrer words, flashing is often better than yellow

makers muse = bsm abilithy, makes standard easier
preserve = alch abiliothy, makes orb white for 2-5 rounds

[Masamune1004]

flashing isnt more unstable than yellow though, its just that it change compastibilithy type, but stabilithy also becomes higher.

yellow = bold / careful, this is an easier synth, but failing it makers it more unstable
red = anything, it gives great quality results, but it is a big chance for it blowing
white = standard, it fails almost never if youre in the right level range
flashing = rapid, a bit harder synth, success makes the orb more stable

in othrer words, flashing is often better than yellow

makers muse = bsm abilithy, makes standard easier
preserve = alch abiliothy, makes orb white for 2-5 rounds

Hmmm, I guess I shouldn't trust online guides anymore lol. Thanks for the info.

[CharlieXenn]

Okay so there I was crafting away my ALC, I decided to do do some recipes a few levels higher than me because I had a tonne of fish sitting in my inventory. A lot people have said how much Hands of the Gods will save you from pulling your hair out so I decided I wanted me a piece of that! Everything was going well, I completed 9/10 which I thought was pretty impressive. I levelled (yay me!) and then failed 4/10 on the exact same recipe, which obviously makes perfect sense :|

I decided to buy the new Manual from the GC to try offset the exp from the botches. Synthing the same recipe again, I am at 8/15!! WTF? Asking around, a few people confirmed that they too have had more botches when under Crafter's Grace. Could a Dev please confirm whether or not Crafter's Grace affects the difficulty of a synth? If it is true, could you please also hit said person with a very big fish? What is the point of bonus exp if you actually fail more synths?? The maths dont add up.

Also in two weeks they want us to pay for this kind of backwards crap! HA!!

[CanteJondo]

I'm pretty certain elemental instabilities and brand of abilities have changed quite a bit post 1.20