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    Dec 2018
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    Character
    Adrean Dragonstar
    World
    Mateus
    Main Class
    Astrologian Lv 70
    After thorough testing including adding 4 people to help finish the job faster we finally have the results.
    Included in the testing were 2 level 70 armorers in all level 70 gear. A level 70 BSM with all level 70 Gear and 2 level 70 GSM in all level 70 gear. The crafter's average item levels were between 320 to 340.

    The armorers were crafting level 50 cobalt plate belts, the BSM crafted level 49 cobalt baselards, The GSMs both crafted level 50 rubelite earrings. Chosen for ease of creation and minimum amount of material needed, increasing desynth chances of getting mats back to reduce cost.
    Item difficulty should not have played any role.

    Results were as follows:
    5017 uses of Steady Hands 2 + Hasty touch: 1158 failures, 3859 successes.
    5023 uses of Steady hands 2 + Patient touch: 1928 failures, 3095 successes.

    Both have (supposedly) an 80% chance to succeed when paired with steady hands 2. However, if you do the math Hasty touch comes to roughly 76.8% success rate.
    Patient touch on the other hand had about a 61.6% success rate.

    Make of it what you will but I think there is an issue with patient touch not gaining the benefit of steady hands 2 and this begs the question; Are other skills not benefiting from it? This would explain how you can fail 17 times consecutively with a supposed 90% chance of success. Regurgitate the small sample size argument if you want to, my personal take on it is the tool tip success chance should reflect what one crafter could expect crafting hundreds of items not based on what millions of crafters creating billions of items should expect. You can use the small sample size argument against any side. I personally have crafted enough items during this that if I never craft another item before I keel over it will still be too soon.
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