The RNG of Synthisis

[Crica]

Blowin stuf up so you can try to get more xp per synth only to fail the leve and get even less xp than just spamming standard synth..... idk about blamin the RNG for this one.

Are you saying spamming Standard is not RNG based and I will complete the synthesis everytime?

[Jinko]

Yea most of the crafting skills mean crap now, and yes its very much a random chance, very little skill in crafting, regardless of what people may say.

That being said the new changes are quite welcome, HQing and XP bonus are great, if they continue to tweak crafting as they have been in 2.0 it should be awesome.

Especially where you have a recipe book and can only try recipes you know.

[TheVedis]

Id also like to point out, perhaps the leve you are doing is NOT a magic craft based recipe
maybe you should stack craftsmanship instead?

i know i keep a large balance of everything, have since day 1, and ive never had any real issues with horrible fails.

[Crica]

perhaps the leve you are doing is NOT a magic craft based recipe

Yes, the item the leve asks me to craft is an item that has only magic stats on it, as I already said in my OP.

If you are asking what the item is - Dried Prunes.

[TheVedis]

Yes, the item the leve asks me to craft is an item that has magic stats on it, as I already said in my OP.

just because the item has magic based stats does not mean magic craftsmanship is the stat you want to make it

see the post before this one though to what i think your specific problem may actualy be though

also could you tell us what the recipe is asking you to make?

[Crica]

just because the item has magic based stats does not mean magic craftsmanship is the stat you want to make it

Yoshi-P already confirmed in a past Letter from the Producer that YES you need to use Magic Crafting stats for better results in crafting items with magic stats on them.

[Jynx]

I think the big issue is that for some reason we have 2 seperate crafting stats. That doesn't make much sense to me and complicates thing needlessly especially when they don't tell you if it's a magic or craft item.

[Jinko]

I think the big issue is that for some reason we have 2 seperate crafting stats. That doesn't make much sense to me and complicates thing needlessly especially when they don't tell you if it's a magic or craft item.

This !

It should be:-
Main crafting stats - Craftmasnship
Secondary stat - Control
Third - Whatever your class specialises in (MND,VIT,STR etc)

[zaviermhigo]

Magic Craftmanship is for offhand, craftmanship is for main hand. You can test this out just from crafting things that need one vs the other, and eating food for mag craftmanship really doesn't help synths you have to use your main hand for, I've done enough synthing even after 1.21 to see this. And yes like said before, pre 30, and if you're doing a synth like more than 5 levels above you post 30, you need to stack control. Do you have preserve from Alchemist, its like level 10 that helps a lot sets everything to white for like 4-5 turns.

I think a lot of things that have magic stats use offhand, but I only use offhand for the juices now.

source: cul at 38 now, been super easy the whole way. Easier than wvr, but then again I leveled up wvr along side btn, my cul got the benefit of having a 40 btn, but I mainly do leves and only make food for gil (or for battle/craft for me and my friends).

[Crica]

You can test this out just from crafting things that need one vs the other

How do I know what requires a main hand or an off hand?