Raaaaaage!!

[Lyniaer]

Let me start off my rant by saying; I don't want/care about/need your advice because I know I'm doing it right. I don't want to hear how successful you are, how easy it is for you and how the whole world is just perfection from your mountain-top. I am quite ready to punch a BABY right now, don't even think for a second I won't be coming after you!
As for the rant itself; WTF IS WRONG WITH CRAFTING?!
I have a level 8 blacksmith and I was leveling up on Iron Ore-to-Ingots (level 13 synth) and everything was fine and great! 100+ Quality a synth and 1,500-2000XP per synth.
What's to bitch about? I'm level 11 now and have botched 6 attempts so far, can't get over 50 quality and when I do succeed it's only worth 300 f%#^ing XP.
MEAH! R U WEARS EQUIPS!?1 MEAH! What equipment at level 11? Why didn't I need any 3 levels ago?
WHY WHY WHY!
If this makes sense to any of you, then craft me a f$@^ing portal back to reality because this is obviously assbackwards world and I won't succeed well here.

[Myrhn]

there is something in the patch note that if you do the same synth for a prolong time you will start to failing it and won't be able to do it.

[Eldaena]

there is something in the patch note that if you do the same synth for a prolong time you will start to failing it and won't be able to do it.

No it says if you do a specific number of synthesis in a row, it will stop you from crafting. It will literally pull you out of the crafting stance. You don't suddenly just start failing synths. lol

[Eldaena]

HQ ores vs NQ ores?

[Lyniaer]

What?! Why?! Why do that?! Repetition compounds success, not hinder it! That is utterly and completely backwards, pointless and stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Where's the executive who came up with that idea? I want to waterboard that person. Waterboard!

[TheVedis]

What?! Why?! Why do that?! Repetition compounds success, not hinder it! That is utterly and completely backwards, pointless and stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Where's the executive who came up with that idea? I want to waterboard that person. Waterboard!

maybe you need repairs?

no seriously, calm the F down, you cant always succeed and we all go through these wierd dry spells, they counteract the super good ones we get where we get everything done easily

[Kiote]

What?! Why?! Why do that?! Repetition compounds success, not hinder it! That is utterly and completely backwards, pointless and stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Where's the executive who came up with that idea? I want to waterboard that person. Waterboard!

It's to prevent people from auto-crafting. No rewards for people who are not actually playing.

Thought i think you just have to stand up.

[Lyniaer]

Eldaena is right. It pulls you out of the synth after...150? Some incredibly reach-for-the-stars number. My gripe is succeeding a synth with a 5 level spread and failing it consistently with a 2 level spread. My carpenter's 22 and I often...OFTEN...fail Level 5 Leves. It just seems like the whole color-changing and Standard/Rapid/Careful ...blah blah blah... It's all entirely pointless. Well, it was entirely pointless until they started offering bonus XP for increased Quality. But the crafting system is still so completely random. Sometimes I find myself succeeding more on Red than on White over a period of time. An LS member called it a Placebo Effect and I was only seeing what I wanted to see to justify my complaints. Nope. I counted one day. 110/161 synths through Red were Neutral or Successful while only 49/114 White were Neutral or Successful. That means, after 100 synthesis attempts, I failed Red 51 times and failed white 65 times. The numbers seem only oddly close and I was not using any abilities other than Tender Touch and the level spread was -5.
You find when you start crunching numbers, the results of the math definitely point something either we're missing or SE screwed up. Unless they incorporated facing directions on certain days during certain whether under a certain moon phase after battling a certain monster, eating a certain food and committing a certain crime with a certain balloon animal stapled to your forehead with only 1/4" aluminum BOSCH staples...like they did in XI...and we just haven't realized it yet.

[Eldaena]

Eldaena is right. It pulls you out of the synth after...150? Some incredibly reach-for-the-stars number. My gripe is succeeding a synth with a 5 level spread and failing it consistently with a 2 level spread. My carpenter's 22 and I often...OFTEN...fail Level 5 Leves. It just seems like the whole color-changing and Standard/Rapid/Careful ...blah blah blah... It's all entirely pointless. Well, it was entirely pointless until they started offering bonus XP for increased Quality. But the crafting system is still so completely random. Sometimes I find myself succeeding more on Red than on White over a period of time. An LS member called it a Placebo Effect and I was only seeing what I wanted to see to justify my complaints. Nope. I counted one day. 110/161 synths through Red were Neutral or Successful while only 49/114 White were Neutral or Successful. That means, after 100 synthesis attempts, I failed Red 51 times and failed white 65 times. The numbers seem only oddly close and I was not using any abilities other than Tender Touch and the level spread was -5.
You find when you start crunching numbers, the results of the math definitely point something either we're missing or SE screwed up. Unless they incorporated facing directions on certain days during certain whether under a certain moon phase after battling a certain monster, eating a certain food and committing a certain crime with a certain balloon animal stapled to your forehead with only 1/4" aluminum BOSCH staples...like they did in XI...and we just haven't realized it yet.

Oh, I forgot, moon phases could possibly effect synthesis as well. It was never confirmed or denied by Yoshida, but it is something.

[JackDaniels]

Oh, I forgot, moon phases could possibly effect synthesis as well. It was never confirmed or denied by Yoshida, but it is something.

Full moon = +craftsmanship
New moon = +control