WTH going on with melds?

[Krojack]

I've have amazing luck. In fact I was wondering if they tweaked it in 5.1 I had such good luck.

[Ryphen]

I've have amazing luck. In fact I was wondering if they tweaked it in 5.1 I had such good luck.

RNGesus is going to smite you when you least suspect it.

[Archaell]

Overmelding is designed to waste your gil. It's supposed to work that way.

[LineageRazor]

Welcome to the ass end of the bell curve. It sucks here, don't it?

Don't pay any attention to nonsense like, "80% success might as well be 0%!" or whatever. The odds are the odds, and no matter how good the odds might be, there's always room for failure. It sucks that you had a bad run. I've had them too (and yes, JUST as bad). I've also overmelded materia at 7% success rate on the first try, twice in a row. It all averages out over time - though, there's always the chance it won't average out in your lifetime. :3

[LalaRu]

It will be nice the server "adjusting" success and failures in order to "force" the validity of percentage within a given number of attempts.

I mean, by pure rng on any single attempt, someone may never be successful (or never fail, but I guess he won't complain) and that's not a good thing.

But if server makes sure I can be successful 100 times out of 200,, when success rate is 50%, isn't game breaking and is not unfair.

[JohnnyDevo]

It will be nice the server "adjusting" success and failures in order to "force" the validity of percentage within a given number of attempts.

Any manipulation of RNG, by definition, invalidates the percentage.

I don't disagree that some kind of pity system would be great, but make no mistake, any sort of pity system will always be in the favor of the player, as it only mitigates bad RNG. Good RNG is unaffected.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

Ahh the frustration of overmelding.

Now you're a real crafter.

[ElazulHP]

I feel your pain. I just spent $40 million gil doing full pentamelds on everything. I feel like I got away cheap from last time I did this too. It's a huge gil sink but you end up making your money and then some if you craft enough.

[hydralus]

I feel your pain. I just spent $40 million gil doing full pentamelds on everything. I feel like I got away cheap from last time I did this too. It's a huge gil sink but you end up making your money and then some if you craft enough.

I don't see why you'd pentameld at this point. It'd be like going from a 110% chance to HQ to a 120% chance to HQ. Maybe figuring the requirements will rise drastically next patch? But it's doubtful.

[Thamorian]

I don't see why you'd pentameld at this point. It'd be like going from a 110% chance to HQ to a 120% chance to HQ. Maybe figuring the requirements will rise drastically next patch? But it's doubtful.

Future proofing. We don't know yet what future recipes will requires for stats.