What's the point of 10 Disciple of the Hand ability slots -

[Catharsis]

You can. Unequip the ones you don't want.

I don't mean situation during synthesis. I mean depending on what you want from your synthesis.

Well, obviously. But I just meant there's no point in giving us 10 slots now, and filling up every single ability slot may actually be detrimental to your crafting experience, which is counterproductive to good game design (unless you really like randomness). If the patch was going to do this, they should just have limited us to 5 equippable abilities.

@Wolfie: Nah, now that I've ranted about it, I've got all the catharsis I need. I'll just wait until a mod shifts the thread there - let them earn their keep.

[Catharsis]

Also: Bold Endeavour is mislabelled. It only lasts 1 step and it only seems to guarantee success, not great success. The quality testers need to step up their game.

[Sephrick]

If they want to keep it at five they should at least change it so they apear in the order you set them.

So you start with your top fix and they stay till you use one, then the once in the sixth slot moves up.

[Answa]

If they want to keep it at five they should at least change it so they apear in the order you set them.

So you start with your top fix and they stay till you use one, then the once in the sixth slot moves up.

It all goes back to that being the old system.

[Sephrick]

It all goes back to that being the old system.

Well, at least that way it wouldn't be random. You'd always know which was dropping in next.

[Skies]

@Wolfie: Seems like really idiotic design. Why not just change the cap for equippable skills to 5?

Probably, simplicity or impossibility in coding. It's likely that the '10 slots' is far too deeply ingrained in the crafting system from previous incarnations that they cannon remove it. That, or changing that would take far too much effort that would prevent the ability adjustments from being done due to balance reasons until it's done, so instead they push the balance changes, make a makeshift jury-rig for that (the random 5) and simply assume that players will be smart enough not to actually go over that cap to get what they want.

[Kinseykinz]

Well setting 10, but getting a random selection of only 5 each synth is probably AOKAY and practical for quick, I don't care to aim for an HQ/ making a lot of different synths all at once.

Picking your 'fave 5' and only setting those, is best for attempting hard HQ's and/or long synths on the SAME item over and over.

Take my BTN, when I was leveling it up once I learned: Sweat of Brow it was the ONLY skill I had on my tool bar while I was exping so that it would Proc more often. If however, I wanted to harvest a specific item (pre level 50) I would take it off my bar and add in better abilities for item looking up. Some people just equipped as many actions as they could. Both are viable strategies.

[Catharsis]

No it's not. DoL jobs don't have a limit on the amount of procs possible at any one site, it just uses a mutually exclusive system. Equipping more skills theoretically gives an advantage because the chance of getting any positive effect whatsoever increases.

With DoH, if you're trying to grind for quick synths, you can just use Piece by Piece > By the Book > Grand Design > Tricks of the Trade to get 100% and any randomness with that would just slow you down. You could pick another "best 5" skills if aiming for quality, but that was just an example.

[Fingerbox]

You're complaining that there are 5 extra squares there that could potentially be filled but instead it's optimal to leave them blank?

I mean, I can see how it's not perfect, but I can't understand how it can possibly be detrimental to the gameplay experience.


Also, if you do plan on posting this in the crafting section, I'd advise you to be quite a bit less of a jerk. You'll likely get more thoughtful and thorough responses that way.

[Green_and_a_Half]

quick guessed answer,
Crafting quests to unlock recipes in the future.
Possibly gear and guest to unlock the other 5