You know what, Peregrine - I'm beginning to think your a board sniper. I don't recall comparing any crafts here. I started this tread for a reason - and apparantly alot of people, including the developers, agree that crafting, in general is very broken in many respects. Abilities are broken, or just plain don't work. When a recipe fails MORE @ R48 than R42 maybe something isn't quite right. Almost every synth @ R48 went unstable, and a goodly portion of those went chaotic when I hit it on a pure white orb.

You may be perfectly happy with the crafting system the way it is, and that's fine by me. On the other hand, there are many of us who believe that crafting skills should be rewarded, and what I mean by that is we simpy should have more success @ R48 than R42, not LESS.

If you were on Istory, I'd have your swing by, maybe Susan could HQ that violin for you.