Crafting...... Jesus $%#@ing Christ!

[Radaghast]

Not entirely possible to nor is it a good thing to just stick to low recipes. The recipe 2-6 ranks above you could be finished items that require 6 mats. No one in their right mind would try to grind on those. And what he is saying is hes getting unstable elements that dont match the shards he's using. That really isnt supost to happen, and is just another broken aspect of some recipes. and not every recipe does that, which is another broken aspect. Try sything Fleece at R34 leatherworker. R44 Recipe yet it is soooooo easy to make, and gives a ton of SP. Then try to make toad leather, and get unstable lightnings when the recipe doesnt use any lightning shards/crystals/clusters, and the beginning of the recipe.

You give me a level for any craft and I'll give you a name of a recipe that's easy to grind on. There's stuff for every level. Not that I'm defending bizarre differences in difficulty on certain items that are of equal level, but why would you grind on those in the first place.

The only stuff I've ever had difficulty with were items that I didn't have the right books/support/too high level for. With HotG, Ingenuity, it's damn near impossible to fail anything.

I semi agree on the unstable elements, mainly because you have to guess at which element is going to go unstable, and that the counter skills are pretty much useless to even consider spending points on. There's just plenty of other skills you can get to ensure you don't fail. About the only time an unstable concerns me is trying to HQ an item. The wait technique Eldaena refered to above does help somewhat.