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

[Reika]

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.

[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.

[Reika]

GSM 26, LTH 29, ARM 33, ARM 37, could pick out a bunch. Theres 'A' Recipe, and then there is 'The' Recipe for each rank. none of them are 2-3 ranks away. I know them, done them.

So you dont think it is bad that you can only list 2 skills worth using? You can honestly say that with these 2 skills on your bar, you can complete absolutely every recipe without fails? How does hand of the gods ensure success?- It reduces success rate >.> so your fails wont lower durability... Ingenuity does not ensure success, it just lowers synth difficulty. I use it all the time. That is why it is broken. None of these skills ensure absolute 100% success in synthing.
Not every recipie that is magically more difficult than others is a grind recipe. you'll find some of them in local leves.

And have you never tried synthing something without using skills at all a few times, then synthing using every skill at the most appropriate time possible? can you really not see the lack of major difference? Something 2ranks above you and less, skill usage doesnt matter, unless it is one of THOSE recipes with unnecessary fail rate, even if you're above them.