Cause I just have to let it out

[Krawkowl]

35 stacks of medium quality folded metal and still STUCK at 185 skill. I tell you the RNG really hates me. I don't even want to calculate the total cost. Oh BTW further proof that the RNG has t in for me... did a trivial combine for 7th shawl with the royal kromriff blood and poof failure :evil: thankfully I found a vial of that stuff relatively cheap at 3kpp.

Maybe I'll just stick with fletching for awhile til I feel better.

[Fallwell]

Re: Bad Luck

35 stacks of medium quality sheets!!! That works out to 233 three-sheet fine plate combines? I've never heard of such a crummy streak in that range before. Maybe I'm missing something

Good luck!

Fallwell

[OberonMiM]

3 times ive found royal kromriff blood for sale on vendors for about 1 plat (i beleive). Every time i bought some andm oved it onto a twink

It sells usually for about 1k-1500ish on rallos

[Danthen]

35 stacks of medium quality folded metal and still STUCK at 185 skill.

Holy crap! Did you mean 35 attempts or 35 stacks of attempts (meaning 233 bp attempts)? If you did 233 and no skill up, that has to be a record.

[Chenier]

If you did 233 and no skill up, that has to be a record.

It's not. Someone did 800 once - anyone remember who/what tradeskill? Or there's a higher one?

[Krawkowl]

Yup 35 stacks, 230 or so odd BP combines, really hit me in the ol bank account. I've tried different zones to do the combine in, thinking maybe it was too laggy or something. I have tried zoning in and out hoping to "reset" the RNG. I am almost affraid to attempt anymore combines. I know one day I will get there, then I can look forward to many more hardships like farming for Shadowscream junk.

[Cigarskunk]

Smithing hell levels always started around the high 180s - although 185 is the lowest I ever recall anyone hitting one at to date.

My worst stretch that I've kept track of was 212 combines from 188-189 in cooking with my troll.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Ouch 35stacks ... that's a lotta plat, clicking, and 233 leather paddings wouldn't be cheap

But as for "worst run I've heard of", was a guy who was over 1200 combines without skillup (smithing). Was quite a while ago ... year or more ... I remember him hitting the 1k mark, the 1100, and 1200 ... I don't know if he went higher than that though.

[Zyrtryx Conjureblade]

So far, the longest I've gone between skill-ups is somewhere between seventy-five and ninety combines (mostly, but not all, doing Halas 10lb Meat Pies) going from 191 to 192. Then I hit 193 six combines later.

I should mention that I had KEI cast on me when I hit 192 and 193.

I've done about twenty, give or take one, combines since (four of them with KEI still in effect after hitting 193) without a skill-up.

[xaanru]

My record for no skillups was 347 non-trivial combines at 199 skill.

[Gillin Whisperfoot]

My personal record was about 450 combines when trying to hit 194 in Baking. After that I shot up to 197 in my next session of maybe 100 combines and within a week (mind you I'm a casual tradeskiller, so a week is a very reasonable amount of time for me) I was further up to 202.

Keep at it. The long runs can be painful, but you will break through. Admittedly, that is a painful piece to get stuck on. (

I was doing mostly Ohabah truffles with mine... which are not nearly so bad, except for how to get rid of the bloody things.

May the RNG be with you.

[Reflan]

NO stories about failures should seem exceptional, because skill-ups can be bugged. If you're bugged, you can be bugged for 1000 hours if you stay on that long.

At 201 skill baking, doing Halas Meat Pies, well within my easy skill-up range, and I got no skill ups for six HOURS of constant clicking, with pre-combines stuffed on a mule right beside me and my own inventory highly optimized for making things fast and having plenty of space to store them. Wisdom 260. That's far more combines without skill-ups than you guys are talking about.

I tried zoning out to reset things a little, if something in the game had gotten stuck for me. I had heard that was good a number of times. It wasn't. Logging out part way wasn't it. Logging out all the way for about 15 minutes did it. I came back after doing that, and in the first five combines I got two skill-ups, going from 201 to 203. And went to bed!

That's the worst I've ever had it, but I had an interesting session once where I was failing virtually ALL my subcombines for misty thicket picnics at 250 baking skill and 260 wisdom. That stuff was long since trivial -- marmelade sandwiches, chocolate, cake, slicking the cake, the marmelade itself, jum jum salad, royal mints -- I did many combines of all of them and succeeded only like on two items before I had to admit that stubborn or not, brownies for chocolate don't grow on trees, so I simply could not continue. Logged in and out for about 15 minutes again, and things were ok.

Someone posted that the devs once said there was code in to discourage spending long times powerskilling; perhaps that's true. At any rate, whether it is or not, don't disbelieve anyone when they say they get a bad run. It looks like theoretically you can have an almost infinitely bad run according to my Halas Meat Pie exp on skill-ups, and a very extended run of even super trivial combines with a maxed skill of 250, according to my MTP experience.

Thankfully, logging in and out seems to fix it.

But...that begs the question -- fix what? It seems there is something to fix, which can run up and bite you on the arse if you're unlucky, or tradeskill too long perhaps. It certainly bit me.

By the way, I had experiences similar to my HMP run but nowhere near as long before -- just completely insanely out of whack. Sometimes I just quit skilling for a while; every time I've done the extended log out trick, though, it works.

[brilgain]

I had

I had a similar experience getting my 187th skill point in smithing. Granted, it 'only' took me 71 tries to get it it still sucked. From 122 to 188 I averaged 7 attempts per skill point all on fine plate. Then to take 71 tries to get to 187 baffled me. I logged out totally after attempt number 70. I logged back in after a few hours later that night. On my first attempt back...boom, skill point 187.

Is this a wives tale that you can get 'bugged' on a skill up point, log out awhile, come back and 'reset' your skillups? Who knows, but it sure seemed to work for me. So from now on if I go more than 40-50 attempts without a skillup I log and come back later. If nothing else, it sure can't hurt anything. :P

[xaanru]

I tried zoning out to reset things a little, if something in the game had gotten stuck for me. I had heard that was good a number of times. It wasn't. Logging out part way wasn't it. Logging out all the way for about 15 minutes did it.

My run of 347 was over a couple of months, dozens of smithing sessions, loging on and off, smithing different types of items, in different zones, using both cultural and non-cultural forges. Sometimes, the Random Number Generator (RNG) just hates you.

Nothing to do ut keep working at it. Eventually, the dry run will end.