Nightmare bow combine - failures

[Kevaran]

Pre december patches I was doing about 70% on bow combines at 210 + gearlock with 198 dex

did 7 combines December 8th and went 0 for 7 with 212 + gearlock and 230 dex

Just a word of warning for those other not as masterful fletchers

Kevaran

[Mizar]

Urgh...
i just sold my bow (1/4 with 204 skill, 255dex and geerlok) to have enough pp to try others

can someone else confirm this?

[Shoi Bloodbow]

quite the opposite for me.. before the patch on the 6th (or whenever it was) i was 1/6 on nightmare bows... that was at 250 with trophy

after the patch i pumped out 4/4 in one sitting..

[Laspeera]

Pre and post I've had about a 80% success rate. Just did 8 for 9 Saturday at 244 + trophy.

[Pinbin]

At 223 + a geerlock so like 234 total I went 4 for 5 last night, these were my first attempts at the bow.

[RangerKeaianea]

250 + Geerlok = 1/1 then 3/3 Two different sessions.

[lilmountin]

I haven't had a solid level to verify sucess off, but I started making nightmares with skill of 219modded. After a few acrylia runs im now 237 with GM tool and have made 78 for 106.

[Lydja]

i've made 14 or 15 of 20 attempts. most recently was 4/5 all with 213 skill, geerlock and 255 dex.

Lydja Sylverleaf
Amazon Storm

[Elquinjena]

12/14-15/02

4 out of 8 50%

skill:222 + geerlock

str:255
sta:188
agi:192
dex:255
wis:187
int:127

Elquinjena Dangerbow
Pathfinder of the 55th season

[Denrick]

Skill 220 + geerlock

255 Dex

Went 1/3 on the last try.

[Mahgnillig]

2 for 4 today...

250 + trophy

[Buchalter]

Success rate

3 out of 5 with a skill of 205 and a geerlok.

Question tho - see folks posting here with their DEX/WIS and other stats... I was under the impression that the ONLY thing that determined successes was your Skill and that DEX/WIS/INT only controlled whether you get a Skill-up. Is this correct?

[nightop]

Success Rates

You all seem to be very high on dex compared to what I am but, my success rate seems on par or better than some of yours with a much lower skill. I don't know off the top of my head what my dex is but, it is around 150. My fletching skill was 202 and is now 204. I use a gearlock. Here is an account of my attempts and the one difference between them.

12 attempts 9 successes w/C3 Then:

3 attempts 3 failures w/out C3 Then a low level enchanter gave me all the mind buffs they could for the 4th attempt after I could not find anyone casting C3 and I got a successful combine. Then later that night:

2 for 2 after getting a C3. Then the next day:

2 for 2 with C3 on.

So my count is 16 attempts and 13 success's with C3
4 attempts and 1 success without C3

Now I know that it may have just been a random statistical fluke that I got 3 failures in a row but, I will ALWAYS be fletching/tradeskilling with C3 on from now on.

[Perseverence Rewarded]

I have had the WORST luck on these combines.

34 attempts and I have had 14 successes.
My skill is 209 and I have a geerlok
Not 1 skill-up with a dex of 228.

Tried acrylia arrows last weekend and did 128 combines for 4 skill-ups

[Maena Bowyer]

For what it's worth...

I've pulled right around 85% success rate with 250 + 5% on over 100 attempts, so that's a fairly accurate guess that the success rate at 252 (or 255) is 85%. (addmittedly, more samples would be useful, but it still gives a fair approximation.) According to what I've read, each point of skill increases your percentage chance of success by right around 1.

Which means, at 202 skill, (or 212 effective w/ gearlock) you should expect to see around a 45% success rate.

which means success rates of 14 out of 20 (i.e. 70%) isn't terribly unlikely with that small a sample.

whereas 14 out of 34 (41%) at 209 should have been just over 50% rate.. and is fairly close. Again, considering how few samples.