50% Chance of Skillup combines

[Tillinghast]

I seem to remember a mention in DoN's release saying there are combines that have a 50% chance of a skill increase because of the difficulty of finding the ingrediants. Has anyone found any of these, or thinks they might have?

Tillinghast
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[Flehmen]

I seem to remember a mention in DoN's release saying there are combines that have a 50% chance of a skill increase because of the difficulty of finding the ingrediants. Has anyone found any of these, or thinks they might have?

Tillinghast
Expiring Tradeskillers want to know!

Afaik, not implimented yet but on a to do list.

Also, the 50% was a quote from a dev type but I don't believe it will actually be a 50% chance... perhaps a 50% improvement in chance?

[Tillinghast]

A 50% increased chance? 7 1/2% doesn't seem like much, but over...


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Tillinghast
Vendor Mule
Never a Broadway Musical Star

[Cyrint Aircaller]

If it only is a 50 % incresed chance then it is not worth it, considering how rare those components is.

[CaiserSoze]

True, but....any improvement is still improvement, even if its only 1% effective increase in skillup rate. =)

[Cyrint Aircaller]

True, but....any improvement is still improvement, even if its only 1% effective increase in skillup rate. =)

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[Nolrog]

Afaik, not implimented yet but on a to do list.

Also, the 50% was a quote from a dev type but I don't believe it will actually be a 50% chance... perhaps a 50% improvement in chance?

The quote from the dev was an example. They are adding in a new value to some recipes to give them a higher chance to get a skill up. Exactly how that's implemented remains to be seen, but my understanding is that the valuel with be the chance to skill up. For things that are really rare and hard to get (Etching/inlaying OOW augments for example, the chance to skill up might be quite high.)

[Neebat]

If it only is a 50 % incresed chance then it is not worth it, considering how rare those components is.

Cyrint, what components are you talking about? I don't think anyone has mentioned what specific recipes will gain extra skill up percentages, so how would we know the components are extremely rare?

Are you assuming only the DoN recipes will get the enhanced skillup rate? All the tradeskill changes started with the release of DoN but most of them are not specificly tied to DoN. I'm pretty sure the skillup enhancements won't be specificly DoN recipes.

So some recipes, X, Y and Z will gain some increase. They will be recipes with dropped components, but we have no idea which recipes, so we don't know which components or how rare they are.

Am I missing something?

[Clamford]

So some recipes, X, Y and Z will gain some increase. They will be recipes with dropped components, but we have no idea which recipes, so we don't know which components or how rare they are.

The intent is to allow combines with rare dropped components to be a viable skillup path (I think). We don't know exactly how it will be implemented, but we do know it will relate to recipies which have hard to find components. Some people are guessing which drops to save. This was in Absor's The Near Future of Tradeskills thread:

In the near future (not this next update), we will be introducing a new feature to the tradeskill system that will allow us to add a new flag to some of the recipes that require more difficult to find items. We haven't given it a name yet, but this new flag will allow us to set a minimum chance to gain a skill increase on specific recipes. Basically, if we assign a minimum skill increase chance of 50% to a recipe, then there will be no less than a 50% chance of gaining a skill increase on that recipe. Keep in mind that there are other factors still involved that can supersede this, such as your primary stat and the success of the recipe, but it is close enough to use as a generalization. Using this new functionality, we can make it so that recipes with hard to find components can be useful for gaining skill increases, perhaps equally as useful in that regard as recipes that only use store-bought components.

Initially, we will probably set the minimum skill increase change on a limited number of recipes, in order to evaluate them. From that point on we will continue to evaluate recipes to see if they should also have a minimum skill increase chance.

[Tillinghast]

Well, I am hoping some old world recipes that are incrediably rare like the HQ Lion for the Fleeting Quiver is part of this. Anything you have to hunt for more that 3 hours to get one (if you are lucky) will hopefully be on the increased chance of skillup skill path.

Tillinghast
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Feared Lion Killer

[Cloud]

I think if the drops are so rare say as rare as EP bows back when pop first came out a 50% skill up rate on something like that could be possible. Stuff that would cost u like 100k+ per combine for a 50% skill up chance I think is the kinda stuff. Instead of doing like 40 combines u only far for a day for 1 combine and get 1 skill up heh.