Peace of Mind Question - Tradeskill Trivials with Trophies Equipped

[Xheng]

Just for peace of mind, could anyone confirm being able to skill up recently (since the last patch) in a situation like the following:

Item Trivial = X
Raw Skill = X - 2
Skill with Trophy Equipped = X + 5

I'm finally getting around to working up tradeskills again, and since the last patch I have not been getting any skill ups in this situation. Not just a vanishingly small number, but zero.

For example, I have a raw tailoring skill of 240, and ran through a stack of 90+ flawless pelts making hilt wraps, which have a trivial of 242, with my recently acquired trophy that has a 5% mod on it. The trophy evolved from 80% complete to 97% complete during this process, but I got zero actual skillups.

Then I farmed condensed stuff to make ice-tipped acrylia arrows, which again are not trivial without the fletching trophy equipped, but are trivial with it equipped. After 42 combines and zero skill ups, I tried unequipping the trophy and got a couple skill ups doing the remaining 40 combines.

I suspect that in all likelihood I'm just seeing a bad streak on the RNG. But the odds of this happening seem so low at these skill levels, with an intelligence on the character of 651, that I thought I'd at least ask the question, for my own peace of mind before wasting more raw materials. Confirmation it's still working for other folks would be great.

[Aldier]

So you are not getting the message "you can no longer advance your skill on this combine." Which means that it has the potential to earn a skill up. When you didn't have the trophy, you were able to skill up. So skill ups did work. When the trophy was equipped, it gained experience, so the trophy worked. It sounds like everything is running fine and you just had a bad run.

I can't confirm skillups as I am maxed on my character, but from what you are describing, it does not sound like any mechanics are broken. As far as you were doing, you are able to skill up on that combine as long as the trivial is above your raw skill level.

[Zatz-Combine]

Ive had this happen to me also, in a very similar way. I took up the habit of unequiping my trophies when doing a skill up that is in the light blue range. Oddly, I have even had better luck on high trivial combines for Alchemy without the mug-stick equiped.

[Prexis]

It sounds like just the RNG hating you, but when I experience bad streaks, I tend to zone twice (1 zone away & back), and unequip/reequip the trophy/skill mod item. Not sure if the bug was ever fixed, but when skilling, it used to be recommended NOT to do combines in an instanced zone like the Guild Hall. I also used to avoid skill runs on a patch day, but that was just my own superstition.