Failiure on 7th shawl subcombines?

[Merrygrin]

I did not see this mentioned in the guide, so I thought I'd ask to make sure.

All the combines for shawl 7 seems to depend on the previous combine. Does this mean that if I fail at any point, do I have to start over, or is the previous item returned on failiure?

Normaly I would expect a to start over on a failiure, but with all the dependencies, even the 5% fail at any skill would make this fail a lot before beeing finnished.

/Merry

[Zacatac]

You must start over again (except for certain pieces that always get returned). For me that was a killer.
I failed a brewing combine
I failed a pottery combine
I failed a fletching combine
I failed a tailoring combine
I failed a jewel craft combine
Finally success!

All were trivial except the tailoring (I had 160 skill). Took me quite awhile to finish when I kept failing things.

[EnfinitiStarr8]

:shock: OUCH!
Sorry to hear that Zacatac! That must of sucked.

[Merrygrin]

Ouch!

I saw a total of 7 combines that included a sub combine. If I recall my studies in statistics correct (doubtful). This gives a 30% chance of failiure if there is always a 5% chance to fail a combine. Pretty poor ods for the amount of work gathering the components

Since I used up all my luck on the 6:th, I'm not looking forward to this.

/Merry

[Velurian]

The only component that's returned on a failure is the burin, which will be returned if you fail the fletching combine for the etched rune. (Essentially, the burin acts here like most tools in most recipes do -- returned on a failure. As far as I know, it's useless once you've finished the 7th shawl, so you can just destroy it then; there aren't even any good MQ possibilities with this shawl.)

All the other components will be consumed if you fail. (Well, except the shawl itself; like the 5th and 6th shawl combines, you always get the shawl back on a failure. Wouldn't that suck if you didn't?)

(Thankfully, didn't have any failures on the 7th shawl -- in fact, didn't fail any combine all the way through the 7th shawl. 2 8th shawl failures, but thankfully, nothing too expensive. Brell be praised! Of course, having said this, now I'll fail on the walk and have to start over. :P )

[GraemeFaelban]

So far shawls 1 through 7, I have had one failure, and that was combining one set of threads, had extras already, so no problems.

Shawl 5 I finished at 118 tailoring
Shawl 6 118 also, skilled up to 119
Shawl 7 all trivial but tailoring, which was 158, skilled up to 159

Shawl 8 So far, 3 failures on the Velium Hound Fur combine.