Relative difficulty on triv 250+ combines

[Goen]

I was wondering if someone could clue me in on the relative difficulty of a few combines that are 250+ triv.

Currently my success rate on the enchanted/imbued dwarven plate is around 2/3 or 3/5.

Mistletoe sickles have made 15 attempts and 2 successes, dont know if thats a kind rng or if I will average 1/7 or 1/8 for a while.

Bd cultural bracer 0/4.

My current thinking is those three are in order of real trivials, i.e.
enchanted/imbued<mistletoe sickles<bd cultural

Does this sound right to you guys, and also, where does the tae ew chain fit into this? A guild member has a stack of blood and wants to know how I'd fare in making it.

Thanks
Goen

[Hateborn]

My experiences

At 212 skill (plus geerlok) I did a fair few combines of both BD and Tae ew without skilling up and overall I was roughly 1 / 4 on BD cultural, 1 / 2 on Tae Ew tunics and 1 / 3 on Tae ew shields. (However I didnt do enough combines for it to be reliable as a true trend).

(And within BD cultural there are variations - I am 1 / 2 for BPs (actually 6 / 12) but worse than 1 / 4 for bracers).

[Aanna]

I would say that Tae Ew falls about with enchanted on your little list. At 250 with TrophyI fail often with sickles and BD cultural, but have about an 80% success rate on Tae Ew.

Happy Smithing! =)

[Lushissx]

I am 250 smith plus trophy and the BD cultural seems to run about 40-50%. Last night did 8 and only had 3 success. Wish they had a smith aa as the failure rate is kinda steep.

[qralt]

I'm 223 smithing and get around 2/3 Tae Ew combines and about 1/3 sickle combines. BD cultural is some where between 1/3 and 1/5 for me. The last batch I did was real spotty though, I failed like many in a row. Then did BP and Legs back to back with no failure.

Tae Ew is much easier though, I've done runs of 5 combines and had no failures, never had that happen with sickles or BD cultural.

I use a geerlok and am always buffed out the wazoo when i'm doing expensive combines.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

I've found ench/imbued dwarven plate BPs/legs are generally around 2/3 or 5/7 when I was 206-215+5%.

The only blue diamond stuff I've done a significant amount of are underfoot plate bracers, which in the long run I've averaged 1/3 from skill 210-221_5% (I actually originally was getting more around 4/9, but recent runs (ironically at higher skill) have brought that average down). The other blue diamond stuff I've done has only been to 1 or 2 successes, so it doesn't provide a good basis, but worst I've been was 1/7 (BP, belt) and best is 1/2 (visor).

At some point in there I did a small batch of sickles. I think my success rate was around 1/10, but I'm not quite sure.

>250 definitely has a LOT of variance in difficulty.

Edit: Its a little outdated, but here's my record of success rates. All combines are Underfoot plate unless otherwise noted - the "+" bit is Brellium plate.

Overall:
Bracers: 12/38 + 0/3
Visor: 4/9
Breastplate: 1/7
Greaves: 2/5
Belt: 1/7
Pauldrons: 2/4
Vambraces: 1/4
Gorget: 1/2
Boots: 1/2
Cloak: 1/2

210-216
Bracers: 5/13
Visor: 1/2 + 1/3
Breastplate: 1/7
Greaves: 1/3
Belt: 1/7
Pauldrons: 1/2?

217
1/1 Visor
2/5 Bracer
1/2 gorget
1/2 Pauldrons
0/2 Vambraces

218
1/2 vambraces
1/2 leggings
1/3 Visor
2/6 Bracer
0/1 Boots

219
1/1 Boots
1/2 Cloak

220
1/6 Bracer
0/3 Brellium Bracer

221
2/8 Bracer