Success rates for GM Cuirass/Greaves?

[ppatti]

Do it before 300, you'll have a much better chance as 300+ is bugged.

Bugged in what way? And for how long?

[sabor_toothe]

skill of 254 with geerlok, SM3- am 1/1 on the bp so far. i'm chalking it up to beginners luck tho

*edit* add 1 for 1 on the legs, also.

[sabor_toothe]

i was right, 2 more bp tries, both failures.

[Vidyne]

273(10%) 300 modded. Smithing mastery 3

225 tailoring(5%) 234 modded i think tailoring mastery 3

(Smithing)4 for 4 on smithed GM augs. (Chest, Chest, Chest, Legs)

(Tailoring)0 for 2 on my GM tunic.... /sigh.. 60k in the furnace

and salvage lovingly gave me back the large spool of ancestral acrylia thread both times! and nothing else.... how wonderful! it saved me so much money.... /sarcasm off

So for now im gonna give up on making a GM tunic/legs.
So I just wear my Master armor with GM augs for now.

[Sharrien]

1 for 1 on GM tunic skill 258 + geerlok
1 for 1 on GM chest symbol skill 261 + geerlok
0 for 1 on GM sleeves skill 261 + geerlok

Have tailoring mastery 3.

[Eggborn]

1 of 2 on GM trooper greaves
(salvaged a sheet yeah)
0 of 1 on GM trooper Breastplate
1 of 2 on GM Shadowrise Wrist
1 of 1 on GM Shadowrise Wrist Symbol
1 of 2 on GM Trooper leggings symbol

smithing 244 (280 mod)
salvage 2, smithing mastery 2

tailoring 234 (um.. 24something mod 5% mod)
salvage 2, tailoring mastery 1

not too bad for a lowbie, it can be done

[Mannwin Woobie]

Do it before 300, you'll have a much better chance as 300+ is bugged.

I have heard this in other forums, but have not gotten any concrete responses. Have they confirmed a bug? What is it?

[Zeeko]

Update:
Skill 254 + 15% = 292
BM3 + salvage3

2 for 5 on Ogre grandmaster legs
1 for 1 on Ogre grandmaster bp

2 for 3 on RZ grandmaster leg symbol
1 for 1 on RZ grandmaster chest symbol

I failed 1 subcombine on a sheet early on, and the first 3 leg combines failed. I floated between 365/450str and 343/365wis.

Recent totals:
Skill 256 + 15% = 294
BM3 + Salvage3

4 for 7 on the Ogre grandmaster legs
4 for 4 on the Ogre grandmaster bp
4 for 5 on the RZ grandmaster leg symbol
3 for 3 on the RZ grandmaster bp symbol
1 for 1 on the agnostic bp symbol
1 for 1 on the innoruuk bp symbol

1 more subcombine failure, so 2 scales gone to subcombine failures. (the initial brick ones that are 242 skill I think)

Given all of the bp/legs and their symbols are 386 trivial level, this seems like a good track record.

EDIT: mistyped a number
EDIT2: Another BP made but I didn't want to repost

[tnexus]

Most people with 300 skill just seem to be having horrible luck. Currently 345 skill and I've gone 1 for 4 on legs, 0 for 4 on bp, 2 for 7 on bp/leg augs, and 2 for 6 on a TRIVIAL black gold inlay (both successes were from salvaged scoriae ironically). There's a post on it in General. I made a ton of Farwater back in the day without the AAs and just 252 skill. I usually went about 3 for 5 on those. Yet with a closer trivial than Farwater I'm miraculously doing far, far worse. To me something is wrong here. That's why I say it's bugged. You can call it a run of bad luck, but I have others to back me up.

[Kibber]

At 300 skill, and 315 with Trophy and BM 3, I seem to succeed by far most of my armour combines.

On the other hand, I fail more than half my BP/Leg augments, I'd go as far as as saying close to 2/3 of them... Which I just don't understand.

I have tailoring 251, 263 with geerlok I think and no TMastery at all, I have as good a succes rate with the augments there as with smithing. No difference at all.

Kibber

[Airl]

I took up smithing for the sole reason to make GM Armor for my half-elf bard. After my last BP combine, my bard is 286 raw skill (300 w/ geerlok) and 425 STR with Wunishi.

Attempts:

2 for 2 on Breastplate
1 for 2 on Breastpalte Aug *
1 for 3 on Legs **
1 for 2 on Leg Augment

*The failure returned the scale and the water! (I love Salvage 3!)
** One of the failures returned all three risteel sheets! (I love Salvage 3!)

Edit: After making the legs this morning, I decided to dump all my remaining funds I was going to use for sickle skillups prior to the nerf into buying drake scales. I made the BP, failed the first aug attempt, but salvage 3 saved the day (I even included the screenshot this time). I made the BP aug on the second attempt.

[emandes]

Airl - do you have proof of the salvage you noted

my experience ist totally different - allways the crap is salvaged not the worthy components.

[Leana]

Airl - do you have proof of the salvage you noted

my experience ist totally different - allways the crap is salvaged not the worthy components.

I failed making a symbol and got my drake scale back

I think that the chance of salvage returning a valuable item is exactly the same as it returning junk. It is just that in many combines use more junk items than valuables.

Leana Soulwarden
Blacksmith
Inevitable Storm
The Seventh Hammer

[Xulan]

(moved to a fresh post)

[Airl]

Airl - do you have proof of the salvage you noted

my experience ist totally different - allways the crap is salvaged not the worthy components.

I don't have a screenshot of getting the 3 sheets back, but I do have the legs I made in my magelo profile. I was really shocked to be honest!

EDIT: See my original post above. I went back and tried the BP and BP aug. Salvage saved the day again! I included the screenshot this time.