Nerf to Tae Ew Shield Trivial

[Fenadin]

I am a skill 240 smith on Veeshan. I was previously 17 for 20 on Tae Ew shields. Last night I spent 5k a piece on 3 tae ew bloods and made 3 shield attempts. I was 1 for 3. Could have just been bad luck. What makes me think the trivial has been nerfed is that the recipe is no longer returning a velium smithing hammer. Clearly VI has messed with it and I fear they changed the trivial.

Can anyone else verify their success post LoY release?

[Shakoboy]

Re: Nerf to Tae Ew Shield Trivial

I am a skill 240 smith on Veeshan. I was previously 17 for 20 on Tae Ew shields. Last night I spent 5k a piece on 3 tae ew bloods and made 3 shield attempts. I was 1 for 3. Could have just been bad luck. What makes me think the trivial has been nerfed is that the recipe is no longer returning a velium smithing hammer. Clearly VI has messed with it and I fear they changed the trivial.

Can anyone else verify their success post LoY release?

Hmm...until more people start combining some more shields I don't think it's clear if they up'ed the trivial or not. I will ask a guildy of mine how his luck has been lately at making them, since I know he has been making quite a few recently

[Akassha]

I've made a few of these lately, went 100% with 250 skill, and it never returned a hammer.

[Fenadin]

Akassha,

Did you try it this week? Pre-LoY it returned a Velium Smithy hammer. Post-LoY it is returning the regular smithy hammer.

[Ilona]

I made my first last night, at 217 skill plus geerlok it was a success.

Yes, the recipe now returns a normal smithy hammer instead of a velium smithy hammer.

[kuronekosama]

I think it's the rng - I'm at 244 with 5% and the first 4 shields I tried I went 0 for 4, and then I'm 5 for 5 after it.

[papyscott]

I was 2 for 4 last night at 248+GM hammer.

I am usually much better than 50%, but the sample is sooooo small.

Papy

[ceno65]

ive made 15 of these sheilds from 30 attempts, 250 skill

[Zopharr]

Heck, I was barely at 50% *before* the patch, at 250 + trophy. (But I've also had insanely good luck with armor combines the last few weeks.)

A run of three is not enough to make any judgement on - too easily the RNG. Wiuldn't panic quite yet.

[wombat]

patch

I was 10/10 before the patch and 2/4 afterwards on the Sheild. Small sample space though, got 2 skilups off the sheilds, WOOF! :shock:

[BrewtPhorce]

Made 2/3 last night at 248 + trophy. I didn't not get a trivial message on the successful combines. I also noticed that it stopped giving back a velium hammer and gave back a regular one (yay... I particularly like using one hammer... it gives it character!) I did notice that my failure rate on heraldic armor went up drastically, but that was probably the RNG giving me hell, as it had been too nice to me recently.

So I don't think they changed the trivial level on it unless the raised it.

[Fenadin]

No Panic

Well, sounds like no real conclusive proof that the trivial was changed, but I would still like to see more data. Hopefully, I get a chance at more combines this weekend.

The reported success rates had been clearly around 80% pre-LoY, which obviously puts the trivial on tae ew stuff much lower than that of cultural or black acrylia.

Don't take this as complaining. Shields have once again made smithing very profitable for me, but I think they are overpowered for the ease in which they are made. I think it would make sense to raise the trivial level on them. I would then also argue that they HAVE to raise the drop rates on pristine scales. There is no reason scales shouldn't drop as often as blood, especially if the trivials on tae ew stuff was/is raised.

[Verick]

I was 3/5 last night on shields at 190 + geerlok. Unless I was just extremely lucky, I'm guessing the trivials are the same.

[Mardark]

Pre patch I was 0/5

Post patch 3/3

218 smithing + gm hammer

[evilsofa]

Last night I did some combines for a guildmate. I have smithing at 250, and was using my Grandmaster Smith's Hammer, so I was at the modified max of 252.

Previously, I had been running about 50 percent success rate on the shields, but the sample size was pretty small (I think 6 total).

Last night, I succeeded 8 out of 8 combines on the Tae Ew Shield. They were not trivial combines, so their trivial is still above 250.