Did they raise the Bar on Tae Ew Chain?

[Chilao]

With a raw skill of 224 and Geerlok I've been running about 70% on the Tae Ew Chain combines.

I had 5 of the Distilled lizard blood Tempers ready to go after todays patch, and proceeded to go 0 - 4 on Tunics, and 1 - 1 on the repaired Bracer recipe.

I know the sample is small, but keep your eyes open. I'm wondering if they raised the trivial on some of these pieces, or if the RNG was in a bad mood today after the patch. Time will tell.

Chilao

[careliel]

Something similar

I made a 9 piece human BD cultural run last night after the patch, i have never ever failed so many attempts i made 1 luminant BP out of the 9 i attempted, before the patch i usually made 1 out of 2.
Are there anyone else here that have experinced something similar or am i just unlucky like Chilao.





Careliel Beep
250 Smith on AB

[Raiyaeq]

Before patch
2/4 tae ew chain tunic
4/6 tae ew shield

Normally I run about 90-100% on Tae Ew stuff, 255 int, 250 str, 250skill+ trophy.

After patch
1/1 Night terror chain tunic
1/3 Full Mithril Helm
1/2 Full Mithril BP
0/2 Full Mithril legs
1/2 Full mithril bracer
0/1 Full Mithril Pauldron
1/2 Full Mithril neck

All I can say is.. Terrible!!

[Zopharr]

Call me superstitious, but ....


There was a period for a couple months where I was always getting packet loss in Oggok, but not in other zones. (My guess is that Oggok on Quellious was on a server with some connectivity issues.) I was experiencing significantly lower success rates for ogre cultural than I was for dwarven, even though both my smiths were 250 + trophy. (It was so bad I was considering not making ogre cultural for a bit.) When I stopped getting packet loss in Oggok, success rates improved.

I've been seeing packet loss in most zones the last few days. Haven't done much smithing, but so far 2 failures on four combines of acrylia plate.

Are you seeing packet loss when you are having bad luck smithing? Even only 1.6% or so seemed to affect my success rates....

<hurriedly throwing some salt over my shoulder while trying to avoid walking under ladders>

[Aarial]

The success rate I think has been leveled out. Before this latest patch Tae Ew shields failed rarely. But this last time had 1 fail. I've also been failing combines on lessor things. I failed an Artisan's Seal an thats never happened. Also failed a ton on Qeynos Afternoon Tea combines the other day. I've noticed that packet loss thing in Shadowhaven alot lately.

[kiatek]

re

not smithing combines, but i have done brewing, baking and tailoring combines this weekend with LOTS more failures than I ever have before.

Brewing: VERY trivial stuff like aviak egg oil, purified water, vegetable oil, etc, 30% failure rate
Baking: subcombines for misty thicket picnics have been failing alot more than usual
Tailoring: solstice robes I usually have a 30% success rate, i had a 15% success rate (this is good) my velious success rates were lower as well.

Now I didn't have nearly the amount of data to draw any conclusions, but I just noticed alot higher failures this whole weekend. The RNG was very kind to my baking skill (averaged 1 point per 15ish combines in the 220's) but harsh with my tailoring skill (no skills ups in over 50 combines, nothing new here though, move along).

Hoping it was just a weekend bad RNG thing as i really want to get someone to try a tae ew chain tunic for my ranger and I just got the blood /shrug

[Shmity]

Week ago, before patch, i did 4/5 on Taew shields and 4/10 on sickles with 212 skill + geerlok (sounds too good heh ?)

After patch I did 1/6 on Shields and 1/8 on sickles with 213+geerlok.

I understand my skill is quite low for these combines, but hell, this all just make me more suspicious as well...

[Perseverence Rewarded]

The RNG did me right this weekend. No complaints.

3/4 Night Terror Chain Tunics
1/1 Night Terror Chain Legs
8/13 Tae Ew Shields

2 Skill-ups

[xaanru]

My latest attempts have been pretty good

Started at 221 skill (with geerlok, of course)

1/2 Tae Ew shields

5/9 heraldic armor (Plus 1 skillup, to 222)
* *1/3 bracers
* *2/3 vambraces
* *2/3 BP

3/7 Tae Ew chain tunics

4/5 Tae Ew Shields

Of course, this follows a run of 60 sickles, out of which I succeeded only 11, and only one skillup, so its still pretty random.

[Koner]

I was wondering about the increased failure rate myself. I made 400 metal rings on Saturday stockpiling for shadowscream. With a skill of 194 I failed on 38 metal rings. That is almost a 10% failure rate on something that has been "trivial" for 150 skill points.

[Menion]

The black helicopters are circling...

Why is it after every patch one of these posts pop up?

My results for the weekend:
Tae Ew Tunics
12/14

Tae Ew Legs
3/3

And I gained a point on one of the tunics
I think the RNG is working just fine thx

239 skill w/ Geerlok

[Samoht]

1 for 4 last night on the tunic and got two skill ups from 187 to 189.

Made tunic on 2nd attempt. I should have quit and sold the blood instead hehe.

[Perseverence Rewarded]

I am loving these Lizards.

So far I am at 24 successes out of 37 attempts of the Tae Ew Shield.

I have sold 15 at 12,500pp each on average. 2 - 4 shields a day now.
I have spent about 90,000pp on Tae Ew Blood Vials and Iksar Blood buying a few of each every day.
I buy every Tae Ew Blood Vial that is put up for sale if it is 3K or less and Iksar Blood if less than 1K. Tripling my money quickly.
I still have 9 shields and 3 Scale Tempers in stock.
I never thought that I would make this kind of money when I started making these shields at 215 skill level. I have gotten 3 skill ups so far and am the envy of my guild.

THANK YOU ALL!!!! Your advice and suggestions have gotten me to where I am. I couldn't have done it with out you all.