250 Success Rates (or lack there of)

[Satis]

I've just recently hit 250 in tailoring (took almost 2 years, I'm broke and cheap).

So the first thing I do is combine 7 haze panther pelts to twink my rogue. I succeed on none, zero, nada.

By this time I know the RNG is not my friend, but come on. I was getting 50% success rates on these around 240.

So I move on, lick my wounds, and combine 2 ice silk robes and 4 ice silk caps. I get one cap success.

Please tell me this is not what I should be expecting.

My wisdom is way over max (280+ and KEI on). I have my grandmaster's needle (in the range slot, not ammo).

If this is what I worked so hard for, I'm crushed. All the ice silk combines were to help guildmates, who have been very supportive of my tailoring.

Please tell me I'm just snake-bit, and that this will improve.

Satis Factionless

[Silound]

Just a bad day. One day you can go 20/20 on some item that trivials a mile above 250, next day you wont be able to make an item that trivials at 150. Just how the pendulum swings sometimes

[Tarhune]

I have found that my personal success rate to be between 25-33%, on average, for items that are trivial >250, except Haversacks which I have about a 95% success rate.

[Blodhemn]

I have found that Velious tailoring recipes have a horrible succesrate overall, the lower tier PoP recipes, Cultural Robes for instance succeed at about 95% in my experience but Velious stuff fails at least 50-60% of the combines at 245 skill + mod.

I noticed the same for Pottered items...lower tier PoP Ceramic items are on 95% rate but trying some old world combines like Faith/Spiritstones...they are on that same 50-60% failure rate with 246 skill +mod

Elemental PoP recipes are another story again they seem to fail 50% of the time, at least for me they do..

Blodhemn
65 Cleric
Brell

[GuitarGoddess]

While this does not relate directly, it may help get us both some information.

Last night I decided to make a serious run on my GM in tailoring (it was 191). I had been saving arctic wyvern hides and velium studs for a while along with a few phase spider silks.

My being a halfling druid fairly well equiped at 55th level my wisdom without KEI is 254. So just to be on the safe side I got KEI and any other buff I could get and before I started my WIS and INT were maxed and my DEX was 238.

I started off on the phase spider silks (trivial at 222) and did 6 combines. I then started on the arctic wyvern masks (trivial 250+) and performed 100 combines.

All the time I refused to look for increases as I was secretly hoping for 25 level-ups but being more realistic and knowing I would get between 5 and 12. Imagine my shock when after 106 combines I had only gotten 2 level-ups.

There must be something wrong after the last patch to cause this. I could understand so few if I was doing 10 or 20 combines a day. But, doing 106 combines in a row and only getting 2 level-ups is completely unexceptable.

I would love to hear if anyone else is having this problem since our last patch or two.

[Maevenniia]

Originally posted by GuitarGoddess
While this does not relate directly, it may help get us both some information.

Last night I decided to make a serious run on my GM in tailoring (it was 191). I had been saving arctic wyvern hides and velium studs for a while along with a few phase spider silks.

My being a halfling druid fairly well equiped at 55th level my wisdom without KEI is 254. So just to be on the safe side I got KEI and any other buff I could get and before I started my WIS and INT were maxed and my DEX was 238.

I started off on the phase spider silks (trivial at 222) and did 6 combines. I then started on the arctic wyvern masks (trivial 250+) and performed 100 combines.

All the time I refused to look for increases as I was secretly hoping for 25 level-ups but being more realistic and knowing I would get between 5 and 12. Imagine my shock when after 106 combines I had only gotten 2 level-ups.

There must be something wrong after the last patch to cause this. I could understand so few if I was doing 10 or 20 combines a day. But, doing 106 combines in a row and only getting 2 level-ups is completely unexceptable.

I would love to hear if anyone else is having this problem since our last patch or two.

At 191 skill you are in what is generally accepted as the 'heck levels' of most skills. And 2 skillups in 106 combines is NOT unusual. In pottery, I once went 0 skillups after over 300 combines. Once I got over that hump, i began to skillup at a more average/normal pace, of 1 skillup for 20-40 combines (average)

Don't be discouraged, just curse the RNG and move on.

[MoelleKajaky]

I keep detailed statistics on success rates for all items. Yeah, so I'm a tailoring nerd. Whatever.

Ice silk robes: 19% success rate, 16 attempts. Other ice silk stuff is around 70%, depending on the item. I laugh when I see other tailors selling this robe for much less than the average price to make...of course you can't sell this robe for anything near the cost to make anymore, oh well. The times they be a changin'.

Haze panther stuff: 52% success rate, on 124 attempts. However, I've failed 7 haze gloves in a row before, so I feel your pain.

Anyone else keeping detailed statistics like this? We could compare notes. I also have PoP statistics and Cazic-Thule...

By the way, these are all 250 w/ trophy.

Moelle Kajaky
Vazaelle

[Ilona]

I did keep notes while I was skilling up
I wonder what happened to that notebook???

Have mainly been doing PoP stuff since. My own PoE robe took *7* attempts... haven't been more than 3 fails in a row since then though.

[Moraganth]

earth stuff lulls you into a false state of security.

went 2 for 4 on legs.. then 1 for 7 on caps... then 1 for 1 on my robe.

For veliuos stuff.. i'm hitting around 50%... maybe a touch better. Yes, the days of 3 for 10 combines suck.. but the days of 7 for 9 (like yesterday) make up the average.

doing 106 combines in a row and only getting 2 level-ups is completely unexceptable.

...and completely normal, sadly.

[DuemtheConjurer]

243 Tailoring+ GM Trophy. I average about 80% success rate on PoP elemental combines. I've done about 30 combines ranging from Earth robes, fire boots to Stonehide pants and Chest. I'm actually surprised when I fail these. Unlike the PoP bows and smithing. Tailoring combines are where the money is atm.


Duem the Conjurer