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Discussion in 'Release 49 Feedback Forum' started by Qwark, Dec 30, 2017.

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  1. Qwark

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    Every single bow i make, regardless of materials, shatters on the second masterwork. Every one. Since i have an 83% chance, you would think i'd get at least one success. I am kind of done with crafting at this point.
     
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    How many have you tried? If it's more than like 5, that does sound like 'bug worthy' bad luck.
     
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    There are days like that. I made 20 supple chests today and I ended up with 4 left. Just the chests tho, everything else was fine. Go figure.
     
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    shes made thousands dont just assume
     
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    Same thing happened to me last night. Made 5, only 1 survived the 2nd enchant. I just chalked it up to bad luck until I saw your post.
    I still think it was bad luck, now just an unfortunate coincidence as well. :-(
     
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    Didn't assume. That's why I asked.
     
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    I don't enchant or masterwork. The benefit is just not worth the frustration.
     
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    Evil streak - stop it and do it again next day, wish you will have lucky streak. Evil streaks can be almost in a raw like -5+2-7+1-3+5-6 so would be a lot pain.
     
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    I've been doing it over several days. i think i am up to 6 now. Nothing survives.
     
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    Bug report! I won't try again till it is checked.
     
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    For as long as I can remember, I've made swords in batches of 100. 25-33ish are always exceptional, a great many (sometimes all) exceptional last through the first masterwork, few break on the second, and by the end of the third around 12ish are left - hopefully 1-2 are what I wanted.

    I mention this because unless you do gigantic batches and see what you have left at the end then bad luck can strike. Even after someone posted "proof" that the third masterwork was definitely 15% and not 48%, I made a batch of 200 bronze/bronze longswords undeterred and lo and behold actually was around 50% on the third masterwork... same as always.

    It's painful losing 2 out of 3 exceptional chests but based on my large batches I've never thought the RNG was broken. I just get unlucky sometimes and lucky others. It'll be nice when you can choose not to blow something up... for a cost.
     
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    Try a Maple Band ring... gives about 2% extra success on second masterwork.
     
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    i am using a maple band ring, and the shrine too
     
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    Isnt this about to be changed before the end of the month?
     
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    What's supposed to change?
     
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    I'm with @Sara Dreygon here,
    I plan for failure and do large batches too. I've had 10 things in a row break at 87%, and its infuriating. But overall, over sample sizes in the thousands if not tens of thousands, I don't think the displayed percentages are *wrong.* I think they're far too low for the amount of xp investment it takes to level trades post-100 (which is a different discussion!), but I don't they're broken.

    I'm sorry to hear you're having bow-problems, Q =(
     
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