The two things I dislike about patch one.
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:01 am
1st. The success rate on the action stanzas is grossly inaccurate.
It appears to be something wrong with the success rates listed on the actions
I have attempted over 100 tries to harvest q140 material out of the prime roots with a 128 skill in advanced prime roots, using every combination of credits and option bricks(gentle and aggressive), including mat specs. And I can NOT get to q140. I always get 2-3+ (one time I had 7 during 1 extraction) failure messages resulting in 75%+ of them spoiling what i'm harvesting. Even when I would have a source mode 1, and it didn't change during the entire extract (with a source time 4 +15s), and living through the clouds (which appear 90% of the time, the other 10% are explosions), with the source life going down slower than the time left, i had 5 missed pulls (no Q increase) and then just as I was at q136.9...I got a spoil, leaving me with q118. Now, with EVERY one of these combinations it listed the success rate for the action as 95% for prime roots and for lakeland forage (which is actually 8 levels lower than my prime roots forage). Something seems wrong here. Why give a skill that you will NEVER be able to put to use, and is less effective than either gentle or aggressive q130? I can do either of those ALL day long with hardly any downtime. Getting 2-3 mats a pull, 1100-1200+ xp a pull. I am personally fine with that, but if my success rate is 95% you would think ONCE out of over 100 tries I would at least pull ONE q140 mat. But it just doesn't happen. And you get lower Q every single attempt due to spoiling, than using q130.
Now admittedly this is a small thing that should be looked into(I am not calling it a nerf, just a bug) (heck it seems more like the 'success' rates of crafting something 13 levels higher than your skill (which is listed at 54% to craft this difference between craft skill and something 13 levels higher). But it's what most people are screaming nerf over. I mean you should be able to succeed at a reasonable rate on a skill that is available to you 3 levels ago in this branch.
2nd thing I hate about the patch, everyone in region/tells and AFK is now letting messages through....please fix afk so I do not have to listen to people whining about how they think everything is nerfed.
It appears to be something wrong with the success rates listed on the actions
I have attempted over 100 tries to harvest q140 material out of the prime roots with a 128 skill in advanced prime roots, using every combination of credits and option bricks(gentle and aggressive), including mat specs. And I can NOT get to q140. I always get 2-3+ (one time I had 7 during 1 extraction) failure messages resulting in 75%+ of them spoiling what i'm harvesting. Even when I would have a source mode 1, and it didn't change during the entire extract (with a source time 4 +15s), and living through the clouds (which appear 90% of the time, the other 10% are explosions), with the source life going down slower than the time left, i had 5 missed pulls (no Q increase) and then just as I was at q136.9...I got a spoil, leaving me with q118. Now, with EVERY one of these combinations it listed the success rate for the action as 95% for prime roots and for lakeland forage (which is actually 8 levels lower than my prime roots forage). Something seems wrong here. Why give a skill that you will NEVER be able to put to use, and is less effective than either gentle or aggressive q130? I can do either of those ALL day long with hardly any downtime. Getting 2-3 mats a pull, 1100-1200+ xp a pull. I am personally fine with that, but if my success rate is 95% you would think ONCE out of over 100 tries I would at least pull ONE q140 mat. But it just doesn't happen. And you get lower Q every single attempt due to spoiling, than using q130.
Now admittedly this is a small thing that should be looked into(I am not calling it a nerf, just a bug) (heck it seems more like the 'success' rates of crafting something 13 levels higher than your skill (which is listed at 54% to craft this difference between craft skill and something 13 levels higher). But it's what most people are screaming nerf over. I mean you should be able to succeed at a reasonable rate on a skill that is available to you 3 levels ago in this branch.
2nd thing I hate about the patch, everyone in region/tells and AFK is now letting messages through....please fix afk so I do not have to listen to people whining about how they think everything is nerfed.