Personal Crafting 'Superstitions'

[Blarg]

I'm wondering if anyone here has any superstitions of sorts that they follow when doing any sort of crafting. I'm no where near superstitions irl but when I'm skilling up I do some things that could be considered different.

From my experience it seems as though my first skillup synth of the day/hour has a higher chance of getting me a skillup. If I do get a skillup on that synth, I will try to wait a few mins before I synth again.

If I have just gone 0/5 or something around there and then I get a skillup I will wait a few mins for more attempts since I'm afraid of going 0/5~ again and that next 'first' synth will be better to skillup if I wait as in the superstition above. But if I get a skillup on my second or third synth I'll just synth as many as I can until I go 0/5 again.

Just today I was trying for a Nomads +1 and had gone 0/3 (bringing my all time total to 0/18 ) when I stopped to synth some shinobi tabi, which im a Tier1 on, to fill my AH up again before doing more nomads. My very first tabi synth gets me a HQ. I decided that I wouldnt bother trying any more nomads since I just 'used up my HQ' so to say.

So if anyone else has any 'superstitions' they follow when crafting I'd love to hear it.

[Eromenos-Ifrit]

I used to have alot of them, and now, however long later since hitting 100, none of it makes a difference to me. Moon did seem to effect skill ups, but that was the only thing i really noticed. Everything else i've done has been on the "wrong day / moon phase", including Dusk Led.+1, Wise Hat/boots, Blessed pumps+1, panther mask +1, countless mantles of the various types, ect ect ect. It's all pretty much bullshit to me, only thing i feel is a law of crafting, is you are more likely to HQ a piece of gear that you have done countless times for personal use, when doing 1 random synth for someone you barely know lol

[Tekki]

http://www.theorderls.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9837

[NynJa]

its all bullshit



thats all you need to know.

[shihei]

huya-muya
that's all i got to say

[threevo]

with my /point before crafting im over 25% on tier 1s. Most of the time first or 2nd synth HQs and i get greedy and NQ a bunch.

Blue cape+1 1/1 2 times
Blue cape+1 1/4 First synth HQ
2/2 War Gloves+1
2/6 War gloves+1 first and sixth HQ
1/1 Red Cape just now in DA cuz i had extra materials on me.

Its just randomness, but ive been very lucky

Overall my HQ rate is around 27% on everything ive tried to make.

[Masterofshade]

Me and a Friend (his char, he quit and gave me the acc info) always do our alchemy synths in the hallway leading to behind the guild shop.

Also, as in my sig, things HQ a bunch when i /dance...

I'll post sigs later, it's kinda weird.

So far some random instrument for an ls trial (who was a bitch and loldidntgetin) my sig for my heca+1, crimson fing gaunts+1... doesnt work everytime, but seems to just randomly happen. Also a friend's luisant leg thingies HQed. Anyways, yeah ill post these tonite.

[Kaelan]

/dance

[Eaglestrike]

/dance

I need half of your sig

It's all luck, I rarely pay attention to day/moon. I've had good luck on some days people claim are bad and I've had terrible luck on days people claim are good. And vice versa. At a similar rate.

[aurik]

The answer is to only synth your GP items, they have a much higher chance of HQing.

edit: only if the HQ isn't worth shit.

[VDS]

0/4 on HQ Tropical Punches. Any tips? I'm getting tired of Mandragoras.

[Desi]

yea its pretty much all luck, one thing i do like to do though is if i nq 3 or 4 in a row i run to another square on the map, and then try again, i also do the same after i hq something, got 4 mahatma slops in a row once doing this 0_0