Relic Steel (97)

[altwight]

Everywhere says relic steel caps at 97 smithing. I've been 96 for a week and i've atleast 15 synths (relic iron isn't in high supply ) and i've yet to see a .1 after i hit 96. Can anyone confirm this does indeed cap at 97?

[Volrath]

Yea i used it to synth to 97, but it took me forever to get skill on it sometimes.

[Quizno]

When I was trying to go from 96 > 97 Clothcraft I had the same fear.

I did 15 rasetsu hakama synths before I finally got a +0.1 and it ended up taking me 50 synths to get my level.

The next day I did 97 > 98 (had all the raws stockpiled=) and I ended up needing only 22 synths to get my level, lol.

I even HQed one of my Errant Cuffs. Got to sell back a bunch of my raw materials too =)

I digress.

I guess what I mean to say is that it can suck and make you second guess what you are doing, but luck seems to even itself out over time.

[BerenTebogo]

Think at one point I went 26 panther masks without a skill. Shit happens.

[DanielRemora]

Got 99.0 > 99.1 cloth in 30 synths.

Shit happens :/

[Catrina]

Went over 20 synths without a skill-up at lv 7 once (not a typo). Shit definitely happens.

[Ryany]

I can just about guarantee they ninja nerfed dynamis synth materials when I was the middle of skilling up on them a few years back. I remember going from something like 93-96 getting a skill up every other synth and then after a patch getting one like 1 every 20 for a fairly large sample size. I ended up going 97-100 on adaman gear and got frequent skill ups. I'm sure they have added more ways to skill up these days and adaman gear isn't the greatest right now due to high ingot/ore prices. I just know that once I quit messing with the dynamis stuff, my skillups skyrocketed.

[Tubbers]

Just random luck, earlier today I went 0/42 on Skillups off of Gavial masks, then the last 15 gave .1 each.