Synthesis Crystals & Directions Relation?

[aurik]

Yea, I think Eruntalon is full of shit with his latest discoveries. Has anyone duplicated his results? Or for that matter, has anyone VERIFIED his results? I mean...1/10 hq rate with 90+ woodworking, so it's not inconceivable that he has made one of each hq staff signed. I think he's lying if he claims to have one-shotted each one.

I am out of caffeine and very grumpy recently.

not to nitpick... but at 100+3 woodworking and +3 from advanced support he would have broken the 31 level tier on elemental staves (cap at 75). Provided you believe in the tier system he'd probably see a significantly higher HQ percentage than 10%, although 100% is quite pretty unbelievable.

The fact is (not to reinforce deification of JPs) that if there was some HQ "code" to master to induce 100% HQ rate you'd see JPs HQing all over the damn place as you shopped at the jeuno AH. They're not so good at keeping secrets by crafting in their moghouses all the time...

He claimed not to have any GP items, which means his max effective skill was only 103. 106 woodworkers will see 25% hq rate. In fact, that's pretty much the only reason to actually cap out WW.

[aurik]

Interesting tidbit about days.

Eruntalon's original data had statistically significant differences in hq rate between different days, based on a sample size of I think around 100 synths per day. Months later, Kwontos tried to replicate this data using arrowwood lumber and focusing on only 2 days of the week and after over 1000 synths the difference between iceday and windsday was statistically insignificant.

Does day of week make a difference? The real answer is unknown, but after Eruntalon's latest stunts I'm prone to dismiss his original data as fluke or baked. Personally I haven't seen a lot of difference between days, but then that might be placebo effect as I don't think there is one anyway

[Tengoku]

Mmmm hmmm.
Where are your numbers?

I'm being helpful. I'm telling people not to waste their time on crap that doesn't matter. Focus on what does matter, do effective research, instead of wasting your time on mumbo-jumbo voodoo that won't actually impact your crafting results.

hmm... according to log parser i have went up almost 8% on HQ synthes using the elemental constellations of direction.

You know its a waste of time because,,,? SE released this was false? My friend also has had 4~5% increase on HQ since using this theory. :wink:

[Shinigami]

No, imagery is certainly +3. Grab a mule in bastok, try a lv 18 synth with imagery on. Try a lv 16 synth with it imagery off.

I was under the impression that Imagery was +2 until you hit veteran rank and then it began showing a +3 improvement.

[Atreides]

it was tested a while back by someone with 0 skill trying various recipes that cap above 15 (15 being the maximum skill gap allowed by the game). He wasnt able to attempt a level 18 synth until he got advanced support, indicating it gave +3 to skill.

as for days... I thought eruntalon's latest data seemed to indicate that synthing on the day your crystal is strong to (wind crystal on earthsday) was good for HQ, but who really knows.

[Mrcloudz]

old thread i know o_o but i've found the directional + moon + day thing useful for HQs (either that or i'm lucky)

recently i bought 12 sets of materials for demon helm, the crafter (100+2 bonecraft) crafted on new moon (best time for fails and HQs) lightsday (best day for HQing dark crystal) facing northeast (supposed best direction for dark crystal) and got HQ on the 2nd and 12th tries :D

idk how hard it is to HQ demon helm, but i thought those were some impressive results ^_^

[thestalkmore]

those are very impressive. He is some kind of lucky, i'm currently 0/21 on demon helm +1 and i'm 100+3