The Compass Conundrum

[Izzy]

i realllllllly want to beleive there is some kind of way to increase your chances of hqing tier 0 etc etc. but i honest to god beleive it is all the most random crap ever Q_Q. hqed hmn. jinpachi +1 a couple days ago like 40% moon facing some random direction on watersday (wind synth). swear to god its just 100% random lol

[Viena]

direction means nothing, cliff the windower dev guy watched the mem locks during crafting, direction has no correlation for crafting in any regard whatsoever

I really doubt Cliff ever said so, as your character's direction is sent by the client to the server. If that's used by the server in the equation to calculate the results it's something we can't know without having a look at the server code.

However, I don't really believe direction has something to do with crafting, although I could be wrong, I leave it to personal beliefs.

[Guyverarmor]

Personally, I have seen better skill up results while facing direction, moonphase,etc. Even that wacked out belief about the ele staves I tried, and for me, seems to get me even a little better at It! But then, I could just be one lucky ass punk when I craft but hey, to each their own

[Thoronas]

I HQ more often on the airship where there is no compass to tell me which direction Im facing (at least on ps2). Maybe its because Im closer to planets in question.

[Missnasty]

I HQ more often on the airship where there is no compass to tell me which direction Im facing (at least on ps2). Maybe its because Im closer to planets in question.

Try /point :wink: .

[Yeargdribble]

I'm still on the fence about directional crafting. You could easily chalk it all up to placebo. However, I feel that the whole constellation map from that NPC is more than just some random extra they threw into the game. It's gotta mean something.

[mikazuki]

like being used for some quest in windurst waters that involves you getting a coin in maze of shahkrami to use in a telescope...

[Taj]

direction means nothing, cliff the windower dev guy watched the mem locks during crafting, direction has no correlation for crafting in any regard whatsoever

"Cliff the windower dev guy" would never make such a blatantly retarded statement. Every 30 milliseconds you send the server the direction you're facing. If direction matters in crafting, it'd use that.

[Mathaios]

Wow way to bring up up a 2 month old thread that died.

[Scorp]

Considering the information in the original thread was incorrect, this seems like a rather useful necrobump.

[Coldone]

Whether it has any bearing or not on HQ rate, I will still remain superstitious and do most my crafting on new moon, darksday, wind day and face the corresponding direction to what crystal i'm using. It give me peace of mind.

[Alathar]

direction means nothing, cliff the windower dev guy watched the mem locks during crafting, direction has no correlation for crafting in any regard whatsoever

"Cliff the windower dev guy" would never make such a blatantly retarded statement. Every 30 milliseconds you send the server the direction you're facing. If direction matters in crafting, it'd use that.

This necrobump was completely unnecessary. All Taj did was say what five people said on page 1 in response to Sonomaa's statement.

[Takeno]

direction means nothing, cliff the windower dev guy watched the mem locks during crafting, direction has no correlation for crafting in any regard whatsoever

"Cliff the windower dev guy" would never make such a blatantly retarded statement. Every 30 milliseconds you send the server the direction you're facing. If direction matters in crafting, it'd use that.

This necrobump was completely unnecessary. All Taj did was say what five people said on page 1 in response to Sonomaa's statement.

Another useless post in a series of useless posts. So irony is hittin ya hard huh?


Lol, yeah its hitting me too xD

[Septimus]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...imus/Hello.jpg

Why have I had to use this twice in 3 minutes? There is nothing relevant to add to this thread. If anyone adds in another useless post, it will be locked.

[Thistle]

I'd like to know from all of you (especially leathercrafters, but I'm sure its all the same) which directions do you use for skill / hq / desynth.

I face west when doing leather synths. No matter the crystal, no matter the day, no matter anything, always west. It's the direction I always faced "by chance" when I first started, so now it just feels right.

Superstition ftw.

(I don't honestly believe any direction means anything, no matter day/crystal/whatever.)

Edit:

Oops, I replied before reading through to the end. Sorry if this counts as useless.

[Trollox1]

Craft in the weather of the crystal you are using. IE. Earth crystal find earth weather (altepa).. I swear by it

[Thistle]

Craft in the weather of the crystal you are using. IE. Earth crystal find earth weather (altepa).. I swear by it

Actually, I did test that out a couple years ago. I did 50 synths in weather and 50 with no weather (then 50/50 in a different kind of weather) and saw no differences at all. Not surprising!

[Vish]

direction means nothing, cliff the windower dev guy watched the mem locks during crafting, direction has no correlation for crafting in any regard whatsoever

Question 17:
Does wearing corresponding elemental staves or synthesizing while facing certain directions have any effects on success and fail rates for synthesis? Do these actions or crafting on certain elemental days or in certain weather have ANY effect on crafting results?

A17:
We have been asked this question for the last five years *g*
However, we won’t be disclosing this information to anyone even in the future.

It makes it more exciting to have a little bit of mystery, don’t you agree?

Seems cliff the windower guy was wrong!

[aurik]

1) stop bumping this long dead thread
2) nothing in that email confirms the statement is wrong or right

[geno]

I synth whenever I feel like it, regardless of weather, moon, day, direction, anything else. I do so because the guy in my LS with all crafts at 99 or 100 does so! Although it hasn't really worked for giving me hqs as of yet