Leathercrafting - Making Behemoth Leather

[simozene]

For those of you who don't know me, I am a level 100 leathercrafter on the Seraph server. I have been trying to synth a pair of Dusk Gloves +1 for myself for a long long time.

Anyways, I noticed something very interesting lately and was wondering what other leathercrafters thought. Before the update adding diorites to spawn Ulli, I had an extremely low failure rate of losing behemoth hides. It was few and far between synths where I would lose a behemoth hide while crafting it into leather.

After this update my failure rate has shot up drastically. It went probably from around 5% to somewhere around 30%. I had no explanation for this other than that SE ninja nerfed the synth to fail more often in order to counter the greater availability of behemoth hides. The funny thing, is this high failure rate is only in synthing the hides to leather, not making the dusk from that leather.

I am curious if other leathercrafters have noticed an abnormally high failure rate in the behemoth leather synth lately as well.

[Silfer]

Nope and i have made like 15 or so hides in the past week lol and not broke any.

It's called bad luck.

[Tomiko]

Granted I don't synth B.Hides very often, but I don't recall breaking any since the update. If I did though, it was only 1 time and Hide wasn't lost.

[Jackyl]

Nope and i have made like 15 or so hides in the past week lol and not broke any.

It's called bad luck.

you are soooooo breaking the next 2 hides!

[Rasengan]

Seems about the same as it was before, just a run of bad luck for you. I'd like to add though... the hide>leather synth seems riskier than leather>dusk. If I break a hide>leather synth, 95% of the time, I'll lose the hide, but I've never lost a leather during the leather>dusk synth.

[Kazen]

Never broken a hide before.

[Vish]

Well i would like to blame SE as i have lost 3 B hides recently. But i'd have to say its jus bad luck. Cuz i always lose the leather on hide > leather or leather >gloves i'm jus screwed.

[Sylvana]

Ive had 5 broken/lost hides in about 2 months. So now im paranoid and only doing leather with HQ crystals, havent had a broken hide since.

[Silfer]

Nope and i have made like 15 or so hides in the past week lol and not broke any.

It's called bad luck.

you are soooooo breaking the next 2 hides!

Noooo, don't say that ; ; ..i probably will now.

[Tekki]

4/75ish on those gloves, 2 after that patch mentioned. I have yet to break any behemoth hides on my glove synths.

Is that a large enough sample size? 8D

[Vish]

4/75ish on those gloves, 2 after that patch mentioned. I have yet to break any behemoth hides on my glove synths.

Is that a large enough sample size? 8D

I for one would like to say Tekki's info doesn't count. On the other hand his NUMA FOUR made me wanna hq gloves even more so now. /glare

[Thistle]

I haven't been asked to do any lately, sorry.

[Rasengan]

I'm 2/72 on gloves +1, 1 pre-diorite patch, 1 post and as I said before, I've never lost a leather in leather>dusk synth.

[simozene]

You guys are so lucky. I'm 0/60ish on the HQ gloves and I've lost over 10 hides.

[Caclax]

ive made well over 100 dusk gloves 5 HQ, but ive also broken a good 10-15 hides along the way, oddly enough ive never made HQ boots, but only tried about 15 or so, they dont sell nearly as fast so it would only be for personal use. as for an increese in fail rate, dobutful, though i did recently break 2 back to back:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...behidefail.jpg

and heres one with a failed hide w/ HQ gloves a few synths later

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...324_032818.png

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...312_040221.png

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...227_111822.png

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...x/img_0003.png

as far as when i craft i usually stick to moon phase and all that hype but sometime sill craft at random times if i just feal like it, and get good results.

[Epical]

Question: why do you get synth support for your gloves synth? The synth is 99, you're not going to hit 110, and to my knowledge the +1 increase doesn't increase HQ chance. Unless you're of the "why the hell not" mentality. =D

[Caclax]

its just a why the hell not thing i gess, i mean ive had a good success rate doing it the way i always have, i do not get support for the leather synth though, same goes on my clothcraft character when making a macrome for zeneth set. in my experience i fail alot more when i break tier 1

[Rasengan]

I was thinking it was more for the dusk feet synth because you break t1 with support.

[Caclax]

i get support when making anything that im trying to HQ regardless of if it will tier or not but thats just me