Synth support mechanics

[miokomioko]

Required Crystals, recommended Training, and recommended Guild Accommodations are all mentioned on the very last confirmation.

[Amastacia]

For anyone still thinking that the most expensive support is always the best, it's not like that. The recommended supports seems to be always better than the other ones, even if the recommended one is the cheapest, common one. I hate seeing some people giving advides like "alwayz uz mastah suppart, it be da bezt" when I've found that to be complete bullshit from my own observations. There are many synths that have common support recommended, if you use a guild or masters one in those synths, the chances are high that you'll fail a lot more than with the common one.

One thing I don't know though, is that are the supports useful at all for synths that don't have any support recommendations? There are many equipment synths that people aim to and probably like to try them at lower than the recommended rank for shits and giggles, would using a masters support make any difference in that situation, or any situation when synthing something like that, recommended rank or not?

I haven't really experienced this, but I haven't gone out of my way to intentionally over-support synths.

If I'm in LL and have Guild support for synthing something or other, and make something else along the way (requiring common or no forge), it hasn't seemed any harder. Then again, I've mostly been over the craft level so my success rate is high regardless.

And also, we're still all victims of small sample size and large variation.