Artisan Archive
Thread: Surveying Skill Nerfed ?!
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Kelb
Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:52 pm
#1
I am trying to reach Master Artisan on a new character. I have mastered the profession before on three other characters, but it has been several months and something seems to have changed.
In the past, as I have gone up the Surveying branch, the size of samples retrieved has increased with each new skill and therefore the rate at which xp is gained has increased.
This time, I am at Surveying 3 (Surveying: +75 skill mod) working on Surveying 4 and the largest sample I can retrieve is 10 units with most being 5 to 8 units. I am also failing to locate samples as often as I was at Novice Artisan (4-4-4-0 (Surveying: +20 skill mod)). I am sitting on an 86% resource concentration eating Accaragem for the action buff, and had expected the process to go fairly quickly.
I have filed a bug report and a CSR request, but have received no response.
Does the surveying skill mod no longer benefit sampling? Has Surveying fallen victim to a nerf? WereMaster Artisansupsetting the combat balance withtheir mad survey skills? Were Architects screaming for a nerf because an artisan could out-perform their harvesters?
Am I the only one who has noticed the change?
Kelb
Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:14 pm
#2
FYI: I got a response from Csr-DavidA:
"Hello Denz,
"This is Csr-DavidA. Thank you for reporting this bug. I will enter it into a bug report for our QA team to look into. If you have further information on this bug please use the /bug command to report it so the issue can be properly investigated. This would be greatly appreciated.
"The Dev team is really busy and they don't respond to these, because there busy fixing them. Please check the knowledge base and forums and see if you can find any possible solutions.
"If you have further questions please reply to this ticket or if you do not require further assistance please delete it.
"Thank you."
So I guess that means this is a bug, and not a nerf. I'm still curious though, are others having the same issue, or is it just me?
LaurnaRose
Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:16 pm
#3
ROFLMAO!!!
Kelb wrote:
..."WereMaster Artisansupsetting the combat balance withtheir mad survey skills? Were Architects screaming for a nerf because an artisan could out-perform their harvesters?"
Am I the only one who has noticed the change?
DatchChosa
Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:51 pm
#4
I just reground Survey night before last (for my alt) and I noticed the same thing, 5-8 units per sample. It seems like I got larger samples after Survey 3 the last time around, which was two months ago, but I can't be sure.
Kelb
Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:00 pm
#6
Thanks Guruweaver - Its great to have an active correspondant 
Additional Info on this:
My wife logged in her TestCenter Master Artisan and tried sampling on an 81% concentration with the same results I got from novice all the way through Master.
Even as a Master Artisan she (like I) got samples ranging between 5 and 10 units with 10s showing up maybe once every 20 attempts.
Dpjarrett
Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:14 pm
#7
I can also confirm that sample sizes have been relatively small as a master artisan. I recently did the phase one crafting quest for the village, which requires numerous specific resources from across the galaxy in small amounts; it took me several minutes to get a 100 unit sample of oreeven on a fairly high concentration. I think the largest amount I pulled in preparation for this quest was a 14 unit sample that resulted from a pop-up window directing me to a "particularly rice deposit."
JeCy
Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:07 pm
#8
ive been a sampler/surveyor since launch.. since the first nerf way back in sample time delay i have noticed ZERO change in the way sampling works.. I have done it just about every day since launch...
Try eating some chadon
Je'Cy
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