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Also, pay attention to the number of squares filled that it takes to critical down to zero on your first attempt. For example on a stim b I can exp 2 squares, critical, and still have 5% or so left to work with. With 8 exp left I can get that back up to something presentable. If I start out with 3 exp, critical, I'm down to 0% and I'm done. Stim in the trash.

Hi All,

I am curious about how often my fellow Master Armorsmiths are crit failing on average. It seems that as a Master I crit fail ridiculously while crafting and while experimenting. It's becoming extremely annoying.

I would say that on average I loseone piece to a crafting crit failure per set I make, and am forced to sell another 1-2 piecesat lowered prices due to experimentation failures resulting in lowered quality/resists etc. I honestly very rarely make someone a full suit of anything without crit failing at least once, and I find it tends to happen back-to-back often too.

Just FYI, this is making 49% Composite suits with a lot of the best quality resources on my server, and after buying a crafting station with a 43.43 functionality rating.

I am also a Master Artisan and I get these kind of failures making Armor Upgrade Kits, Weapon Powerups, and other various "simple" items.

Anyone else frustrated with the frequency of failures, or am I just the unluckiest S.O.B. around? I think if they're going to keep these aounts of failures in they should increase the amount of "Amazing" results as well.

Thanks

It's not just you. Due to full critical failures or failures in experimentation last night, I lost enough wooly hide to make a full suit of Ubese. That was spread across 7-8 items out of 18 I made.

I critical fail like crazy even using 800+ mal resources. I lost 3 legs in a row critical failing on composite. Its very stupid and they need to change something.

When I make a 9 piece set of armour I will have 2-4 failures,mostly experimental.These all usually go in the bin as I try to sell good quality only.Thishappens whether its chitin,padded or composite.I have an even higher failure rate on PSGs.

Yep, same here. I basically lose or have 3 crap pieces for every suit made. And it ALWAYS come in multiples. I will have 3-5 in a row with critial failures on assembly or experimenting. Then MAGAICALY it all gets better and I can make 6-7 pieces with no problems. I almost never ever have just one failure. One of my worse runs I lost 8 out of 10 pieces due to crit failure on assembly or attrocious failures on experimenting.

I for one would like to see a system put in for crafting in which on a failure, the crafter has the option to use more resources to "patch" the work and continue without the lose. I know many would gladly give up an additional 10% resources per failure to recover and keep crafting. I can't imagine how many wonderful peices were ruined on the last 1-2 points on experimenting.

Ok i think i figured out why critical failures are being so common recently:

All of a sudden the crafting tools have all been asigned a functionality rating, most of you keep the one you crafted when you where a starting artisan and the tools has -14 rating or whatever. I replaced my tool with a plus 14 and now seem to be getting way less failures and also get better expermentation results.

I may be wrong and just be crazy in the head but this seems to work for me.

Apeb

intrepid

apeb, I think you're right on. My crafting tools are all 14.97 and I rarely have a critical failure. Tonight I made 3 sets of armor, (one advanced Chitin and two Ubese) with no crits and nothing below a "great" success. I also replace my crafting tools on a fairly regular basis.

Land

Master Armorsmith

Corellia, Lowca server

My crafting tool is 14.97 and I was using a 40+ private station tonight...had 15 crit fails over the course of making one set of Ubese armor.

I've beenusinga 43 functionality rating crafting station, best I've ever seen. No improvement at all since I got it.

Crafting tool I don't know, Ill have to check that...

It's not just the armorsmiths. As a master doctor I get less than a success about 10-20% of the time, crit fail on experimentation 5% of the time, and yield amazing results about 1% of the time. granted, 30-40% of the time is great successes. But with 0% chance of failure, and +13.47% tools, and +38.97% crafting stations, these numbers don't seem to coincide with expected results.

I wish it I could blame it on the tools I am using, but no way, no how. The crafting tool is +14.97 and the crafting station is in the low +30 range. I definatly think something is very bugged. Almost like the high end tools are actually increasing the chance of failure. Gonna try to use a crap crafting tool some and find a crap crafting station just to see if my lovely high chance of failures is still there.

And the thing I am really hating about the failures is that it comes in waves. When crafting armor, I might have 4, 6 or even 8 armor pieces in a row with just terrible results (ever had 3 critial failures in a row on experimenting - not pretty). It is rare that I only get a single failure.

It is almost like there is a timer on the system that every X number of minutes it generates a random base % number for success so if it generators a really low number, the chance of a failure during the time period is greater. Now, I know that the likelyhood of them using such a system is very very very small, but it sure does seem like it sometimes.