Incorrect tradeskill ability?

[Monkums]

<p>I dinged 40 in Carpentry (YAY) and was sticking my new abilities on my hot bar when I noticed this...</p><p> <img src="http://members.aol.com/MyMonkums/tradeskillability.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="436" height="430" /></p><p>What the heck? This is supposed to be the ability that decreases success chance but increases progress... is this right?</p><p>EDIT: Just looked at the other ability I just got called Spline Joint (level 40).  It reads that it decreases durability by 3 and increases progress by 9.  The previous skill was Box Joint (level 20) and reads that it decreases durability by 9 and increases progress by 27.  Shouldn't the new set of skills be better than the previous ones?</p>

[Calthine]

Nope, as it stands each Tier's arts are not necessarily upgrades to each other.  The previous TS Dev said something to the effect of "It's all about choices."On the other hand, Domino has slated a TS Arts revamp for the next expansion, Tunare willing and the Sarnak don't invade...

[Monkums]

Thanks for the reply!  Up until this point, all my new abilities were upgrades to the old ones so I assumed that trend would continue. Thanks for clearing it up for me! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Calthine]

Happy to help.  Don't worry, it gets more confusing <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Jesdyr]

<cite>Calthine wrote:</cite><blockquote>Happy to help.  Don't worry, it gets more confusing <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>No it doesn't <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> It does not get more confusing. It stays at an even level of confusion. Once you understand/get use to/accept one thing another pops up to help maintain an even level of confusion. Monkums ... I have a lvl 70 carp and a few nights ago was helping a guildmate (42 carp?) get better at crafting so that she could do rush order writs. I got messed up by this as well. I had to stop a few times and think about it. I was kinda laughing at myself for getting confused by that ability. AH well .. at least she now has a much better understanding of crafting and looking at my guild logs, she is now able to do rush orders <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />