Ardrek wrote:
" it so you perceive it as a joke"
thanks for the link it was helpful.
apparently my 75% failure rate was bacause I didn't make something simple to get the hypro-glow going before making what I really needed.
Per say, NOBODY could have figured that our without leaving the game and going to the internet... thus my joke comment. if the simple stuff is it's too complicated to figure out without the internet then it's a joke. Crafting is in my opinion too complicated, I was only making simple level 5 stuff. The link says I should ignore everything except the top bars... if that's true then why display anything else? if my basic fighting of the level one content had been at a 75% failure rate I wouldn't have bothered to become a paying customer, so basic fighting is simple enough you don't need the internet to figure out how to do it. I understand going to the internet to get better at the advanced stuff but at level 10 you really shouldn't need to.
There is a tutorial for that, right in game. No need to hit the internet to get the basics. The harvester trainer that gives access to the first crafting quest. When you first click the anvil in the quest the mender gives, there's a big pop up that gives you the raw basics you need to start crafting. You are then directed to the person in the city you need to go to for the rest of the crafting tutorial. If you skipped the tutorials in the starter area, that's the basis of your problem.
The link given to from Wiki is basically the 'min/max' version of crafting. The 4 bars they are saying you can mostly ignore are just basically close ups of the 4 bubbles in the top blue bar. In some combines those bars can yield a product (though sometimes fewer than if you complete the last bar), and sometimes it's faster/better to just stop when you finish the first. Thus it's not really a waste to have them.
I don't know what you are talking about with your 'hypro-glow' comment (what does dogfood have to do with anything?). I can only assume you are talking about doing combines to get the +skill buff. I personally never bother. It pops frequently enough if you are actively crafting that it is a waste of time to craft things especially to get it. In the end the buff doesn't make THAT big of a difference either.