Do Cannith Crafting Success Boosters actually do anything?

The Narc

The Narc

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Its rigged but even with that it is still easy to get to the all important level 250 in a shortened hardcore season. So really its a mute point, but the ultimate point is stop buying their crafting boosters in the store, you are paying for chips at the rigged roulette table.
 
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Frieling Slyhand

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I have had similar experiences where roll after roll fails and the booster and % chance of success seem irrelevant. I usually try removing and replacing booster and it seems to help. Haven’t tried leaving and using another crafting station but I might next time. The consecutive failures go far beyond the range of randomness and while five or more fails in a row even with a high % are not unusual, I never see streaks of success that are as long as fail streaks.
 
Draeqo

Draeqo

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They do work for levelling up on HC by just crafting ML shards. When they fail you 'just' loose essences. And I ensure to keep the chance without booster) above 50%, unless I'm really pressed for time ...

But yeah, it feels more that a 25% booster is from x% to max 25%, where x might as well be near 0. Hence I only used them on HC for crafting any other kinds of shards to increase the chance from base (say 75%) to 100% or at least well above 50%, but it seems you still may roll a 0 ...
And the total chance is base% + d20*(0-max booster%), and unless this total is clearly at 100% you may still fail, because anything under 100% (boosted) seems to involve another dice roll, unclear to me how well balanced. Hence I ensured that the total chance after booster was 100% (or more) to avoid loosing my precious uncommon collectibles for no gain...
 
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Sympl

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SithHound said:
I was leveling up my crafter on Friday. I was trying to make a ml item and had a base 10% success rate, and I was using a stack of 30% Boosters, so a “40%” chance. I had 5 failures in a row. Ok, rng gonna rng. Had a success. Then I had NINE failures in a row, followed by a success, so 2 for 16. That is considerably closer to the base 10% success rate than the modified “40%” success rate.

I do understand that rng is rng, but this game is also famous for randomly breaking itself, so I was just curious what everyone else’s experience has been lately.
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Yeah.....you like to risk it all, don't you?

Arguably, the safe and "proper" way to use a 30% booster is when you have a 70% chance to craft the item. Any lower than that introduces risk. Do I introduce risk myself in this process? You bet, but as you mentioned, rng is rng and I am notoriously cursed, in and out of this game when it comes to the element of luck. I personally wouldn't waste a booster without being able to at least hit 60-70% after it was applied.
 
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SithHound

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Thanks for all of the replies. The general consensus seems to be “they work if you hold your mouth right”.
I’ll get better about removing/reapplying the boosters.
 
Livmo

Livmo

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SithHound said:
I was leveling up my crafter on Friday. I was trying to make a ml item and had a base 10% success rate, and I was using a stack of 30% Boosters, so a “40%” chance. I had 5 failures in a row. Ok, rng gonna rng. Had a success. Then I had NINE failures in a row, followed by a success, so 2 for 16. That is considerably closer to the base 10% success rate than the modified “40%” success rate.

I do understand that rng is rng, but this game is also famous for randomly breaking itself, so I was just curious what everyone else’s experience has been lately.
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The fastest way to level is to do so on a crafting xp buff weekend. Use a stack of 5 Greater Crafting XP pots. Skip the boosters. Craft the bound level shards 1st and then unbound level shards 2nd to 30. Only uses essences. I like hitting a 3% chance to get big booms in XP. Better without booster IMO for the big XP hits.

I went from 0 to level 290 last weekend on Orien. I had about 6 stacks of 10k essences.



To show difference in RNG I only made it to level 271 with same chance on Cannith last weekend. I had more stacks, but wasn't able to finish:



275 is when you can start crafting bound Insightful Shards as a heads up. I like to put those on dual slot stat items.

My bad I hoovered all the essences off both Shard Exchanges : ) )

I was trying to see which sever I could reach 275 on 1st :D
 
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dur

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Yeah.. need 10 stacks to be sure. The pot has always outlasted my Shards.. have 20 stacks to be sure ;) Amazing how fast y go through em.

It is NOT rigged. It's Math n Statistics/Probability.
 
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