Artisan's Advantage doesn't do anything without imagery support.

Edited, Oct 29th 2009 1:36am by Fynlar

I think you may have missed the point of the question.

If that is true, then why does it appear to get worse when the Kupo Power is present and NO IMAGERY SUPPORT.

Here's another example of the wierdness:

I started on both Marron Glace and Pumpkin Pies at 81, no support, no kupo power, maybe got 3 breaks on Marron Glace out of 4 stacks of Chestnuts (24 synths). I lost most of a stack of chestnuts to get only 2 yesterday on darksday, end of full moon. It was 6 breaks and 2 success because I had 4 dark crystals left which I used on the yag drinks tonight. So, I've gone from loosing 6 out of 24 on 3 breaks on that one item while I was between 5 and 3 levels under the cap with no support and no kupo powers (25% loss), to loosing 8 of 12 on the same item while still 3 levels under the cap, no support and Kupo Powers present (75% on chestnuts, and a couple juices and sugars). Couple that with the increase losses on the other items while my methods remain constant:

I craft these things on days aligned to the crystal and equip my staff accordingly as well. I've been doing same staff, same day for these synths.
(been trying to force skillups off Sole Sushi).

The only things different are the moon phase (which, I know is a factor), and the presence of the Kupo Power--which, by your account should not be affecting me. I am in game most every day, 4 hours or more and craft on a lot of different moon phases. I have noticed a major spike in losses with Kupo up vs without. I am just wondering if I am the only one seeing this, or maybe I need to cram a new lucky rabbit's foot up my toon's but because the one I've had the last 3 1/2 years has finally worn out...

Raist

You didn't even have imagery. Artisan's Advantage was doing nothing for you. It's not a factor here.

It's not just me saying that you need imagery for it to work. The game description of the kupower actually did not specify at first that you needed imagery to get its effects; SE themselves eventually stated as such later on.



Welcome to the randomness that is crafting.

Honestly, if you're below the skill cap for something and you're not getting imagery support, it should really come as no surprise that you'd get results like what you did. Haven't you ever read any stories of people that are 51+ over the cap occasionally getting similar crap results?


And yeah, I didn't notice the HQ staff thing until someone pointed it out, but they don't have any effect on crafting. I hope you didn't just buy them only for crafting.

Could you give me a google docs link to your spreadsheet?

It's almost like the OP is suggesting that material loss due to breakage is increasing when Artisan's Advantage is chosen, and that you have to get image support and activate Artisan's Advantage just to bring up rate of loss to what it normally is. But you would have to be pretty paranoid to believe that.

Losing half of your materials due to a break sounds normal to me. OP, I don't think you're getting unlucky right now. I think you just got really lucky before, which caused your expectations of what is normal to be set too high.

It's random.