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Crafting Cost Cap (Cannot cost more than 'x' gold, odds stay the same) 0.15477629987908 15.5% [ 128 ]
Scaling Odds (Subsequent failures increase crafting success) 0.62877871825877 62.9% [ 520 ]
Scaling Fixed Cost (Formula has a cost to craft which reduces based on Alchemy Level) 0.14026602176542 14.0% [ 116 ]
Other (Please share!) 0.076178960096735 7.6% [ 63 ]
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Prismatic Unicorn

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This thread has a collection of user submitted data related to the number of attempts needed to craft items at different rates of chance. As our minds tend to remember the sensational and gloss over the everyday, hopefully this should give some concrete data about how likely you are to succeed when crafting an item either at the level, or the level directly above a particular formula.

It's worth noting that as well as the regular fail, owing to the limitations of the crafting system, it's possible to experience what is known as a chain fail. Hashtable explains chain fails below.
Hashtable
There are two kinds of fails.. One is the "normal" fail. The other is an "error" fail.

  • The "normal" fail generally takes a bit to think and then deletes gold from your account.
  • The "error" fail loads extremely quickly, and does not delete any gold.


There are multiple causes for the "error" fail. The most common cause is "you're crafting too quickly!" (similar to forum posting, but I think the allowed rate is a bit different). Other causes include the soulbound item glitch (fixed, no?), and also if the inventory is modified while crafting.. I tried crafting 2 caches at once and one of them fizzled. rofl Not sure if there are other causes. xd

Basically, a true fail will affect your gold count, a chain fail will not. The data collected should only be based on true fails.

13/5/15 As we have a considerable amount of data collected, and I'm finding that I have other calls on my time, I will be no longer updating this thread with new data. I feel that there is enough information in the commonly crafted categories to give a good picture of the odds, but if anyone was interested, I'd be happy to pass a copy of the raw data onto another person to work with it/add to it.

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Crafting Odds

Information here is based on average number of attempts required to craft an item. Please consider that your mileage may vary with these results, especially while there is a relatively small dataset. Especially with formulae with lower odds, there is a lot of variance in the results, so your number of attempts may be considerably more or less than the average.

For those of you who are interested in the mechanics- I calculated number of attempts by an average of the total number of attempts. All numbers are rounded to 1 decimal place. Percentage is total crafts for that category divided by total attempts for that category times 100. Percentages rounded to nearest whole number.

Update: It seems to be plausible (although this is solely based on anecdotal evidence), that wing formulae have a lower success rate than the average 'Very Low' formulae when crafted at level. I'd love data on this, but also, you may prefer to save your gold, as interesting as data is.

At Level of Formula
Very High: 1.2 Attempts (83% Success Rate)
High: 1.5 Attempts (68% Success Rate)
Medium: 2.0 Attempts (49% Success Rate)
Low: 3.5 Attempts (29% Success Rate)
Very Low: 11.8 Attempts (9% Success Rate)
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Special (from Levelling Chest): 1 Attempt (100 % Success Rate) (As would be expected)
Wings: 93 Attempts (1% Success Rate) (The variance on this is so incredibly high, I'm not really sure about this result)

One Level Above Level of Formula
Very High: 1.1 Attempts (93% Success Rate)
High: 1.1 Attempts (89% Success Rate)
Medium: 1.4 Attempts (71% Success Rate)
Low: (N/A not enough data)
Very Low: 1.8 Attempts (56% Success Rate)
~
Special (from Levelling Chest):
Wings: 2.8 Attempts (35% Success Rate)

Current information is based on 1,125 user submitted crafts. All filled in sections have at least 3 submissions for that category.

Frequency Histogram based on 78 user-submitted crafts at very low.
[Sorry, my Frequency Histogram was eaten by Photobucket]

If you're interested in number crunching, we have a mean of 11 crafts, a median of 9 crafts & 1 is the modal amount of crafts (closely followed by 9 and 2 attempts).

Extra! A little bit of extra information on getting data for crafting Low formulae one level above the level of the formula.
Platonix's personal notes
Formulas with a Low success rate (instead of Very Low) do not exist below level 9.
Thus, the only way to get data for crafting a Low formula one level below you
is to be Level 10 and craft any of these level-9 formulas:

K.O. Star
Kitten Star
Kanoko's Nightmares
Kanoko's Dark Reflection
Fafnir the Dragon
Lace Meow
Rose/Violet/Aquamarine Porridge Locks
Curled/Spiral Candy Horns
EIs:
Antique Shop
Alruna's Rose
Infernal Spirit
Inari's Beads
Hidden Ace
Reve Rouille
Fremere's Guard
Seracila Pendant

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Was crafting a Moonstone a while back...

[b]Formula Level[/b]: 5
[b]Formula Odds[/b]: Very Low
[b]Alchemist Level[/b]: 5
[b]Attempts Required[/b]: 15

Prismatic Unicorn

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Sharacia






Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



Cheers! *Hands you a virtual cookie for being first volunteer*



Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative...

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Zzyli
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Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



Cheers! *Hands you a virtual cookie for being first volunteer*



Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative...


Yay! Cookie!

I'll post more as I craft more, that was just the one I remembered.

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Sharacia


Yay! Cookie!

I'll post more as I craft more, that was just the one I remembered.






Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



It's fine 3nodding . I'm interested in the numbers partially so I can think about if it's actually worth me having a shot at crafting things with Low/Very Low odds at level if I want them as future components, partially because it's a good way to push for capping failure rates, and also, just because I like numbers. Numbers are cool.


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Zzyli
Sharacia


Yay! Cookie!

I'll post more as I craft more, that was just the one I remembered.






Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



It's fine 3nodding . I'm interested in the numbers partially so I can think about if it's actually worth me having a shot at crafting things with Low/Very Low odds at level if I want them as future components, partially because it's a good way to push for capping failure rates, and also, just because I like numbers. Numbers are cool.


Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative...


I like numbers too! *hint*

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Sharacia

I like numbers too! *hint*






Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



I figured you did xd .



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I only have one thing that I can report, but I hope it helps biggrin

Formula Level: Formula 4: Candy Mountain
Formula Odds: Very Low
Alchemist Level: 4
Attempts Required: 5

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Zzyli - Zzy as in Xylophone, Li as in leaf



Everything helps 3nodding Thanks muchly!



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Perfect Pitcher

I told you mine; here it is again to make it official:

Ampithere's Hypnotic Eye
Formula Level: 3
Formula Odds: Very Low
Alchemist Level: 3
Attempts Required: 10

Candy Mountain
Formula Level: 4
Formula Odds: Very Low
Alchemist Level: 4
Attempts Required: 26

I'm kinda jelly at the fellow above me who succeeded in only 5 tries... rofl

Ze3k

You were pretty lucky with AKS. Mind sharing your stats? o3o

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Zzyli

A lot of these people don't understand what chain fails are, so be extremely wary of data like this. ^^"

As for Shiny's question.. my Aurora took 4 tries, Truly's took 1 try.. and I remember reading about Krissim's Cream taking 6 tries.

Also, I brute forces my mule through level 1 on philosopher caches.. It costed me somewhere between 200k and 250k (so odds are maybe around 10% for very low?)

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Oh also, I brute forced my way through level 2 on pcaches... and I don't remember failing more than 4 or 5.. definitely a drastic difference. ^^

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Zzyli


Instead of attempts required, maybe put "gold consumed"? This way people will realize that the attempts that don't cost gold will never succeed and should not be counted. smile

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