Blacksmith Crafting system

[Deziredvisions]

Ok... just curious, what is it with the being able to craft GM plate armor here. I understand it is the hardest to make, but I'm finding it real hard to believe that it is somewhat, quite bugged at the amount of ingots I burn through, at GM skill level, trying to crafting GM plate armor chest & Helms (mostly). I swear I burned through 600 ingots just trying to create a closed plate helm. I only went through this many ingots because I was just curious to see how many it would take or if it would even be possible, again, to craft a gm closed plate helm. I mean I burn through some ingots just trying to make a suit. I do not think it should go through this many ingots just trying to make gm suits. I mean I don't believe in getting them all on the first try but after making 30 pieces of one item trying to get it with GM insignia, I think that is a bit much. Is this truely era accurate, or does it need some attn.? Anyone else noticing this?

[mrbojangles]

Well your sample size is way too small to form any sort of conclusion. You just had bad luck. It's possible to make a suit where you create exceptional on the first try, every time. I think on average you will burn about 200 ingots for a suit.

[Deziredvisions]

Well your sample size is way too small to form any sort of conclusion. You just had bad luck. It's possible to make a suit where you create exceptional on the first try, every time. I think on average you will burn about 200 ingots for a suit.

200 ingots per suit is totally acceptable, but 600 per item to get it GM made quality (plate helm)? That's 3x's what it would take to make your full suit. I guess you can say bad luck, but man, what a run I got on that item. Anyways thanks for the reply. If you haven't noticed anything from this sort then I guess it is my bad luck, but this is not the first time I notice this. Just the first time I took the time to come here and post about it.

[Duul al'Vath]

I remember that the % chance to create an exceptional plate chest (@ 100 skill) was 5% on the production servers.

I can't say that it necessarily was the whole time but I also can't say that I ever remember it being changed.

I have been keeping a log of my plate chest success and currently I have averaged 63.5 ingots per GM chest piece.

And as a side note, You really shouldn't bother with Plate helms. They are the exact same protection as a closed or norse helm but at the cost of -1 Dex.