Merely Speculation on Potion Creation

[Silvanus]

I've come to notice something interesting in terms to potion creation and Stats.


Please not that this is merely speculation after a few attempts at creating potions.


First off, my build is an Int Potting build. Currently level 61, his luck is at 25. Wit his current potting gear (4x Lucky Blade, Morrigane's helm, and a couple rosaries(not the best, but I'm working on it)) combined with his job bonus brings a total of 10 extra points. With Lucky Rice Cakes (YAY) the boost goes to 31. Combine that with Gloria and I get a grand total of:

10+21+30=61

61 Extra luck!! That means improvement, Right?

Apparently not. Because my potting rate actually DROPPED.

I've tested this a couple times, and plan to do so again soon, And it turns out that my rate without so much luck was actually better by about 5-10%

This is merely speculation again, but I'm wondering if I had too MUCH luck, (In this case I had more than double my original points in buffs) and that rates can drop if one's buffed bonus far exceeds one's original values.

If someone could respond with they're thoughts I'd be grateful.

Sincerely, Evanescent

Alchemist to Silvana Cross ~ GM Arkangel ~

[Atum]

Well, first of all, you shouldnt confuse "luk" with "luck".

Luk = the ingame stat, good for critting, luckydodging and potting/forging
Luck = the reallife-thingy that makes you lucky (winning lotteries, finding a penny, etc)

While with the normal potting gear you have a nice amount of "luk" to pot good enough increasing luk cant make your potting rate go down since it wouldnt make sense.

I believe that you just were really unlucky after using the +21 luk food, try again and see if you have more luck this time.

~ GM Arkangel ~
Is that supposed to mean "Guildmaster" aka guildleader or GM aka "Gamemaster" (the white dressed ppl in ro who run the server and screw the game up after every update?) Oo

[Bluedreams]

In order to properly test potting rates with any given stats you need to do a LOT of pots.

If I do say, 10,000 pots, each run of 200 can tend to wildly vary, say it has an avg of 75%, I'll get as high as 80% and as low as 70%. Rarely it'll go over 80% and below 70%.

You can't have "too" much of one stat, tested myself.

[Lnz.]

Indeed. I've also personally tested with several pots. I even got extreems as low/high as 10% off of my average. Also had a run of making 100 blue pots and all were successfully made, but that was a fluke.

All your success rate is, is just an average. You can get lower, or higher, but it will always fall around a certain point.

[Silvanus]

Oh...um that's Guild Master

And I'll take a deeper look into things on my next potting run

[Bluedreams]

Let's keep the flaming down in here please, there's nothing wrong with someone figuring something out with help!

[Howard Alt-Eisen]

try doing whites with the alchemist link, that should help you gage your success rate because regular potions are the easiest to make, and you make like 100 whites with each ...i forget the iRO name for the skill. Spiritual potting or whatever. If you do about 500 whites and you get about the same number each time, then you should have a good idea of what your average is.

[Bluedreams]

200 whites or slims per spirtual creation attempt.