MrTastyHead

I want to try my hand at crafting and just need one answer before I can pick the races on my dedicated TS chars.

Which racial is better to have, the +5 skill or the 5% increase to success rate?

I looked back through over six months of posts and couldn't see this info anywhere, so I'm sorry if I missed it.

MrTastyHead

21 views and no replies, huh. Is this a closely guarded secret or is nobody bothering to tell me that nobody knows?

Hammerfist

+skill imo

Idiom

I would go with skill myself... Unless there is some hardcap I am not aware of.

But generally its really hard to fail a combine so success isn't an issue, or shouldn't be.

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Zehl

Neither one is going to make or break your toon or matter too much. Later on with all the TS gear you'll have a nice +sucess rate, and some + to your skill (ther'es a good sticky post on gear on the soe TS forums)

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Deathsnote

it used to be a great issue before DoF but since then and adjustments to the trade skilling as a whole race doesn't mean anything as far as trade skills go

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Cabott

Well Im kinda late to the post but tradeskilling now is a joke. too easy... and for TS gear its not needed.. just pick a skill that you need or thinkn it will benefit you or your guild!!

Apocryphea

Success Chance > + Skill. Always.

If you look at your TS arts you'll notice that you have a %chance to fail + inc. progress art and a %chance to fail + inc. durability art. The % chance to fail percentage stays static throughout an entire tier, but decreases each tier.

For example, my new alchy has a racial ability (dark elf) that improves % chance to succeed by like 5%. By tier 3, with the 1% chance to succeed tinkered charm, my success chance and my fail chance are the same percentage, or they become nullified. In essence, my chance to critically fail during a combine is brought to virtually nothing, and your chance to critcally succeed increases. Notice how i say 'virtually nothing'? That's because it will happen, just once every 100 combines instead of 1 every other combine.

By the time you reach tiers 6-8, you can have a higher % success chance than %fail chance, and you'll notice that you rarely (if ever) critically fail during a combine, and you will see an increase in critical successes. Having this skill high will save you time and money as you level.

+ Skill works a lot like skill increases in spell casting. It does effect how well an art does when cast during a combine, but it doesn't give you extra progress/durability for extra skill. It just gives you the max of that skill more consistently. That means it only really effects TS arts that have a static effect (+dura/+prog/-dura+prog/-prog+dura).

Hint: as you reach the upper tiers all three TS tinker charms stack, so don't throw them away.

Flaming Homo

Pick the one with the best looking ass.

Cruunch

Forget about Skill/Percentage, create the STRONGEST race you can, level to level 12, buy/make all Str gear, you can then carry LOTS of boxes!