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What's the benefit of doing 5/5?

Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
edited September 2009 in Items and Crafting
Insights? Because it seems at level 200+ most of the drops I'm lucky if they give 0/5 or 1/5. I need about 10-20 items before the bar even moves decently. Was this intentional with the patch?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    The benefit to 5/5 research is a chance at getting discoveries (Insight, Ephiphany, Profundity) for your current tier (T1: 1-100, T2: 101-200, T3: 201-300, T4: 301-400). They will allow you to buy certain blueprints.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Ok I thought that Insights might have something to do with it, thanks! I'll just keep hoarding stuff until I can get 5/5 instead of wasting on 2's and 3's.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Note that doing research of 1/5-4/5 has a chance of netting you discoveries of a lower tier than your current. Again, what you can get and the chance depends on your current tier compared to the research rating.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    WingedKagouti wrote:
    Note that doing research of 1/5-4/5 has a chance of netting you discoveries of a lower tier than your current. Again, what you can get and the chance depends on your current tier compared to the research rating.

    Ahhh so I can research a 1/5 at level 300+ and still get a Slight Insight! That's cool! I thought I was going to have to go farm materials :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    How often do you get an insight at 5/5? I have researched about ten 5/5 batches and not gotten a single insight in the 200 - 300 tier.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    That's based on luck, don't know the % though. My alt got like 7 slight insights out of 9 researchs. However- my main only has 2 insight and 3 greater insight.

    Also, I think, with 5/5, you also able to recover more components
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    the stars depend on the rarity of the item... most of the time I can hit 5/5 with 3-8 items.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    My crafting is at 400, I have never trained anything from my focus trainer, yet He has nothing for me to learn either. I do get incites on occasion from more than 4 items while researching.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    If your speciality trainer has nothing on him to learn.. he's not your specialty trainer. :)
    Or else, you have your merchant filters set wrong, at the top right of the window.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    I don't understand the ratings in general. When you start out most things are 5/5. What exactly changes as you go up in level? What effects that number? Anything? Even breaking apart lower level drops gets 0/5 or 1/5. I researched about 8 items at 4/5 and got about 3 components. Does anyone know for a fact what those ratings are based on? It's extremely frustrating.
    I understand lots of things change and some things they'd like you to "discover". But the online manual is grotesquely unburdened with information.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    LordThot wrote:
    I don't understand the ratings in general. When you start out most things are 5/5. What exactly changes as you go up in level? What effects that number? Anything?
    The quality and level of the items used.

    Also, Tier 1 & 2 are intended to be easy to get 5/5s for, so even low quality items will quickly get you a 5/5 rating. Tier 3 & 4 are intended to be quite a bit harder, so you'll most likely need multiple good quality items to get a 5/5 rating (level 40 Purples should be able to do it on their own even for Tier 4).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    The skill raise from research seems dependent upon the rating as well. From 200-300 if I had a 5/5 I would get 4 skill points almost every time. If I had less than that I would get fewer skill points or even none at all at the lower end.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    A 1/5 is required to get a skill up, but it will always give at least 1 point. Doing a 0/5 is only useful if you want the components.

    At lower tiers, it the ratings will give more skill points than they will at the higher tiers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    I cannot, in good conscience, support Cryptic.
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