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zilogemax
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Can someone explain to me about Masterwork Rare Professions and if I'm doing something wrong? I have literally played this game 8 hours a day for the past 2 weeks and have yet to see any of the Rare Professions show up that I need to complete any of the Masterwork I missions.
Yes I have the items I need and No I don't have anything hidden. Why do I have to sit around and wait until the game says, OK, we'll let you move forward now. I have what I need and have for 2 weeks now but I'm not given the Rare Professions I need to move forward.
Is this another 0.000001% RNG thing even in Masterwork? Beyond frustrated right now!
Yes I have the items I need and No I don't have anything hidden. Why do I have to sit around and wait until the game says, OK, we'll let you move forward now. I have what I need and have for 2 weeks now but I'm not given the Rare Professions I need to move forward.
Is this another 0.000001% RNG thing even in Masterwork? Beyond frustrated right now!
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That's the only thing that comes to mind. I've never had to wait much more than a day, maybe 2 to get the tasks I needed if I checked hourly when online.
Edit: See below where I clarified that I did see in the OP the claim that the settings and items were good. I guess I replied instead of edit.
my advice...check every hour.
The RNG for those rare tasks was already there long before Masterworks was created, back when crafted weapons were good, before Artifact weapons, so they wanted to make it difficult to get those rare tasks. Eventually, crafted weapons became garbage and they never changed the frequency of the tasks.
The good news is that once you get past rank1 masterwork tasks, the RNG for the tasks to appear is gone. All future tasks will be common tasks, not rare. You only will deal with the RNG of success or fail of task. Without a forgehammer, you will not have better than a 20% chance to succeed on those other low level tasks. Even with a Forgehammer, its only 35% chance to succeed.
Last piece of advice, when the task does pop for you run it all 3 available slots to increase the chance of success. It you get extra, they will sell on the AH and help to recoup your investment. G.E symbol and the orb are around 115K. There is no pact blade of hexes currently on the AH (Note to self, make one!), so you can set your own price.
Edit: I realized later I checked the Xbox AH, not the PS4. I play mostly Xbox, but do play both. The prices on PS4 are higher and the pact blade is available. 145K to 200K is the range they all fall into with pact blade being highest.
Please fix the fail rates on master craft level 2 .
I have failed 25 combines on the "mint set"
I have a mythic forge hammer.
35% success for tier 3 reward.
I have made, and bought 25 gold coins, spent weeks farming resources.
I created 2 support tickets and was referred to here.
The quest is bugged you cant tell me 25 combines that are worth over 10 million ad is apart of your game.
In light of this frustration I no longer see any point in investing any more of my finances into your game.
I bypassed the 35% chance task for my last 2 professions by not doing those until I got the 40% tools for those professions from Chult.
Your math is one way to do it, but not a very good way. 16 days?
You act like you are only able to craft one item at a time. The least I would consider is one character running EA in 2 slots everyday and UE in 1slot until I build up a supply of UE and then run EA X3 daily. I would feed all my Elemental ______ (Fire, earth etc) to this character. In reality, I have a dedicated Alchemy crafter that runs UE in 1 to 3 slots and EA in 6 to 8 slots much of the time and even increase this when needed by using another character or more.
A person that was serious about Masterworks would be better served by not complaining about things than are unlikely to change (if they haven't by now, they're not likely to be changed) and asking question on methods and practices to help overcome these issues. I can't really speak for other Mastercraft participants, but I suspect a high number will agree. I don't want it made easier. After fighting to get through it, the last thing I want is it to be easier for more players not fully vested in the task to join the ranks. But for those who are serious about getting through it, many of us are more than happy to help/assist.
Free advice: Before even attempting Masterworks you should have multiple characters (I would say 6 minimum) with all 9 slots unlocked in crafting and be in an alliance that builds all the temp structures weekly or at least bi-weekly. Each character should have at least Alchemy, Jewelry and the weapon/armor crafts you plan to do at rank 25. I tend to focus on the armor and weapon crafts associated with the class of the character to provide diversity. I always do leadership to 25 as well to take advantage of any unused slots by MW to generate RP and help fund my project, but leadership is optional for masterworks. Leadership AD crates (not the labor, it gets capped to quickly) are a good steady source of guildmarks (not nearly as good as Jewelry) and every guild needs AD and you can get Elemental _____ from certain coffers made in leadership.
Now, you may ask why alchemy and jewelry on all characters. Alchemy items are used in many of the MW crafts and Oil of Vitriol is the backbone (Also it is easy and quick to rank up alchemy on a 2X professions weekend). Since it does not take any rare items to craft, running it with a 20 or 33% chance of success is still useful. So, masterworks 1 in alchemy is good to get on all characters (MW2 is better of course ). Jewelry crates (make the 23,17 and 10 rank crates) are the most profitable to craft for coffer donations and help keep a steady supply of Guildmarks coming in.
*****Hint: Those wonder packs were selling for over 40K each at times during the event. Selling as few as 300 would have enabled you to buy a Forgehammer and skip the RNG of it. I didn't follow PS4 closely as I focused on Xbox for the most recent one where they averaged 30- 35K for quick sell and around 38K for overnight listings. PS4 is usually 10 to 20% higher. selling 300 at 40K would have been 12 Mil or about 10.8mil after AH cut. Undercutting and selling for 30K would have still earned 8Mil to buy a Forgehammer.*******
Forgehammers are available from certain lockbox profession packs and from 3 events, not one. Gond (often run multiple times per year), Summer Festival Sahaa, and Winterfest gift exchange. Summerfest is on the calendar. As I said above, you would be better served asking questions and for advice than jumping to conclusions. If you had asked before, you might have been able to get a Forgehammer or even multiple by following the hint.
There are ways to reduce the impact of RNG for many things, just ask.
At least when you attempt to jump the lava in ELOL no one tells you to roll a d20.