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ordensmarschall
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Has anyone else been paying attention to how often a skill kit breaks while being used? Over the past week I just happened to notice that the Skill Kits seem to breaking quite frequently. Today I kept track, and the first five in a row that I used broke. By the end of the session I was 5 for 11, so a 45.4% success rate, seeing as how they supposed to work 75% of the time, it make me think something might be wrong. However it could just be that I have had a run of bad luck. Anybody else notice this?
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I hear ya. However, keep in mind that is a very small sample size. Here's what I suggest - keep a piece of paper near your comp, and put a tic mark for every attempt that succeeded and one for every failure (in different columns), and compile a lot more results. If you got 100 or more, and it was still far off from the 75% rate listed, then you'd at least have some ammunition to go on...
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I have noticed I have a low chance sometimes as well. And every time I have failed 3-5 Fails follow right after. There has not been one time since I started that I have only failed once and next time be a success.
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Never kept track though, to get a real probability sample.
Some nodes are 65% though, if you watch the mouseover.
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Wrong the mouseover always says 75%, the tooltip says 65% on the items. So like every other tooltip it's completely uninformative.
A better solution would be that you can click on the device once and if the kit fails, then you won't get loot from that node period. That would also give you a better feeling about actually having the said skill in addition to not having to stand there clicking on a device again and again.
^^ dude almost has it, but it is bad design by intent. "People don't generally want to keep clicking" is incorrect, "People generally click until they succeed" because we as humans are just dumb animals....its like Pavlov and his dogs, humans will keep clicking with their tool kits cause the skill/node is like a bell and you are salivating for the treasure you think you will get from the node. So you try and try again, only to have it fail. So, you ask...why does it fail so often? The unknown answer that only Cryptic/PWE know, but its probably a money sink...but the answer I can give you is that 1) There are different tiers of nodes since some are so difficult, which eats into your kits hence the money sink 2) It isn't worth your time, save your money and just use what kits you do get while relying on your class skill, if you run out...don't sweat it since its obvious the rewards are <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> most of the time and loot is the same from the floor after killing NPC.
You may be indeed right in that people get 'stuck' clicking the item.
I believe there is a weight of history breathing in on the design meeting where this thing was concocted. Other games have had gathering skills and nodes, and they have also had a chance to fail without a permanent penalty. You would just click on that node until you succeeded. World of warcraft (please don't let this example derail the thread or my point) has done away with this practice, now awarding less reward for a 'failed' attempt but no more requiring more clicks on the node. They have done this for specifically the reason that it is not interesting content to have 'elusive' nodes.