All my leftover 2# slab pieces go towards daggers, quarterstaves and main gauches.....out of the last 4-5 dozen attempts last week, zero were best pieces.

Usually I get a best piece every 12-15 slabs. I was expecting to see at least 2 at a minimum and upwards of 8 if I was really lucky. Perhaps this time around I was extremely unlucky with the RNG???

I know how irritating it is to work on a THW with metal that has long RTs and a blade that needs 5+ hammer sessions....the paltry reward of finally crafting a perfect blade is a cool feeling, but overall it's not very exciting mechanically. An hour or more per blade is daunting and stupidly frustrating when 30+ attemps gives no beneficial results.

Thanks, Mikos. I should note that I finally got a couple best vultite blades from the glyph on the 17th.... and got a couple more best vaalorn blades after that. I know it was probably well with-in the realm of probability considering what I was working on, but I've never had a bad streak like that since I started forging so it got me seriously wondering while I was in the middle of that it.

Starchitin, the OG

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<It would have been insanely cheaper to just buy one, but I'm stubborn.>

I dunno who yer buying perfects from for less then it costs them to make.... but snatch up every last one you can.

Starchitin, the OG

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> If you factor in all the time, expense, and effort to first master the required forging skills and then to make ONE perfect blade

Exactly. Master Smithing (or whatever), plus master one-handed Edge, and master two-handed in my case to make a warsword (bastard sword base). That was a WAY more time and money than just the 4 mill or so to buy one.