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Gonna De-Forest the land. 12/18/2015 06:56 PM CST

Working on crafting skills I got to wondering what were the likely number of trials needed to get to the 500 level.

Using the formula given on gswiki -- (500 - level)/500 -- I wrote up a small program using the C standard rand() RNG and started it up.
I ignored the LOG bonus as I don't have >= 20.

Although the results were all over the map, after 1000 passes it established some likely bounds:

2000 < N < 4000

Those are rounded numbers but gives me an idea at least. With a median of 3000 and about 3 min per, This looks like about 150 hours.

Sure will use up aa lot of maoral blocks!

Possible?

SKNOX

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Re: Gonna De-Forest the land. 12/18/2015 11:19 PM CST

Each artisan skill takes longer than the last to rank up. 150 hours to master crafting if it is your first artisan skill and without the logic bonus sounds too long to me but I can't back it up with math. I would guess half that many hours or less but the last few points without the +1 logic bonus can stretch out pretty bad.

Vhorg Emberskald

PEREGRINEFALCON

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Re: Gonna De-Forest the land. 12/19/2015 11:09 AM CST

I think I was able to master any given forging skill before wearing out 2 gold heads (1,000 uses) bearing in mind you get multiple chances to rank up per use of a head.

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