I had read somewhere that a good rule of thumb is 75% sucess when your skill
level is at the trivial point for the item your trying to make +/- 1% for
every skill level away from the trivial. That is, with a skill level 20
points past the trivial point, you'd have a 95% sucess rate, and with skill
50 points below trivial, you'd get about 25%.

Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw this, so I can't direct you to
my source.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Finley" <brian@...>
To: <EQ_Tinkering@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: [EQ_Tinkering] When to try something else?

> I just hit 102 skill in tinkering tonite and made some Powered Gloves
> (woohoo!). The next major item I'd like to make for myself is the
> Footwarming boots. Apparently the trivial for footwarming is around the
168
> mark.
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> At what skill level will I have like a 25% chance of even accomplishing
this
> item? Obviously I'll continue making Powered Gloves until the trivial
mark
> at 122, and then trying aqualungs. Aqualungs's trivial is 148, which
takes
> me close to the ~168 trivial of Footwarming boots. However, I'd like to
try
> the boots earlier on if there's a chance for success. However, I don't
know
> the formula for a chance of success being "x" number of skill points away
> from the trivial point of the item you're trying to tinker.
>
> Soooooo.... I'm at 102 now. What skill level can I being trying to make
> Footwarming boots with somewhere around a 25% chance of success?
>
> Anyone have any idea? Thanks if you do. :)
>
> - Tynkur of Lanys T'Vyl
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