yes you can fail and i'll be going for the staff soon as well... lvl 27...
hehehe. i've been told that some people are successful one in 5 to 7 tries.
the skill uses research. my research is at 60... hope that is good enough.

>From: Sergey Bukhman <sergeyb@...>
>Reply-To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
>To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eq_wizards] Staff of the Wheel
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:24:32 -0500
>
>
>
>Don Taber wrote:
> >
> > From: Don Taber <dtaber@...>
> >
> > Late last night I finally got the 10th and final rod for the quest.
> > Which means tonight I make the trek to Everfrost to get the container.
> > Now I have heard that it is easy to fail at combining the rods, so what
> > is the best way to succeed? Should I borrow a friends wisdom items?
> > Should I dump more training points into research (is this the right
> > skill)? Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > I'm currently a 40th level human wizard.
> >
>
>Well, I got my staff yesterday (at level 29, maybe the youngest ever :)
>) and I had no problems combining. I also had no problems combining the
>Jeweled Skull back when I did. I am fairly certain that for quests, it
>will always work. Have you ever heard of someone failing to combine a
>quest item?
>
>--
>Sergey
>
>P.S. If you're on Solusek Ro and want to trade me something for the
>Jeweled Skull, e-mail me, or send a tell to Qenelin in game.
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