Couple of questions on blacksmithing

Gameplay Professions
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  1. How do you maximize the level of a crafted item? e.g. Adding Stable Fludic Daconium & Illustrious insight & Primal Infusion (what else should be used to maximise a craft) So what are the best Finishing Reagents and power infusion items and how much can you add to one craft?. I want to recraft my weapon using the item from the Raz quest (I assume that’s a good idea?)

  2. The meter on the side that shows a pipe | between two quality levels - is that a chance to get the right-side quality (as well as showing how close to guaranteeing that right-side quality) aka. if it’s in the middle it’s 50/50 if you get the left or right quality. (I ask because I re-crafted it already 7 times when the bar was ~80% full and each time I got the left-side/lower quality)

Currently I have

  • Khaz’gorite Blacksmith Hammer (358) with +10
  • Draconium Blacksmith’s Toolbox (339) with +29 resourcefulness and crafting speed
  • Smithing Apron (346) with +38 insp and +25 multi

and I’m re-crafting
Primal Molten Mace (386)
with

  • Stable Fluidic Draconium
  • Illustrious Insight
  • Primal infusion

Which puts the ‘bar’ exactly 1/2 way between Q3 and Q4

Does that mean I’ll get a 50% chance at Q4 and is there anything I can do to get it higher?

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I didn’t think that was how it works. Your total skill level from everything sets that bar and if it Q1 to Q5. Your points in blacksmithing (100 max) but the bonus from gear (22 max?) are added to your points in weaponsmithing (30) then in the step under it (30) and then in that item (30) so 90 points I believe you can have for that mace (I did armor but same idea). On the last page of where you can spend your points is two more parts you can put 60 more points. The first 30 adds more points to all blacksmith items and the second I think is a % that can boost is 10% more (I don’t have that maxed)

So with enough skill points you might have that to 4 or 5. The Primal Infusion I think makes you need more points. The illustrious Insight gives you a chance to go one level higher (say 4 instead of 3) and the crafting window should show you that chance. For some its only 30%

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That pipe, or bar, shows your skill level at crafting that item.

Let’s say it’s a 3 star on the left and 4 star on the right. So you are currently crafting a 3 star item.

Move your mouse cursor over the 4 star will let you know how much more skill is required to get a 4 star item. That skill will move up and down with a few variables. The quality of mats is a big one. If you are using low quality mats, using high quality mats will move that bar much higher, even maker a 3 star item into the 4 star (so a potential 5 star) item.

If you move your cursor up to the box that has your skill level, inspiration, resourcefulness, multi-craft, etc in it, put your cursor on inspiration and it will tell you the odds of the crafted item proc into an inspired item and how much that proc is. That proc could push the bar into a higher star item (5 star max).

Example: So if you have a 10% inspiration chance, with a 50 point bonus when it does proc. You are craft bar is a 1 star on left, 2 star on right, skill bar is at 50 and need 100 for a 2 star item. So you have a 1 in 10 chance of getting a 2 star craft from an inspiration proc.

Some items will only be 5 star from an inspiration proc, which I think is a really bad design issue by bliz.

The whole crafting system is confusing to me also. It’s almost like bliz is forcing people to advertise themselves and their services in trade chat in order to fulfill orders so they can level their professions.

Which doesn’t work. Why would anyone get rare, expensive, limited mats to a crafter to get a 3 star item so they can level their profession when the next guy can get them a 4 star item with a good proc chance for a 5 star item?

So those who got ahead of someone who wasn’t on top the things from the start will get further and further behind.

Don’t get me started on public orders or should I say the lack of.