Why recraft lowers your skill compare to regular craft?

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If the item wasn’t crafted with 3 star materials originally, then recrafting will only replace 40% of the t2 mats with t3 mats, so it will be like you are crafting it with some t2 materials.

You can find an in depth blue post linked below:

Skill bonuses missing in Recraft Items in Crafting Orders

I can clarify this. This particular aspect of skill bonuses is a bit fiddly to avoid making it advantageous to simply craft something with all Q1 reagents, and then recraft it with all Q3 and get full skill when doing so. If that worked, we would often do that, as the recraft takes somewhere around 40% of the reagents in the original craft…yes it also takes Artisan’s Mettle, but not much. So the way this works is the item “remembers” the quality of the reagents you crafted with. Let’s say the o…