Trade Skill Question

[Lissa]

I think this is as bad a generalization as the hard 100/66/33 rule, actually.  I think this is true of some recipes (as I noted earlier) but there are others that absolutely work like clockwork.

That said, in the, what ... 14? lvl 40+ chars I've made, I can't recall a single orange recipe not giving a point.  I'm not a big enchanting fan, though, so it might be that there are enchanting recipes that miss as orange sometimes, so that may be the cause.  Similarly, I can't say I've watched the collecting skills as closely as the crafting ones (and I suspect that they trend more towards the slope than the stair anyway).

Realize that the PRNG is very fickle. You can get strings of successes with a low chance of success (seen a 5% chance proc 4 or 5 times in a row) or you can get a chain of many failures when you should see a success (seeing the same 5% chance of proc never proc in 200+ attempts). The point is, that Orange does not mean 100%, when you reach the yellow break mark, it's possible to see a failure (unlikely, but it happens), likewise it doesn't mean green near grey will be like 30 or 40 per point to get a skill up. This is the problem with random chances with something that doesn't play randomly. (PRNG stands for Pseduo Random Number Generator as this is how computers determine a random number, but, it's hardly random how it works).

Among other thing, fishing is just wacky in terms of skillups.
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after about 150 or 200 fishing (can't remember for sure) it's 8 fish caught per point of skill.