Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-216.125.251.254-20130204164334/@comment-6021747-20130531160907

Stormforge, I'm right there with you. Only time I'll not attempt a skill up of 100% is if it's from 1 to 3. At least then, when it fails, I'm only out about 10 rares (for UR EX skill up) or 10 skilled Commons (for R EX skill up for UR EX skilling). Once I go for Skill 4+, if it's not 100%, I don't do it.

On that note, I do believe there is something to be said about the theory on lower skill lvl'ing having a higher chance than the listed % of succeeding. It's been my personal experience that  from 1 to 2, I have a 90% success rate with only 25% listed, 2 to 3 is a 75% success rate with 33% listed, but after that, the success rates drop off exponentially for the listed rates as you advance the skill. Once you get to skill 4, it seems to be that 1-50% success is the actual, while a listed success rate of 50-97% seems to be the actual FAILURE rate.

That just seems to be what I have personally noticed, but it's all luck, right?


 * puts on tinfoil hat*