Artificer tier 1 style quest combine is beyond hard (bug?)

[SwordMage]

I have been trying to do the Kojan and Qalia artificer tier 1 style quests as a level 12 artificer. The wood staff combine is still very difficult (with 2 complications, I was still 2 or 3 actions short after starting with A quality wood and adding the minimum quality to get to the requred C.

And that was my most successful attempt out of 4 (we won't even talk about my level 9 attempt).

The combines for the blacksmith and outfitter styles were no where near this hard!


So the question: what is the target level for learning styles?

My naive assumption would be around 4 or 5 levels into the current tier, but I could accept the notion of top of tier (10, 20, ...).


Edit: and I am mineralogist spec'd -- 0 carpentry

[Shinto]

I'm fairly certain that the style quest is meant to be done at a higher level than the first tier quest. I've been told that a well-equipped and well-statted character can do it at 12, but 15-20 is a more reasonable guess. That's all second-hand information, though; I haven't tried it.

[SwordMage]

Originally Posted by Shinto

I'm fairly certain that the style quest is meant to be done at a higher level than the first tier quest. I've been told that a well-equipped and well-statted character can do it at 12, but 15-20 is a more reasonable guess. That's all second-hand information, though; I haven't tried it.

The thing is my level 10 dwarven blacksmith had little trouble with her version of the quest, nor did my level 12 outfitter. They both lost one or two combines, but they were 6 for 8, not 0 for 4. And oh, by the way, neither is what I would call Uber.

One thing I need to do is finish the factioning with my carpenter designee and try the combine with her to see if the recipe really is artificer skill based as advertised.

[Ysharros]

For some reason I had it in my head that you can only do those style quests at level 13 - seems that what I probably read was "don't bother trying till 13 if you want a reasonable chance of success"?

Since I was so sure this was some weird cut-off point I didn't even try getting the Thestran style quest for my DE outfitter until 13, at which point it was a synch.

I can't comment on the artificer ones because I can't get my Min's spec quest to work.

[SwordMage]

Originally Posted by Ysharros

For some reason I had it in my head that you can only do those style quests at level 13 - seems that what I probably read was "don't bother trying till 13 if you want a reasonable chance of success"?

Since I was so sure this was some weird cut-off point I didn't even try getting the Thestran style quest for my DE outfitter until 13, at which point it was a synch.

I can't comment on the artificer ones because I can't get my Min's spec quest to work.

You can do this before or after the spec quest (at least tier 1).

[crackmaggot]

I did not do until lvl 19 minerologist, and of course at that lvl I had no problem.

[Rithrin]

I remember doing this on my level 14 Carpenter with little issue. But I did Thestra, maybe the others are harder?

[Ruffie]

From everything I have read and experienced, any crafting quest that requires making grade x product is bugged at the moment.

I currently have 3 different crafting "quests" that require a specific grade. None of these will work regardless of the grade I get on the item.

[SwordMage]

Originally Posted by Ruffie

From everything I have read and experienced, any crafting quest that requires making grade x product is bugged at the moment.

I currently have 3 different crafting "quests" that require a specific grade. None of these will work regardless of the grade I get on the item.

Thats true; however, I am bringing up a separate bug -- in this case you can't even get to the required quality level at a "reasonable" crafting level to notice the Destroyed Material bug.