Critical Stone headache Help pls

__MagnuS__ · Post by **__MagnuS__** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:29 pm

I have wasted so much money in-game on challenge tabs and Crit stones. EVERY single one failed. :cry:

Am i doing something wrong? I have a lvl 24 SOS bow +6 and the only wrong with it is that the crit is 4. It is very blue and i'm gonna keep it, but i want to raise the crit. HHEELLPP PLEASE!!!!! :banghead:

Waisha · Post by **Waisha** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:41 pm

Keep trying...

phresh · Post by **phresh** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:50 am

Yeah, challenge stones are the devil!

Assimilation hit the crit on my sos 32+3 bow 9 -> 4

Went roughly like this:
1 - Success 4 -> 4
2 - Failed
3 - Failed
4 - Success 4 -> 6
5 - Failed
6 - Success 6 -> 4
7 - Success 4 -> 4
8 - Failed
9 - Success 4 -> 8
I ran them 4 at a time. So at this point I had 4 Stones remaining but from those odds I decided to live with 8 and much improved Magical damage and attack rating, which were also a pain - both went to 0% then got them up with the next batch of stones.

Stones fail often, I think they're roughly 50/50, I've had better luck with Jade ones than Ruby ones.
Anyhow, plan to fail, if you want to add or fix whatever stat, don't waste your time making one stone and then running it just to fail. Make at least 2, I make at least 3, 4 with rubies. When one fails I feel the next one is that much more likely to work.

It's a pain, I ended up spending a couple mil gold easy (getting more tabs & elements) just trying to fix things that went wrong. Luckily this went into a nice item so I'll hopefully see a return on it in the end when I sell it.

Last word of advice, run your stones away from town. I've read it a few times that lag kills alchemy and although I'm not convinced this is the case, I've definitely had better luck with them away from the crowd so I continue that way.

Better luck next time,
-phresh

Susanoo · Post by **Susanoo** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:59 am

Most of the times I rather buy a good item with good stats for a few 100k's or millions more then do the alchemy myself. Although its fun to do alchemy it can cost you so much. It is really a thing to do for those who have the funds. I rather make stones and sell them then that I do alchemy with it.

__MagnuS__ · Post by **__MagnuS__** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:39 am

Thx guys, I am trying to make 3-4 stones a time or use that many anyway. Still struggling but it is better brought it up to 6 crit instead of 4 so thats as good as it gets for now. Once again, thx for the help.