Does metal extraction increase the likelihood of getting tempers from items?

UnholyPerfection

Or just raw ingredients?

catpower

Yes, it does.

UnholyPerfection

Ah ok, the description made it seem like it was only raw ingredients.

UnholyPerfection

Could I just get someone else to confirm this?

Fleymark

It does. I get them all the time. Upgrade mats as well as basic refined mats, style mats, and traits gems.

Oddly, I find hirelings to be worth more for the points investment tho I'm actual returns. The lack of success in getting an upgrade mat from a blue+ decon with 3/3 for all 3 crafts is kind of disturbing.

Get both, ideally. I held out on hirelings till very recently because it struck me as a gimmicky luxury purchase and doing all 3 armor weapons crafts had me tight with points. I've been very impressed with it though. You're still going to want the deconones tho.

kitsinni

I never got a gold upgrade mat refining without it, with it I get them pretty regularly. Purples have become pretty common to get.

rbenkepub19_ESO

Agreed, extraction skills definitely increase the likelihood of extracting tempers.

Pele

Yes.

ArRashid

It improves your chances on both refining raw materials and deconstructing items.
without 3 points there it's impossible to get yellow temper, and even blue and purple are VERY hard to get if you don't have 3 points there (in purple's case, you get like every 5th deconstruct of purple item)