Is my wood working broken?

Walden_Grimtine

I have a woodworker with level 25 crafting. I get maybe 1 beech per 3 deconstructions. Trait stones and racial stones seem fine. My similar level clothier gets much more cloth from deconstructing with the same number of points in extraction.

Is this a known issue with woodworking? Anyone else experienced this problem?

Yakidafi

Do you have points in the first passive? To ccraft higher tier.

Walden_Grimtine

Yes

Opioid

Random number generator generates random numbers. Sometimes in your favor, sometimes not.

Walden_Grimtine

True, but this has been going on pretty consistently for the past 60 or so items i have deconstructed. Ramdomness balances out over time.

Opioid

60 items is also a very small sample size. Far too small to make any sort of informed statistical observation.

Shiaxi

Opioid wrote: »

60 items is also a very small sample size. Far too small to make any sort of informed statistical observation.

while that is strictly speaking true it is still an odd outlier even with the small sample size.

I will say this tho: You appear to get better result deconning equipment that's around the right level for the skill.. at woodworking 25 that would be yew I think...

garrodben_ESO

I'm going to guess you have a lower character level?

THere's been a few threads on this, but apparently the chance to receive wood/metal/cloth/leather back when deconstructing is not based on your tradeskill but on your actual character level in comparison. Farther that gap the less likely you are to receive that material back

You will still get trait gems, improvement materials and style parts. Just not the main ingredient.

Lupinemw

I have to say I never notice, I tend to hit a WW/BS/CL station empty out what I don't need and then dump the unwanted materials in the guild bank for someone to use.

I've never found it hard to find resource nodes in the wilds and quiet often spend an hour just doing a nice loop for people to use later on.

Walden_Grimtine

My character is level 24, so he would be a bit low to use beech gear. What garrodben said seems to be the case. I appreciate the helpful info.