I give up on blacksmithing....

[Kenpachi219]

Crafting a rank 4 sword is very very difficult... made even harder with the dam clipping going on in the forge & anvil.... & yes i am crafting a weapon that can reach rank 4. There is a certain point wear the mini game becomes a little to unforgiving & tedious.

EDIT : It was a bug That was showing the craft at the end as a lower rank , when checking the inventory the weapon rank was higher. END POST.

[White Knight]

I guess I'm too early in the game to know what you folks are talking about? I didn't know forged weapons had "ranks" even.
There was a sword I had to craft for the blacksmith, and the animation for the anvil had the sword hidden inside the anvil as I worked it.
I didn't like that very much.

[DJ ShadowBlade]

I can't stop making Q4 weapons it's really not hard in the slightest . . .

[soul like that be capable of]

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

Originally posted by BenShinobi:

Is it the reforged radzig sword you're trying? I gave up after a few attempts, thinking I just needed higher skill for that weapon (even though I have the perk) but I've seen some others say that weapon in particular feels impossible to get rank 4. Maybe there's a bug or it's quality is tied to weapons original quality.

Read the OP , no I'm not. I was attempting the Balisard, some weapons cannot reach rank 4

can you read what can and cant get rank 4 ?

[MajorTom]

It looks like bugged for Craftsmanship level 25 and higher. On levels 16-25 every weapon I made was IV tier, every, no matter how bad and in hurry i made it. Now every time I getting lot's of random misses, like game do not register some hits, some hits are double clicks for not reason, first hit always bad no matter how well it made by me, eventually I started to make bad weapons doing absolutely the same recipes and same actions.

It looks like there's f*cked up formula for difficulty, and having 30 craftsmanship of 30 possible makes it not 0 difficulty but rather opposite - max difficulty and forces you to make 0 mistakes at all, even forces you to do some "mistakes" on it's own.

[heartnetsky]

Quest related sword can't be forged to tier 4 this applies to radzig and *spoiler* kuttenburg guild longsword
yeah the end of each smithing kinda buggy. For me it always shows henry quality even though sometimes i really2 messed up when a visual bug occurs like sword went through the anvil (only in some smithy). But in my inventory it ends up with tier 2 or 3.. but crafting tier 4 isn't hard at all though
Ahh yeah and 1st hit is always sounded bad and no sparks at all

[Disgruntled Democracy Officer]

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

Crafting a rank 4 sword is very very difficult... made even harder with the dam clipping going on in the forge & anvil.... & yes i am crafting a weapon that can reach rank 4. There is a certain point wear the mini game becomes a little to unforgiving & tedious.

EDIT : It was a bug That was showing the craft at the end as a lower rank , when checking the inventory the weapon rank was higher. END POST.

The clippin is a new thing, i dont remember it being a problem at launch.