Save Scumming & 4-Trait Bonecharm Crafting Bad Luck

[tigerpoetry]

I don't generally save scum, but when crafting 4 trait bonecharms I do it without remorse. My excuse is that I don't feel that a skill should come with a handicap, unless I invest even more runes. Even then, there's a small corruption chance at the very best for 4-trait charms.

Anyway, I've had to reload 5 times in the past, when the corruption chance is high. Today, I had to reload 10 times. 11 goes at getting a clean charm is ridiculous! I'm going ghost and very hard. I wanted no detrimental effects to the stealthy play style.

Edit: to make matters worse, the negative effects were things like 'You move slower when carrying a body', 'Mana regenerates slower' and 'sleep darts sometimes have no effect'... I'd not even noticed that particular downside. Sometimes I accept the negative if it doesn't affect my play style, but... but...

Anyone had worse luck than that?... or is it that I've been very lucky in the past?

[TaxFreePwnage]

Yeah man, I decided to "stack" some of the negative effects, just to see how bad they can get. Double "moving slower while carring bodies" gets completely nuts, almost to a crawl. It's BAD.

The worst I've had is a flat-out "your movement speed is reduced" just all the time. Whether running, jogging/walking or crouching, you move SO much slower, its horrible.

[tigerpoetry]

Originally posted by TaxFreePwnage:

Yeah man, I decided to "stack" some of the negative effects, just to see how bad they can get. Double "moving slower while carring bodies" gets completely nuts, almost to a crawl. It's BAD.

The worst I've had is a flat-out "your movement speed is reduced" just all the time. Whether running, jogging/walking or crouching, you move SO much slower, its horrible.

That's a tough decision to make. It reminds me of when I tried a custom difficulty run for the 'Something To Prove' achievement on Thief (2014). I chose reduced movement speed as one of my handicaps. I abandoned the run after chapter 5 because it was so painfully tedious it was driving me nuts! I re-jigged it with anything except that to get me high enough difficulty points.

[DocV]

I don't think I've ever gotten any corruption when crafting. Also the 3 trait bonecharm is good enough and can be crafted without corruption.

[tigerpoetry]

Originally posted by DrVeil:

I don't think I've ever gotten any corruption when crafting. Also the 3 trait bonecharm is good enough and can be crafted without corruption.

That seems odd that you've never got corruption, crafting bonecharms. Have you always got bonecharm crafting, witch crafting and master crafting in one go? That would explain it if you never craft charms with 4 traits.

I tend to get Domino fully upgraded before going past the simple 'Bonecharm Crafting'. Also, as Emily I like to get the Far Reach skill to grab objects at a distance first, too. It means I'm crafting with a risk of corruption for quite a few missions.

[DocV]

Originally posted by tigerpoetry:

Originally posted by DrVeil:

I don't think I've ever gotten any corruption when crafting. Also the 3 trait bonecharm is good enough and can be crafted without corruption.

That seems odd that you've never got corruption, crafting bonecharms. Have you always got bonecharm crafting, witch crafting and master crafting in one go? That would explain it if you never craft charms with 4 traits.

I tend to get Domino fully upgraded before going past the simple 'Bonecharm Crafting'. Also, as Emily I like to get the Far Reach skill to grab objects at a distance first, too. It means I'm crafting with a risk of corruption for quite a few missions.

I max out bonecharm crafting before crafting any.

[tigerpoetry]

Ah. That's fine. My spell of bad luck was with basic bonecharm crafting and high chance of corruption with 4 trait charms. I'd still like to find out if anyone had worse luck than me with 11 attempts on the bounce to get 1 clean 4-trait charm.