I’m tracking my hones and tripod upgrades in the last few weeks because I feel incredibly unlucky.
Currently tracked 212 tripod upgrades on lvl 4 and lvl 5 skills, my success rate is 4.19%.
Upgrading brel item starting from level 14 on my 3 mains, I’ve had 16 upgrades, 9 of which are pity’s, 4 were 80% or higher, 3 were between 20 and 40%.
I like the game, it’s fun when you play it, but when you’re trying to improve your character as a F2P player, and it takes you a week to get roughly 10 attempts at honing an item, to only pity it, or get close to pitying, it just sucks the fun out of the game entirely.
I strongly believe this game is built to survive on people dumping irl currency into it to improve characters and play it. Almost like a gambling addiction.
My dude… DO NOT, I repeat: DO NOT TRACK YOUR FAILURES.
This goes to irl stuff too, but seriously… In this game, tracking (honing) failures is the easiest step to abandon the game.
When you have a 5% chance to hit a success… if you don’t expect pity, you’re being too optimistic. Not hitting pity is the lucky straw of the game. Not the expectation
Trust me, I get it. On my guild I’m probably one of the 3 unluckiest players of the whole guild when it comes to honing. I’ve thought about tracking it for that exact reason, but I know I would just quit the game if I did it. There’s honestly no point in doing it.
If you like the game, just keep going. Doesn’t matter if you pity every single equipment piece… just keep going and hope for a one-tap next piece. But only hope, don’t expect.
probably the best way to look at it tbh.