Silly Question About SubcraftsFollow

Kind of, it works in the same way as your main craft.

You can still synth the item if you are a little bit below the sub craft cap (And can even get skill ups for it), but like your main craft, the further from the cap you are the harder the synth becomes, until it becomes impossible to synth.

You can attempt a synth 10 levels below cap, but expect a lot of breaks. At 5 levels below cap, you can at least skill up on your breaks. CourierBarry is right that this applies to each part of the overall crafting requirement. For your item, which is Cooking (29), Woodworking (9), you can start synthing it at Cooking 19 and Woodworking 0, but you'd be seeing lots of broken salmon, salt, and log bits piling up at your feet. By Cooking 24, Woodworking 4, you'd be breaking a decent bit but getting some skillups for it... and yes, the answer to the next question is that you can skill up all involved subcrafts with one synth. I believe I managed to get a skillup in all three crafts on thief's tools once, which was quite nice. :)

If you have questions about the right range to attempt skillups in, and how to achieve them, let me know.

Good luck!

The term "subcraft" is a really bad one in my opinion. Just the use of that word seems to suggest there is something special about the required skills that are not the highest. After all, all crafting rules must be satisfied for every skilled involved in a recipe. Even your HQ tiers must be satisfied for all required skills.

What I really wanted to mention though is break rates on recipes requiring multiple skills. Typically, you will have a higher failure rate on those. This is though to be due to both skills requiring checks.

Actually, it's 15 levels. This is useful for skilling up by forcing breaks.

Edited, Jul 7th 2011 12:05pm by xypin