Hey Jacky, my 6 stack no-skill up stint can be found here with screenshots viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6104&start=70

There should be well over 100 synths there. It's important to note that I was crafting 2 levels from cap, crafting without support and without +skill gear.

Also in that thread is the next crafting session I had which went as follows:

My skill: 86. Target synth: Wamoura Silk (88). Skill difference: 1-2 levels (I hit 87 during this).

Synths: 105
Breaks: 27
Skillups: 12 * 0.1
HQ: 1

Skill-up %: 11.4%

My skill: 87. Target synth: Wamoura Cloth (90). Skill difference: 3 levels.

Synths: 62
Breaks: 21
Skillups: 6 * 0.1
HQ: 0

Skill-up %: 9.6%

From this session, over a total of 167 synths my skill-up rate was 10.78%.

From those numbers being 3 levels from the craft didn't seem that much different from being 2 levels from the craft. That being said, the only way I've been able to push through 90+ is by ignoring any recipe that is less than 2 levels from cap (at this level I still sort of can). That means I didn't do wamoura cloth (Or I did, but I started at 87). I skipped rainbow cloth after crafting stacks and stacks with no skill-ups, and I started errant slops / dance shoes at 88 even though they were much more expensive on paper than the 2 level gap alternative. It's not all sunshine and rainbows but it is better. I crafted approximately 23 rainbow capes at 6 from cap with standard support with 1 skill-up and 1 HQ.

Even the results of the two tests above are crazy inconsistent though. One session is over 100 synths with no skill-ups and the other is 167 synths with 18 skill-ups. I really don't know what to make of this spread. Even at 10% skill-up rate going 0/100+ is incredibly improbable. Speaking with other crafters it seems that others have also experienced this feast or famine effect, but without numbers and context to back it up it's really difficult to figure out what's going on.

Also, every time someone chimes in that 10% skill-up rate is okay makes me question my sanity a little. Skilling up on dalmaticas at level 98-100, that would mean you would need 25,000,000 gil on behemoth hides alone, for ONE level. At 2 hides per kill, 50 Behemoths would have to die for one clothcrafter to raise one level between 98-100. And that's not even factoring in the cost of Siren's Macrame, of which you'd need 60,000,000 in siren's hair alone. Get out of here with that it's okay shit, unless we're 100% abandoning any semblance to retail.

Just one of many reasons the ENM loot pool on Like the Wind should be brought back. Galateias for the Blessed Briaults would help you out a ton. The only comfort you can take is that you can stop at 99. There is not one single worthwhile synth that is exlusive for us 100's other than getting a t3 on mohbwa scarf(whoopdedoo). You can obtain 105 with gear, support, and furniture from 99 and it is no longer possible to reach 107 at all so there really will be no point in going all the way to 100. That is quite awful luck you had on that wamoura.. Some of you new CC's would throw up if I had some ss's of my old skill up logs. I got 2 .3 skill ups and a .2 while 99. FeelsBadMan.

having people come in and tell you it's okay is just straight up mind-boggling.

I don't know if you're referring to the people telling you this without evidence, but as you can see i've shown you the picture from todays synth and the data from the last 7 days on a newly started craft since some people and also you yourself were asking for more evidence above 60+ post crafting patch instead of just "talking" about experience.

My skill up rate was absoheckinglutely retail accurate where i also had CC at 99 and i felt no difference in the skill up process, yours however looks like shit and completely random.
Doesn't mean that every crafter on this server will experience the same you or i did and i swear if i'd level CC to 90 on my alt the next 7 days i could get a complete different skill up%, who knows, fact is that some things are definitely off and random.
GL in convincing Nasomi tho with just a few hundred examples, took a hecking year to convince him that the claim system was broken and that was only possible with Nabutso acting as a middleman.

The old system made you think and plan, you know like a video game. Now it's nothing but a shitty slot machine. Square dropped the ball by not having an in depth system. Whoever created the system of moon/day/direction picked that ball up. Some people just couldn't accept the fact that this game, as it was on retail, still could've been improved upon. So this is what we get now. GL.

Say what you want about modern game casualization etc, but I like that I can treat crafting as a hobby and not my job. I like that I can compete in at least one place on the server without making real-world sacrifices. I prefer not having to plan my life around FFXI days and moon phases.