Kneeling/offensive while skinning

[Tgo01]

Encumberance plays a role as well. Keep your off hand open too, you'll see the results

Hold your smooth stone in your left hand and lay down for the best skinning results.

I can't keep up with all of these rules! :O

Although I could see encumbrance playing a role, my character is never encumbered so that's no problem.

[cwolff]

I can spout a lot of gibberish too but I don't need to.

All I have to say is:

573 > 572.

I win.

TG for the win. I have no idea what Latrin wrote, but I do understand 573>572!

[Dendum]

Hands open is a big one in my experience. I see no difference in stance

[Tgo01]

I figured if stance affects success rate then it makes sense to track success rate based on stance as well instead of just offensive/not offensive because the latter doesn't tell us much other than...y'know...offensive/not offensive.

So I have started my tracking all over again with better and improved tracking! YAY!

aivren gizzard success rates:
Successes|Fails|Total|Percent chance of success
Offensive|Kneeling:         21|10|31|(67.742%)
Offensive|Not Kneeling:     0 (0%)
Advance|Kneeling:           0 (0%)
Advance|Not Kneeling:       0 (0%)
Forward|Kneeling:           0 (0%)
Forward|Not Kneeling:       0 (0%)
Neutral|Kneeling:           0 (0%)
Neutral|Not Kneeling:       0 (0%)
Guarded|Kneeling:           0 (0%)
Guarded|Not Kneeling:       0 (0%)
Defensive|Kneeling:         0 (0%)
Defensive|Not Kneeling:     0 (0%)
Total Attempts:             31

I haven't heard of the open hand thing helping before, that's a new one on me so I didn't account for it in my script but this character always has a shield out when skinning so at least it will be consistent results.

Everyone should download the script skinme and post their results up! Just in case make sure to note whether or not you have an open hand when skinning when posting results. Also probably a good idea to remain wound free, at least with the hand/arm you skin with.

If you already have skinme be sure to download the latest version, run it and then type "skinme reset" to reset your stats so you're properly tracking the new stats.

[KneeCapper]

Sorry but don't lich. 2x FA and 2x Survival Halfling Ranger and have skinned thousands of war griffs. Off hand open, unencumbered, stance advance and don't try to get decent skins in the dark. I have tried and tried but my quality level always is off in the night for some reason

[Goat]

I did some research and stance and open hand last year. I posted it on the officials:

http://forums.play.net/forums/GemSto...et_newest=true
(also http://forums.play.net/forums/GemSto...et_newest=true for 702 vs 711)
(also http://forums.play.net/forums/GemSto...et_newest=true, difference between 1x/.5x and 1x/1x)

tl;dr: I saw a small increase in appraised skin quality from kneeling/stancing, but not real impact on skin value. It was all statistically insignificant. I never got enough trials on any of those posts to lock down small effects.

[Tgo01]

It was all statistically insignificant. I never got enough trials on any of those posts to lock down small effects.

You should download skinme and get more stats!

Someone in Shattered could have this settled for us in a few hours.

[Goat]

You should download skinme and get more stats!

Someone in Shattered could have this settled for us in a few hours.

I don't skin any more, sadly. All those TPs got dumped into pole arms/CM.

[Tgo01]

I don't skin any more, sadly. All those TPs got dumped into pole arms/CM.

Bad Goat!

[Goat]

Happy to send you my skinning scripts if you want. They're in that hacked-up-from-something-else-barely-makes-sense-and-only-works-for-me state, but they include doing a tally of skin quality, which I gather you haven't covered yet.