Power infusion nerfs?

Anner

Before this patch, infusion was easier on items that already had the stat you were after. For example, infusing a Fomorian Book or Blue Kitty Brooch with critical was relatively easy.

However, just now I spent 100 stones on a Blue Kitty Brooch and I never got my desired +2 crit infusion. I rolled +1 crit resistance twice, +2 balance once, +168 m.att once, and -2 critical once.but never +2 critical. Am I just incredibly unlucky or were the rates drastically reduced?

Hally

200 stones on dulla armor. Got -31 def infusion 15 times. Got +def zero times. Just luck if you ask me.

XXlockdownXX

80 stones on a thorn ring (2xbal+2, attack speed +1 , crit resist +1 , 2x - 2bal ,8x hp +10 and many will +3 -3 and the other ones)
P.S. the balance i got after 28-30 stones.
And got error 404 Crit +2 (Not Found)

Altagon

Noticed the same thing but like people said, maybe Videk is just stupid to everyone at some point http://forums.vindictus.nexon.net/discussion/11054/infusion-post-rise

inb4 the rates of good infusions were "drastically increased" the same way droprate of purples was "drastically increased"

Ellease

Previously had expected natural stats to land within 15 stones in most cases pre-RISE. With this in mind, about 5% of my items exceeded the 20 stone marker (one being White Kitty Brooch).
Post-RISE, the two items I tried infusing were disasters; over 35 stones were used on the Cry with no positive, and about 45-55 stones were used on a Thorn for Bal.
Just the cycle of RNG? You never know.

Aquamakeesha

RNG for infusion is rolled every minute, not every infusion. If you don't mind spending the extra time, only do 1-3 infusions on your piece every minute. No point in wasting infusions on a bad roll. That said, whenever there's a new update with new gear and/or scrolls being added, a lot of people in NA always seem to have 'rotten luck' the first week (not just vindictus, throughout Nexon NA's games). Try waiting out the minutes after next maint when nexon puts rng rolls where they should be.

Anner

Altagon wrote: »

Noticed the same thing but like people said, maybe Videk is just stupid to everyone at some point http://forums.vindictus.nexon.net/discussion/11054/infusion-post-rise

inb4 the rates of good infusions were "drastically increased" the same way droprate of purples was "drastically increased"

I didn't actually see your post beforehand, apologies for piggybacking off of you. I normally buy pre-infused stuff, but infuse my own things when they're "easy" to infuse, so this really caught me off guard.

KenshinX

Meanwhile I'm on my third +2 crit Innocent Cry using no more than 15 stones

Anner

KenshinX wrote: »

Meanwhile I'm on my third +2 crit Innocent Cry using no more than 15 stones

This is pretty relieving to hear honestly. I hope I just had a very bad streak of luck.

Altagon

Anner wrote: »

I didn't actually see your post beforehand, apologies for piggybacking off of you. I normally buy pre-infused stuff, but infuse my own things when they're "easy" to infuse, so this really caught me off guard.

No worries, just wanted to bring in a few others' responses to the infusion situation.

Anner wrote: »

KenshinX wrote: »

Meanwhile I'm on my third +2 crit Innocent Cry using no more than 15 stones

This is pretty relieving to hear honestly. I hope I just had a very bad streak of luck.

Yeah, I would honestly rather it be a personal bad-luck streak than a global ninja patch (like the droprate of purples which I don't think even KR has fixed yet +cold)
At this point though, I wouldn't even be surprised, given the introduction of the new infusion runes ._.

Tamago

Easy on items with the stat on it already means 50 stones on average. Nothing was nerfed, you just got unlucky and Blue Kitty Brooch is annoying to infuse because there is also def on it.

Karamyth

I think the rate is nerfed because I did try infusing post RISE on my blue kitty brooch, I spent 80 stones and not even -2 crit infusion popped once, and you can search my comment on it on Discord. It was around the week RISE was launched.

Also, pre-RISE, I only spent about 25 stones for my +2 crit infusion and +2 balance on both my earrings and belt

Rainboots

It's probably just bad rolls.

I rolled +2 balance on a woeful belt in 2 stones, but I've dumped around 40 stones on armours to get defense and still haven't gotten them.

Anner

Rainboots wrote: »

It's probably just bad rolls.

I rolled +2 balance on a woeful belt in 2 stones, but I've dumped around 40 stones on armours to get defense and still haven't gotten them.

It's a possibility. I'm thinking they did decrease the chances of crit, for the simple fact that I actually rolled balance during my attempts too.

Saphree

Idk, it's weird rn cause I managed +2 crit on one Grim Belt and +2 bal on another? But I can't get anything for my Innocent Cry or Tear

Motherly

I got +2 crit on my innocent cry and +2 bal* on woeful both with 2nd tries o.o' (new to infusing XD) tried with wep too and got -2 bal and cried inside but got that removed asap >.< to att +130 so idk

Tamago

Nice necro, dude.