Crafting bug?

[Celorn]

This is the 2nd time I've lost a lvl25 crafted item to this bug.

In the sshot you can see me upgrading 1 shield from 20 to 25, then 25 to 30 with no problem.
The 2nd shield gets to the 25 upgrade no problem, but when I drop it in and select upgrade for the 30 upgrade I was a few gold short and it ATE the shield (ie: 2500xp & 100k gold down the drain).

This also happened with gloves on a different occasion - at least you can't lose 7500xp since it doesn't take the XP/gold if you don't have enough to upgrade, just doesn't give the lvl20 or 25 items back.

Anyone else see this happen? Any devs think they can solve it? I can easily recreate it if that helps debugging but i would like the xp/gold lost in that testing should it fail. (thx to ghostly for the help on this yesterday, lokey said to post this here...)

[Bargeld]

This may not be my place to speak, but maybe try it without a full inventory? Looks like the cause is due to the items being forcefully dropped. I would expect that if you know how to avoid a bug that impacts players .000001% of the time, then you should take it upon yourself to avoid it.

Perhaps it's something similar to the lag bug in stores when buying items, where you click the 'buy all' before all of the items have been 'echoed' back by the shopkeeper then you lose em due to the store not registering that you are carrying them (cuz lag hasn't put them in your inventory yet). I would guess its looking for an item in your inventory based on some ID# or identifier and that it gets confused in the process?

Or maybe I'm just plain wrong

[MrAsimov]

This happened to me pre-wipe. Didn't have enough gold to upgrade and the item was lost, along with the xp. Sadly I can't remember exactly what I was trying to upgrade at the time, only that it was rather annoying.

I made sure to always have enough money from then on.

[MLoki]

This does happen and is known. After it tells you how much it is going to cost you if you don't have the gold you lose the item whether you choose to upgrade it or not.

[cluckster]

I've haven't had this problem yet, everytime i've hadn't had the gold it was put back in inventory. The only thing i can think of is i only upgrade 1 item during a log in. Try relogging before upgrading a second item. Also the store bug i've notice with continue to happen until you relog. may be same type issue.

[Korr]

not 100% sure about this Bargeld, but I think just how crafting works you get it and its forced out and get it again, so if you have an empty inventory and start crafting staves, the firt (vertical) line in your inventory will not be taken up (ever), this includes the first time you are forced to drop something you can pick it up and it will fill that spot.

[Alkapwn]

Ok ! it seems this was fixed at some crafting stations but not at others.
This is an old bug. I'd dig em up but im soooooo lazy.
My advice is make sure you have all necessary space,xp,gold before going into said upgrade.
Pre-wipe I had 15+ crafters and prime and reflections combined and actually never had this happen to me but have been told the tales.
These are rare and powerful items make! Make sure you know what you are getting into before you spend.

[Chernobyl_Glow]

I lost two items this way as well. Of course both times it was just after having made the 2500 xp also. This happened to me once in Falme (Arcane) and once in Li'Norala (Tailor). I'm not sure where the stations are that have been fixed.

To cluck's point, it does not seem to happen unless you've already upgraded once and are trying the second upgrade. Relogging might help prevent it. (Not that I'm going to try it on purpose to find out)

I understand that this can be accomodated by being careful to monitor cash and xp before you upgrade an item and/or log save. However, the bug exists and should be noted.

- Glow -