[SIZE="6"]A Short Guide to Production Parties[/SIZE]
Because it seems like 99% of Mabi doesn't know how the hell a production party works...
[SIZE="5"]What is a Production Party?[/SIZE]
Production Party : A party of players that shares a bonus to the success rate or completion rate of the following production Life Skills...
Success Rate Increase : Carpentry, Handicraft, Potion Making, Refining, Weaving
Completion Rate Increase : Blacksmithing, Tailoring
(Completion Rate Increase boosts the creation percent of unfinished items. It does not boost finishing grade)
[SIZE="5"]How does it work?[/SIZE]
There is only one skill that adds to the bonus of a Production Party. It is NOT Production Mastery, but the actual skill that is being used.
Production Mastery is not needed at all to make use of a Production Party, and does not add any benefit aside from the 1-15% success rate increase to yourself only.
[SIZE="5"]How does it help?[/SIZE]
For every player (besides yourself) that has the skill being used, a 1% bonus is applied.
For every player (besides yourself) with the skill ranked at or above what you are making, that bonus is increased to 5%.
Depending on the skill, these bonuses are applied to either the Success Rate or Completion Rate of the item being made.
Example :
4 Rank 1 Potion Makers in a party would give a 15% boost to each other.
This 15% boost applied towards Poison Potions (40% + 15% Production Mastery = 55% Base) would be 55% * 115% = 63.25% (decimals are not shown).
(This is multiplicative to the weather bonus, cloudy adding 0% and thunder adding 10%)
[SIZE="5"]Conclusion[/SIZE]
Since a player who developed the specific life skill adds 5%, and a player who isn't developed only adds 1%, a player with the proper ability is worth 5 other players.
In other words, a party of 3 ranked Tailors (+10%) would be better than 8 non-ranked Tailors (+7%). A full party of ranked Life Skillers would add +35%, being 28% better than a random party.
In short...
1. Dedicated Production Parties can be better than "universal" Production Parties, even if only 2 other people join. It is in your best interest both to form, and to join, dedicated parties.
2. Production Mastery requisites on Production Parties do not serve any purpose. A noobie with rF Mastery and r5 Refine would be better than somebody else with r1 Mastery and rF Refine.
So, do everybody a favor and keep these mechanics in mind. Better Production Parties help everybody in the server.