Test tube results

[lachlaan]

It's not necessarily about it being preferable as much as it is about knowing that it's possible to get that big a shift in alchemical values at all. I personally dislike that people near always look at % purity changes when that's not a linear increase, instead what they should look at is amount of alchemical value shifted. For rabidursus's experiment it seems to be in the range 2.20 - 2.30, distributed in each case in the following formats :

Increase/decrease/decrease/increase
inc/dec/dec/dec
inc/inc/dec/dec

So from his experiment alone you could conclude that either 1 or two elements can go up at once with the others going down.

[Rabidursus]

Using 3 cotton cloths only. Each item was in the tube long enough for 3 changes.. I think this took about 6 hours total. Every change diminished the highest element in all my experiments, but after 11 events I got a purity increase of 4%!

First slot:
Original: 3.42/78.55/15.15/2.90/52%
1st change: Clearly Unstable 4.79/76.85/14.55/3.82/48%
2nd change: Clearly Unstable 7.01/75.26/14.34/3.39/45%
3rd change: Very Unstable 7.38/77.09/13.33/2.21/49% (this event gave purity increase)

1/11 or 9.09% chance to increase purity and main element in my small test

Please explain why salt increase was preferable to decrease on all other purities? (especially will all that you wasted, and factoring in all the others who have had explosions)

The end result was terrible, but from 2nd to 3rd change the highest element (merc) got an increase. If you are lucky you up your highest element on 1st change.

[Mereni]

Even the table explodes?