A lot of misinformation and confusion surround the discovery system. As it's a hidden system, any information is mostly a guess. These are my observations and what I've been told.
- Difficulty of task must not be below 10 of the recipe looking to be discovered.
- Difficulty of task above the recipe does not give a higher chance of discovery.
- Difficulty -1 gives highest chance
- For lower difficulty, divide discovery chance by how much lower the task is.
- Longer tasks are better (numbers are completely my own observations, no d
- 2hr+ tasks are near 100% discovery chance (at -1 difficulty)
- 1hr+ tasks are around 50% (my estimation) (at -1 difficulty) (not 55 minute)
- For an approximation below 1 hour, take 50%, mulitply by fraction of time
- for a 30 minute task, multiply 50% by .5 hr and get 25%.
- for a 5 minute task, multiply 50% by .12 for ~6%.
- for a 30 minute task, 10 below recipe, multiply 50% but .5, then divide by 10 = 5%
- Discovery chances have nothing to do with skill up chances
- It is possible to get both a discovery and a skill up
- It is possible to get a discovery on recipes that do not have a chance to skill up