Talk:Smithing/@comment-42.115.142.144-20150515085243/@comment-26215551-20150518210139

While I cannot confirm whether the so-called "Kami recipe" actually works better than other recipes or not, there's no need to call a recipe a "fraud" when the people in the comments here have only done a handful of trials, which does not give a representative size of data. Pretty much every recipe will give you a ton of 1:30s, whether you like it or not. There is no one recipe that will guarantee that you get a rare sword.

The recipes listed on the Smithing page have been tried thousands of times and recorded on the Japanese wiki, and as such have approximate percentages listed. Until the same has been done for the "Kami recipe" to see if it actually works better or not, you can't draw a conclusion about it. This is really not worth arguing over.