How to these specific buffs work ?Follow

Im playing with chemistry buffs ,
experiment , reaction , and theory .

But when using them aside from correcting mistakes , i notice they cause random effects. Like for instance , when i use theory to try and increase progress, it says it will lower my power , all i notice is that usually my blue bar jumps significantly and the green bar doesnt drop that badly , but when i try reaction or expirement , the blue goes up a little and the green goes down ALOT , i mean like a ton .
(plz excuse the newbness of calling em blue and green bars still trying to get a feel for what they are and how to balance em out to get pristine results)
Anyways , can anyone help explain these a lil bit ? Im also curious as to if they increase my skill faster in chemistry if I spam the buffs .
Any info would be helpfull , or if a nice guild for this is somewhere that link would be great. Thx in advance

Edited, Wed Feb 2 13:46:27 2005 by Geocide

Ok i read that twice now , and i think i understand it . However , i notice that the one buff that tells me it boosts progress at the cost of power , never really seems to do that . I usually get a double hit when using it . Like both my durability and progress will take a hit right after using the buff , is this just bad luck or am I doing something wrong ?
For instance I use theory and then POW both my durability and progress take major hits , so that makes me ask myself "whats the point of this so called "buff" or am i just super unlucky ?"
Dunno , still trying to get the hang of this , I'm sure I am doing something wrong but i even tried being that "button masher " that the guide reffered to and i still cant keep the recipe from going to garbage :( .
Just looking for input on the wisdom of yall who have been doin this for a lil while . I just started crafting 2 days ago so help is appreciated .

Reading through it once again ,i understand better the part about pushing durability into reserve and then working on progress, however , none of my buffs for chemistry say that they boost durability .
expirement-Raises progress, but lowers power.
Reaction-Raises progress, but lowers power.
Theory-Increases your progress, but lowers your power.

so all say that they raise progress , but what ones do i use to raise durability ? Im getting this slowly but surely , but this part confuses me . How do i boost durability if i dont have a buff that does so ?

Edited, Wed Feb 2 16:27:14 2005 by Geocide

those are the original buffs.However the advanced versions of em (lvl 10 and lvl 20) look to be the same .
All say raises progress but lowers power . I mean the wording for the buffs are almost identical , which also leads me to ask , whats the diffrence between em if they all raise progress and lower power?
I can tell you this much , that guide the was posted above
is great but it talks about buffing durability . I have NEVER in 9 levels seen the durability go up , buffs or no buffs, ... ever . It always goes down , so I assume the error is lying with me somewhere .

OOOOHH , ok now it makes sence , so basically from 1-10 im screwed for actually being able to buff durability and just have to make due with progress buffs. Ok well its a bummer but at least now I know whats going on . LOL i was driving myself crazy with why i couldnt buff durability . LMAO .
I really appreciate all yalls help with this !

The link to the Advanced Guide is at the top of the Basic Guide.

Yes, from levels 1 through 9, you cannot buff durability. From 10 on, you can buff durability in one area only. I found that when I chose craftsman as a class, I got three new buffs (same icons as before) and these buff durability, but only for that skill of craftsman. Now 90% of the combines I do are not this skill. So all the food I make as a future provisioner do not get the joy of using these buffs, because that skill was culinary, not craftsman. And some of the woodworking tasks I did for the trade society did not use that skill either, they used instead woodworking skill. Therefore the vast majority of the time I could not buff durability even from levels 10-19. Those buffs came in handier once I reached 20 and the majority of the things I was making were more narrowly defined and actually using the buffs I had been given.

Did anyone else find this to be the case?

/agree with Cobra.

You got a set of three for each of the three possible paths you might take at level 20. In fact, the cooking buffs worked so well that when I hit level 20 this weekend I almost chose cooking, (artistry), over woodworking, (fletching). I even considered carpentry, (sculpting), cause I've been having fun making beds and bookcases and stuff but getting really good at making bows and arrows won out in the end!