I have 400 crafting and allways brake down 5/5 items.. but i never seem to be able to get grater epiphanies or anything at all except components ... am i doing something wrong? how the hell dose one get those darn things?

I found that if I stack enough where I should be getting 8 stars, I get a greater epiphany about 1/4 of the time.

I dunno if I'm just being stupid stacking up that much.

they need to give it a higher chance of happening i broke 24 lvl 37+ items and did not got a single one

24? Sometimes I can have a string of breakdowns and not get one, but generally I get them pretty often. Maybe 15-25% of my research creates one.

yet again .. 20 items .. and NOTHING .... starting to really **** me off

Yup, there are thousands of players, even unusual events like that will occur. You just basically flipped tails 24 times in a row.

so you are saying its a 50/50 chance then....

Not much a comfort there, though, particularly as lesser epiphanies can also happen, but are useless after buying the appropriate blueprints of that tier. I've got 11 tier 2 epiphanies banked, and still need tier 1. A conversion would be nice (not necessarily even between ranks of epiphanies, but possibly for other mats?), as would some other consolation for maxed out bars and four-star items yielding nothing: like, say, a piece of a tier epiphany, requiring several others before they can be used.

I think it's about 1/4. I've had 2 in a row but also nothing on 6 attempts.

I've only gotten one out of about 20 5/5 researches. This is with me making the cheapest 380 skill mat blues I can then using them to research on.