Quote Originally Posted by larrymc View Post
I always stand in a particular direction while crafting depending on the crystal. I can find no hard evidence that this helps significantly - but I figure that it cant hurt.

I find this statement about the new Geomancer job seems to favor the idea that SE could have put a directional component into the crafting system. At least the idea has been in their mindset.
I think it's just a playful nod to the direction theory. We most certainly gave them the idea for it(although I don't put it past them for conceiving the idea of using direction for something due to the in game star chart, I think it is. But that could just be there for the sake of going with the elements and days. It could just be purely lore reasoning)

I'm relatively certain based on how SE folk have responded to questions about the theory that it's a bust theory. We basically got a lolareyouseriouslyaskingthat response. It seems good enough for me to say it's a bust theory but I don't know. I got tired of keeping up with it "just in case" and I can't really say anything has changed for me when crafting. Like I always say, if it's built into the system, it's barely barely BARELY worth the hassle. It's probably so little of a bonus/curse to your synth attempt that it's not even worth discussing.