Direction while crafting

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While that is an official channel, I'm always mindful of what they say simply because I know how terrible SE usually is when it comes to translation error. While the site may be official it has a pathetic amount of information compared to other community sites.

Literally everything about Polarity and the way they displayed it suggested it will work based on positioning, even then name though that can go both ways. The mechanics are already in the game for how I see it working, while directional bonuses would have to be entirely new. Conveniently they left the image I'm thinking of off that site, but here it is;

That really doesn't say "The direction you face will enhance your spells" at all, it says "If you're North of the mob... If you're South of the mob...", though maybe the fact that it isn't on the site means they decided to change the fundamental workings of the ability just days after announcing it, which I guess wouldn't be all that surprising.

Well, other than what I've already said I have nothing else to say, we can wait for Geomancer to be released to get a clear answer on how Polarity works to prove or disprove what I said, though everything about empirical evidence and logic still remains true for directional crafting. If I'm wrong and Polarity works based on the direction you face, they may just add directional crafting some day, if I'm right and it is based off your position, people can continue to argue about directional crafting till the servers shut down.

Not that i'm surprised, but do you have any links to these tests? Would be nice to have bookmarked when people bring this up again.

While I'd love nothing more than to go looking for old links, its been years since I've cared about the topic enough to, I'd imagine somewhere like BG has some though (and I imagine that instantly discredits my opinion on directional crafting for most). I really don't see much reason in arguing the point anymore though, people who want to believe will believe and I can't really blame them, it would be nice to have some sort of control over the results of synthesis.
The burden of proof really belongs to the individuals who believe in the theory though, until they test it for themselves they'll likely just discredit any data you present them or more likely not even know how to interpret it.
Ultimately directional crafting is just arguing for arguments sake, I don't care what direction people face when they're crafting because direction doesn't mean a thing. It would be nice for this argument to finally be put to rest, but I doubt even a direct "Directional crafting? What are you stupid?" from the death bed of Tanaka himself would resolve the issue.