Direction while crafting

[Frost]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

I love this shit.... Hear it all the time:

"I always craft on/facing X day/direction and I get X results."
If you always do it... Then how do you know if it works when you don't?

"I got X HQ in a row on a <element> synth and it's <unfavorable day/direction to craft>! must be a freak accident. That's funny cause I didn't HQ even once on <assumed favorable crystal day>."

Or the inverse:

"That's wierd I just critical broke/nq'd a <element> synth X times in a row, and it's <favorable element day/direction>, must be a fluke."
Yeah, that must be it...

People see what they want to see.
Does it hurt to do it? Naw. Preaching it as fact when it's been proven in the more negative light as "bullshit" and the more positive light as "Not significant enough to produce results", is dumb.

[Kristal]

Does it hurt to do it? Naw.

Actually, it can. If your understanding of directional crafting is wrong, then it could be having exactly the opposite effect.
Only when you know that it has NO effect, can you say that it doesn't hurt to do so.

[Godofgods]

Or the inverse:

"That's wierd I just critical broke/nq'd a <element> synth X times in a row, and it's <favorable element day/direction>, must be a fluke."
Yeah, that must be it...

Nothing is quite as annoying in game as when that happens. One time when i was at 100ww i was doing a lvl 60 synth for GP. Limited mets, and i fail three times in a row!

[Kristal]

Nothing is quite as annoying in game as when that happens. One time when i was at 100ww i was doing a lvl 60 synth for GP. Limited mets, and i fail three times in a row!

Try crit failing 3 of 4 arrowwood lumber synths at WW 100... I'm more inclined to believe that the RNG favors similar results within a short timeframe (due to a bad seed routine) then direction. Sometimes it's good, sometimes bad.. (usually the bad for me, and the good for the guy next to me, but that's Life in Vana'diel for you...)