Perfection & Flawlessness Broken

Are both of these crafting abilities broken?

Perfection has the description "ensures success of next action", but it fails.

Flawlessness has the description "temporarily prevents the increase in risk", but I fail to see how this is even working at all, as the crafting orb can go from white to something much riskier and can even go unstable. I just bought this tonight and I think I wasted 12K hard earned guild marks.

(Sorry for the double post. I originally posted this in the general discussion thread, and it was suggested I repost here.)

I have also purchased and tested Perfection and have noticed that it can outright fail a synthesis. Like all of the one turn skills as well, it has a high chance of failing to activate and have no effect. The description is very misleading.

Example:
Perfection used > Success
Rapid Synthesis used > Failure 0 progress gained, 17 durability lost, no aetherial sparking or elemental destablization at the time, risk = white ball

Although the chances of this are quite slim, it did cost me 12,000 guild marks and is 7 action point to equip with a optimal rank of 50. (I believe using it on a class below rank 50 decreases the chances of skill activation.) Getting 2 treatise books might be better if you skipped out on them to plan on getting this. They will help out better in the long run especially since the best crafting skills are optimal rank 10. (Preserve, Fufillment, Tender Touch)

Thanks for trying to clear this up. I have every book for crp, wvr, and lth.

Since, as you point out, this is optimal R50, I can understand if the chance for activation is diminished at a lower rank. However, when the ability takes affect, I would expect, based on the description, that a successful synth attempt would result. If this is 'performing as intended' then SE needs to change the description of the ability.

As far as Flawlessness goes, I hope someone can verify whether it's working or not. Unlike Perfection, where it works the majority of the time, I see absolutely no benefit whatsoever from Flawlessness, and 12K guild marks is alot to pay for a worthless ability.

Hey there you two!

We'll be happy to forward the concern to be looked into. Before we can do that though, we'll need some more information. Could you please fill out the following, zzapp?
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