Thanks for nothing SE on 3 star crafting!

[MN_14]

Crafting is heavily based on luck, especially at 3*/4* level. If you don't get enough good procs you probably will have to Reclaim. If you fail too many Hasty Touches or Rapid Synths you will have to Reclaim. If your Reclaim fails then your are just screwed. It's poor balance overall.

Don't get me wrong, HQ mats and good judgement help a lot, but RNG dictates the difficulty of a synth more than it really should.

Luck is definitely a factor because you can still fall flat on your face no matter how good your strategy is. However, the basic idea is that with a good strategy your hq yield should be much higher than if you were to use a poor strategy, which is probably the intent behind such a system.

When crafting, you have to accept the fact that you won't always get an hq or get your materials back by reclaiming. Fortunately, with a good approach, you should end up with the result you want most of the time.