Regular Crafting, Expert Recipes and Resplendent Tools, thoughts after hiatus.

[Mithrahn]

Skybuilders' Expert Recipes:
~10K Difficulty & 76939 quality (but only need 65000 quality), 60 durab. With Centered.

Restoration(4) Expert Recipes (Ishgardian Restoration Expert Recipes):
12,046 Difficulty & 81,477 Quality, 55 durab. No Centered, but with Malleable and Primed.

Resplendent Expert Recipes A:
12,089 Difficulty & 75,378 Quality, 55 durab. With Centered.

Resplendent Expert Recipes B:
12,132 Difficulty & 78,180 Quality, 55 durab. No Centered, but with Malleable and Primed.

Resplendent Expert Recipes C:
13,024 Difficulty & 85,033 Quality, 60 durab. With ALL conditions, including Centered, Malleable and Primed.

In my opinion, the hardest one is actually Restoration(4) Expert Recipes. So I am not sure why you labeled Resplendent Recipes alone as "Impossible to succeed without RNG". Although Resplendent Recipes C has more difficulty and quality to fill, it has 60 durab and all the conditions, including Centered. Whenever we have Centered, then Patient Touch can be utilized, and so it's a lot easier. Sure, this is dependent on RNG. But so are the Restoration(4) recipes then. If you're going to label Resplendent recipes that way, you might as well label the Restoration(4) recipes as well.

Anyway, RNG is RNG. We always fail some. But the overall fail rate isn't that high. I usually fail 1/10 times or less for any of these Expert Recipes. At worst failing 2/10 times. Imo it isn't so bad. Are you failing more than this %?

Restoration 4
Difficulty: 12046
Quality: 81477
Min: 5800-6499
Med: 6500-7399
Max: 7400+

Resplendent A
Difficulty: 12089
Quality: 75378
Min: 6300-7499
Max: 7500+

Resplendent B
Difficulty: 12132
Quality: 78180
Min: 6500-7799
Max: 7800+

Resplendent C
Difficulty: 13024
Quality: 85033
Min: 7000-8499
Max: 8500+

I almost never fail any recipe pre Resplendent, it's always possible to get Min Rating when RNG hates you, but Resplendent can be a flip of a coin, or outright impossible when RNG hates you.
I am not surprised that you don't fail any expert recipe, most of them are easy enough, but I understand that you're waiting for level 90 before tackling Resplendent Tools, so you're missing the full picture.
I do agree that Resplendent C is a lot easier than A and B though.

Edit: To clarify, the problem isn't difficulty, don't laser focus on my "categorization", the problem(?) is Expert Crafting can still be refined, and I have suggested possible improvements, I'm not expecting any of them to be done and I'm not expecting many to agree with my opinions, but feedback is feedback and if anyone would like to point me to a better venue to send direct feedback, I'd be happy to send mine that way.