% chance of obtaining?

[Makado]

It feels to me like they dont reflect what they say. Almost every time I would have a 99% chance to gain item, it seems like always would fail once. Or at a 75% chance would fail like 4 times in a row, just seems weird to me. And it seems consistently like this, not just here or there. Any thoughts?

[xnonamex]

The percentage might seem off.. but the more you gather (haven't tested with crafting) the more the percentage reflect the actual outcome. For example when gathering i get average HQ for ~100 nodes at around 20%. And usually i actually get around ~20 HQ items and 80 normal... of course sometimes it varies a bit...

Ofc i also feel frustrated when i have something like 50% HQ in mining and i don't get a single HQ from 5 attempts....

[Ayelwen]

Had three 98% fail in a row, had four 83% fail in a row. I honestly feel like they're using a Round-Down somewhere.

The 98% were HQ Percentage in Culinarian. (I completed the synthesis, but the product came out NQ, three times in a row, with 98% HQ all three times.)

83% were gathering attempts on Botanist. I've noticed huge discrepancies while on my botanist. I keep thinking I want to write down the % and whether it failed or succeded for like a week or two to find out what the % actually turns out to be. But then I realize.. Im just trying to get to 50 and I'm not going to waste time fiddling with pencil and paper.

EDIT:

Also, here's a brief post on someone who also talks about the RNG a little bit. Granted, he hasn't reach 50.
http://www.keenandgraev.com/2013/08/...ffxiv-crafting