Crafting/Gathering Percentages

[Azoryl]

People complain about the craziest things. RNG is Random.. shock and awe. I don't see anyone here complaining that they got 5 HQ gathers in a row when their HQ rate is 20% or lower. I don't see people complaining when they HQ 2 or 3 craft with 10% or lower.

If it goes against you it must be broken!

[Keoeson]

Just to be clear, a one in 6 chance that a dice will land on 5 does not mean that one of 6 rolls will be a 5. You could throw the dice 100 times and not get a single 5.

Yes, but the chance of that is only .0000012%, so rather unlikely.

Likewise, the RNG doesn't refer to previous rolls. Each and every time, it's the same chance as if it'd been the first roll.

That's not really true, pseudo RNG have a state and are generally designed to provide good distribution of the generated numbers. The amount of unlikely craft/gather sequences makes it very unlikely that SE uses a standard pseudo RNG. They doing something weird with it, but without any official statement it's impossible to tell whether it's intentional or not.

[MurakumoMillennium]

98% no for mean 100%. If RNG make for roll of not 100% but instead 98% 2% will be for miss.