Unstable Elements, especially Lightning, needs to be revised

[tymora]

So...Electrum Ring is a rank 44 magic craftsmanship recipe and you're trying at 35. 9 rank difference, runaway instability, not surprising. I do not know what is your magic craftsmanship at, so can't comment on that.

As for Buffalo Leather, well, you should be well over the "recommended craftsmanship" values. If assuming you are using the proper facility and have the treatise, then I admit something is wrong here.
-> Have you tried increasing both your Lightning and Earth affinity? Never tried it myself nor have I ever encountered this problem at 30-ish Tanner, but I heard this helps.

My own experience is that I get ice more often than lightning and my affinities for those are 80/92 respectively.

[DoubleEcho]

So...Electrum Ring is a rank 44 magic craftsmanship recipe and you're trying at 35. 9 rank difference, runaway instability, not surprising. I do not know what is your magic craftsmanship at, so can't comment on that.

As for Buffalo Leather, well, you should be well over the "recommended craftsmanship" values. If assuming you are using the proper facility and have the treatise, then I admit something is wrong here.
-> Have you tried increasing both your Lightning and Earth affinity? Never tried it myself nor have I ever encountered this problem at 30-ish Tanner, but I heard this helps.

My own experience is that I get ice more often than lightning and my affinities for those are 80/92 respectively.

Lightning is 83, Craftsmanship is 78 and Magical Craftsmanship is 66. The synth was higher than my rank but it was still able to be completed most of the time (meaning unless I got unstable lightning).

I saw this often too with Hippogryph and Raptor Sinew synths when I had the proper training and was either at or above optimal rank. It's a synth that takes lit shards, so that seems to increase the chance you'll get it. But still, waiting it out at times is made impossible.

With unstable Lightning, if you're equipping 5 actions and using them all, and waiting 3 times before using each action (we'll assume they all proc for you when you need to use them) you'll have 15 waits at the minimum and 30 dura lost. If they don't proc and/or you don't have the points for 5, you could be losing 40-50 dura just for waiting it out, and it may not even go away after that. I think it's just a little too extreme.