What is wrong with reclaim?

[XiXiQ]

If you are using reclaim enough to get an accurate gauge of it's actual success/fail rate (hundreds/thousands of times), then you are doing something wrong at your crafting.

I have not used it hundreds or thousands of times. Not likely to either considering it's failure rate so far.

[MN_14]

I'm pretty sure the success rate of reclaim averages to 90% over a large enough sample size. For me, reclaim works the vast majority of times, although there have been times when I've had a number of failures in a row.

Like many players (most?), my luck seems to run in streaks, so I suspect that the algorithm used might not be the greatest.