The idea of having little abilities you can use during synthesis is awesome, the only problem is that most of the ones I've tried not only do not help, they actually make it worse!

Take Masterpiece, the ability says that it increases the chance of success for Careful Synthesis. I swear every time I use it, my Careful Synthesis fails roughly 3/4 times, if not, 4/4. It doesn't matter if I'm making a level 15 item at rank 15, or I'm making a level 1 item at rank 15. It says that it's most effective with mass production. I'm not sure exactly what that means, or if crafting an item that outputs 3 of an item counts as mass production, but it doesn't seem to matter because I've tried it while doing the 9 stack lumber synthesis and it STILL botches every synthesis I make.

Is anyone else experiencing this, or am I simply cursed by the twelve to forever have my crafts break whenever I use an ability?