Patient touch and steady hands

[Taelyn]

I wonder if Steady Touch isn't broken myself. I have a level 30ish all craft character that has been frustrating me with the number of failures I get and did a little testing of my own before coming to the forums. In my case, I made 138 Growth Formula Betas on my low 30 ALC. I have level appropriate HQ gear averaging ilvl 27. I tracked 1000 uses of the combo Basic Touch (70%) + Steady Hand (10%) for an 80% chance of success raising quality. Roughly about 6 to 9 uses per Beta depending on the number of good/excellent conditions manifested. Of that 1000 uses, only 486 were successful. That's a roughly 49% chance when it should be closer to 80%.

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm also using Pea Soup for the added CP and took into account the guaranteed fail fest you get when gear hits 10 and 0% condition or 100% spirit bond. Those I subtracted from the overall total.