Square Enix, please think about both Casual AND Hardcore crafters..

[Elamys]

I disagree with the idea that (for crafting only) RNG never equals a challenge. Yes, it could. A good crafter, who understood how to use their abilities and how the entire system worked together, could either rise above bad RNG or use good RNG to their advantage. In HW I never used Rath's because it was a completely ridiculous rotation, I was willing to sacrifice some of the guarantee of getting HQ for the time I'd save, and there were multiple instances in my rotation where I had to know how my abilities worked together and what would be affected if I took a certain action (should I use Tricks here or a touch, how many Rapid Synths can I fail before I have to reclaim, etc). I understand it's frustrating to have RNG work against you, but I still rarely failed to get HQ and it felt great if I did manage to HQ something that was hard to get there.

Crafting does feel too easy right now and it felt too easy in Stormblood too. I'm holding out hope that they were serious when they said there would be challenges for the Ishgard restoration.