Raaaaaage!!

[Jinrya-Geki]

Look at the moon phase as well. Half moon I fail synthesis like I was a level 1 synthesizing and item level 30 or higher.

[TheVedis]

Look at the moon phase as well. Half moon I fail synthesis like I was a level 1 synthesizing and item level 30 or higher.

moon phase has no effect on crafting, this has been confirmed in the past by developers around launch and nothing has been changed to it "yet"

[Jinrya-Geki]

moon phase has no effect on crafting, this has been confirmed in the past by developers around launch and nothing has been changed to it "yet"

I can't prove it, but it's extremely odd that every time I see the moon phase not half moon I hardly fail. Then as soon as the half moon shows up, I fail so bad it's pathetic.

Would you have a link to the page where developers said it doesn't affect crafts?

[JackDaniels]

What?! Why?! Why do that?! Repetition compounds success, not hinder it! That is utterly and completely backwards, pointless and stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Where's the executive who came up with that idea? I want to waterboard that person. Waterboard!

You can overtrain in many things. Overtraining leads to exhaustion and overanalyzing, which in the end could be more detrimental in the long run. I think it only effects you if you don't stand up every now and then though. Ie: eat food every .5 hours and you should be fine.

moon phase has no effect on crafting, this has been confirmed in the past by developers around launch and nothing has been changed to it "yet"

Lol I was gonna ask how you are the first to post in virtually every thread, but yeah I'd be on here all the time too if I was you lol

[tymora]

If you believe it works, it works, regardless of all evidence to the contrary.

[Jinko]

Would you have a link to the page where developers said it doesn't affect crafts?

I don't have a link, but he basically said believe what you want to believe, which sounded to me like its all in your head son!

[leomike35]

That sucks. I use fulfillment rapid twice or until i get 60 or so progress. Then I i careful til done or until i have 88ish progress or are about 20 something durability left then I preserve and use standard and I get decent quality and low failure rates. Even using that system there are still times where fails happen. It is frustrating but like others say one must endure or take a break.

[Lyniaer]

Here's a video that perfectly compliments my request to Square.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-97uRkzRg

[Eldaena]

Eldaena is right. It pulls you out of the synth after...150? Some incredibly reach-for-the-stars number. My gripe is succeeding a synth with a 5 level spread and failing it consistently with a 2 level spread. My carpenter's 22 and I often...OFTEN...fail Level 5 Leves. It just seems like the whole color-changing and Standard/Rapid/Careful ...blah blah blah... It's all entirely pointless. Well, it was entirely pointless until they started offering bonus XP for increased Quality. But the crafting system is still so completely random. Sometimes I find myself succeeding more on Red than on White over a period of time. An LS member called it a Placebo Effect and I was only seeing what I wanted to see to justify my complaints. Nope. I counted one day. 110/161 synths through Red were Neutral or Successful while only 49/114 White were Neutral or Successful. That means, after 100 synthesis attempts, I failed Red 51 times and failed white 65 times. The numbers seem only oddly close and I was not using any abilities other than Tender Touch and the level spread was -5.
You find when you start crunching numbers, the results of the math definitely point something either we're missing or SE screwed up. Unless they incorporated facing directions on certain days during certain whether under a certain moon phase after battling a certain monster, eating a certain food and committing a certain crime with a certain balloon animal stapled to your forehead with only 1/4" aluminum BOSCH staples...like they did in XI...and we just haven't realized it yet.

Oh, I forgot, moon phases could possibly effect synthesis as well. It was never confirmed or denied by Yoshida, but it is something.

[JackDaniels]

Oh, I forgot, moon phases could possibly effect synthesis as well. It was never confirmed or denied by Yoshida, but it is something.

Full moon = +craftsmanship
New moon = +control