Quote Originally Posted by Jinko View Post
How can it be based on skill when something bad happens and the skill is not there for me to use.

The skill is in saving an ability/skill in case of something occurring during synthesis or using it to help the progression of a particularly hard synth.
I explained it clearly. ^-^ You can stack your chances for success more towards your favor by gaining the abilities you use. However, the real task is utilizing the abilities at your disposal as they appear in your list of actions. It is almost definite that you will get some of your abilities regardless of the synth, but the uncertainty of synthesis brings about random abilities showing up at their own will. This is like a realistic aspect. Each situation is different, so each synthesis is as well. It's not like it's unfair to some people and not to others because the abilities are generated in anyone's command list randomly, regardless of your rank. It is what makes crafting a challenge and actually LESS monotonous than if we had all the abilities from the start of the synthesis.