Crafting in General - OMG Fix It

[VenusDoom]

Also, one-time use abilities like Culmination etc. should not "fail to take effect". If im using space in my ability bar, have to wait for the ability to pop up, and it only works for one action anyway, it should always activate. Especially if i payed 12k guild marks for it, like Clean Slate. Failing to Clean Slate on r.12 or whatever Cotton Yarn as a 50 weaver while trying for HQ mats is ridiculous and a waste of 6 action points. Not to mention that the "increases success/quality of next action" just seem to actually make your next action fail harder anyway.

[Rentahamster]

Also, one-time use abilities like Culmination etc. should not "fail to take effect". If im using space in my ability bar, have to wait for the ability to pop up, and it only works for one action anyway, it should always activate.

Yes, yes, yes, oh god yes.

[Radaghast]

The one shot deals are all pretty much useless, which is amazing since they take up pretty much 80% of the skills you can use. If anything if they want to keep them as they are they should be 1-2 slot points at most. I can't think of any good ones I put on my bar except Harmonize and Perfection.

Clean Slate has a pretty limited use due to the fact that you can get +3 quality off NQ mats with it. If it worked all the time you wouldn't need +mats for anything but 35+ synths. You can still get a pretty good success rate if you use it at 40% progress or below. On average you can pull out 80-100 quality alone off that.

After you get Inspiration and a couple stat quality enhancers you don't even need it regardless (from a 35 synth or below perspective at lvl50).

[Rentahamster]

The one shot deals are all pretty much useless, which is amazing since they take up pretty much 80% of the skills you can use. If anything if they want to keep them as they are they should be 1-2 slot points at most. I can't think of any good ones I put on my bar except Harmonize and Perfection.

Clean Slate has a pretty limited use due to the fact that you can get +3 quality off NQ mats with it. If it worked all the time you wouldn't need +mats for anything but 35+ synths. You can still get a pretty good success rate if you use it at 40% progress or below. On average you can pull out 80-100 quality alone off that.

After you get Inspiration and a couple stat quality enhancers you don't even need it regardless (from a 35 synth or below perspective at lvl50).

If the skill is too good if you can use it 100% whenever you want, then nerf it slightly.

I'd rather have 100% consistency and reliability with a decent skill, than a really good skill that has a random activation and a random chance at failing.

Sometimes randomization is good and adds variety:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Dynamic-Erozea

But not in this case.