Crafting in General - OMG Fix It

[Radaghast]

One sample means nothing.

What gear was he using?
What abilities does he have slotted?
Unlucky with an unstable lightning? Ice?
Is the craft based on magic craft or craftmanship?
Does it take a book that the crafter doesn't have?
Just dumb awful luck failing one synth? How many are you doing at one time.
Spamming bold too often?


I don't have these amazing fail rates I keep reading about. I fail every once in awhile, but were talking things well within my rank, not 26 below it. That's usually something I'm trying to HQ and deliberately take risks spamming bold and the like. Even then it's fairly easy to determine when to actually stop bolding and standard to finish according to how much durability you have left.

Something is off...