Quote Originally Posted by Radaghast View Post
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...
Agreed. Square has so many variables in the crafting system it is almost impossible to tell when somebody is doing it "right." (whatever that is >_>) I'm not a Japanese culture expert, but am I right in assuming that they equate complexity and intricacy with skill and intelligence? Well something like that? Anyway, I'd love to have some Japanese > English perspectives on this system and it's so-called problems.