I have to admit, it often feels like the Law of Large Numbers has abandoned me in this game. Though I have taken to just sitting back and laughing about it. I recently got lucky in crafting, excellent with Great Strides let me max quality in one try. And then I spent the next 9 attempts trying to hit the 70% chance of a Steady Hands- Rapid Synthesis. After three failures I just wanted to see if it would screw me completely to the end, which it did.

Then again, if you spend hours gathering and crafting off percentages you'll eventually hit that monkey-with-a-typewriter chance.