Effects of Element Destabilization

[Judge_Xero]

This is a thread about what the effects of element destabilization are and how they effect a synthesis. Please post your findings here so we can have an updated list of them.

Edited: Please read Reika's comments as they were the highly more detailed than my notes

(Thankyou Rentahamster, I forgot all about this article on the lodestone)
A. When an element of a synthesis becomes unstable, the following effects take place respectively:
Lightning: Progress greatly reduced
Wind: Durability consumption greatly increased
Fire: Quality greatly reduced
Ice: Progress reduced, chance of aetherial sparks reduced
Earth: Durability consumption increased, chance of aetherial sparks increased
Water: Quality reduced, chance of aetherial sparks increased

[Reika]

Fire - Heavy Reduced quality gains
Water - Light Reduced quality gains
Lighting - Progress gains limited to 10
Ice - Progress gains limited to 15
Wind - heavy Increased durability loss, random on success, always on fail
Earth - light Icreased durability loss, random on success, always on fail

Any element that goes chaotic will result in 50% quality loss and durability loss.

[Zephy]

Reika is mostly correct, with some added details in fact, but there is also two elements that influence Aetherial Sparking, this was all explained in:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...f271d7a0a84d5f

Some notes:

Hand of the Gods will heavily lessen the loss of durability from any element that goes chaotic while under its effect.

Grand Design will always be +30% Progress on normal and good success, even under Ice and Lightning unstable.

[Reika]

Ive only gotten Aetherial sparking during touch ups. so earth ice and water may or may not be doing their whole effect.

[Zephy]

I'm not surprised, it's nearly impossible to see sparks using standard synthesis, a tiny bit more probable with bold, and only really shows up when you're using rapid and have lowish control for the recipe's rank.

[Rentahamster]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...f271d7a0a84d5f

Q. What happens exactly when the harnessed element of a synthesis attempt becomes unstable?
A. When an element of a synthesis becomes unstable, the following effects take place respectively:
Lightning: Progress greatly reduced
Wind: Durability consumption greatly increased
Fire: Quality greatly reduced
Ice: Progress reduced, chance of aetherial sparks reduced
Earth: Durability consumption increased, chance of aetherial sparks increased
Water: Quality reduced, chance of aetherial sparks increased