Nooooooo! Not Directional Crafting ; ;

Hehe.

This was most people's favourite pet theory for crafting in XI, problem with it though was it's pretty much unprovable, far too many variables (and there are even more in XIV, when you take the minigame into consideration) to isolate to get an accurate test e.g. Your skill level > recipe skill level, elemental times (the Eorzean clock and calendar has elements associated with each in game hour for example), your elemental stats, your physical stats, moon phase, moon polarity, gear, repair status of said gear.

I think even the XI devs came out and said there wasn't anything in directional crafting but i could be wrong on that.

Saying all that though, even knowing that it was mostly placebo i still took a couple of seconds to line myself up with 'right' direction when crafting in XI, whatever makes you feel good i guess.

Shen.