Am I the only one that has bad luck with Bewildering Grace (dancer spell)

[Farmer Fred]

Everytime I use Primrose's Bewildering Grace I get the worst outcomes. It's happened so much that I've stopped using it completely because it's not worth it.

I've boosted it to max and have had it all be negative effects multiple times. On one occasion I reduced all characters to 1 health, lost all SP, killed 3 party members, then lost the ability to use items so I couldn't resurrect anyone. Other times it's not as bad but still I'll get more negative effects.

Avoid using this skill! it's not worth it!

[Sakhari]

Honestly, it's never been worth it. Sure, some people get lucky and win the 100x exp lottery in a Cait-fight but there are much higher odds of either killing yourself and losing progress (assuming you're not wasting time saving constantly) or just wasting a lot of extra time repeatedly boosting and using the ability instead of just winning with the first attack.

[Melodia]

I love Bewildering Grace and in the grand scheme it actually IS going to be beneficial -- in fact it's almost twice as likely to get a good result than a bad one (and this includes the 'no effect' dance)

But because of the way RNG works you're likely to see groups of the same effect (good or bad) clumped together in the same action set more than would otherwise be normal with perfect RNG. And because of the way the human brain works, you're going to remember the bad more than the good. Your mind will gloss over all the times you healed for 400HP or got a party-wide reflective veil.

All that said, yeah, it's mostly just something to play around with for fun, or as an attempt to try and capitalize on killing Caits.

[marcv666]

Bewildering Grace is mostly only useful if you want to do a low level challenge for its X100 JP.

As for Exp, it takes more time using Bewildering Grace than what it's worth. There's a nice video on youtube easy to find covering what's the best method to farm exp.