Return of Reckoning

I've been working on leveling a cultivator and it has just been a teeth-grinding slog. Example: My Cultivator has a 99 skill. I just ran through more than 20 cultivation plots with no skillups or special moments. Not only that, but I had at least six critical failures and (in contrast) only three critical successes.

A critical success gives you an extra item, a critical failure loses you two items. So out of the roughly 40 items you might expect from 20 cultivation plots I only ended up getting 31. Given that it took 20 seeds to start the plots, if I want to replace the seeds I only got 11 additional items from 20 plots.

So that's a half hour of work. I don't mind listening to a podcast or whatever while I do this but it just feels like spinning my wheels. There's no reason why the critical failure rate should be so freaking high, especially when you are not getting skillups. If it's so difficult that I'm failing over 1/4 of the time then I should be getting regular skillups for successes.

Cultivation just seems to be unnecessarily frustrating. Is there something I'm just doing wrong?

Lvl cultivating on main, get MGRemix addon, and cultivate while playing/fighting.

i level it 1-200 in 2-3 hours.

Are you using the Miracle Grow addon? It completely changes cultivating into a mindless, endless gold bag.

Cultivation is a good carreee for a main.
Miracle grow remix and grow the whole time in a warband it very good, especially if you focus rvr . If your PVE focus could be worth going scavenger