Initial Preparations and Reflect changes?? Can you makes sense of this?

[ChameleonMS]

5.1 Preliminary Patch Notes

New crafter actions have been added.
All Classes
Level 69 Reflect - Increases Inner Quiet stack by three (up to 11).
Can only be used when Initial Preparations is active.

The following crafter actions have been removed.
All Classes
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Initial Preparations
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Specialty: Reflect

The way I read this is: Initial Preparations is now a trait and is always active until you use a skill that consumes it.

What do you think?

[CookiesNCreams]

Initial preparations probably did in fact get removed, and they made a typo, maybe they meant to say something else. Just wait for tomorrow’s revised notes where typos should be fixed.

[Ryaz]

Reflect is it's own action now and doesn't require Initial Prep, which is gone.

So you basically choose between Reflect (for HQ progress) or Muscle Memory (for synth progress) as your first step now.

I tend to use Reflect for gear and MM for furniture and the like.

[tidas341]

They should put all the role actions back and do away with all the old specialist skills ! I mean the old way was much easier! Why did they change it it after expansion! If they were wanting to change it they should of made change then !! Instead they made changes after most of us leveled out Crafters! That's all I'm going to say sorry for venting my anger!

[Maeka]

The way the system is set up now, is that there's two sets of skills: Quality and Progress. Muscle Memory and Reflect both do essentially the same thing: Give you a large boost to Progress and Quality respectively but can only be used on the first action.

They should put all the role actions back and do away with all the old specialist skills ! I mean the old way was much easier! Why did they change it it after expansion! If they were wanting to change it they should of made change then !! Instead they made changes after most of us leveled out Crafters! That's all I'm going to say sorry for venting my anger!

Dude, trust me, it's way easier to make sense of now, if you just think about it a little.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501328677

Start at 24:18.

It's... really not hard to understand. If a complete newbie to crafting can understand it, it can't be that hard. Just forget about what you learned, put all your buttons on the bar and just think about what the game is telling you and grab some cheap materials to experiment with. That's what I did.

EDIT: I found out later, that if you have at least 50% HQ chance... it's probably better/easier to start with Muscle Memory rather than Reflect because getting 100% HQ is .... easy if you're starting from 50%+.

EDIT2: The game doesn't tell you this, but it is sort of implied, that Reflect replaces Inner Quiet (it gives you Inner Quiet when you use it), assuming you do not use Muscle Memory instead. It's implied, because Reflect's tooltip says "Gives 2 stacks of inner quiet" but it's only usable on the first action, which means you couldn't possibly use Inner Quiet first, so obviously, Reflect has to also grant Inner Quiet (which you can see from the video it actually does).

[Kabooa]

They should put all the role actions back and do away with all the old specialist skills ! I mean the old way was much easier! Why did they change it it after expansion! If they were wanting to change it they should of made change then !! Instead they made changes after most of us leveled out Crafters! That's all I'm going to say sorry for venting my anger!

Longson Zhao is that you?