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I've just capped Armorer and now have Piece by Piece. I cannot think of any situation where this would be a useful class ability, at first I thought it would guarantee 100% progress on a 2 star item in 3 turns, but when I rechecked the description is:
Increases remaining progress by 1/3.
When will this ever be useful, I feel I must be missing something?
Does not sound very useful. Cannot think why you would use that when you could use Careful Synth II for 120% and 100% success.
I guess I need to check the ability out sometime today, but I just assumed that it'd only be useful for the really difficult and stubborn progress synths by increasing progress by 33%. So you'd basically use it first thing to progress to get the most bang out of it and from there it's useless. You can save several steps and damage to dura by using it for 15 CP, but I don't think anyone will really use it when trying to HQ items. People tend to go with progress abilities that are free to use, and the other abilities to cut down on dura damage like mani, mend, and Waste Not.
I don't believe it's as useless as it appears, but the general census is that the ability is useless and it's effect is easily accomplished with other abilities. Still, that's for the people who are leveling all crafts. It's not to be listened to by other players not leveling all crafts. In the event you don't have access to other abilities, Piece by Piece's stock goes way up... in theory.
I don't think there is a single recipe in this game that, by the time you can actually craft it, using this PoS vs the 150% progress 90% success (sorry can't recall the damned name) is actually in your favor. I can't say for certain as I haven't crafted any 2*'s yet because of their prohibitive cost/lack of benefit for doing so, but everything else I've crafted has gained closer to 40% towards completion with the aforementioned progress ability.
Ingenuity beats this skill hands-down and buries it in the deepest part of Eorzea.
Crafting equips give only crafting materia. Same deal with gathering equips. % wise seems to be the same for all types but collected data too low to decide.
Aetheryte ring is not a "Crafting-only" equip due to the Spirit Binding +1 stat -> That categories it as "everything" for some reason. Bug? Dunno...
Piece by Piece would be decent if there was no ingenuity in the game, but since ingenuity exists, there's no point to use Piece by Piece. It might be worth it if it simply does 1/3 of the total progress needed with no chance of failure for its current CP cost.
Unless you don't have Ingenuity II, there is really no point to having this on your toolbar, when you craft pretty much anything with 2 careful synthesis II moves with Ingenuity II up. Thats just my opinion.