Best gathering skills for unspoiled nodes

Hey, guys. I just had a friend meld me some GP+ material on my Botanist armor. I now have 600GP and was wondering what is the method to use on unspoiled nodes. What I do is mostly farm the crawler cocoons with Blessed Harvest II and Field Mastery II which gives me 5 cocoons per swing and 100% gathering rate. Any other or better combos to use? Thanks!

Max yield: Blessed Harvest II, Field Mastery II
Max chance at HQ: Leaf Turn II, Toil (or Ageless), end with Brunt Force
Max guaranteed HQ: Toil, Ageless (or just 2x Ageless), Brunt Force when available

Personally, I do #1 because I need quantity over quality.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

Max yield: Blessed Harvest II, Field Mastery II
Max chance at HQ: Leaf Turn II, Toil (or Ageless), end with Brunt Force
Max guaranteed HQ: Toil, Ageless (or just 2x Ageless), Brunt Force when available

Personally, I do #1 because I need quantity over quality.

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I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

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Originally Posted by DukeBurden

I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

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Its a very true statement when you figure out Inner Quiet+Standard Touch combo with crafting.

Easy way to get HQ on 40 durability recipes from NQ materials.

Requires lv50 Carpenter, lv50 Blacksmith, lv50 Weaver, lv50 Alchemist, lv37 Culinarian and lv15 Leatherworker.

Craftsmanship: 322
Control: 300-ish and more (maybe 10% more HQ with 325 and 10% more with 350)
CP: 332

Comfort Zone
Inner Quiet
Steady Hand II
Waste Not
Hasty Touch x 4
Manipulation
Steady Hand II
Waste Not
Hasty Touch x 4
Steady Hand
Ingenuity II
Hasty Touch
Byregot's Blessing
Careful Synthesis II

You can have a much better rotation if you have more CP, but this one gets the job done with wearing 1-star gear and partially melded jewelry.

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Originally Posted by DukeBurden

I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

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Most of the unspoiled stuff is one star and I can say I would rather have more than better when trying to pound out HQ. There has been enough 70%-98% NQ trash and enough 15%-25% HQ flukes to say it's either 100% or pure chance. Considering most are in the 1-99% pure chance group even with HQ material, it's better to just have more mats to throw away.