Is there any trick to crafting HQ Silver Brocade etc

At best I can get up to 34%, so far I've got 1 hq and 4 nq, not really keen on those odds. Just wondering if anyone has any tricks they can share?

Use as many HQ ingredients as you can as a base.
Rotation and gear I can't really comment upon as my own crafters lack a lot on that department.

This thread is quite nice. I personally used the third rotation there, and always used as many HQ components as possible. The few times I messed up was when I wasn't paying attention and forgot doing Piece by Piece early on so I ended up being short on the Progress bar. <.<

Comfort zone Iq sh2 innovation hasty touch x 4 sh2 innovation hasty touch x3 masters mend 2 and repeat
Take tricks of the trade when possible (usually after mm2 or sh2)
Use boiloboise (spl) too it helps alot

Heavily melded gear helps as well; if possible, get the stat caps for Control and CP on every piece of gear. Possibly not the hat, since you can replace that with Artisan's Spectacles as soon as you get ten Brocades.

for the items u need 50 for craft mainhand, at least 1 hq ingredient is a MUST. Having all hq is heavily recommended, because it puts u in only a bit harder position than crafting 2 star item from all nq mats.

Requires 375 CP and 1 HQ Twinthread:

You will get 100% most of the time. You're welcome :)

/action "Comfort Zone" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Inner Quiet" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Steady Hand II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Waste Not II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me><wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Careful Synthesis II" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Careful Synthesis II" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Careful Synthesis II" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Comfort Zone" <me> <wait.2>
/echo <<<<<--NEXT #2-->>>>> <se.7>


/action "Steady Hand II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Waste Not" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Hasty Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Steady Hand II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Innovation" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Basic Touch" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Great Strides" <me> <wait.2>
/action "Byregot's Blessing" <me> <wait.3>
/action "Careful Synthesis II" <me> <wait.3>
/echo <<<<<--END MACRO!!-->>>>> <se.10>

If you use all HQ ingredients, its cake. My rotation was CZ, IQ, SH2, BTX5, Manipulation, SH2, BT, Great Strides, Innovation, Ingenuity II, BB, CS2x4

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Originally Posted by NyneAlexander

If you use all HQ ingredients, its cake. My rotation was CZ, IQ, SH2, BTX5, Manipulation, SH2, BT, Great Strides, Innovation, BB, CS2x4

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Just to let you know. You missed out Ingenuity II before the Byregot's Blessing, I think. :)

EDIT: Now that I read it, NyneAlexander's rotation is cheaper than mine (356 CP vs 378) and works exactly as well, if you include the Ingenuity II before/after Byregot's depending on condition. >_> *stealing rotation now* <_<

Just remember - if you are using brocade in your crafting, you will get a much better seam if you use a serger.

Once I got my serger, my crafting improved dramatically. =-)

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Originally Posted by Grey_Cain

EDIT: Now that I read it, NyneAlexander's rotation is cheaper than mine (356 CP vs 378) and works exactly as well, if you include the Ingenuity II before/after Byregot's depending on condition. >_> *stealing rotation now* <_<

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It's the one I used, and I think it even worked with just using Stone Soup. :) It's 100% HQ every time, if you have HQ mats. I don't know about the condition, but I would think you'd want to use the Ingenuity II before Byregot's because if it's lowering the recipe level it should also mean more control gained with that final Touch move. Then you have 4 stacks of it left for the final four CS2s. (If you have Piece by Piece, you can also use that on this recipe and it's *very* good (use it twice at most), but it's 15cp - I'd stick with other macro though).

The value of all HQ mats shouldn't be underappreciated, because I see now that it's pushing you further ahead on the quality bar, where it's only the very late values that push the synth to high % - i.e. it's often that about 2/3rds quality bar is still only 20% HQ or so, I can't remember exactly. Having full HQ mats puts you at exactly half the max quality value right from the start :) )

Thank everyone, awesome help :-)

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Originally Posted by Lilysparkle

Just to let you know. You missed out Ingenuity II before the Byregot's Blessing, I think. :)

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Ah yep. You're right. Whoops. Good catch.