3.0 Macro for 70 Durability (863 Difficulty). NQ Items, 100% near Guarenteed@!@!

Just figured I'd share the macro I made for these. You do not need any HQ items as this macro will result in a 100% chance without any at 653 control. However with 1 HQ item if you are at 630 - 653 control, you should 100% absolutely np.

Requirement: 433 CP, Get something over 630 Control, the higher the better, 653 (My current) Guaranteed.
Preferable food: Baked Onion Soup, Seafood Stew, Bouillabaisse

Macro#1

/ac "Comfort Zone" <wait.2>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.3>
/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.2.6>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.2.6>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.2.6>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.2.6>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.3>
/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>

Macro #2
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Name of (Element)" <wait.3>
/ac "Brand of (Element)" <wait.3>
/ac "Brand of (Element)" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II" <me>

Note: You must adjust the macro to whatever element your class is capable of / crossclassing atm.
EX: For ALC, it would be Name of Water and Brand of Water.

************ Be extremely careful with some of the names of skills!!!
Some "Name" skills have a "the" added in.
EX: CRP: It's "Name of the Wind"

Hope that helps and happy crafting those Draco Pots.

Nice but i thought the Brand Skills only worked on a few crafts? Or has the new skills changed that?

No, they could always be used with any craft. However, when a craft had an element, the skill would double the progress to a total of 200% if the affinity of craft and skill lined up.

What Name of the (Element) (new skill), does now, is further increase the skills base progress, but it is basically adding an exponential modifier to it that adjusts according to how much progress is left.
In short, its a PbP 2.0.

1. That's a poor explanation of the changes to the elemental synth skills.

2. You can't put decimal wait times in macros.

This is what I use on the rare occasions I'm forced to make pots >.<

/ac "Muscle Memory"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Comfort Zone" <me><wait.3>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <me><wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <me><wait.3>
/ac "Waste Not II"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand II"<me>

/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch"<me><wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand"<me><wait.2>
/ac "Innovation"<me><wait.2>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides"<me><wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing"<me> <wait.3>
/ac "Standard Synthesis" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II" <me>

Not sure who's is better, but with my stats (fairly good melds, but not fully capped) I get good results from NQ mats, I believe it requires 427 CP to use. (Warning, I'm sure of the exact craftsmanship required to complete it)

I've been using OP's macro for some time, since he told me about it and it's been successful for also durability up to 956 (level 60 no star), if you can squeeze in a third Brand of (Element) and that would mean you need 439 cp. At least with the right melds, probably had like 670-680 craftsmanship (don't remember).

@scarebearz: I used your macro with Bouillabaisse and it works for level 58 recipe which has 863 durability. Even with my 693 craftsmanship, I cannot complete the progress of level 59-60 recipe. I'll probably use yours if it's lower than level 58 I guess, but there's just so much cross-class skills I can fit. :/

In conclusion, both work fine with the right melds. Honestly though Name + Brand would be best to use for harder difficulty, especially those new 1-star or 2-star crafts I think. It's a somewhat cheaper way to increase your progress; I have completed a 35 or 40 durability craft in one step cause it did at least 550 progress.

Like so:
http://i.gyazo.com/a14cd776e7aab00ce5d6036345be1fd7.png

And here's another example of how Name + Brand work:
http://i.gyazo.com/348cf066fe685b1490277b387eeb765e.png

Well gonna post my Macro for as Example Baked Pipira Pira.

- NQ Mats
- NO Food needed
- Stats: CMS 701 // Cont 703 // CP 405

Macro #1

/ac "Muscle Memory" <wait.3>
/ac "Comfort Zone" <wait.2>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Piece by Piece" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Hasty Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Master's Mend II" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II" <wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/echo "Macro2"

Macro #2

/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis II"

On 100 Crafts i got only 4 NQ in the end cause of bad bad rng

I'm trying to understand how these "Name of (Whatever)" work (as I just got most of them). So if you're crafting something with your alchemist, you'd use Name of Water to increase your progress more so than Piece by Piece would>

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Originally Posted by Stormfur

I'm trying to understand how these "Name of (Whatever)" work (as I just got most of them). So if you're crafting something with your alchemist, you'd use Name of Water to increase your progress more so than Piece by Piece would>

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Basically, Name of (Element) turns the craft into that certain element and when you use Brand of (Element), it does 200% efficiency on progress, which does more than Standard Synthesis and Careful Synth II, but it is determined by your current progress so it's sorta like PbP in a way. I had to type that when I was more awake lol.

So i just went out and gave those element skills a hot ... WoW just wow, some insane progress. Needs to be tested further on other crafts :3

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Originally Posted by scarebearz

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A tip for your finisher, B.Brow is useful for weeding out that poor condition on B.Bless, and will also get you more on a good condition that a B.Bless on normal:

Code:

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-Opening Stuff
/ac "Steady Hand" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Innovation" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <me>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <me> <wait.3>
-Closing Syntheses

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

A tip for your finisher, B.Brow is useful for weeding out that poor condition on B.Bless, and will also get you more on a good condition that a B.Bless on normal:

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I was gonna say why not just B.Bless on a good but the remembered this is a macro XD

Check your Ingenuity II progress and test it against Ingenuity I. I have found IN2 to be pretty much garbage on most things either offering nothing or incredibly little of IN.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

A tip for your finisher, B.Brow is useful for weeding out that poor condition on B.Bless, and will also get you more on a good condition that a B.Bless on normal:

Code:

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-Opening Stuff
/ac "Steady Hand" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Innovation" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <me>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <me> <wait.3>
-Closing Syntheses

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B.Brow is only as good or better than B.Blessing if IQ is showing 6 or lower. If your IQ is showing 7 or higher, you want to B.Blessing. This assumes you have the choice of the two.

Also, that order is somewhat skewed.



Steady Hand.
Check Condition : Excellent = Byregot's; else continue
Great Strides.
Check condition : Good/Excellent = Byregot's, else continue
Innovation.
Check condition : Good/Excellent = Byregot's. else continue
Fishing move : can be Observe, Ingenuity 1/2 whatever move you want that does not eat Durability.
Byregot's.

Great Strides doubles Byregot's. Excellent quadruples it, so is the only thing that trumps Great Strides. Normal/Innovation is less Quality than Good/no-Innovation, thus the inclusion of Good to the mix when checking Condition.

If you want to skip the condition checks, in order to macro it, go ahead. But that's the best order for doing the Byregot's Finisher.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

A tip for your finisher, B.Brow is useful for weeding out that poor condition on B.Bless, and will also get you more on a good condition that a B.Bless on normal:

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Good tip for macro thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

B.Brow is only as good or better than B.Blessing if IQ is showing 6 or lower. If your IQ is showing 7 or higher, you want to B.Blessing. This assumes you have the choice of the two.

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If you want to skip the condition checks, in order to macro it, go ahead. But that's the best order for doing the Byregot's Finisher.

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The whole point is a macro that does the condition check for you without having multiple manual checks.

The Brow > Blessing comparison I made wasn't under the same condition, but good vs normal. 11 IQ stacks good condition Brow = 3.75x basic, 11 IQ stack normal condition Blessing = 3.0x Basic. If you're using a macro, then normal condition Blessing should be enough for you, and good condition Brow would be better.

However, looking at my macro again I noticed Brow would mean skipping INGII, so to pass that this should work.

Code:

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-Opening Stuff
/ac "Steady Hand" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Innovation" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <me>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <me> <wait.1>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <me> <wait.2>
-Closing Syntheses

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If ING isn't needed for synthesis, the CP is better used up elsewhere so:

Code:

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-Opening Stuff
/ac "Steady Hand" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Brow" <me>
/ac "Innovation" <me> <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <me> <wait.3>
-Closing Syntheses

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433 CP? I gather this is full over-melded level 60 gear?

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Originally Posted by KagatoAC

433 CP? I gather this is full over-melded level 60 gear?

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1 +4 CP in every piece that can take it, +CP focused food (HQ baked onion +13%/48). Not 'full' overmeld, but close enough to it.

God I dont understand this element skills....is there a guide for this? :/

Havenchild;

I have been using this set up but substituting Hasty Touch as I am not finished melding. Would like to point out:

/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>

Macro #2
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2>
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>

Can be changed to

/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>

Macro #2
/ac "Innovation" <wait.2> <-----(This can also be a Basic/Precise Touch).
/ac "Precise Touch"
/ac "Basic Touch" <wait.3>

If your Craftsmanship is over 680 you can complete using only 2 Brands.

Here is the set I am planning using HQ Baked Onion Soup as it is easy to HQ and affordable.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/S3OF

Any recommendations or upgrades to consider? I will save Tools for last as I am planning on getting my Red Scrip ones for each class first, have em all 60 besides ARM and BSM so far.