Somewhat Constant HQ Crafts Tips?

[Lemon8or]

Neither of which is as good as Waste Not.
I know you meant to say Steady Hands II. I have some issue with Steady Hands. The tooltip for the ability Steady Hands I reads +20% chance for success, but the tooltip for the associated buff reads only +10% chance for success. I don't have culinary high enough to check Steady Hands II, but it possibly suffers from the same issue. My own limited testing supported +10% as the actual buff, but I only tracked 100 syntheses.

Waste Not is good in situation where you're sure you won't need to do a Tricks of the Trade. Otherwise, it's not better than Manipulation. And yeah I meant Steady Hands II. The tool tip is correct as you'll never see a Standard Touch (80%) fail with Steady Hands (20%) or Basic Touch (70%) fail with Steady Hands II (30%). Testing with Hasty Touch is imperative at best as there is no way you can tell how 70% or 80% probability works but you can tell when 100% is indeed 100%.

[kukurumei]

Waste Not is good in situation where you're sure you won't need to do a Tricks of the Trade. Otherwise, it's not better than Manipulation. And yeah I meant Steady Hands II. The tool tip is correct as you'll never see a Standard Touch (80%) fail with Steady Hands (20%) or Basic Touch (70%) fail with Steady Hands II (30%). Testing with Hasty Touch is imperative at best as there is no way you can tell how 70% or 80% probability works but you can tell when 100% is indeed 100%.

Not really, wastenot is critical in 40/40 rotations, and decent in 70/80.
Once people get blessing, they live on the 4x hasty or 4x basic (depending on cp).

Another pro tip of wastenot is 5 dura. 5 dura rounds up as 10 dura, thus you are afforded one trick or one "free" dura.

Here's a rotation:
wastenot->steady2 -> basic 4 -> you end up with a 5dura situation and a free steady2 at the end, which is very useful in many rotational calculations.

wastnot2 is crap though

[Selvara]

Waste Not is good in situation where you're sure you won't need to do a Tricks of the Trade. Otherwise, it's not better than Manipulation. And yeah I meant Steady Hands II. The tool tip is correct as you'll never see a Standard Touch (80%) fail with Steady Hands (20%) or Basic Touch (70%) fail with Steady Hands II (30%). Testing with Hasty Touch is imperative at best as there is no way you can tell how 70% or 80% probability works but you can tell when 100% is indeed 100%.

Again Waste not is as efficient with 3 uses as it is with using all 4, so if you need to reapply SH or use ToT you still get benefit from WN because of the ability to finish the synth at -5