Quote Originally Posted by Kakure View Post
Piece by Piece is less powerful in the sense that it always has to be used in conjunction with another synthesis action, but it outscales all synthesis actions beyond the third. This is true regardless of your stats, the item difficulty, or the specifics of the synthesis action you are using.

1x PbP, 2x RS = 3x RS
2x PbP, 2x RS > 4x RS
3x PbP, 2x RS >= 6x RS
4x PbP, 2x RS >= 10x RS
5x PbP, 2x RS >= 15x RS
To be honest I didn't think of it in using more PbP then 2 so I apologize and must reanalysis the situation because if you are using 5 PbP then the progress must be massive much more then anything I know in the game atm. But that would be at that range where ingenuity II would also give a massive benefit not seen in prior crafts as well so the sequence would be impractical but it is food for thought if they bring in elemental affinity i95 > i115 recipes (haven't done or seen the primal weapons crafted, do those have elemental affinity during the craft?)