I had actually already predicted that the new books would require HQ versions of the supra items, since they were being changed as such. Just to finish the progress, you have to use 4 PbP and 3 CS2. I did 5 attempts and just managed to get 1 HQ of the balanced hook.

However I think some of you are forgetting one thing, we can now desync these, and NQ and HQ versions both have the same chance of giving whatever it blows up to. I'm willing to bet that these 3 star crafts desync into mastercraft demi, thus you can make your money back.

I didn't get in desync prior to 2.4, but now with that in mind, it is what I will be working on. If you can make the connection, BSM can make fieldcraft III from summoning bells, thus craft darksteel hooks, blow up all the NQ for some (hopefully) mastercraft, and keep the HQ you do get for your new book, make new offhand tools (six of them as BSM) with your new ability to acquire (again hopefully!!!!) mastercraft from blowing up NQ balanced hooks.