Thanks for removing all fun in crafting.

[Rath]

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It just seems like everyone wants a 100% HQ macro again for a recipe book called MASTER. If that is what they want, wait until we are lvl 60 in the expansion and you will most likely be able to do so. Right now, you have to actually make decisions based on what you get as you go. To me, that is how crafting should be. It takes time.

I will give you an example that just happened earlier today when my cousin tried to do one himself after me talking him through 5 books. I will edit it into my post.

So he had 8 stacks of IQ 30 durability 2 stacks of CZ and 214 CP, progress was at 761/801.

I made him stop and tell me what he planned to do at this point. What would you do? He was going to use manipulation sh2+htx4. Then finish his synth. This was a very reasonable thing to do as he could obtain 11 stacks. I would not do this. I would have done 2HT at 50 (any ToT would allow me to SH2 after MM2) then done CZ+MM2. I would have had 8-9 stacks 70 dura and 12 CP if no ToT. I would then HT at 50% until 30 dura if no ToT, or SH2 if ToT within the first two HT after mm2 and go to 20 dura. He did it his way and got to 52% quality and finished his synth (he got HQ).

I understand that 50% is scary to some people, but most of the time I would have gotten at least 3 success at 50% out of the 6 50% HT. But, 1 ToT would have bumped me to 80% and extra quality increases over what he got. I am done all my books, and I talked him through most of his and I have only seen 2 goods and 1 excellent on BB out of all of them (I have a stats sheet). It usually takes 5-6 attempts per book (using reclaim). There is no way you can compare 5-6 synths to ATMA.