Those aren't my actual rotations, just showing a basic structure of how the rotations differ from 3 stars to 4 stars to manual tokens.. Point I'm trying to make is that 4 stars = 3 stars with 1 extra progress step. manuals = 4 stars with 1 extra progress step etc.

Thus, practicing on a 3 star craft will grant him the experience he needs to get the token crafting down because they're all quite similar