Quote Originally Posted by Sibyll View Post
It's been a while since I made the Primal weapons, but if I recall items with the "Aspect: Element" characteristic general impose a rather large progress penalty. I think the i95 weapons on my 4* Blacksmith were one of the hardest crafts to HQ, aside from the Balanced Darksteel Hooks at the time.

My point is, it's hard to say that SH2+RS*2 would be as good without seeing some numbers on a synth that is aspected, which you may or may not have already done.



If I might ask, the Name skill increases the base efficiency of brand by 200%(1-%progress)... so that at 0 progress it would have a base of 300%? If that's correct then that means Brand with Name active would be a 600% progress opener for recipes Aspected to that element because Brand get x2 efficiency when used on Aspected recipes.
Yeah your math is right on the Name skills. Not sure about elemental crafts since I haven't crafted any just yet. Though in theory you would be correct.

600% progress opener might be problematic though at the moment since there's a very legitimate chance that you might 1shot your craft

test it yourself on a level 1 craft like hempen yarn