I just hit 40 WVR and it's getting harder for me to HQ

[cgbspender]

At that point, you should focus on getting Hasty Touch - CP free- (Cul 15) and Tricks of the trades - regain 20 CP for each red ball - (Alc 15) and Rumination - regain CP proportionnally to the number of "touches" you made (Car 15) to maximize the numbers of moves you can make without using too much CP / or recover some.
Waste Not (LTH 15) can be interesting to get for the durability 40 items, as it cut the moves by half (instead of going 40>30>20.., it will go 40>35>30>25)

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

You did not read my original post did you?

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Got my CUL to 37 today. I've been working on GC turn-ins to boost my under 15 classes, but CUL was my next main focus. ARM and BSM are both 13. Everything is 15 or higher. I reckon they'll be 15 by the end of the week while I shift my major focus to CRP 50. GSM will likely earn me another cross-class skill soon.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Got my CUL to 37 today. I've been working on GC turn-ins to boost my under 15 classes, but CUL was my next main focus. ARM and BSM are both 13. Everything is 15 or higher. I reckon they'll be 15 by the end of the week while I shift my major focus to CRP 50. GSM will likely earn me another cross-class skill soon.

Try this, eat a Stone Soup for 17 CP.
Start with Inner Quiet.
Create an IQ-build up phase using Steady Hand II, Waste Not and Hasty Touches.
Take up to 1 Trick within WN.
Redo SH II, WN phase with Hasty Touches. If you didn't take Trick earlier, take 1 Trick within WN now. If you did take a Trick earlier, ignore the Good here, and keep touching.
Recover 30 durab with Master's Mend.
Steady Hand II, Hasty 1 or 2 more,
Then Great Strides, Standard Touch or Advanced Touch as a final phase (use Byregot if you have it).
Finish up with Careful Syn or Basic Syn.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Thanks for the advice. As I've been updating this thread with my milestones, I've found I'm consistently doing better with HQ. CUL was actually easier than I feared. Of course I had the advantage of being able to do 12 ixal quests a day, an advantage I did not have on my first class to 50, WVR. I'll work on getting a 60 eventually. CRP 50 is next though.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I'm happy to report I got my CRP to 50. While I never got on my lower jobs much, I still did the GC turn-ins and got everything at least 15. Needless to say, by the time I got this class to 40, the same level as my WVR was in the OP, I was HQing much more consistently. Which meant faster exp for leves.

I already love Blessing! I used Brow occasionally on my WVR, but now that I have something to compare it to, Brow feels like a poor man's Blessing. Lower success rate. 70% means no matter what I do, it can still fail. Blessing allows me to put on SH to ensure success. Plus Blessing doesn't require me to trigger Good. I tend to use this when my only steps left are progress.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I'm happy to report I got my CRP to 50. While I never got on my lower jobs much, I still did the GC turn-ins and got everything at least 15. Needless to say, by the time I got this class to 40, the same level as my WVR was in the OP, I was HQing much more consistently. Which meant faster exp for leves.

I already love Blessing! I used Brow occasionally on my WVR, but now that I have something to compare it to, Brow feels like a poor man's Blessing. Lower success rate. 70% means no matter what I do, it can still fail. Blessing allows me to put on SH to ensure success. Plus Blessing doesn't require me to trigger Good. I tend to use this when my only steps left are progress.

Blessing is truly a blessing! No other Byregots can beat it! ^^

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Bear in mind, just like any other 70% action, Steady Hand 2 adds 30% to it and brings it up to "never fail". That's the reason that people rank 37 CUL so highly (second only to Byregot's Blessing).

Personally, I tend to get my crafts done by doing PRogress first, so I am one Careful Synthesis 2 away from finishing it. Then I max out the Quality as best I can. Often, it is better to finish the synthesis with less than 100% Quality, than it is to 100% Quality it but be unable to complete the Progress.

[Nekotee]

On a long rotation craft byregot's miracle can be super strong
But the requirement to use it are huge... (specialist, having like 8 IQ stack minimum, and enough turn left to rebuilt IQ and BB the craft...)

If I could give a little advice...
Once you have access to the gold saucer go and buy a lot of stone soup !
Cost nothing and give you 17CP
Which is the best to ease your rotation.