HQing stuff

[Roth_Trailfinder]

The way I have learned to craft, I can in fact HQ everything but it's a long ass process. I use HQ to make HQ.

Its not exactly a long process to HQ stuff. It *almost* sounds as though your gear is not being kept up-to-date, if you can HQ stuff but only with all HQ mats.

Start off with Comfort Zone and Inner Quiet. Then start adding Progress. Hit CS2 once. See how much it fills the Progress bar. Then hit it enough times that you are less than that from finishing. IE - if you get 97 Progress, and the recipe has 320, then hit it twice more (bringing you to 291 of the 320).

Then start adding Quality. Use Steady Hand 2 to boost the success rate of your Touches. It takes 99 CP to Steady Hand 2 -> Great Strides -> Innovation -> Byregot's Blessing. So, avoid going under that amount. Use CP you have over that for Steady Hand 2, and to both restore Durability (as necessary) and to convert ending Hasty Touches into Basic Touches.

If you have 150 CP left that means you have 51 CP more than the BB Finisher. With that CP you can convert two of the last Hasty Touches into Basic Touches, and have 15 left over. You have to bear that sort of thing in mind; but experience will tell you how many Touches you can convert. Once you know how many you can convert, and you get Precise Touch, you can start using the conversions on the Good/Excellent conditions for Precise Touch rather than saving them for the ending Basic Touches.

Its not a long, drawn out process to HQ stuff. It IS a matter of getting Inner Quiet as high as you can, in order to maximize your Byregot's Blessing Finisher. It is amazing how much Quality that move can and will add at higher IQ stacks.

[MN_14]

Start off with Comfort Zone and Inner Quiet. Then start adding Progress. Hit CS2 once. See how much it fills the Progress bar. Then hit it enough times that you are less than that from finishing. IE - if you get 97 Progress, and the recipe has 320, then hit it twice more (bringing you to 291 of the 320).

In this case, I'd recommend using RS as it would knock back 202 progress allowing progress to be completed in 3 steps (or 2 if you end with standard synthesis). RS would have to fail 2 times in a row for you to be worse off than if you were to use CS2 4 times. Generally, it's okay to use RNG based abilities as long you can make accommodations for misses (and you aren't using them too excessively). If your synth is going well, spend your CP on precise touches and basic touches. If things are going badly, spend your CP on durability restores instead. The process isn't difficult, but you do have to put some thought into what you're doing.

Edit: miscalculated progress earlier