Heavensword 3* Crafting Rotation and Macro

[Silverbane]

I do know that Innovation adds more than an additional stack of IQ would to your final Byregot's.

Innovation is 50% of your base (starting) Control. IQ is worth 20% per stack, of your base (starting) Control; and also increases BB's Efficiency.

Are you taking into account the quality increase you got you would get from the Touch that added the additional IQ stack? Normalizing to base gain = 1, for example:

I tried to solve the equations for quality increase and got:

for BT+GS+BB: quality increases by 3.88+ 1.16*IQ + 0.08*IQ^2.
for Inno+GS+BB: quality increases by 3+ IQ + 0.08*IQ^2.

wherein IQ is the number of IQ stacks at the start of the sequence.

If my equations are correct, BT+GS+BB is always better than Inno+GS+BB, if you have the durability for the former. Fooling around on the simulator seems to verify this.