[Venting]: Lack of HQ Blue Scrip Materials

[Ksenia]

The main problem is, you need 390 CP to create a rotation that gets you inner Quiet stacks for a boosted Byregot's Blessing.


My NQ Blue scrip rotation (omni) is and works on 35, 40 and 70 just add more CS II for 70

Comfort Zone,
Inner Quiet,
Steady Hand II,
Waste Not I,

Basic touch x 4 (use precise when its up - compensate with Hasty for as many CP short you are)
Careful Synth II,
Masters Mend,
Steady Hand II
Basic Touch x 2, (again use precise when it's up - You "need" 74 CP I think to complete finisher, here and you might need to sacrifice one of the 6 touches for a 3rd CS II if you have low gear)
Great strides,
Innovation,
Byregot's Blessing,
Careful Synth II

The goal being to build as many IQ stacks. You can't fill the quality bar using touch skills, like you could in ARR. I use this on all the parts turn in items like Titanium Nuggets, Dark Chestnut and Raimie. Even if I want those items I will craft in collectable mode and just click no to collectable if I get a 100% opting for the HQ. It allows me to craft selective scrip or mats and the 5-10 scrip you get each time do add up. It does eat crystals though so blue scrip according to what ones you have loads of.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

My NQ Blue scrip rotation (omni) is and works on 35, 40 and 70 just add more CS II for 70

Comfort Zone,
Inner Quiet,
Steady Hand II,
Waste Not I,

Basic touch x 4 (use precise when its up - compensate with Hasty for as many CP short you are)
Careful Synth II,
Masters Mend,
Steady Hand II
Basic Touch x 2, (again use precise when it's up - You "need" 74 CP I think to complete finisher, here and you might need to sacrifice one of the 6 touches for a 3rd CS II if you have low gear)
Great strides,
Innovation,
Byregot's Blessing,
Careful Synth II

The goal being to build as many IQ stacks. You can't fill the quality bar using touch skills, like you could in ARR.

This depends upon your stats, actually. For your first 56, no, you won't find it easy to get BCS. Gear up with the white level 60 gear, and it is not that hard. With a full set of i190/i195 Ironworks, it is ridiculously easy. Titanium Nugget, for example, with 983 Craftsmanship, gets completed with one CS2, meaning that one can do a CZ, IQ, WN1, SH2, HTx5 initial set. Follow that with Manipulation, SH2, WN, and then some combination of HT and BT to leave enough CP for SH, GS, Inno, BB, and then a CS2, and you've got your 100%'d Nugget. That's with 936 base Control. As I said, full Ironworks i190/i195. Even without that though, I had gotten an IQ10 (without using PT on the two Goods I got!) on this rotation, which with much less Control would still allow for enough of a BB to 100% it.

That said, it may be easier, depending on level, to do a 70 durability recipe than a 35 or 40 durability recipe. Depending on how you use it, Waste Not 2 may be the best way to play Durability games based on the CP usage, but Master's Mend 2 is generally the best in terms of CP usage per Durability once you factor in practicality. The 70 Durability BCS hand ins will require a lot more in materials per craft, but tend to be worth a lot more BCS as well. Depending on the total number of Progress steps needed, you may start off one way or another :
CZ, IQ, SH2, RS, CS2, HTx3, SH2, HT, MM2, HTx3, SH2, HTx2, GS, Inno, BB, CS2
CZ, IQ, CS2, SH2, HTx5, MM2, SH2, HTx5, SH2, GS, Inno, BB, CS2
Or some variant thereupon, replacing HT's with PT's (early on) and BT's (later on) as CP and Condition permit. Another possible advantage of the 70 Durability recipes is that you have better control (through manually crafting yourself) just how much of your materials are HQ and how much are NQ. You are forced to rely on the luck of the draw for your Titanium Nugget materials, but when you craft the Titanium Ingot, Dragon Leather, Dhalmel Leather, Hardsilver Ingot, and the Grade 1 Dexterity Dissolvent yourself, you are better able to ensure that those refined materials are HQ. The necessity of which is gear dependent; the possibility of it is level dependent.

Personally, when I look at getting BCS, I do the same judgement as getting RCS : what gets me the most (or targeted) level of Scrip with the least hand ins? I'd rather do something for 160 BCS than three somethings for 70 BCS if all I want is 150 BCS.

[Ksenia]

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For a lot of people getting blue scrip is better done the way you do it but I and I think the OP find they get snagged on bottleneck mats as they add more and more cross class parts. Using the 40 dura recipes with an all basic touch IQ stack system removes both material clutter and gray rotation from Hasty.

If I go out and mine Titanium I mine fire crystals when the node is hidden. Fire is used by Bsm to make the titanium nugget and I am then only obligated to go grab some bomb ash and Iron to do what I want to do. I don't need to mess with unspoiled nodes, I don't need to mess with multiple stacks of parts that evolve in to multiple, multiple stacks of mats. I'm only looking at 1200 BS per 500 Titanium but it's a far more direct path to completion.