How would you change Specialization?

[MN_14]

Actually, they are not. There is literally no reason to rely on them over simply leveling your remaining crafts to 50 due to the ridiculously RNG restrictions. Innovative Touch is the one exception. Everything else depends so heavily on RNG, you'll lose far more mats then it'll be worth. Specialist abilities were intended to help people who don't want to level additional jobs. They don't. It'll cost you less to buy a levekit compared to all the materials you'll lose or fail to HQ.

I’m analyzing this purely from a mechanical point of view when you’re crafting. I don’t think any crafter would recommend sticking with a few crafting classes only but that’s another topic altogether. I’m assessing the usefulness of the abilities themselves, which is how they would have been designed. The first assumption is that the main intended user is not going to have all cross-class abilities or are lacking in cp.

Yes, if you only have one class at 50+, you’ll HQ far more reliably with the specialist abilities than without. Your HQ rates are actually not bad if you make liberal use of the heart ability and take the time to HQ as many intermediate materials as possible. You’re allowed up to 50% starting quality on a final 4* craft, but you’ll get by if you can get 4000/13187. The time required and difficulty is the main drawback.

Crafters who have all classes but are equipped with only red scrip gear can HQ reliably even with 370 cp or possibly less. 75% HQ yield at all NQ so you’re golden if you can start with a couple thousand quality.

Of course it is highly recommended that you level all crafters instead as you’ll do way better with cross class and I consider it a given that no one will take the single class approach if they have the time to take the alternative route.