Is Prudent Touch too much?

[magnanimousCynic]

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Rath's Rotation won't be viable time-wise (and maybe not even function!) for Stormblood if the Progress needed keeps shooting up.

The Taoist's glamour set is 1-star 70 dura and requires 3149 Progress, which translates to 32 stacks of Maker's Mark. If you wanted to use Rath's Rotation, you'd have to blow through 28 stacks of Maker's Mark, as 4 of the stacks aren't used for Flawless Synthesis. That means you'd be spending over 90 seconds before you'd even activate Inner Quiet!

And if, or more likely when, we do start to eventually see crafts that require 6000+ Progress we're looking at least three minutes of Flawless Synthesis spam! If you add up the time needed for the macro of a 6000 Progress craft you're looking at about 239 seconds per craft, while a 4-star level 60 macro takes only 127 seconds. Unless you like crafting to take up more of your food/potion duration, Rath's Rotation won't be staying long for Stormblood outside of intervention from the SE.

Instead of trying to keep an old rotation alive, we should make a new rotation with the new skills SE gave us. Like Patient touch if you want to gamble your stacks for a chance at more than one Byregot's, Manipulation 2 likely replacing WN2 ,or Initial Preparations plus one of the three new Specialist Actions.

Outside of future patch changes to crafting actions, which rarely happens, Rath's Rotation won't be viable for Stormblood. Instead of requesting SE to constantly make Rath's Rotation viable, we should use the new skills and figure out new and better rotations.

EDIT #1: And besides, with our current gear + max CP melds and HQ Tempura Platter/Cunning Tea, we have 539 max CP while Rath's rotation was built around needing 437. Not using that extra 102 CP to make new rotations feels almost wasteful!