Quote Originally Posted by Nezerius View Post
The final success rate on the most difficult crafts, the HQ ones for the master 2 books, came down to being able to bait a good/excellent proc for Byregot's Blessing.
That's actually a myth that seems to have persisted to this day. If you built up 11 stacks of IQ and added 1 extra touch, your HQ% shot up to 50-60% even when byregot's landed on normal depending on your control stat. Adding two touches could get you 70-80%; the highest I saw when landing on normal was around 86% iirc.

You couldn't get that every time but it happened much more commonly than you would expect given the daunting quality requirements.

The difference between 30% and 60% was only 400 quality and generally only achievable through free hand crafting. Rotations could break the 30% barrier only if a touch landed on an excellent or you baited a good/excellent.