Quote Originally Posted by Nezerius View Post
That amount of touches still required a good amount of luck, just as much as baiting a good condition would.
Not exactly. If you optimized your CP use, you generally got enough good procs to do that around 50% of the time. Skills like ingenuity 2 were a waste of CP so if you used that to save a progress step, you usually messed up your chances for durability restores. For me it was basically 11 stacks of IQ almost 50% of the time and a good proportion of those would be 11-12 successful touches, eliminating the absolute necessity of a proc at the end.

You went with additional durability restores even if it wasn't guaranteed that you might finish your craft with SH2 up (failure to increase the number of touches would result in pretty much a guaranteed failure, eg so it wasn't much of a dilemma).

It's not like you didn't bait for procs even with the additional touches. You did that too to improve your HQ% if possible and in the event that you only landed 10 touches, you also needed to bait.

With the rotation, it would be 11 stacks of IQ 15% of the time, plus the need to bait for a good since your number of touches were topped at 10. Each bait step would give around a 20% chance for a proc. That's how myths about heavy reclaim use and proc baiting are born.