Quote Originally Posted by cgbspender View Post
What about something like this ? Using the same stat, I find this rotation more straightforward. The odds that you aren't getting a good condition are abyssmal, and you could just meld a couple of cheap control materias to reach 100% anyway.

Hey cgbspender! You have a rotation that requires the least craftsmanship ever! 1211 is the lowest I have ever seen! Yet, your rotation completes the item in 5 steps, thus buying an extra touch, reaching IQ11. Although it reaches IQ11, it provides a Blessing under Ingen2 but without Innov. So the final quality gain from the Byregot becomes somewhat similar to IQ10 from other rotations listed on this thread. The rotation spent 92 CP on progress (MuMe, PBPx2, Ingen2, Ob+FocS x2), which is a big investment, the extra Prud Touch also requires that extra 21 CP, thus the final CP requirement is very high.

Very good job of making good use of your high CP to compensate for the lack of craftsmanship. With a rotation like this, I think you should either push your control even higher just to make it 100% HQ, or just fall back on the control and just use a little bit of HQ mat. From previous calculations, you can have LESS THAN 1136 control, and still reach 100% HQ if you use 1 HQ mat. I think you have used HQ Seafood Stew here, so your base control is probably 1171 - 31 = 1140. It's a very reasonable rotation to go with your choice of food and your CP-heavy melds. Overall, very nice job! One minor touch-up perhaps would be to use a SH instead of SH II before the PBPs.

I made up a little graph using the data I collected...

This graph shows a linear relationship between the craftsmanship vs progress from Focused Syn for 1 star items. Keep in mind that naked Foc Syn gives exactly the same progress as a CS III under Ingen2. Thus, it's very easy to calculate what progress your rotation give per synthesis:
Your MuMe, PBPx2 should give: 1039, 696, 467 progress.
You have 1211 craftsmanship... plugging it into the equation yields 388 progress for a naked Focused Syn. This means CS III under Ingen2 will also give 388. This means a Foc Syn under Ingen2 will give (388/150) x 200 = 517.
Thus, the two Focused Syn under Ingen2 should give 517 x2.
Altogether, you will have 3236 progress pushed out. So the calculator is "pretty accurate, but may not be 100% accurate".
With this calculation, the minimum progress required from each of your Foc Syn under Ingen2 = 474. So theoretically, you can have A LOT less craftsmanship than 1211, and your rotation will still work beautifully. Back-calculating it using the formula above, you can have 1119 craftsmanship, and still be fine (but of course, that's probably even lower than the 1 star requirement).

Quote Originally Posted by Koohii View Post
I've been trying to make a macro that does 1star as cheap as possible in CP but still accomplish as close as possible to 100% with NQ mats, since I feel a lot of these ones in here are very expensive in CP, so far this is what I came up with:



It uses a total of 495 CP
This is actually the same rotation as Ermad's rotation modified by Bdyer, which I posted on page 4 of this thread... with the exception that you did a clever little move of the Manip II, which is quite neat. As for the 495 CP requirement, you can actually go down to 490, because you can use 3x CS II + 1x CS III for the completion. I have already tested that you can have as few as 1293 craftsmanship, and still be able to complete the item, as stated on page 4.