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[Caimie_Tsukino]

Reflect makes the most sense if using Patient Touch to win. I tried Muscle Memory, but it felt unnecessary to need to also IQ.

Yes, that is my approach as well.

I tried using MusMem opener, but it doesn't work as nice as Reflect opener for me.

Any preferences on openers? I've seen Muscle Memory or Reflect + Ven and dig for Rapids, or Reflect and a slower Observe + Focus while utilizing procs on quality and Centred on Rapid. All have both worked for max and failed max. Muscle Memory feels very tied to Rapid success, since miss-miss-miss-Groundwork, no Pliant and having to start from IQ 1 is a fairly rough start. I'd imagine for consistent results you'd want to max progress with as little rng as possible.

I usually use Veneration+RapidSynx2, +RapidSyn to get progress done at the beginning while durab is still high. It seems to work fine. Of course, I also adjust it according to conditions too. Sometimes going the naked Rapid Syn first.

There are no openers. Progress is taken care of based on your situation and it occurs throughout the craft.

Personally, I rarely use veneration unless I'm behind in progress and have excess CP. Even when it is up, I might not end up taking advantage of it.

I don't know... I tried a little bit. But conditions don't seem to pop so easily when I need them, so a lot of times, I tried to bait conditions.... First, I'll just keep hasty spamming until durab is relatively low... around 35 or 30. Then I'll pop WN just to delay it a bit further until the first Pliant procs for Manip. But sometimes, it just doesn't happen, and I have to just hard-boot Manip at 96 CP. Then if Pliant appears, I can WN2. If Pliant comes when WN and Manip are all up, then I'll either MM if the durab is really low, or I'll go Prep Touch, which I found to be very effective under Pliant and WN/WN2. In fact, lately, I prefer Prep Touch over MM -- It's better to secure that large chunk of quality instead of boosting 30 durab which you easily lose from hasty anyway.