Quote Originally Posted by Kakure View Post
Actually, there are breakpoints. 6,000 is the most important threshold because there's a 200-point jump from 5,999 to 6,000. Or so I theorize. I haven't actually gotten a 5,999- or 6,000-collectability craft, but I have recorded the following (points in parens):

5903 (570 pts)
5925 (576 pts)
5933 (578 pts)
5945 (581 pts)
5949 (582 pts)
5952 (583 pts)
5984 (591 pts)
5992 (593 pts)

6010 (809 pts)
6013 (811 pts)
6035 (831 pts)
6051 (845 pts)
6101 (890 pts)

Macro crafting is never going to be the fastest way to get points, but 766 is 62% of the maximum possible, and easily 70% of what anyone actually averages (or should, if they are doing it right -- spending 45 steps to get a flagging craft to 6486 is wildly inefficient by any metric but points-per-material).

I crafted around 1300 of these by hand for the Skybuilder's competition and about that many in the past month using different macros. Hand crafting requires most of your focus and prevents you from doing other things -- chatting with people in-game or reading the news or playing another game -- because you are watching the screen the whole time and pushing buttons every couple of seconds. It gets taxing. During the competition, my productivity would trail off after a couple hours and I would need to take a break to clear my head. If someone called on the phone, I would pause my crafting and talk to them because I couldn't devote my full attention to the person on the other end and also watch conditions and make decisions about what to do at the same time. It is difficult even to eat while you're manually crafting, at least using a controller.

This is more like standard macro crafting interspersed with beast-tribe-daily-complexity progress crafting every couple minutes (albeit with more randomness). It's definitely not the fastest way to make points, but I consider the tradeoff more than worth it for the convenience of not having to pay attention to what's happening on the screen or think too much.

If that's not your jam, more power to you.
ive managed to get to max quality a couple of times per day by being lucky. i got 6th place as alchemist, i had help by my friends who were gathering stuff for me , i did it for 4 days nonstop till i was burned out completely at which point i had reached first with 1 day remaining before the results were out and if i remember my average was 5700+ per craft. and since i was getting around 70-130k point per day , reaching 450k total, i realised that i was doing around 100 collectibles........per day. not sure how worth it it was.... but im wearing that title now and it aint leaving till my ptsd is gone and have to tackle the 500k points in all jobs challenge TT