New 2-star recipes/rotations of EW 6.05

[Caimie_Tsukino]

ngl, after doing at least two of the skysteel tools, i don't know if i ever want to entertain the notion of doing another expert again. >_< i'm still questioning myself for wanting to get the others done, only because i like the look of their glowing effect when in use. :/

Hmmm... I think you misunderstood the amount of "Expert Recipes" that Liam had done...

First, Skybuilders' Expert Recipes are the easiest out of all 3 kinds of Expert Recipes, with only ~10K progress & 65000 quality to fill, and with Centered condition to capitalize on. By contrast, the Restoration(4) Expert Recipes are the hardest, with 12,046 Difficulty & 81,477 Quality, and they have only 55 durability instead of 60. Furthermore, they do not come with the "Centered" condition. The Resplendent Expert Recipes are somewhere in between.

Second, each Skybuilders' Tool only require 20 Expert Crafts (if you do it perfectly).... let's say you messed up a few, it still won't be anything more than 25. By contrast, if you were going after Seasonal Ranking, you would have been grinding Restoration(4) Expert Recipes. Each one gives about 1200-1300 Skyward Points if you max the quality. To be even competitive on the ranks, someone would probably need at least 600K Skyward Pts. That's at least 461 Expert Crafts, which is still more than all 8 Skybuilders Tools added together. Furthermore, Pteranodon mount requirse 500K Skyward Pts from EVERY DoH and DoL class, which means at least 385 Expert Crafts from EVERY DoH! Lastly, Resplendent Tools require at least 100 Expert Recipes per tool...

Avalionis: 40-50 Skybuilders' Expert Crafts
Liam: ~200 Skybuilders' Expert Crafts + ~460 Restoration(4) Expert Crafts (for ranking) + ~2700 Restoration(4) Expert Crafts (for Pteranodon) + ~800 Resplendent Expert Crafts = 4160...
So, the amount of Expert Crafts Liam did was ~100 folds more!

If you would like to double-check whether you did your Skybuilders' Expert Crafts in a reasonably efficient manner, you might wanna cross check with how I did it:
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/caimie-...ers-tools.201/
or just visit Chapter 26 of my crafting guide:
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/ff14-ad...ie-tsukino.39/

It should take less than 4 min or 5 min to finish each Expert Craft for Skybuilders' tools. So each tool should take no longer than 100 min. When I did these, I remember each craft took about 3 to 4 min to complete, so it was about 1 hour's work for each tool.

[Liam_Harper]

So, the amount of Expert Crafts Liam did was ~100 folds more!

Sadly while I did do a ridiculous number, I admit I never finished the Pteranodon and didn't get all the Resplendent Tools. At some point I burnt out and dropped it, life is too short.