Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I recommend reading this fully.

All credit to OP:



In short, the Crystalline tools are invaluable when it comes to expert recipes. If you do those recipes, you will know exactly how important it is to maximize the quality you get from a good status. The effectiveness only continues to outshine the crafted tools with each stack of inner quite. Also don't forget that you need to pentameld all eight of your tools in order to get the control required to even compete with the relic tools. If you're a single melder with the crafted tools this isn't even a discussion to be had.
The TLDR from this is 'if you manage to hit a good on IQ2+ then the relic is better, for expert recipes'.

Now how many expert recipes are there in Endwalker, since pre-endwalker recipes can just be brute forced via macros.

Is the relic perk actually worth the small niche use that it gets used for?