Quote Originally Posted by RafeMacleod View Post
Mjollnir hit in on the head. Pay attention to your condition and try to line up your Standard Synth+Great Strides with positive conditions. The other option is to level leather and cook to 15 and try the Hasty Touch spam method.
Can you describe this? I find that when I try to spam hasty touch, I run the risk of running out of durability and I really have to keep my eye on it. If you use LTW (waste not) you get 2 extra steps, but if you use one of them for a Tricks of the trade when Good pops, you lose a step, unlike Manipulation, where it will give you back 10 durability, but of course at the extra cost to use.

What is the best method to spam hasty touch? I only do this method when I'm trying to HQ something otherwise very difficult and have no HQ mats to use...

Inner Quiet -> Steady Hand -> Hasty x3, while using TotT if it pops -> Master's Mend -> Steady Hand -> repeat. Depending on luck, I may get to a high HQ rate, or I might not. The game is finicky and can have you fail 3-4 Hasty in a row, which is ridiculous considering 70% success on it with SH. Using this method I ALWAYS use TotT if it's up, where on a normal synth, I only use TotT if I'm at a transition point where my SH has worn out after my first rotation, or I'm in the process of building progress.