Quote Originally Posted by Millimidget View Post
Neither of which is as good as Waste Not.
I know you meant to say Steady Hands II. I have some issue with Steady Hands. The tooltip for the ability Steady Hands I reads +20% chance for success, but the tooltip for the associated buff reads only +10% chance for success. I don't have culinary high enough to check Steady Hands II, but it possibly suffers from the same issue. My own limited testing supported +10% as the actual buff, but I only tracked 100 syntheses.
Waste Not is good in situation where you're sure you won't need to do a Tricks of the Trade. Otherwise, it's not better than Manipulation. And yeah I meant Steady Hands II. The tool tip is correct as you'll never see a Standard Touch (80%) fail with Steady Hands (20%) or Basic Touch (70%) fail with Steady Hands II (30%). Testing with Hasty Touch is imperative at best as there is no way you can tell how 70% or 80% probability works but you can tell when 100% is indeed 100%.