Best gathering skills for unspoiled nodes

[DukeBurden]

Hey, guys. I just had a friend meld me some GP+ material on my Botanist armor. I now have 600GP and was wondering what is the method to use on unspoiled nodes. What I do is mostly farm the crawler cocoons with Blessed Harvest II and Field Mastery II which gives me 5 cocoons per swing and 100% gathering rate. Any other or better combos to use? Thanks!

[Raldo]

Max yield: Blessed Harvest II, Field Mastery II
Max chance at HQ: Leaf Turn II, Toil (or Ageless), end with Brunt Force
Max guaranteed HQ: Toil, Ageless (or just 2x Ageless), Brunt Force when available

Personally, I do #1 because I need quantity over quality.

[DukeBurden]

Max yield: Blessed Harvest II, Field Mastery II
Max chance at HQ: Leaf Turn II, Toil (or Ageless), end with Brunt Force
Max guaranteed HQ: Toil, Ageless (or just 2x Ageless), Brunt Force when available

Personally, I do #1 because I need quantity over quality.

I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

[Flonne]

I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

Its a very true statement when you figure out Inner Quiet+Standard Touch combo with crafting.

[Naerymdan]

Easy way to get HQ on 40 durability recipes from NQ materials.

Requires lv50 Carpenter, lv50 Blacksmith, lv50 Weaver, lv50 Alchemist, lv37 Culinarian and lv15 Leatherworker.

Craftsmanship: 322
Control: 300-ish and more (maybe 10% more HQ with 325 and 10% more with 350)
CP: 332

Comfort Zone
Inner Quiet
Steady Hand II
Waste Not
Hasty Touch x 4
Manipulation
Steady Hand II
Waste Not
Hasty Touch x 4
Steady Hand
Ingenuity II
Hasty Touch
Byregot's Blessing
Careful Synthesis II

You can have a much better rotation if you have more CP, but this one gets the job done with wearing 1-star gear and partially melded jewelry.

[Ksenia]

I was reading somewhere that "a good crafter can HQ with NQ ingredients" so that made me realize maybe I should be going for max yield, not HQ. Thanks for your input. : )

Most of the unspoiled stuff is one star and I can say I would rather have more than better when trying to pound out HQ. There has been enough 70%-98% NQ trash and enough 15%-25% HQ flukes to say it's either 100% or pure chance. Considering most are in the 1-99% pure chance group even with HQ material, it's better to just have more mats to throw away.