Crafting Needs a Place in Endgame Raiding

[Sunarie]

I am lazy and cheap. I don't use any HQ mats, so when I make ilevel 70 2 star HQs, I use a generic Byregot's Blessing bomb with 8 Steady Hand II'd Hasty Touches (with Waste Not I used twice).

I technically need 6 hasty touches to land for a 100% HQ from NQ mats. (50%+30% = 80% chance per Hasty to work) If I manage to land Byregot's on a Good, I don't need 6, but that's somewhat up to good fortune.

Statistically, the odds of getting 6/8 at least when you have 80% per attempt are pretty good, but they're not 100%. Thankfully, if I'm unlucky, I simply Reclaim and hope the 90% refund procs, and then try again. Of the countless crafts I have made for my FC, I have only ever NQ'd or lost mats to Reclaim twice, so I'm fine using that approach.

If you have the materia melds/skills to meet the numbers in this post.. it has the rotation for a 100% HQ rate on 2-star items with all NQ mats.

Edited cause.. I forgot the link.. http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/1p8t6q/