Looks like they finally made Piece by Piece useful

[Lyrinn]

423 craftsmanship, Ingenuity II, , still only hitting for 95 with Standard Synthesis and 76 with Careful Synthesis II on the 3 stars. PbP hits for 146 on the first use and 98 on the second.

[Boilon]

for the 3stars I tend to use 2x piece by piece and 3x careful synthesis II + Ingen II - so it takes me 5 rounds to finish, I could probably get it down to 3-4 if I used rapid synthesis or something else but I didn't want to take the risk.
I have been selling the Alchemy Terminus Putty on Gilgamesh, unfortunately it is hard as hell to HQ and I have only done so once out of 12 crafts. Since it starts at 0 quality and there is no way to improve it from the start.

[Rereyl]

To be completely fair, using rapid synth has paid off quite well. I was making a bunch of spring gear (mostly for practise) and found I could hq (80-100%) off full nq by opening with ingenuity II and rapid synth (after cz etc). Managed to get all 5 to hq using that. When they did fail too many times, reclaim had my back :3

Might be a bit risky but it has great benefits, if my small sample size has any bearing.

[Ranzan]

Reclaim sound like a viable option. I'm glad piece by piece is good now. But this putty is he'll to hq! ><