ING2 vs INN

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Basically the following, Innovation is only good when you don't have any stacks of IQ and losses effectiveness as your control increases. Anything below 50, you don't need either ING 2 or Inno. 1 star or 2 star ONLY, you want to follow:

SH 1 > Excellent > BB
SH 1 > Any Condition > GS > Good/Excellent > BB
SH 1 > Any Condition > GS > Any Condition > ING 2 > Good/Excellent > BB
SH 1 > Any Condition > GS > Any Condition > ING 2 > Any Condition > Innovation > Any Condition > BB

Hmmm, ok.. That's really weird though, I always thought because ING2 lowers the recipe lvl, that the effect of ING2 becomes BETTER, the HIGHER the recipe lvl (more stars) is.. So this is not the case then? O.o

The formula to calculate how much quality you get based on your control is estimated to be ax^2 + bx + c
But things aren't that simple because our level caps at 50 and we are given a level penalty each time we do a recipe that is higher than our cap.

Now there are different degree's to the level penalty based on how many level's higher the recipe is than your current level.

As an example. If you have 391 control.

1 Star and 2 Star
You first Basic Touch should yield 177.35 quality but it doesn't. It only yields 129.7 quality which is sadly always rounded down to 129. This is because of the level penalty applied. What ingenuity 2 does is since you level discrepancy lowered; then the level penalty applied is also lowered and you get 172.9 quality which again is rounded down to 172 quality increase.

SH > BT = 129
SH > ING 2 > BT = 172

3 Star an d 4 Star
The problem now is that as higher recipes come out, our level is still capped so no matter how much we decrease the level by, the penalty is still at the maximum. Which means that for those two crafts. Ingenuity 2 is useless because regardless of whether or not you use it, you will get 129 quality.

SH > BT = 129
SH > ING 2 > BT = 129

Waste of CP

Check http://ffxiv.lokyst.net/ blog for more details on how it works.