I took a gander at your 2* and 4* write-ups. I'm a LITTLE surprised that you didn't also lookup/include 1*/2* 40dur/80dur synthesis in your guides.

I thought about a lot of the macros I found while I was still getting to 2*/3*, how the stats that I had didn't necessarily match up with what was required for different macros, etc. While it would be nice of me to repost those, I've given more thought as to re-writting out all of my, let's call them mass production macros, and uploading them to my lodestone blog. the effect of "Now that I'm here, and all 8 of my crafts have exactly these stats, here are the skills needed, and here are the exact macro's, to have one/two touch macro's to guarantee every synth 2*-. Eventually, I'm sure we'll get there with3*. Mostly, because our Crafts/Control will be so high we won't need as many steps . . . but we'll see.