Question for the Crafters

[Fireborn]

Cross-classable:
[CRP-50] Byregrot's Blessing: Doubles the effect of Inner Quiet Stacks for one synth. Resets them after use.
[BSM-50] Ingenuity 2: 32 CP, lowers the recipie's effect on both Progress and Quality advancement significantly for five steps. Often doubling it for 3 and 4 star recipies.
[ARM-50] Piece by Piece: 15 CP, 90% Success, hits for 1/3rd of remaining Progress. Ex: Craft with 400 Progress, 1st would hit for ~132, second would hit for ~88.
Mostly used for 3 and 4 star crafting, because of the high amount of progress that must be chewed through.
[ARM-15] Rapid Synth: 0 CP, 50% Success, 250% Efficiency Progress Raise.
Also mostly used in 3-4-star to reduce the number of Progress steps to raise the number of Quality steps available.
[GSM-15] Manipulation: 88 CP, returns 30 durability over the next three steps. Craft WILL fail if it hits 0 durability while this is up. 2nd most efficient Durability restoration. Most efficient for 40-dur crafts.
[GSM-50] Innovation: 18 CP, Increases control by 50% for 3 steps. Nice, but not game-changing. Can be used to bait for a good/excellent for the byregrot's, but for 3&4 stars, you may not have enough cross-class slots to have it.
[LTW-15] Waste Not: 56 CP, Makes Progress and Quality steps take 5 durability instead of 10 for the next 4 steps.
[LTW-50] Waste Not 2: 98 CP, Same as 1, but for 8 steps. Both can spare a step and still have basically full effect. As finishing with progress 5 dur is no different from finishing with 10 dur.
[WVR-15] Careful Synth: 0 CP, 100% Success, 90% Efficiency Progress Raise.
[WVR-50] Careful Synth 2: 0 CP, 100% Success, 120% Efficiency Progress Raise. Excellent, excellent skill.
[ALC-15] Tricks of the Trade: Turns a Good Condition into 20 CP. Extremely useful, when it procs.
[ALC-50] Comfort Zone: 66 CP, returns 80 CP over the next ten steps.
[CUL-15] Hasty Touch: 50% success, 100% Efficiency Quality Raise.
[CUL-37] Steady Hand 2: +30% success rates on all skills for five steps.
[CUL-50] Reclaim: 55 CP, 90% Chance to return items from a failed synth. Persists once activated, but you won't really want to use it unless you have to restart the synth.

Universals:
[07] Master's Mend: 92 CP, returns 30 durability. Least CP Efficient Durability return.
[09] Steady Hand: 22 CP, +20% success for five steps. Useful, and cheaper for closing out with 90% success skills.
[11] Inner Quiet: 18 CP, stacks to 11 (first doesn't count) and each stack adds approx 20% to your Touch(Quality) skills returns. So, 120%, 140%, 160%... 300%.
[21] Great Strides: 32 CP, 2x Quality Modifier for a single Touch skill. Persists 3 steps or until consumed.
[25] Master's Mend 2: 160 CP, returns 60 Durability. The most CP efficient Durability restoration skill, high price tag means that you'll probably only get to use it once, without hitting a LOT of Tricks of the Trade.

Noteable only for hilarity:
[GSM-37] Flawless Synth: 15 CP, 90% Success. FIXED Progress increase of 40.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Flawless Synthesis actually has a use : those elementally Aspected repair recipes. When you are leveling up and don't have the stats to simply overpower them, using that skill can reduce the amount of Synthesis steps needed to finish, without worrying about whether or not the elementally Aspected Synthesis specific to the various crafting classes will help.

[Fireborn]

Flawless Synthesis actually has a use : those elementally Aspected repair recipes. When you are leveling up and don't have the stats to simply overpower them, using that skill can reduce the amount of Synthesis steps needed to finish, without worrying about whether or not the elementally Aspected Synthesis specific to the various crafting classes will help.

That is a good point.
Know they reduce progress gains by 50%, but they're all mid to high level that I recall. So, I don't know about not being able to still hit for more than 40.

[Nyalia]

Flawless Synthesis would have a use, possibly like you described.... if it didn't cost 15 CP. The CP cost more than anything totally kills it for me. Also, it has only a 90% success rate. Basically, it's the exact same cost and success rate as Standard Synthesis, but a) is a specialized class skill, and b) gives less progress in 99-100% of cases. I guess it's something semi-useful before you get Standard Synthesis and are doing elementally aspected crafts, but how many of them are there at such a low level?

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Standard Synthesis cost 15 CP and has that same 90% success rate.

It also, for those levels, gives less Progress than Flawless Synthesis on those Aspected recipes. Flawless is basically a one-stop-Synthesis move for those aspected recipes so you don't have to cross class those other level 37 cross class skills. And its been a while (like, over a year) but I want to say that it beat those elemental Synthesis moves by a little Progress as well, though I have to admit I did not use those moves much, just Flawless.