Thread: Specialist System in 3.0

Relatively speaking doing a single Byregot's with a huge Control stack is fundamentally more efficient than trying to chase/match the whistle stack. Likewise this means you only use Trained hand once (before building any other progress outside the 1/3). I suspect something along the lines of the above will work well if we can reliably burn the whistle stack to 3. If I find I'm still CP starved then I would likely do a similar rotation but drop Trained hand and do my progress up front with Careful Synthesis II/Rapid Synthesis. I'm still not entirely certain Trained hand is "efficient" since all it really does is grant a medium progress/quality gain at a high cost. Technically speaking 10 durability recover only costs around 27 CP with master's mend II (which I usually use twice in my old rotation). I will note that trained hands 80% success though may result in me keeping it (this is important).

If I find I can't reliably get Whistle stacks down to 3 then I will ditch whistling entirely, and go back to my old rotation while using the new Precise Touch during surplus CP phases to build stacks better. My concern is nearly all of my tests so far show whistling to be dangerous, and inefficient in comparison to a tightly tuned rotation! I'll let you all know more if I find some kind of break through. Also the posting limits in this board are too short sorry!

Thank you for posting, Katlyna. I suspected the new stuff outside precise touch wasn't that great.

Can you fill us in a little on how some of these mechanics work? Info is hard to come by and the tool tip descriptions available online are pretty vague.

1. Whistle is supposed to increase effectiveness when it is a multiple of 3. How much does it increase stuff by? Is leaving the whistle stack at a multiple of 3 for the bonus instead of cashing it in for CP a viable option?
2. It says it increases progress when whistle stack reaches 0. How much does it increase by? Does it still do that if you zero out with nymeia's wheel?
3. How much durability does nymeia's wheel restore?
4. How does Innovative Touch work? Does it apply innovation bonus to just that one touch or does it give it for multiple steps?
5. The lvl 60 skills: how much do they seem to increase the chance of good condition?

Thanks for the info! Appears concerns about only having 3 viable crafts at a time have turned out to not be the case.

From your rotation, I can gather that zeroing out the whistle with nymeia's wheel doesn't give a progress bump.

Yes using Nymeria's wheel doesn't trigger the (whistle 0) progress bump. Only letting the Wheel naturally expire to 0 results in the progress bump. Which is rather difficult to do with my current CP (upgraded accessories might make it more possible). But letting it expire doesn't seem to be a very good strategy for normal items anyway. I could see this being useful for maybe extremely difficult progression items assuming we could get enough base CP and use heart actions.

I need to play around more with Heart actions. It seems to me they could be very useful when you experience bad rnged an no good/excellent. If you see this during the first half of your rotation you could use it during the second half to trigger your whistle. This is one of the biggest problems with whistling, if you don't get any good/excellent procs you are in a terrible position. With the normal rotation you can survive, but when whistling you have put yourself deficit 36 CP betting on future procs.

so, if I am going to just start getting into the crafting and pick 3 professions to start with, will the specialist system allow me to reliably do the endgame crafting?

I hit 55 Weaver and I don't know who to talk to to get the Weaver Soulstone using 1 of the 3 "Soul of the Crafter" plaques I received.