Craftsmanship, Magic Craftsmanship, and Control - We need a solid definition of each!

[zerrith]

I have posted this elsewhere, but I think each recipe should spell out exactly what level it is, whether its a regular or magical synth, and if chances of success are higher with main or off-hand. If not in the recipe pane, there should be some in game source to find out this information.

[Tetsaru]

I have posted this elsewhere, but I think each recipe should spell out exactly what level it is, whether its a regular or magical synth, and if chances of success are higher with main or off-hand. If not in the recipe pane, there should be some in game source to find out this information.

Yellow Gremlin seems to be the most accurate website I've found concerning some of this information, although I have yet to find anything that determines whether a recipe uses Craftsmanship or Magic Craftsmanship. I formerly used Eorzeapedia, but a lot of their information seems to be incorrect or missing nowadays...

[Tetsaru]

Yeah, I heard somewhere that a Full Moon in FF14 made it easier in general to craft, but harder to HQ items, while a New Moon did the opposite. Of course, I have no idea if any of that is true...

[ObeiKinstar]

Theres a lot of speculation but I have done 1000's of controlled test synths and I can say (to my own satisfaction) that direction, weather, time of day, element, moon polarity, none of it has any difference, when you break your synths down in a controlled test and do a shit load of them then calculate the averages the difference is like 1%, I have notebooks full of data.

As far as craft- m craft- control
I am an alchemist above all else (so most of my controlled synths were done using alchemy recipes)

based on that i found out this (to my own satisfaction)
craftmanship is good for advancement
m craftmanship is good for HQ
control is good to keep element stabalized

i also found (again to my own satisfaction)
keeping these three numbers as equal as possible gives the best results

I also found out that not all "ask the devs" info is still correct (some was never correct for that matter) it has come to my attention that the "ask the devs" info in english is different from what it says in jap.

edit: also forgot to talk about main hand/off hand, that has a huge difference, each synth will either have main or offhand tool affinity, I determine this by thinking about which tool would more likely be used to make that item in real life, this works for me like 90% of the time.