Crafting is dead

[Sibyll]

Edit: Personally, I think Inner Quiet/BB needs to be nerfed/reworked, because it's the #1 reason SE doesn't want to give us a ton of CP to play with and it's what stifles every other potential rotation out there, like the Rumination one.

Many of the skills in general need to get reworked in a fashion that isn't just a bandaid fix. All their "fixes" have just been FotM skill rotations for each recipe tier. In 1*/2* recipes no one ever used PbP/RS for progress, it was all about Ingenuity+CSII. Then the progress bars got bigger with 3*/4* and the meta shifted to PbP/RS with a CSII finisher. Now HW is out and Flawless Synth is getting used only because of Maker's Mark as an initial progress builder. Or there are also the Name/Brand steps which give the otherwise useless Brand skills a niche to fill. I feel like Mastercraft II books were also designed to give Reclaim/Rumination a time to shine.

But these are all just temporary fixes. None of these has ever addressed the problem with their design. If brand skills aren't being used then maybe... make more recipes that have Aspect: Element conditions? As someone already pointed out, I'm surprised they didn't go the Ixali route. I had to adjust my rotation more for the beast dailies than I ever did between recipe patches. At most the patches required baiting a condition proc on the BB, and I'd say the standard was you'd have to add another Progress step at the beginning.

They've spent all this time building a great infrastructure for the crafting system yet the the only recipe characteristics we ever see are: Requires Craftsmanship: X, Requires Control: X, Not HQable, and Quick Synthesis Not Available.

Also, was Precise Touch even necessary? Couldn't they have just as easily made a Trait that gave you two IQ stacks for using Basic Touch? Maybe Excellents would proc three IQ on a Standard Touch. Sometimes I forget that Standard and Advanced Touch are on my bar for how rare the circumstances are that you'd use them over another skill.