Crafting Lv60 or less gear "speed rotation", 100% HQ guaranteed

[Brian_Watters]

For 70 durability Lv60 or less crafts (to be used by well-melded crafters only). This is NOT for 1 or 2 star Lv 60 crafts. I'm posting this because the market on my server has just become overrun, but I've already made my millions on this, so... enjoy. It takes about 40 seconds to perform this rotation. Within a solid 30-minute food crafting session I can easily spit out 30 pieces of Adamantite/Serpent/Chimerical gear and put up on market.

Requires 452 CP, ~696 control, ~726 craft

Muscle Memory
Comfort Zone
Inner Quiet
(Tricks of the Trade, only if "Excellent")
Steady Hand II
Basic Touch
Basic Touch
Basic Touch
Basic Touch
Basic Touch
Master's Mend II
Great Strides
(Tricks of the Trade, only if "Excellent")
Steady Hand II
Basic Touch
Innovation (if Excellent, skip Innovation)
Basic Touch
Great Strides (if Excellent, skip Great Strides)
Byregot's Blessing
Careful Synthesis II
Careful Synthesis II
Careful Synthesis II
Careful Synthesis II

[Brian_Watters]

Rotation requires 452 CP to complete

Rotation requires roughly 696 control to guarantee 100% HQ from all NQ mats. If your control isn't quite high enough, then simply start with some HQ mats.

I do not know exactly what craftsmanship is needed to complete, but my current craftsmanship (726) is more than enough, I overshoot the progress by quite a bit.

Touch #2, 3, 4, 5 CAN be performed on "Poor", don't worry about it

[TechnoTechie]

that's a pretty high CP requirement; are you using seafood stew? or do you just assume you're going to get goods/excellents at the right spots?

[Brian_Watters]

My base stats:
Craft = 698
Control = 696 (prior to the 2-star belt control was 685 and I used a FC buff to do my first 2-star, the belt)
CP = 405

Food = HQ Baked Onion Soup +48 CP, +28 craft

Priority #1 = max meld CP
Priority #2 = meet 2-star minimums

You COULD do cheaper melds: higher craft, lower control. Saves ~2 mil gil in melds. But soup is almost free to craft, Seafood Stew is not. I use 3-5 food per day to restock sales so it made sense to go with expensive control melds.

The rotation does not require CP from good/excellent, it is to quickly mass produce Lv60 no star gear. If your stats aren't this high you need Hasty Touch rotations, or start with HQ mats.

[Katlyna]

That's funny... you basically posted my macro

[Brian_Watters]

Oops, sorry :P

[Ayerinn]

That's funny... you basically posted my macro

there isn't exactly 50 ways to properly craft something... but the obvious needs to be spelled out for most people so the more places people see it the better

[Katlyna]

Well there are a number of somewhat different approaches but certain options are better than others. Its interesting this time around most folks came to the same conclusion that ingenuity wasn't worth using in the 80 durability macro this time around.

[Brian_Watters]

I didn't use Ingenuity "last time around" on pre-Heavensward 3&4 star, and had ~99% HQ's on Artisan/Forager gear while crafting ~700 of those. Ing was too much CP for small gain, I aimed for 2x Master's Mend II's instead.

I haven't tried Ing on "new" 2 star crafts. Maker's Mark w/ 2x PbP makes Ing unneeded, but IngII + 2x Rapids could replace 2x PbP, maybe. I'd hate to test it myself on a 5 mil craft. If anyone could confirm the effect of Ing/IngII on new 2 star crafts I would LOVE to see numbers.

On new 1 star crafts, IngII increased my CSII from 98 progress to 179 progress.

Ingenuity was a big part of pre-Heavensward 1&2 star 100% HQ rotations, so it will find use in new 1 & 2 star. And great for leveling from 50 to 60. But for new no-star crafts? No way.

[Katlyna]

Yeah I only used ingenuity for macros in 2.x. I concur ingenuity wasn't worth using in 3 and 4 star synths.