"Newbie" question

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I'm noticing now that my CRP is 51 and my ALC is 50-- is one level really what's breaking the calculations behind the scenes in order to make this go so smoothly on CRP, but make me work so freakin' hard on ALC?

You said "finally gotten some crafters to 50" on your first post, so I thought you had CRP at 50.

Silverbane's right. Your CRP is level 51. You probably underestimated how much that means. Every level beyond level 50 is a gigantic step for ARR 1 star to 4 star recipes. Level 53 Heavensward recipe is the same difficulty as ARR 4 star recipe. By the time you reach level 53/54, you can easily 4 shot a 4 Star recipe with CS II.

Silverbane's solution is the best. 1 or 2 GC turn-in (especially with gold star) will let you easily reach 51 on ALC. Then problem resolved.

That's it exactly.

In post-Heavensward Eorzea, recipe difficulty is ordered like this:
L50 --- your ALC
L50 1-Star
L50 2-Star
L50 3-Star
L50 4-Star
L51 --- Your CRP

Actually, as I said above, level 53 = 4 star. So L51 is actually below 4 star.