Quote Originally Posted by Millen1 View Post
As someone said above, players hit level 50 crafts but had no clue how to do the master II books. I find with many crafters that are leveled up and geared out is a lack of imagination to tackle a new crafting rotation. Most new crafts take me about an hour or two with pen, paper and 10 key to work out a solid rotation.
I think the developers have been trying to fix this. What went wrong in ARR was that most crafters were using RNG free macros to do their 1* and 2* crafts. When 3* crafts came around, they hadn't actually mastered crafting yet. Fortunately, level 51-60 crafts are like lite versions of master recipes, so that's probably supposed to tackle the skill issue.

This is a bit of a generalization, but when the master book ii turn ins were released, many crafters did the following:

1. Take a pre-existing documented rotation and follow it exactly to a tee. If your rotation consists of 2 RS and 10 HT, your expected inner quiet stack is going to be 8.6, which is nowhere close to 11. It's mind boggling that a crafter would continue doing this, while cursing RNG. The odds are heavily stacked against you, so it takes extremely good luck to nail every single RS and HT.

2. They were forced into reclaiming excessively, leading to complaints about lost FC3s and the incredible cost of these books.

What they should have done:

1. Figure out an effective theoretical rotation that can get you 11 stacks of inner quiet under average RNG. That is only possible using master's mend 2 twice for 13 touch attempts (with 2 RS and 13 HT, you get an average of 11 IQ stacks).
2. Assess it's feasibility and use a strategy that maximizes your chances of using mm2 twice. This means CP conservation, so ingenuity 2 must be thrown out. Also, no basic touches should be used on excellent conditions that pop up.

I found that it was possible to use master's mend 2 twice around 50% of the time on master book 2 tokens and 70% of the time on 4* recipes. Requiring excessive use of reclaim was nothing more than a myth.