Specialist Recipes

[Silverbane]

Anyone able to direct me to a spot where I can get the Pterodactyl please???

Small islands. My wife caught some at (13,23), west of where one of those axebeak things was prowling. It never aggro'd on her.

Cat Became Hungry has reports on the matter, citing (14,14), (13,23), and (16,18), and includes one report that the spots, like the MIN/BTN nodes, change location.

[Mindy_Macready]

Made the mistake of making my first specialist an ALC. Absolutely useless

[SchalaZeal]

We veteran crafters have no problem doing 2 star with NQ mats. So we might as well go for quantity instead of quality.

Really would like to know how to 1) do the 60 1 star 35 durability mat (HQ 100%) and 2) a 2 star rotation starting at 0 quality that can work without 900 control or having 11 hasty procs. Because I sure haven't found one yet, and that's stopping me from even trying 2 star 60.

Something about not wanting to throw millions to the bin.

I found some rotations like the Maker's Mark one, but I don't know how many touch procs I need to get to not go "screw that, Reclaim" or minimum quality needed to start when you have just the basic 718/695. Would be nice to make my own Astral Birch accessories and not pay 6 million per for them.

[Sollux]

Really would like to know how to 1) do the 60 1 star 35 durability mat (HQ 100%) and 2) a 2 star rotation starting at 0 quality that can work without 900 control or having 11 hasty procs. Because I sure haven't found one yet, and that's stopping me from even trying 2 star 60.

Something about not wanting to throw millions to the bin.

I found some rotations like the Maker's Mark one, but I don't know how many touch procs I need to get to not go "screw that, Reclaim" or minimum quality needed to start when you have just the basic 718/695. Would be nice to make my own Astral Birch accessories and not pay 6 million per for them.

There is no rotation (At the moment, or likely ever) that can guarantee a HQ 2-Star craft from 0-100% with the minimum stats. Your best bet is Rath's roation, but even if all of the HT succeed you'll still only reach ~85% HQ chance without any Goods.

If you want to test out different rotations with different stats I suggest Lokyst's Simulator. It has a few slight bugs (Ingenuity isn't working correctly but Ingenuity II is) but overall is quite accurate and only off by a small amount of Progress/Quality. You can infer minimum quality needed by what is left over after the rotation, and can guess how many HTs you can fail by making a rotation and removing 1 or 2 to see what the Quality becomes.

If you don't want to risk millions I suggest either starting with as much Quality as you can or finding a Crafter friend that can make it for you.

[MN_14]

Really would like to know how to 1) do the 60 1 star 35 durability mat (HQ 100%) and 2) a 2 star rotation starting at 0 quality that can work without 900 control or having 11 hasty procs. Because I sure haven't found one yet, and that's stopping me from even trying 2 star 60.

Something about not wanting to throw millions to the bin.

If you start from 1500-2000 quality, the posted rotations should give good HQ yields even at minimum control. For those with both minimum craftsmanship and control, Rath's rotation probably works the best. Also, if you're nervous about trying out 2* crafts, you can always practice crafting 1* items (from 0 quality), which are very similar to 2*.

35 Durability 1* crafts can be crafted in a similar way to previous 35/40 durability recipes.

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Really would like to know how to 1) do the 60 1 star 35 durability mat (HQ 100%) and 2) a 2 star rotation starting at 0 quality that can work without 900 control or having 11 hasty procs. Because I sure haven't found one yet, and that's stopping me from even trying 2 star 60.

Something about not wanting to throw millions to the bin.

I found some rotations like the Maker's Mark one, but I don't know how many touch procs I need to get to not go "screw that, Reclaim" or minimum quality needed to start when you have just the basic 718/695. Would be nice to make my own Astral Birch accessories and not pay 6 million per for them.

For the new HW 1 star 35 durab items in Master Recipe III, I basically used a very similar rotation as the Hasty Touch rotation I mentioned in my post above, with the exception that I thrown down a CS II earlier as a filler, and then planted an Ingen2 near the end so that I can finish the item with 2 additional strokes of CS II. So far, I have only made 6 Leathers, and all 6 were HQ.

As for HW 1 star 70 durab items in the Master Recipe III, I have listed a pretty secure macro in Ch48 of my crafting guide. The macro uses 12 Hasty Touches, and allow up to 4 failed Hasties to happen, and you can still HQ it. This macro gives me very high fidelity... only gives 1 NQ every 10+ items. If you manually craft using that macro rotation, you will probably HQ things very safely.

As for HW 2 star 70 durab items in the Master Recipe III, like Sollux, MN_14 and everyone else said, there's no guarantee on 100% quality if you start with pure NQ mats. I have been using Rath's rotation as well mostly. But my HQ rate on mats has been very high... usually only NQ-ing an ingot or lumber at 1 out of 10. I usually start with approx 500 to 1000 quality. But sometimes I do use pure NQ mats. Notice that the same rotation in different people can be quite different. The improvising work on the spot by the crafter will change EVERYTHING. I can sometimes change the rotation dramatically on the spot to utilize the Good or excellent conditions... especially if 2 Goods pop during the string of FS... I could grab both Tricks, and utilize that extra CP later for many different things.

I never use pure NQ mats for my final product, and thus, so far I haven't NQ any final gear yet (touch wood!). There was this one time which I got a horrible string of failed HTs without any extra CP from Trick of Trades to save it, and I was only able to reach IQ8. But since I used the maximum amount of HQ mats, so I still managed to luckily HQ it. Whew!

[Malakai]

After seeing how it is, I'm fine with how things are at the moment.

CRP - Cassie Block (which is used for Mog House glamour), Unending Journal & Coffin for Furnishings.
BSM - Titanium Alloy Ingot which needs ore from Diadem gathered by high lvl miner. Which ingot is used for ARM and GSM specialist Recipe's.
ARM - Gear that needs BSM specialist ingot
GSM - Gear that needs BSM specialist ingot & LTW specialist leather, Housing light fixture
LTW - Leather which needs legendary type fish from Diadem gathered by high lvl fisher. Leather used in both GSM and LTW gear.
WVR - Cloth which needs cotton from Diadem gathered by high lvl botanist. Which is used in gear synths, also gets to make 2 minions.
ALC - Only 1 synth but it's needed for Mog House glamour
CUL - New food synth which needs items from gathering jobs in Diadem.

I don't mind it really. Sucks I can't do it all myself but decided to go BSM, GSM, LTW for my specialists. I have an FC member who will do CRP, WVR, ALC, and have some other friends who specialize in other ones I can't do. So it's a nice trade off. The only downside is the fish for LTW, will have to dedicate a whole run to getting those.

[LissanaBrightwood]

How is this "fine":
CRP - 3 recipe's
BSM - 1 recipe
ALC - 1 recipe
CUL - 1 recipe
ARM - 6 recipe's (Ilvl 185 armour)
LTW - 23 recipe's (glamour and ilvl 185 armour)
WVR - 17 recipe's (glamour, minions and ilvl 185 armour)
So why do ARM, LTW, WVR get favored ? CUL only got 1 recipe in 2 patches!
Some people may be lucky that they draw the right straw and can now craft the new recipe's.
For other people there is nothing.
How is this even fair and what where they thinking while making this ?
They could at least said that people can switch specialization the first week and then offer the INSANE amount of red scripts to change your spec if you are not happy with it (cant understand why anyone ever would want to leave the golden 3).
Or they could offer a free spec change every week if they are so desperate with the system. I was expecting more of the system, but all i found was useless skills and locked out content.
Thanks for ruining crafting once again....

[Katlyna]

Yeah its not fine its just a really crappy implementation that accomplishes nothing but frustration and annoyance.

[SchalaZeal]

I don't think there's a non hasty touch solution to 1* and 2* crafts. Generally, hasty touch rotations make up the backbone of master crafting, so it's something every crafter has to learn how to use if they want to reliably craft the latest recipes.

The other mats were at most lv 58, so the lv 60 thing worked fine, for making birch lumber, adamantite nuggets, etc. I simply don't have a hasty touch variant I know of.

The one I saw on reddit is:

CZ -> IQ -> SH2 -> Manip -> Basic/Precise x4 -> Manip -> SH2 -> Basic/Precise x3 -> GS -> BB -> Ing II -> CS2 x2, needing 444 CP with food, and 676 crafts to do CS2 x2 and finish.

I have 761/696 with 396 CP on all my crafts that have the i180 main hand (CUL and CRP so far), 720/674 otherwise, without food.