HQing stuff

[Caimie_Tsukino]

My problem isn't that I don't know what I'm doing. My problem is, I know exactly what I'm doing. I was making Basi Whetstones 2 nights ago. I made 30. Couldn't fail them if I wanted to. They could and did hit me with 4 poor conditions on Adv T 3 out of 4 time. I made 30 Basi. I got 50 Good Proc. 4 were useful. The other 46 were there to heckle my rotation.

IQ
SH II
GS
Innovation
Adv T
GS
Adv T
SH II
BB
SC II

46 of 50 Goods, inert.
3 of 4 Excellent, Detrimental.

Crafting in this game is designed to bust your balls.

Spent an hr and a half making all my own parts for a set of 58 Healing gloves. HQ as many parts as I can (sound familiar OP?)
5 times I made parts before the Gloves HQ'ed.

The crafting is for Macro builders and bot gatherers. If you enjoy it, glad to hear it. I don't.

Having 4 Poor conditions means you did have 4 Excellent conditions right before those Poors! If those Poors landed on your Adv Touches, that means the Excellents were landed on the Great Strides. That means you were NOT supposed to use Great Strides at all, but to use Adv Touch directly on the Excellent. Each Excellent provide 4x Quality. That's way more than a Great Strides can provide.

Similarly, if you're only able to make use of 4 Good procs out of 50, you're really not doing it right. Most crafters can make use of over 80% of the Good procs, either for more CP or to gain that 1.5 quality using a touch, or to use Precise Touch to gain that additional IQ stack.

You don't let luck to happen and wish those Good or Excellent land on your touches. You are supposed to modify your rotation according to when they proc! I strongly advice you to take a look at this thread:
http://ffxivrealm.com/threads/advice...he-spot.15347/

Btw, in your rotation up there,
(1) you did not add a GS before the Byregot. As a rule of thumb, GS is ALWAYS used with Byregot. If you lack CP, you would rather move one of your early GS to the back for the Byregot. You can get a lot more power that way.
(2) You'd rather have the Innovation covering your Byregot instead of the earlier touches, unless you have extra CP to spare.
(3) You only reached IQ3 when you used Byregot. Byregot's power on IQ3 is only 100% + 40% efficiency. That's lower than an Advanced Touch. You might as well use Advanced Touch instead of Byregot, unless you lack CP.
(4) You used SH II, but what you really needed was only SH. It could have saved a total of 6 CP.
And if you're lacking CP for any of the above, you should be using CZ on first step anyway.

It's OK not knowing what you're doing. But not knowing what you're doing while thinking you know it (and giving inaccurate advice to others) is rather dangerous. If someone who doesn't know how to control a train thinks she/he can do it, the result is a detrimental train-wreck. And advising others how to wreck a train doesn't mean trains were designed to be wrecked.