Highest level item that can be HQ'd with a single macro?

[AaronHughes]

I was playing around with the crafting simulator today, and I couldn't find a way to macro lv 58/59 items reliably with food when limited to 15 lines. Best I could do was find a ~7k quality 16-step rotation where I press the last careful synthesis II by hand. Sure I could split it up into two separate macros, but what's the fun in that? I've tried a couple different approaches towards durability restoration (even none at all) and all the different progress finishers, but they seem to fall short.
Is this an impossible goal, or do I just need to wait until the next tier of crafting gear is released?

[blueruckus]

If you have really high Craftsmanship you might be able to finish with a Standard Synthesis instead of CSII. At 874 craftsmanship my CS2 does 357/431 on Adam Nuggets so you're probably gonna need around 900ish craft. You'd need to fit in 15 CP but this would likely cut down on your quality. That aside, I do what you do and manually hit a second CS2 for this stuff. It's annoying but gets the job done.

EDIT: Actually, after mathing it out, you're gonna need about 1055 craftsmanship... yeah. Not yet unless you include ING2.

[Kakure]

This requires max CP but no food. You can change the first Standard Touch to a Basic Touch (407 total CP cost) with minimal loss of quality. According to the simulator, this version gives you a full quality bar at 837 control.

[blueruckus]

Awesome. Less touches means faster macro as well. Thanks.

[AaronHughes]

This requires max CP but no food. You can change the first Standard Touch to a Basic Touch (407 total CP cost) with minimal loss of quality. According to the simulator, this version gives you a full quality bar at 837 control.

Nice! How about trying a 70 durability one next

[Cleanse]

Same rotation and add two extra CS2s (manually)?

[Kakure]

I'm very pleased with this one!



It requires 850 base craftsmanship and HQ Emerald Soup, and it should work for anything short of one-star recipes. The sixth touch has a 10% chance to fail, but the simulated results are pretty impressive:

As with any ST/AT rotation, you can downgrade a touch or two without a huge loss of quality. For comparison, SHII>BT>BT>BT>AT>AT>AT comes out to around 300 less quality and saves a whopping 39 CP.

This is probably going to be my new collectable macro once I get enough craftsmanship... only seven classes left to go!

[Culfinrandir]

I've given up on single macros due to using Precise Touch / Other Touch variables. It's just too powerful to get those extra stacks of Intuition. I really hope they increase the number of lines in a macro!

Some of the ones above look very useful for end game though when you know you don't need the extra stacks.

[javid]

I'm very pleased with this one!



It requires 850 base craftsmanship and HQ Emerald Soup, and it should work for anything short of one-star recipes. The sixth touch has a 10% chance to fail, but the simulated results are pretty impressive:

As with any ST/AT rotation, you can downgrade a touch or two without a huge loss of quality. For comparison, SHII>BT>BT>BT>AT>AT>AT comes out to around 300 less quality and saves a whopping 39 CP.

This is probably going to be my new collectable macro once I get enough craftsmanship... only seven classes left to go!

cool simulator! whats the site? or better yet see if you can make a macro adjustment for no food for collectables; you only need 7100 for max red scripts and 6300 for blue. So you can swap out some skills: for example drop those last 3 wind for CS2's, that 18 cp right there and 60% potency gained

[Kakure]

The website is http://ffxiv-beta.lokyst.net/#/simulator. It is a really cool simulator.

I've been trying to make a one-button collectable macro that doesn't require food ever since I discovered Idyllshire, and I still haven't been able to come up one that hits max collectability. The thing with the macro above is that it only uses three elemental actions for progress, leaving twelve command lines for IQ, SH, durability actions, and quality. I think it would be possible if we had a 100% success touch of some sort (obviating the need for a second SH), but in the end there's just a mathematical limit to the amount of quality you can gain with six stacks of Inner Quiet if you aren't responding to item states.