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

[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

[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!

[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.