HQ Crafting Help!

[Gemina]

Umm .. No.

Rested is a flat 50% assuming you have enough - and in your pic, you most certainly do have enough. The 300% is WITHOUT Rested exp - if you have Rested, the total increases (to 350%) and, of course, food (3%) and any other under-level-X gear (if you are under that level X) may also apply.

You only got 276% bonus from taking that recipe to 100% HQ. The other 50% was Rested. Using those 3 HQ materials COST you experience.

Based on my calculator, 14980 * (450/426) = 15823.94 exp - or over 800 exp lost for using those HQ mats.

As far as getting an organic 100% - that does not require being higher enough over the recipe's level that you are losing exp doing it. What it DOES require is up-to-date gear (HQ, no melds), the level 15 cross class skills, and little bit of luck (getting those Hasty Touches to land successfully). Of course, if you have a 50 Carpenter, simply using that cross class skill appropriately will be enough to 100% almost anything under 50. It is not required though. I was doing exactly that 3 years ago when leveling my crafting classes the hard way (all to 15, all to 20, all to 30, all to 40, all to 50).

EDIT - just thought I should explain that math a little bit. Bonus exp is in addition to the 100% normal, base exp you get. This should be very obvious if the only bonus you get is Rested, or food, and the cited percentage is under 100%. So, that rested + bonus + base is 50% + 300% + 100%, or 450%. Or, for the exp actually earned in that screenshot, rested + bonus + base would be 50% + 276% + 100%, or 426%.

Forgive me, I was thinking that you were saying that the 300% bonus was not possible if you use HQ mats. I understand now, or at least I think, that you are talking about overall exp gained, in which case the HQ mats does reduce the amount I gain from a successful HQ since I only needed to increase the quality bar by 92% opposed to 99%. The bonus is still there, but applied to a lesser amount of exp.

I am very heavy in the leveling stages for my DoH right now. Most of my gear is HQ and melded, but there is still room for improvement. I also feel like I have a fair amount of skill with crafting, but there is room for improvement here also. With that said, getting an organic 100% with same level recipe or a little higher is certainly possible, and I have done it on multiple occasions, but it is VERY difficult. Top notch gear and food are a MUST. The level 15 cross skills go a long way in helping. Add Byregot's Blessing, Steady Hand II, and Comfort Zone and you just might overkill some recipes.

We do have to remember though that it isn't until the 40's that you finally have enough slots to add enough skills to blow your crafts away, and depending on your prioritization of cross skills and discipline, BB may not be crossed until around level 25. It's much more useful once you have Great Strides @21 in any case, but then you need sufficient CP to use them in junction.

Anywho, thanks for the explanation. I hope I got it now