Quote Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu View Post
Kaurz you say in your wall of text that barely anyone had the guts to macro 4 star crafts....
I did that all the time including final products and rarely got nq results.
What i do agree upon is that crafting is too easy. WAY to easy. In my opinion there isnt even a profit to be made in crafting the latest pieces. Not compared to the effort you have to make in getting the materials.
I'm talking strictly end products on all NQ materials. It'd go smoothly, for a really good portion of the time, and you could always reclaim but the point I was attempting to make is that we had significant benefit of crafting manually, over macro crafting. Maybe that point should've been made explicitly clear, and should've worded it differently to 'guts' but rather just done it outright and all the time. It was a case of a macro is still more riskier than doing manually, so it was a case of potentially avoiding 500k potential additional profit. That is non existent now.

Also, it does come partially down to experience, I very rarely saw someone use macros on 4* crafts efficiently, I'm well aware how easy it is to macro 4* using Maker's Mark since you can get up to 12 touches if done correctly. Which over 90% of the time will HQ anything you throw at it. Most other crafters I had the pleasure of talking with were usually fairly nervous to actually do macros so they either manually crafted everything, or asked for people to HQ base materials for them.

Some servers have the real nightmare, here it's a little more secure with profits, but doing commission work is definitely a near loss of profits on some crafts, most it's a profit but I feel sorry for the servers where these items are selling for 200k. They've always done good with keeping a strong economy but this is just disaster

Sorry for the walls of text