Snailfish Oil Rotation Discussion (regarding the Maker's Mark Rotation)

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Does anyone know for sure whether the "Miracle + Brow" approach is better than the "more touches at IQ11 and then Blessing" approach?
Maybe I will look into this myself later... could be interesting...

So I did look into it myself, and I answered my own question. I believe the "Miracle + Brow" approach IS STRONGER, in general.

My control was at 1251.

At IQ11, I did the following:

Finisher Phase Variant A:
SH II, GS, Ingen2, Innov, Miracle (IQ down to 6), GS, Brow.

Finisher Phase Variant B:
SH, GS, Ingen2, Innov, Blessing.

In Variant A, the Miracle gave 9540. The Brow gave 5021. Total = 14561.
In Variant B, the Blessing gave 11448.
The quality difference between the two variants = 3113.

Variant A needed a total of 167 CP.
Variant B needed a total of 128 CP.
The CP difference between the two variants = 39 CP.

At IQ11, my Prudent Touch or Hasty Touch under Ingen1 gives 1487. Thus, you can imagine if I am using Variant B (with Blessing), I must do two at least 2 more Touches under Ingen1 at IQ11 to be just on par with Variant A. And I have an extra 39 CP to do that. Prudent Touch cost 21 CP. Thus, even two of them will cost 42 CP. Chances is that 39 CP is not going to be enough for 2x Prudent (especially we need these touches to be under SH II and Ingen1). It is more likely that we'll just end up with 2 extra Hasty Touches instead. Because Hasty Touches are not 100% secure, it seems difficult for us to do enough with that extra 39 CP to obtain 3113 more quality in Variant B.

Therefore, I believe Variant A is stronger, in general.

In conclusion, we should save up 167 CP to do the "Miracle+Brow" ending instead of saving 128 CP for the "Blessing" ending.

However, if one runs into a situation where there're plenty of durab left, but just not enough CP, one could forfeit the Miracle+Brow approach to immediately gain access to 39 more CP. By activating SH II at least, one can at least push 5 more steps of Hasties to burn off those extra durab (hopefully add up to ~3K quality). And then proceed to the 128CP-Blessing finish.