Give us a reason to use anything but standard while synthing!

[Matsume]

How much exp are you getting per synth? 150? Maybe 200 at best?

If you're trying harder synth you'll be getting around 400~500 range exp per synth, those you can possibly blindly spam standard and still get maybe a few successful synth.

However, if you're really pushing yourself and aiming for the 700+ range, you can't just blindly spam synth and hope for the best.

Basically, the people who are taking no risk, are ideally similar to the people who would kill Easy Prey mobs for EXP. Can't complain it's easy because it is easy.

Quoted For Truth.

You can Just Spam Standard (JSS) on synths that yield 200 exp with minimal risk of failure.

On the other hand a synth that yields 400-500exp per will require the use of Tender Touch, Makers Muse, Fullfillment etc. (lvl 10 craft abilities) to avoid botching once every 4 synths.

However, for a synthesis that yields 700+exp per you you must have and use a number of cross craft class abilities to avoid botching.

If what you are looking for is a way to speed up the synthesis progress of a low lvl synth by spamming careful+tender touch whilst at the same time capturing an exp bonus from quality, i would not count on that.You would be better off leveling all your craft classes to 10 to get the cross class abilities and using those on a synth that yields 5-700 exp per.

The only problem with this is that in order to consistently synth items that yield 5-700 exp you have to go so far above your current lvl that often you find yourself at lvl 14 for ex, synthing a lvl 21 item which coincidentally means you are not getting the achievement for the lvl 11-20 Tier.

My problem is that I want to knock out the crafting achievements while benefitting from the exp the synth gives at that lvl. Considering that fulfilling the achievement for any given Tier will practically guarentee you getting the 10 levels in that tier, I find myself moreoften than not at the beginning of a Tier (lvl 10, 20 etc.) crafting an item 5 or so lvls above me for 4-500 exp but by the time I finish the achievement I'm at the end of that tier (19, 29 etc.) and the synth only yields 200 exp~~ At this point Just Spamming Standard is the easiest way to go, whereas in the begining I find myself using cross class abilities.