Thread: 5.0 Crafting Changes

Originally Posted by Cleanse

Maria Nyan's 1 button time saver is great...

Seems decent, though it doesn't seem to leave you with spare Progress if your Careful's aren't enough. I'm currently using:

Non-Specialist:

/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Manipulation II" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Advanced Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Name of the Elements" <wait.2>
/ac "Brand of the Elements" <wait.3>

Specialist:

/ac "Initial Preparations" <wait.3>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac "Specialty: Reflect" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation II" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Prudent Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Ingenuity II" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Name of the Elements" <wait.2>
/ac "Brand of the Elements" <wait.3>

If you're lv70 or struggling for Progress you switch the Preparatory for Prudent. These should leave enough spare Durability that you can finish the craft manually with an extra Brand or two if needed and should work fine for gear and under-leveled crafts. Not saying they're optimal, just throwing out what I have for now, feel free to tweak and improve.

Once I hit level 71, I used this rotation for the level 71/73/76: 40 durability items.
It is relatively CP (424) and Craftsmanship friendly and still produces really good quality and can be used with one button, if needed it has still one action left to be completed (or quality to increase with before Blessing)

/ac "Muscle Memory" <wait.3>
/ac "Inner Quiet" <wait.2>
/ac Observe <wait.3>
/ac "Focused Synthesis" <wait.3>
/ac "Manipulation II" <wait.2>
/ac "Steady Hand II" <wait.2>
/ac "Waste Not" <wait.2>
/ac Innovation <wait.2>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Preparatory Touch" <wait.3>
/ac "Steady Hand" <wait.2>
/ac "Great Strides" <wait.2>
/ac "Byregot's Blessing" <wait.3>
/ac "Careful Synthesis III"

Edit: When enough CP you can exchange innovation for ingenuity, add another prudent touch after steady hand (use SH II then), add innovation with inguenity at the end etc. I changed this base relatively often, to increase the quality. But with my stats it was enough until level 78/79er recipies^^

Originally Posted by StouterTaru

• Miracle Brow rotation for high end crafts. Full IQ Byr Miracle drops you to IQ6, where Blessing and Brow were equal potency, Brow was 6 CP less, and Brow didn't require SH for 100% success on specialist
• Macros for specialist stuff around your level, saving a line by only needing 1 SH
• Macro protection against Poor condition Blessing (in 3.x, killed in 4.0)

1. We gain stacks so efficiently and quickly now that the rotation that will be used is Miracle Blessing if the difficulty is high enough. Try the new abilities, IQ 6 is irrelevant today, we're not in SB or HW.
2. The current short rotations and the current meta with the control cap means you will *always* use Blessing. When you get short enough to think Brow would be useful, you're better off doing it without IQ at all, which is a better strategy given we have new abilities. Again, we have new abilities for irrelevant easy shit that make Brow completely redundant. Try them out.
3. Nobody actually does this, and it can be done without Brow.

Originally Posted by Nixxe

So there are a non-zero number of benefits to Brow being in the game and zero benefits to removing Brow. Thanks for making my case for me.

Both of these make massive assumptions, while denying entirely the fact that Brow has zero relevant use right now. The only use it had in the game was rarely in leveling (e.g. very bad strategies around RNG and using Brow if you fail too much, so a handicap for people who don't don't matter) and master crafts. It's completely useless in master crafts now, and it isn't even close to actually useful for leveling. Keeping it would've had no benefit. We don't know what kind of maintenance cost is involved or internal testing SE did that made them want to remove it, but they did, so this assumption is bad. There was a benefit, that's why they did it.

What it sounds like, mainly, is you're crying your old macros don't work anymore and you'll need to do something different. That's pretty sad, don't be so garbage at crafting.